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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... mean time , the sun , with all the planets which ac- company it , is but a very small part of the immense fabric of the universe . Each star , which from hence appears to us no larger than a brilliant set in a ring , is in reality an ...
... mean time , the sun , with all the planets which ac- company it , is but a very small part of the immense fabric of the universe . Each star , which from hence appears to us no larger than a brilliant set in a ring , is in reality an ...
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... mean time , all these observations , however surprising they are , lead us , at the utmost , but to the first limits of the cre- ation . If we could transport ourselves above the moon ; if we could reach the highest star over our heads ...
... mean time , all these observations , however surprising they are , lead us , at the utmost , but to the first limits of the cre- ation . If we could transport ourselves above the moon ; if we could reach the highest star over our heads ...
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... means of which they can bear the cold , and procure themselves food in winter , as well as in summer . The bodies of wild beasts which inhabit forests and deserts are so formed , that the hair falls off in summer , and grows again in ...
... means of which they can bear the cold , and procure themselves food in winter , as well as in summer . The bodies of wild beasts which inhabit forests and deserts are so formed , that the hair falls off in summer , and grows again in ...
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... means made use of by preservation of animals , are yet concealed marshes and frozen still preserve life . Providence for the from us . Adore , with me , our almighty and gracious Preserver , whose goodness and majesty do not make him ...
... means made use of by preservation of animals , are yet concealed marshes and frozen still preserve life . Providence for the from us . Adore , with me , our almighty and gracious Preserver , whose goodness and majesty do not make him ...
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... nothing to him , but at night she took him to task , and asked him whether he was a Wesleyan or a Whitefieldite ? He said , " Madam , what do you mean ? Do you reproach me because I pray 52 MEMOIR OF MR . GEORGE SHADFORD .
... nothing to him , but at night she took him to task , and asked him whether he was a Wesleyan or a Whitefieldite ? He said , " Madam , what do you mean ? Do you reproach me because I pray 52 MEMOIR OF MR . GEORGE SHADFORD .
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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...