The Life of the Rev. John Wesley: Founder of the Methodist SocietiesS. Hoyt, 1831 - 328 pages |
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... Jesus . At nine o'clock his brother and some friends came to him and When they left him he Soon afterwards a person sung a hymn suited to the day . betook himself to prayer . came and said , in a very solemn manner , ' Believe in the ...
... Jesus . At nine o'clock his brother and some friends came to him and When they left him he Soon afterwards a person sung a hymn suited to the day . betook himself to prayer . came and said , in a very solemn manner , ' Believe in the ...
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... body of this death ? " I thank God through Jesus Christ my Lord . * The deliverance also in ✦ " All the time I was at Savannah I was thus beating the air . the case described by St. Paul is marked with the 54 LIFE OF WESLEY .
... body of this death ? " I thank God through Jesus Christ my Lord . * The deliverance also in ✦ " All the time I was at Savannah I was thus beating the air . the case described by St. Paul is marked with the 54 LIFE OF WESLEY .
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... Jesus , who walk not after the flesh ; but after the Spirit ; for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death . " - " Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God , through ...
... Jesus , who walk not after the flesh ; but after the Spirit ; for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death . " - " Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God , through ...
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... Jesus . Likewise every evening , and on set evenings in the week , at two several places , we publish the word of reconciliation , sometimes to twenty or thirty , sometimes to fifty or sixty , sometimes to three or four hundred persons ...
... Jesus . Likewise every evening , and on set evenings in the week , at two several places , we publish the word of reconciliation , sometimes to twenty or thirty , sometimes to fifty or sixty , sometimes to three or four hundred persons ...
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... Jesus Christ . I found near a thousand helpless sinners waiting for the word in Moorfields . I invited them in my master's words , as well as name : Come unto me , all ye that labour and are heavy- laden ; and I will give you rest . The ...
... Jesus Christ . I found near a thousand helpless sinners waiting for the word in Moorfields . I invited them in my master's words , as well as name : Come unto me , all ye that labour and are heavy- laden ; and I will give you rest . The ...
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Page 160 - Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Page 78 - Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Page 50 - In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed.
Page 292 - 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 49 - OUT of the deep have I called unto thee, O Lord : Lord, hear my voice. 0 let thine ears consider well: the voice of my complaint. If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss : O Lord, who may abide it ? For there is mercy with thee : therefore shalt thou be feared.
Page 221 - There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead.
Page 50 - ... describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation : and an assurance was given me, that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from
Page 102 - Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 51 - COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your GOD. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned : for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
Page 280 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread, Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.