Centenary of Wesleyan Methodism: A Brief Sketch of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Wesleyan Methodist Societies Throughout the WorldJohn Mason, 1839 - 240 Seiten |
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... brethren in London . Waterland came forward as the success- ful opponent of Clarke ; and several dissenting minis- ters laboured with honourable zeal and talent to pre- serve their churches in the catholic faith : yet the cir- cumstance ...
... brethren in London . Waterland came forward as the success- ful opponent of Clarke ; and several dissenting minis- ters laboured with honourable zeal and talent to pre- serve their churches in the catholic faith : yet the cir- cumstance ...
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... brethren fell immensely short of them , not only in natural talents and profound erudition , but in zeal and devotion . Not a few were notoriously ignorant of the science which they were appointed to teach , and therefore utterly ...
... brethren fell immensely short of them , not only in natural talents and profound erudition , but in zeal and devotion . Not a few were notoriously ignorant of the science which they were appointed to teach , and therefore utterly ...
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... brethren into one department of useful and self - denying labour , by visiting a murderer under sentence of death . The following lines from the poem just mentioned present a beautiful picture of his early piety , and of the spirit of ...
... brethren into one department of useful and self - denying labour , by visiting a murderer under sentence of death . The following lines from the poem just mentioned present a beautiful picture of his early piety , and of the spirit of ...
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... brethren found in the ship with them several members of the Moravian church , from Germany , with Mr. Nitschman , one of their bishops . In these strangers the English Methodists beheld Christianity in a light more gentle , attractive ...
... brethren found in the ship with them several members of the Moravian church , from Germany , with Mr. Nitschman , one of their bishops . In these strangers the English Methodists beheld Christianity in a light more gentle , attractive ...
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... brethren served greatly to discover to * The Rev. Robert Philip , in his recent Life of Mr. White- field , has broadly insinuated that Mr. Wesley was guilty of some act of immorality in Georgia ; though he has not even attempted to give ...
... brethren served greatly to discover to * The Rev. Robert Philip , in his recent Life of Mr. White- field , has broadly insinuated that Mr. Wesley was guilty of some act of immorality in Georgia ; though he has not even attempted to give ...
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Seite 47 - 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.
Seite 1 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him : but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob...
Seite 110 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Seite 39 - I went to America to convert the Indians but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief? I have a fair summer religion. I can talk well, nay, and believe myself, while no danger is near. But let death look me in the face, and my spirit is troubled. Nor can I say, to die is gain.
Seite 162 - DEARLY beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us, in sundry places, to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness; and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same, by his infinite goodness and mercy.
Seite 240 - By doing good, especially to them that are of the household of faith, or groaning so to be ; employing them preferably to others, buying one of another, helping each other in business ; and so much the more, because the world will love its own, and them only. " By all possible diligence and frugality, that the Gospel be not blamed. " By running with patience the race...
Seite 187 - And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed...
Seite 129 - Happy the man whose hopes rely On Israel's God : he made the sky, And earth and seas, with all their train : His truth for ever stands secure ; He saves th' oppressed, he feeds the poor, And none shall find his promise vain.
Seite 223 - And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.
Seite 81 - Here then I am, far from the busy ways of men. I sit down alone : only God is here. In His presence I open, I read His book; for this end, to find the way to heaven.