The Life of Rev. John Wesley ... Founder of the Methodist SocietiesL. Swormstedt & A. Poe, 1857 - 384 pages |
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... remain at Oxford . To all this he reiterates , that his own holiness and usefulness could be promoted no where so effectually as in his present station ; that his retirement , his friends , and other advantages , were essential to his ...
... remain at Oxford . To all this he reiterates , that his own holiness and usefulness could be promoted no where so effectually as in his present station ; that his retirement , his friends , and other advantages , were essential to his ...
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... remain in Oxford , in preference to accepting the living of Epworth , from selfish motives . In the question of usefulness , the balance before inclined to Oxford ; and now that he thought a greater field for doing good opened in ...
... remain in Oxford , in preference to accepting the living of Epworth , from selfish motives . In the question of usefulness , the balance before inclined to Oxford ; and now that he thought a greater field for doing good opened in ...
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... remains unforgiven by his of fended God , is a state of awful peril , then the all - absorbing seriousness of that ... remain to be inquired , whether the circumstance of a mere belief in the Christian system , when added to works of ...
... remains unforgiven by his of fended God , is a state of awful peril , then the all - absorbing seriousness of that ... remain to be inquired , whether the circumstance of a mere belief in the Christian system , when added to works of ...
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... remains of those which Dr. Woodward describes , in an account first published about the year 1698 or 1699. They began , about the year 1667 , among a few young men in London , who , under Dr. Horneck's preaching , and the morning ...
... remains of those which Dr. Woodward describes , in an account first published about the year 1698 or 1699. They began , about the year 1667 , among a few young men in London , who , under Dr. Horneck's preaching , and the morning ...
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... your ways , nothing now remains but that I should give you up to God . You that are of the same judgment follow me . I then , ” adds Mr. Wesley , " without saying any thing more , withdrew , as did eighteen or REV . JOHN WESLEY . 93.
... your ways , nothing now remains but that I should give you up to God . You that are of the same judgment follow me . I then , ” adds Mr. Wesley , " without saying any thing more , withdrew , as did eighteen or REV . JOHN WESLEY . 93.
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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.