The Life of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Sometime Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and Founder of the Methodist SocietiesB. Waugh and T. Mason, 1836 - 323 Seiten |
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... excellent wife , had descended from parents distinguished for learning , piety , and nonconformity . His father dying whilst he was young , he forsook the Dissenters at an early period of life ; and his conversion carried him into High ...
... excellent wife , had descended from parents distinguished for learning , piety , and nonconformity . His father dying whilst he was young , he forsook the Dissenters at an early period of life ; and his conversion carried him into High ...
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... excellent poet , with great power of satire , and an elegant wit . He held a considerable rank among the literary men of the day , and finally settled as head master of the free school of Tiverton , in Devonshire , where he died in 1739 ...
... excellent poet , with great power of satire , and an elegant wit . He held a considerable rank among the literary men of the day , and finally settled as head master of the free school of Tiverton , in Devonshire , where he died in 1739 ...
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... excellent advice was not lost upon him ; and indeed his mother's admirable letters were among the principal means , under God , of producing that still more decided change in his views which soon afterward began to dis . play itself ...
... excellent advice was not lost upon him ; and indeed his mother's admirable letters were among the principal means , under God , of producing that still more decided change in his views which soon afterward began to dis . play itself ...
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... excellent , a manual rather for him who is a Christian already , than for him who is seeking to become one . A few things are however to be remarked in this cor- respondence which are of considerable interest , as showing the bearings ...
... excellent , a manual rather for him who is a Christian already , than for him who is seeking to become one . A few things are however to be remarked in this cor- respondence which are of considerable interest , as showing the bearings ...
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... established in the university ; he was acknowledged by all parties to be a man of talents , and an excellent critic in the learned languages . His " His 1 compositions were distinguished by an elegant simplicity of style , 14 LIFE OF THE.
... established in the university ; he was acknowledged by all parties to be a man of talents , and an excellent critic in the learned languages . His " His 1 compositions were distinguished by an elegant simplicity of style , 14 LIFE OF THE.
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
afterward Antinomianism appear Arminian began believe bishops blessing Bristol brother called Calvinistic chapel character Charles Wesley Christ Christian Church of England clergy conference congregation conversation Cornwall death desire Divine doctrine effect Epworth excellent exhorted father favour fear feeling friends gave give Gospel grace hath heart Holy Holy Spirit honour Howell Harris hymns influence Jesus John Wesley Journal justifying faith labours letter living London Lord Lord's Lord's Supper means mercy Methodists mind ministers ministry moral Moravian morning nature never observes ordination Oxford peace Pelagian persecution persons piety pious pray prayer preached preachers presbyters principles received religion religious repentance righteousness sacraments salvation Samuel Wesley says Scripture sermon sinner sins societies soul speak spirit Sunday temper testimony thing thou thought tion took true truth unto views Wednesbury Wesley's whilst Whitefield Whitehead's whole word writings zeal
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 279 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread, Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
Seite 144 - Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near...
Seite 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.
Seite 291 - 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.
Seite 188 - Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
Seite 82 - 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.
Seite 120 - But when the Son of Man shall come in His glory and all the angels with Him, then shall He sit on the throne of His glory...
Seite 128 - Some therefore cried one thing, and some another : for the assembly was confused, and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.
Seite 220 - 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.
Seite 60 - But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. "Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law.