 | John Wesley, George Story - Christianity - 1818 - 934 pages
...having been so tenacious of all points relating to order. In his present state of mind he recollected that our Lord's Sermon on the Mount was "one pretty remarkable precedent of fieldpreaching,?' so he. also began to proclaim salvation in the highways. It produced a great effect, &c. but it was... | |
 | John Whitehead - 1805 - 570 pages
...Whitefield had set him the example ; " Having been, says he, till very lately, so very tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I...almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church." During this summer, his preaching at Bristol was attended with some extraordinary circumstances, which... | |
 | George Bourne - Funeral sermons - 1807 - 366 pages
...fields, of which Mr. Whitefield had set him the example ; " Having been till very lately, so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I...almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church." During this summer, his preaching at Bristol was attended with some extraordinary circumstances, which... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1809 - 460 pages
...of which he set me an example on Sunday: having been all my life, till very lately, so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I...almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church. April 1, In the evening (Mr. Whitefield being gone), I begun expounding our Lord's sermon on the Mount,... | |
 | Robert Southey - Clergy - 1820 - 562 pages
...Wesley, " at first to this strange way, having been all my life, till very lately, so tenacious of every . point relating to decency and order, that...the Mount, was " one pretty remarkable precedent of fiehi-preaching ; and" he adds, " I suppose there were ch irches at that time also ;" a remark which... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 606 pages
...this strange way, having been all my life, till very lately, so tenacious of every point relating \f> decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin if it had pp not been done in a church." The disease which Methodism excited had not appeared at Bristol under... | |
 | Arminianism - 1841 - 1234 pages
...of which he set me an example on Sunday ; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I...almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church." Mindless of apostolical practice, or fancying it unsuitable to his day, he had previously maintained... | |
 | 1841 - 488 pages
...strange way of preaching in the fields ; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I...almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church." Monday, April 2d. Mr. Wesley, for the first time in England, preaches in the open air. "At four in... | |
 | Arminianism - 1839 - 1092 pages
...this strange way of preaching in the fields, having been all my life, till lately, so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a Bin if it had not been done in a church." But being left by Mr. Whitefield at Bristol, and the responaibility... | |
 | Christian life - 1884 - 398 pages
...fields, on which Whitfield set me on Sunday, having been all my life, till very lately, so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I...almost a sin if it had not been done in a church." It must not be supposed, however, that Wesley or his co-workers were to pursue their conquering march... | |
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I could scarce reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which he set me an example on Sunday ; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have... 
