The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church: From July 15, 1786, to November 6, 1800N. Bangs and T. Mason, 1821 |
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... mind . I spent some time in looking over my Journals , which I have kept for fifteen years back some things I corrected , and some I expunged . Perhaps , if they are not published before , they will be after my death , to let my friends ...
... mind . I spent some time in looking over my Journals , which I have kept for fifteen years back some things I corrected , and some I expunged . Perhaps , if they are not published before , they will be after my death , to let my friends ...
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... mind : I had nothing to eat but a little bread and milk , and that made me sick . : Saturday 22. We had a good time at Sweezy's . After administer- ing the sacrament , we had another long ride after night . Sunday 24. I preached in the ...
... mind : I had nothing to eat but a little bread and milk , and that made me sick . : Saturday 22. We had a good time at Sweezy's . After administer- ing the sacrament , we had another long ride after night . Sunday 24. I preached in the ...
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... mind was devoted to God . I administered the sacrament , but could find no openings . Rode to Old Town . - Six years ago I preached in this place , when there was scarcely a soul that knew any thing of God ; now there are sixty in ...
... mind was devoted to God . I administered the sacrament , but could find no openings . Rode to Old Town . - Six years ago I preached in this place , when there was scarcely a soul that knew any thing of God ; now there are sixty in ...
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... mind is calm . Sunday 16. Preached at town and Point . On Monday , the peo- ple waited nearly two hours at Evans's before I arrived , owing to my horse being out of the way I found he had stuck a nail into his foot , so that I had to ...
... mind is calm . Sunday 16. Preached at town and Point . On Monday , the peo- ple waited nearly two hours at Evans's before I arrived , owing to my horse being out of the way I found he had stuck a nail into his foot , so that I had to ...
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... mind is still depressed . Colonel H. who bears his imprisonment for debt with great forti- tude I had a good time at Boardley's , notwitstanding two drunken men came in and made some disturbance . Friday 27. Cold , straitened for time ...
... mind is still depressed . Colonel H. who bears his imprisonment for debt with great forti- tude I had a good time at Boardley's , notwitstanding two drunken men came in and made some disturbance . Friday 27. Cold , straitened for time ...
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Page 386 - Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
Page 279 - He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Page 23 - They shall not labour in vain. Nor bring forth for trouble ; For they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, And their offspring with them.
Page 110 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God : and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God ? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Page 383 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true ; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Page 170 - Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven,
Page 90 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 269 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD...
Page 211 - Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. 16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth ? 17 They zealously affect you, but not well ; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
Page 384 - Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.