The Life of Rev. John Wesley ... Founder of the Methodist SocietiesL. Swormstedt & A. Poe, 1857 - 384 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 83
Page 3
... Influence - Difference between Mr. Wesley and Mr. Whitefield - Their Reconciliation - Mr . Maxfield- Mr. Wesley's Defense of his calling out Preachers to assist him in his Work - Remarks ... ..86 3 CHAPTER VII . Persecution in London ...
... Influence - Difference between Mr. Wesley and Mr. Whitefield - Their Reconciliation - Mr . Maxfield- Mr. Wesley's Defense of his calling out Preachers to assist him in his Work - Remarks ... ..86 3 CHAPTER VII . Persecution in London ...
Page 8
... influence of a Popish head . For this service he was presented with the living of Epworth , in Lincolnshire , to which , a few years afterward , was added that of Wroote , in the same county . He held the living of Epworth upward of ...
... influence of a Popish head . For this service he was presented with the living of Epworth , in Lincolnshire , to which , a few years afterward , was added that of Wroote , in the same county . He held the living of Epworth upward of ...
Page 9
... influential ; and in the mother there was a sanctified wisdom , a masculine understanding , and an acquired knowledge , which they regarded with just deference after they became men and scholars . The influence of a piety so steadfast ...
... influential ; and in the mother there was a sanctified wisdom , a masculine understanding , and an acquired knowledge , which they regarded with just deference after they became men and scholars . The influence of a piety so steadfast ...
Page 14
... influence of the Holy Spirit , which he already discerned to be the privilege of a real believer , though as yet he was greatly perplexed as to the means of attaining it . At this period , too , he makes the important distinction ...
... influence of the Holy Spirit , which he already discerned to be the privilege of a real believer , though as yet he was greatly perplexed as to the means of attaining it . At this period , too , he makes the important distinction ...
Page 19
... influence and energy gave additional vigor to their exertions to promote their own spiritual improvement and the ... influential exer- tion and enterprise which subsequently rendered him the instrument of a revival of religion throughout ...
... influence and energy gave additional vigor to their exertions to promote their own spiritual improvement and the ... influential exer- tion and enterprise which subsequently rendered him the instrument of a revival of religion throughout ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
afterward Antinomianism appear Arminian began believe bishops blessing body Bristol brother called Calvinistic chapel character Charles Wesley children of God Christian Church of England clergy conference congregation Cornwall death desire Dissenters Divine doctrine effect Epworth excellent exhorted father fear feeling friends gave give Gospel grace hands hath heart Holy Spirit hope Howell Harris hymns influence John Wesley Journal justification labors letter Lincoln College living London Lord Lord's Lord's supper means mercy Methodists mind ministers ministry moral Moravian morning nature never observed ordination Oxford peace Pelagian persecution persons piety Pilmoor pious pray prayer preached preachers presbyters principles received religion religious repentance righteousness sacraments salvation says Scripture sermon sinner sins societies soul speak Sunday temper testimony thing thou thought tion took true truth views Wednesbury Wesley's Whitefield Whitehead's whole witness word writings zeal
Popular passages
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.