Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... arm , or lowering the eyelid to repel or shun danger , so he adopted measures and evolved truths by force of circumstances more than by forethought , those truths and measures so adapted to his position as a preacher of JOHN WESLEY . 27.
... arm , or lowering the eyelid to repel or shun danger , so he adopted measures and evolved truths by force of circumstances more than by forethought , those truths and measures so adapted to his position as a preacher of JOHN WESLEY . 27.
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John McClintock. measures so adapted to his position as a preacher of right- eousness amid an opposing generation , that we recognise in their adaptation and natural evolution proof of their divineness . They are the same truths which ...
John McClintock. measures so adapted to his position as a preacher of right- eousness amid an opposing generation , that we recognise in their adaptation and natural evolution proof of their divineness . They are the same truths which ...
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... preaching astound from their magnitude ; although these , far from being the sum total of his occupations , were but ... preach- ing , and other occasional meetings at which he assisted . Add to these his migrations and journeyings to ...
... preaching astound from their magnitude ; although these , far from being the sum total of his occupations , were but ... preach- ing , and other occasional meetings at which he assisted . Add to these his migrations and journeyings to ...
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... was known to have travelled more miles , preached more sermons , and published more books than any traveller , preacher , author , since the days of the apostles , must have had much to claim the admiration 66 JOHN WESLEY .
... was known to have travelled more miles , preached more sermons , and published more books than any traveller , preacher , author , since the days of the apostles , must have had much to claim the admiration 66 JOHN WESLEY .
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... preacher neither removed my doubts nor the difficulties that attended my labours . Sustained by a determination to ... preach his gospel . In this way I became satisfied of my call to the ministry , and that I was moving in the line of ...
... preacher neither removed my doubts nor the difficulties that attended my labours . Sustained by a determination to ... preach his gospel . In this way I became satisfied of my call to the ministry , and that I was moving in the line of ...
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Page 125 - Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
Page 61 - I'LL praise my Maker with my breath ; And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler powers : My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.
Page 289 - For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Page 43 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me, High mountains are a feeling...
Page 38 - Such a society is no other than " a company of men having the form and seeking the power of godliness, united in order to pray together, to receive the word of exhortation, and to watch over one another in love, that they may help each other to work out their salvation.
Page 46 - Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud ! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
Page 11 - For here the patriarchal days are not A pastoral fable— pipes in the liberal air, Mix'd with the sweet bells of the sauntering herd; My soul would drink those echoes. Oh, that I were The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, A living voice, a breathing harmony, A bodiless enjoyment— born and dying With the blest tone which made me!
Page 229 - Lord King's account of the primitive Church convinced me, many years ago, that bishops and presbyters are the same order, and consequently have the same right to ordain.
Page 37 - THE visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 277 - My God is reconciled, His pardoning voice I hear: He owns me for His child, I can no longer fear ; With confidence I now draw nigh, And Father, Abba, Father ! cry.