The History of the Religious Movement of the Eighteenth Century, Called Methodism: Considered in Its Different Denominational Forms, and Its Relations to British and American ProtestantismCarlton & Porter, 1859 |
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Page 171 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 317 - The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Page 132 - God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you: and to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 262 - Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
Page 372 - 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 59 - THE body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life ! Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee ; and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving.
Page 174 - Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Page 251 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; And backward, but I cannot perceive him : On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : But he knoweth the way that I take : When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 414 - And this is the record, that God hath given unto us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
Page 366 - For upwards of eighty-six years I have kept my accounts exactly : I will not attempt it any longer, being satisfied with the continual conviction, that I save all I can, and give all I can ; that is, all I have.