The Life of Rev. John Wesley ... Founder of the Methodist SocietiesL. Swormstedt & A. Poe, 1857 - 384 pages |
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... METHODIST SOCIETIES . BY RICHARD WATSON . Ἐν κόποις περισσοτέρως . [ In labors more abundantly . ] FIRST AMERICAN OFFICIAL EDITION , WITH TRANSLATIONS AND NOTES , BY JOHN EMORY . Cincinnati : PUBLISHED BY L. SWORMSTEDT & A. POE , FOR ...
... METHODIST SOCIETIES . BY RICHARD WATSON . Ἐν κόποις περισσοτέρως . [ In labors more abundantly . ] FIRST AMERICAN OFFICIAL EDITION , WITH TRANSLATIONS AND NOTES , BY JOHN EMORY . Cincinnati : PUBLISHED BY L. SWORMSTEDT & A. POE , FOR ...
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... Methodists at Oxford - Origin of the name Methodist ... CHAPTER II . # .. • Page 7 The Wesleys at Oxford - Their efforts to do good - Opposition - Cor- respondence with Mr. Wesley , sen .-- Mr . Samuel Wesley and Mrs. Wes- ley -- Mr ...
... Methodists at Oxford - Origin of the name Methodist ... CHAPTER II . # .. • Page 7 The Wesleys at Oxford - Their efforts to do good - Opposition - Cor- respondence with Mr. Wesley , sen .-- Mr . Samuel Wesley and Mrs. Wes- ley -- Mr ...
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... Methodism in America - Revivals of Religion - Remarks - Mr . Wes- ley's Labors - Notices of Books from his Journals - Minutes of the Con- ference of 1770 - Remarks - Mr . Shirley's Circular - Mr . Wesley's " Dec- laration " -Controversy ...
... Methodism in America - Revivals of Religion - Remarks - Mr . Wes- ley's Labors - Notices of Books from his Journals - Minutes of the Con- ference of 1770 - Remarks - Mr . Shirley's Circular - Mr . Wesley's " Dec- laration " -Controversy ...
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... Methodism and the Church- Charges refuted - Mr . Wesley's Writings - Extent of the Methodist So- cieties at his death , and at the present time - Conclusion 363 ADVERTISEMENT . VARIOUS Lives or Memoirs of the Founder of CONTENTS . 5.
... Methodism and the Church- Charges refuted - Mr . Wesley's Writings - Extent of the Methodist So- cieties at his death , and at the present time - Conclusion 363 ADVERTISEMENT . VARIOUS Lives or Memoirs of the Founder of CONTENTS . 5.
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... Methodism . The present Life , therefore , without any design to supersede larger publications , has been prepared with more special ref- erence to general readers . But , as it is contracted within moderate limits chiefly by the ...
... Methodism . The present Life , therefore , without any design to supersede larger publications , has been prepared with more special ref- erence to general readers . But , as it is contracted within moderate limits chiefly by the ...
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Page 169 - Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near...
Page 343 - 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 151 - Some therefore cried one thing, and some another : for the assembly was confused, and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.
Page 222 - 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.
Page 260 - 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 39 - He was indeed attempting to work out " his own salvation with fear and trembling ;" but not as knowing that " it is God that worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Page 189 - Abraham, that he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
Page 249 - So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God; And yet they are not three Gods, but one God.
Page 54 - I have a sin of fear that when I've spun My last thread I shall perish on the shore. But swear by thyself that at my death thy Son Shall shine as he shines now and heretofore. And having done that, thou hast done, I fear no more.
Page 123 - 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.