The Methodist Magazine, Volume 1J. Soule and T. Mason for the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, 1818 - Methodist Church |
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... brought before the magistrate it proved to be the man's father - in - law . To persons unaccustomed to scenes like these , the tender feelings receive an involuntary shock ; but among a people where God is not known they appear to view ...
... brought before the magistrate it proved to be the man's father - in - law . To persons unaccustomed to scenes like these , the tender feelings receive an involuntary shock ; but among a people where God is not known they appear to view ...
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... brought by the people to the temple . Prejudices , handed down from father to son , form a very formidable barrier to their obtaining knowledge ; and that indolence which attaches itself to an unoccupied mind , sinks them into a kind of ...
... brought by the people to the temple . Prejudices , handed down from father to son , form a very formidable barrier to their obtaining knowledge ; and that indolence which attaches itself to an unoccupied mind , sinks them into a kind of ...
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... brought , among my other little elemen- tary books , some copies of his excellent catechism , copies were forwarded from Galle to Colombo , and have been translated into Cingalese . We have succeeded in procuring a translation of it in ...
... brought , among my other little elemen- tary books , some copies of his excellent catechism , copies were forwarded from Galle to Colombo , and have been translated into Cingalese . We have succeeded in procuring a translation of it in ...
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... brought to an end , mation . Mr. Clough instantly hasten- like a tale that is told . ed to Mr. Harvard , and imparted to him the tale of woe . Both then pro- ceeded to the cabin of Dr. Coke , and saw that the catastrophe , which they ...
... brought to an end , mation . Mr. Clough instantly hasten- like a tale that is told . ed to Mr. Harvard , and imparted to him the tale of woe . Both then pro- ceeded to the cabin of Dr. Coke , and saw that the catastrophe , which they ...
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... brought themselves with the utmost propriety . upon deck a little before five o'clock , But to render serious impressions last- and laid on the leeward gangway , on ing must be the work of God . the starboard side , where it remain- ed ...
... brought themselves with the utmost propriety . upon deck a little before five o'clock , But to render serious impressions last- and laid on the leeward gangway , on ing must be the work of God . the starboard side , where it remain- ed ...
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Page 147 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Page 453 - Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Page 247 - Man, of the substance of his mother, born in the world; perfect God and perfect Man; of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting; equal to the Father, as touching his godhead and inferior to the Father as touching his manhood.
Page 458 - Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
Page 465 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Page 53 - When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools. Pay that which thou hast vowed. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Page 391 - Welcome, sweet day of rest, That saw the Lord arise; Welcome to this reviving breast, And these rejoicing eyes! 2 The King himself comes near, And feasts his saints today, Here we may sit, and see him here, And love, and praise, and pray. 3 One day amidst the place Where my dear God hath been, Is sweeter than ten thousand days Of pleasurable sin.
Page 246 - I believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible : And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds ; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father...
Page 249 - Thus, we repeat, He admonishes men to return to God ; to reestablish their original likeness to him ; and He, who is " the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person...
Page 247 - THE Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting of the Father, the very and eternal God, and of one substance with the Father, took Man's nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin, of her substance...