The History of the Religious Movement of the Eighteenth Century, Called Methodism ...Carlton & Porter, 1858 |
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... write its history in a liberal spirit , and to consider it , not as a sectarian , but as a general religious movement , ostensibly within the Church of England , at least during the lives of the chief Methodist founders , but reaching ...
... write its history in a liberal spirit , and to consider it , not as a sectarian , but as a general religious movement , ostensibly within the Church of England , at least during the lives of the chief Methodist founders , but reaching ...
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... I have not examined all these ; but I know of none necessary to my purpose which has not been con- sulted . * As I have proposed to write a complete history of Meth- odism , that is to say , exhaustive of all PREFACE . 7.
... I have not examined all these ; but I know of none necessary to my purpose which has not been con- sulted . * As I have proposed to write a complete history of Meth- odism , that is to say , exhaustive of all PREFACE . 7.
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... write to them : " Go on , in God's name , in the path into which your Saviour has directed you , and that wherein your father has gone before you . ” Wesleyan in his economy as in his liberality , he was able at last to leave college ...
... write to them : " Go on , in God's name , in the path into which your Saviour has directed you , and that wherein your father has gone before you . ” Wesleyan in his economy as in his liberality , he was able at last to leave college ...
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... write two hundred couplets a day . The current of his verse was so rapid as to carry with it all the lighter rubbish of its banks , and to sink whatever of weighty value was cast upon it . He plied faithfully , meanwhile , his parish ...
... write two hundred couplets a day . The current of his verse was so rapid as to carry with it all the lighter rubbish of its banks , and to sink whatever of weighty value was cast upon it . He plied faithfully , meanwhile , his parish ...
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... writes to her at a time when her health was precarious , with pathetic endearment , and ex- presses the hope that he may die before her , in order not to have the anguish of witnessing her end . " You did well , " she afterward writes ...
... writes to her at a time when her health was precarious , with pathetic endearment , and ex- presses the hope that he may die before her , in order not to have the anguish of witnessing her end . " You did well , " she afterward writes ...
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Page 117 - And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised, To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 181 - But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
Page 197 - Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Page 185 - Such a society is no other than " a company of men having the form and seeking the power of godliness, united in order to pray together, to receive the word of exhortation, and to watch over one another in love, that they may help each other to work out their salvation.
Page 139 - Christ of these outcasts, for know, ' except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 45 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 30 - ... the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost," — joy, that is to say, in the holy, healthful, and helpful Spirit.
Page 186 - God giveth, by giving food to the hungry, by clothing the naked, by visiting or helping them that are sick or in prison. To their souls, by instructing, reproving, or exhorting all...
Page 103 - BLESSED is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Page 475 - The request was fortunately made to perhaps the only man in the company who had the firmness not to be affected by the preacher. His answer was, • At any other time, friend Hopkinson, I would lend to thee freely ; but not now, for thee seems to be out of thy right senses.