The Life of Rev. John Wesley ... Founder of the Methodist SocietiesL. Swormstedt & A. Poe, 1857 - 384 pages |
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... friend , " he began to alter the whole form of his conversa- tion , and to set in earnest upon a new life . " " He com- municated every week . He watched against all sin , whether in word or deed , and began to aim at , and pray for ...
... friend , " he began to alter the whole form of his conversa- tion , and to set in earnest upon a new life . " " He com- municated every week . He watched against all sin , whether in word or deed , and began to aim at , and pray for ...
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... friends of some ; but from others he received very grateful letters ; and several of his pupils themselves were not insensible of the obligations they owed to him , not only on a re- ligious account , but for thus enabling them to reap ...
... friends of some ; but from others he received very grateful letters ; and several of his pupils themselves were not insensible of the obligations they owed to him , not only on a re- ligious account , but for thus enabling them to reap ...
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... friends ; and the opposition being now headed by some persons of influence , Mr. Wesley had again recourse , by letter , to his father's counsel . at length : The answer deserves to be transcribed " This day I received both yours , and ...
... friends ; and the opposition being now headed by some persons of influence , Mr. Wesley had again recourse , by letter , to his father's counsel . at length : The answer deserves to be transcribed " This day I received both yours , and ...
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... friends ; but the vigor of his constitution triumphed ; and this attack of disease served to impress him the more deeply with eternal things , and to give renewed ardor to his endeavors after universal holiness , and to his plans for ...
... friends ; but the vigor of his constitution triumphed ; and this attack of disease served to impress him the more deeply with eternal things , and to give renewed ardor to his endeavors after universal holiness , and to his plans for ...
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... friends , and other advantages , were essential to his improvement ; that he was inadequate to the charge of two thousand parishioners ; and that he did not consider his ordination vows in the same light as his brother . On the last ...
... friends , and other advantages , were essential to his improvement ; that he was inadequate to the charge of two thousand parishioners ; and that he did not consider his ordination vows in the same light as his brother . On the last ...
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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.