The history, constitution ... and confession of faith of the Calvinistic Methodists in Wales, drawn up by their own associated ministers

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Page 29 - ... the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.
Page 25 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain -glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Page 23 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering ; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any : even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Page 21 - My duty towards my neighbour is to love him as myself, and to do to all men as I would they should do unto me ; to love, honour, and succour my father and mother; to honour and obey the king, and all that are put in authority under him...
Page 8 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but. to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Page 39 - God;) being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood...
Page 21 - And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another...
Page 47 - ... and may rejoice in the hope of the glory of God ; which hope shall never make them ashamed.
Page 29 - formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.
Page 23 - Let him that stole steal no more ; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

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