Centenary of Wesleyan Methodism: A Brief Sketch of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Wesleyan Methodist Societies Throughout the World |
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... thee which cost more than Christian duty required thee to lay out is the blood of the poor ! O be wise for the time to come ! Be more merciful ! more faithful to God and man ! more abundantly adorned with good works ! " " In another of ...
... thee which cost more than Christian duty required thee to lay out is the blood of the poor ! O be wise for the time to come ! Be more merciful ! more faithful to God and man ! more abundantly adorned with good works ! " " In another of ...
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... thee every moment , especially when all is calm . Give me faith , or I die ; give me a lowly spirit ; otherwise let life be a burden to me . " 4. By steadiness , seriousness , σeuvorns , sobriety - of spirit , avoiding , as fire , every ...
... thee every moment , especially when all is calm . Give me faith , or I die ; give me a lowly spirit ; otherwise let life be a burden to me . " 4. By steadiness , seriousness , σeuvorns , sobriety - of spirit , avoiding , as fire , every ...
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... thee ! Draw us after thee ! Let us be emptied of ourselves , and then fill us with all peace 46 THE CENTENARY OF.
... thee ! Draw us after thee ! Let us be emptied of ourselves , and then fill us with all peace 46 THE CENTENARY OF.
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... , ' I never durst ask for it myself . But two or three weeks ago , while my son Hall was pronouncing those words , in delivering the cup to me , The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which was shed for thee 84 THE CENTENARY OF.
... , ' I never durst ask for it myself . But two or three weeks ago , while my son Hall was pronouncing those words , in delivering the cup to me , The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which was shed for thee 84 THE CENTENARY OF.
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... thee , the words struck through my heart , and I knew God for Christ's sake had forgiven me all my sins . ' " I asked whether her father ( Dr. Annesley ) had not the same faith ; and whether she had not heard him preach it to others ...
... thee , the words struck through my heart , and I knew God for Christ's sake had forgiven me all my sins . ' " I asked whether her father ( Dr. Annesley ) had not the same faith ; and whether she had not heard him preach it to others ...
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Page 47 - In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed.
Page 1 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him : but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob...
Page 110 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Page 39 - I went to America to convert the Indians but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief? I have a fair summer religion. I can talk well, nay, and believe myself, while no danger is near. But let death look me in the face, and my spirit is troubled. Nor can I say, to die is gain.
Page 162 - DEARLY beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us, in sundry places, to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness; and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same, by his infinite goodness and mercy.
Page 240 - By doing good, especially to them that are of the household of faith, or groaning so to be ; employing them preferably to others, buying one of another, helping each other in business ; and so much the more, because the world will love its own, and them only. " By all possible diligence and frugality, that the Gospel be not blamed. " By running with patience the race...
Page 187 - And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed...
Page 129 - Happy the man whose hopes rely On Israel's God : he made the sky, And earth and seas, with all their train : His truth for ever stands secure ; He saves th' oppressed, he feeds the poor, And none shall find his promise vain.
Page 223 - And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.
Page 81 - Here then I am, far from the busy ways of men. I sit down alone : only God is here. In His presence I open, I read His book; for this end, to find the way to heaven.