Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... say , that it was with more than common emotion we looked upon the font where the man whose genius made the celebrity of the place had been baptized ; upon the communion table where Wesley had often officiated , yet whence he had been ...
... say , that it was with more than common emotion we looked upon the font where the man whose genius made the celebrity of the place had been baptized ; upon the communion table where Wesley had often officiated , yet whence he had been ...
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... say , for we do not believe , that there was not much of human passion at the bottom of the indignant Luther's breach with Rome , while ingen- uous Protestantism must blush over the sensuality and cruelty of Henry VIII . Even the self ...
... say , for we do not believe , that there was not much of human passion at the bottom of the indignant Luther's breach with Rome , while ingen- uous Protestantism must blush over the sensuality and cruelty of Henry VIII . Even the self ...
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... say , that , baptized in such a laver as this , the Methodist Church , which has since attained a respectable maturity , has never renounced the principles that hallowed its early dedica- tion , has kept the whiteness of its garments ...
... say , that , baptized in such a laver as this , the Methodist Church , which has since attained a respectable maturity , has never renounced the principles that hallowed its early dedica- tion , has kept the whiteness of its garments ...
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... religious feeling about this time , he made a surrender of himself to God , made in partial ignorance , but never revoked . " I resolved , " he says , " to dedicate all my life to God , all my thoughts , and words , JOHN WESLEY . 29.
... religious feeling about this time , he made a surrender of himself to God , made in partial ignorance , but never revoked . " I resolved , " he says , " to dedicate all my life to God , all my thoughts , and words , JOHN WESLEY . 29.
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... say- " I live not in myself , but I become Portion of that around me . " To work for the benefit of men when he might have taken his ease , became a necessity of his nature , moulded upon the pattern of his self - sacrificing Master ...
... say- " I live not in myself , but I become Portion of that around me . " To work for the benefit of men when he might have taken his ease , became a necessity of his nature , moulded upon the pattern of his self - sacrificing Master ...
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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.