John Wesley: A PortraitSimon & Schuster, 1928 - 305 Seiten |
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Seite 124 - But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
Seite 278 - ... since), and in my right shoulder and arm, which I impute partly to a sprain, and partly to the rheumatism. I find likewise some decay in my memory, with regard to names and things lately past; but not at all with regard to what I have read or heard twenty, forty, or sixty years ago; neither do I find any decay in my hearing, smell, taste, or appetite (though I want but a third part of the food I...
Seite 146 - As soon as he got upon the stand, he stroked back his hair, and turned his face towards where I stood, and I thought fixed his eyes •upon me. His countenance struck such an awful 'dread upon me, before I heard him speak, that it -made my heart beat like the pendulum of a clock ; and, when he did speak, I thought his whole discourse was aimed at me.
Seite 5 - Neither may we gain by hurting our neighbour in his body. Therefore we may not sell any thing which tends to impair health. Such is, eminently, all that liquid fire, commonly called drams, or spirituous liquors.
Seite 271 - WHO DIED OF A CONSUMPTION IN THE FIFTY-FIRST YEAR OF HIS AGE. NOT LEAVING, AFTER HIS DEBTS ARE PAID, TEN POUNDS BEHIND HIM : PRAYING, God be merciful to me an unprofitable servant ! He ordered that this, if any, inscription, should be placed on his tomb stone.
Seite 84 - 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 the law of sin and death.
Seite 228 - LOVE divine, all love excelling, Joy of heaven, to earth come down ! Fix in us thy humble dwelling, All thy faithful mercies crown ; Jesus', thou art all compassion, Pure, unbounded love thou art ; Visit us with thy salvation, Enter every trembling heart.
Seite 22 - I cannot yet dismiss this subject. As self-will is the root of all sin and misery, so, whatever cherishes this in children, insures their after wretchedness and irreligion ; whatever checks and mortifies it, promotes their future happiness and piety.
Seite 228 - Jesus! the name that charms our fears, That bids our sorrows cease; 'Tis music in the sinner's ears, 'Tis life, and health, and peace.
Seite 91 - Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.