The History of the Religious Movement of the Eighteenth Century, Called Methodism ...Carlton & Porter, 1858 |
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... wrote against them , nevertheless , as void under the new dispensation.5 In planting Christianity they adopted such forms as were found most convenient to their hands in the religious cus- toms of their countrymen ; but it is remarkable ...
... wrote against them , nevertheless , as void under the new dispensation.5 In planting Christianity they adopted such forms as were found most convenient to their hands in the religious cus- toms of their countrymen ; but it is remarkable ...
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... wrote to John , when he was poring over the pages of the " Imitation , " " I take Kempis to have been an honest , weak man , who had more zeal than knowledge , by his condemning all mirth or pleasure as sinful or useless , in opposition ...
... wrote to John , when he was poring over the pages of the " Imitation , " " I take Kempis to have been an honest , weak man , who had more zeal than knowledge , by his condemning all mirth or pleasure as sinful or useless , in opposition ...
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... wrote for her tomb , and which represer.ts her as in " a legal night " till her seventieth year - a period at which she attained , as we shall hereafter see , a clearer sense of her acceptance with God , while receiving the Lord's ...
... wrote for her tomb , and which represer.ts her as in " a legal night " till her seventieth year - a period at which she attained , as we shall hereafter see , a clearer sense of her acceptance with God , while receiving the Lord's ...
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... they were ancestors of Samuel Westley , as the father of the founder of Methodism wrote his name at Oxford . 19 Southey's Wesley , chap . 1 . Oxford , where he excelled in Oriental studies . He 40 HISTORY OF METHODISM .
... they were ancestors of Samuel Westley , as the father of the founder of Methodism wrote his name at Oxford . 19 Southey's Wesley , chap . 1 . Oxford , where he excelled in Oriental studies . He 40 HISTORY OF METHODISM .
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... wrote from the prison to the Archbishop of York , " for I am come to the haven where I have long expected to be ; and , " he characteristically adds , " I don't despair of doing good here , and , it may be , more in this new parish than ...
... wrote from the prison to the Archbishop of York , " for I am come to the haven where I have long expected to be ; and , " he characteristically adds , " I don't despair of doing good here , and , it may be , more in this new parish than ...
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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.