| George Bourne - Funeral sermons - 1807 - 366 pages
...in the 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,...attended with some extraordinary circumstances, which gave great offence. Under the sermon, some persons trembled from head to foot : others fell down and... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1809 - 460 pages
...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,...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
...myself," says Wesley, " at first to this strange way, having been all my life, till very lately, so tenacious of every . point relating to decency and...almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church." The next day he observed that our Lord's Sermon on the Mount, was " one pretty remarkable precedent... | |
| Robert Southey - Methodism - 1820 - 856 pages
...myself," says 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,...almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church." The next day he observed that our Lord's Sermon on the Mount, was " one pretty remarkable precedent... | |
| Robert Southey - Clergy - 1820 - 560 pages
...Wesley, " at first to this strange way, having been all my life, till yfry lately, so tenacious pf every point relating to decency and order, that I...almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church." The next day he observed that our Lord's Sermon on the Mount, was " one pretty remarkable precedent... | |
| 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... | |
| 1841 - 488 pages
...first to this 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,...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
...reconcile myself to 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,...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
...preaching in the 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,...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... | |
| 918 pages
...life, (till very lately,) so tenacious of every point » Gillies's Life of WhitefieM, 8vo. pp. 37, 39. relating to decency and order, that I should have...almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church." On the following day, Mr. Whitefield having left Bristol, Mr. Wesley says, " At four in the afternoon... | |
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