Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... soon after starting upon his course did he learn that the laver of baptism was unavailing to wash from the stain of human defilement , the supper of the Lord to secure admission to the marriage supper of the Lamb , and Church ...
... soon after starting upon his course did he learn that the laver of baptism was unavailing to wash from the stain of human defilement , the supper of the Lord to secure admission to the marriage supper of the Lamb , and Church ...
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... , and in other forms and subdivisions , bands , classes , & c . , but in essence it was the same ; it was the union and communion of the Lord's people for common edification and the glory of Christ . As soon JOHN WESLEY .
... , and in other forms and subdivisions , bands , classes , & c . , but in essence it was the same ; it was the union and communion of the Lord's people for common edification and the glory of Christ . As soon JOHN WESLEY .
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John McClintock. common edification and the glory of Christ . As soon as two or three converts were made to those earnest personal views of religion he promulgated , the inclination and necessity for association commenced . It was seen ...
John McClintock. common edification and the glory of Christ . As soon as two or three converts were made to those earnest personal views of religion he promulgated , the inclination and necessity for association commenced . It was seen ...
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... resolved not to deceive them , and to retire as soon as I should be convinced that I was not called of God , and to conduct myself in such a manner that , if I failed , my friends might be satisfied it was not 70 WILLIAM M'KENDREE .
... resolved not to deceive them , and to retire as soon as I should be convinced that I was not called of God , and to conduct myself in such a manner that , if I failed , my friends might be satisfied it was not 70 WILLIAM M'KENDREE .
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... soon felt in the ranks of his itinerant brethren ; for they saw that a leader of such activity and energy would never be content with any sluggish move- ment in his ranks . The first year that M'Kendree spent in Kentucky was one of ...
... soon felt in the ranks of his itinerant brethren ; for they saw that a leader of such activity and energy would never be content with any sluggish move- ment in his ranks . The first year that M'Kendree spent in Kentucky was one 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 10 - 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.