Sketches of Eminent Methodist MinistersJohn McClintock Carlton & Phillips, 1854 - 370 pages |
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... young Wesley , and never could mother claim more exclusively the credit of her son's early training . At eleven years of age he left home for the Charterhouse- school , but up to that period he was educated by his mother . Literary ...
... young Wesley , and never could mother claim more exclusively the credit of her son's early training . At eleven years of age he left home for the Charterhouse- school , but up to that period he was educated by his mother . Literary ...
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... young clergyman was engaged in the searchings of heart attendant upon his early experience , and was prosecuting the labours of his country cure , God was maturing at Oxford a system of events which was to issue in the result he sought ...
... young clergyman was engaged in the searchings of heart attendant upon his early experience , and was prosecuting the labours of his country cure , God was maturing at Oxford a system of events which was to issue in the result he sought ...
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... young men of kindred feelings with his own , they associated for mutual improvement and religious exercises . They received the sacrament weekly , and practised certain very obvious but very unusual austerities in regard to food ...
... young men of kindred feelings with his own , they associated for mutual improvement and religious exercises . They received the sacrament weekly , and practised certain very obvious but very unusual austerities in regard to food ...
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... young gentlemen of the university ? " Particularly whether we may not endeavour to con- vince them of the necessity of being Christians and of being scholars ? " May we not try to do good to those that are hungry , or naked , or sick ...
... young gentlemen of the university ? " Particularly whether we may not endeavour to con- vince them of the necessity of being Christians and of being scholars ? " May we not try to do good to those that are hungry , or naked , or sick ...
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... young Hercules to the struggle with the inertia of the Church and the opposition of the world . Successfully it encountered both . It quickened the one and subdued the other , and attained by the endeavour the muscular devel- 44 JOHN ...
... young Hercules to the struggle with the inertia of the Church and the opposition of the world . Successfully it encountered both . It quickened the one and subdued the other , and attained by the endeavour the muscular devel- 44 JOHN ...
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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.