Quarterly Review, Volume 24John Murray, 1821 |
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... tion but the memory of its vanity and its guilt . ' : But if the intensity of the interest excited by such men is , in ge- neral , the greatest obstacle to obtaining an accurate knowledge of their characters , it may be said that there ...
... tion but the memory of its vanity and its guilt . ' : But if the intensity of the interest excited by such men is , in ge- neral , the greatest obstacle to obtaining an accurate knowledge of their characters , it may be said that there ...
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... tion of the Bishop of Oxford , in their practice of visiting and instructing the inhabitants of the Prison and Hospitals . They were all admitted to orders without difficulty or opposition , ( Whitefield with particular favour and ...
... tion of the Bishop of Oxford , in their practice of visiting and instructing the inhabitants of the Prison and Hospitals . They were all admitted to orders without difficulty or opposition , ( Whitefield with particular favour and ...
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... tion . But a far mightier instrument had also been at work to open the path before him . Among the original Methodists of Oxford was a youth named George Whitefield , of humble parent- age in Bristol , whose mother had been enabled to ...
... tion . But a far mightier instrument had also been at work to open the path before him . Among the original Methodists of Oxford was a youth named George Whitefield , of humble parent- age in Bristol , whose mother had been enabled to ...
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... tion of persons , and he went to Georgia with the unabated appro- bation , not only of his friend Bishop Benson , but of Gibson , Bishop of London , and Archbishop Potter . The vessel which carried him out passed Wesley's ship in the ...
... tion of persons , and he went to Georgia with the unabated appro- bation , not only of his friend Bishop Benson , but of Gibson , Bishop of London , and Archbishop Potter . The vessel which carried him out passed Wesley's ship in the ...
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... tion of chapels , nor field - preaching , nor itinerancy had their com- mencement with Wesley himself . Whitefield had already , for some time , been practising something like the last , in his frequent visits to Gloucester and Bristol ...
... tion of chapels , nor field - preaching , nor itinerancy had their com- mencement with Wesley himself . Whitefield had already , for some time , been practising something like the last , in his frequent visits to Gloucester and Bristol ...
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Page 42 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him,
Page 493 - Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and -with songs, with tabret and with harp...
Page 42 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 471 - His watchmen are blind : they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Page 495 - The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
Page 330 - Ferdinand' Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.
Page 42 - Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
Page 299 - God loves from whole to parts: but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Page 162 - His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.