The Life of Wesley: And the Rise and Progress of Methodism, Volumes 1-2B. Gilley, no. 92 Broadway, J. Seymour, print., 1820 - Methodism |
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... gave instruc- tion to those who wished to profit by his lessons ; and thus by great industry , and great frugality , he not only supported himself but had accumulated the sum of ten pounds fifteen shillings , when he went to Lon- don to ...
... gave instruc- tion to those who wished to profit by his lessons ; and thus by great industry , and great frugality , he not only supported himself but had accumulated the sum of ten pounds fifteen shillings , when he went to Lon- don to ...
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... gave it the name of old Jeffery , and by this name he was now known as a harmless , though by no means an agreeable inmate of the parsonage . Jeffe- ry was not a malicious goblin , but he was easily of fended . Before Mrs. Wesley was ...
... gave it the name of old Jeffery , and by this name he was now known as a harmless , though by no means an agreeable inmate of the parsonage . Jeffe- ry was not a malicious goblin , but he was easily of fended . Before Mrs. Wesley was ...
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... gave her to correspond with her son upon such subjects . The treatise De Imitatione appears to have offend- ed Wesley's reason , as well as the instincts of hilarity and youth . But the impression which this writer ( whoever he be ) ...
... gave her to correspond with her son upon such subjects . The treatise De Imitatione appears to have offend- ed Wesley's reason , as well as the instincts of hilarity and youth . But the impression which this writer ( whoever he be ) ...
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... gave him what they thought a frightful description of it , according to the fashion of an age in which the sense of picturesque beauty seems hardly to have existed . They told him that it was a little vale , so pent up between two hills ...
... gave him what they thought a frightful description of it , according to the fashion of an age in which the sense of picturesque beauty seems hardly to have existed . They told him that it was a little vale , so pent up between two hills ...
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... gave him a degree of credit ; and his erudition , his keen logic , and ready speech , commanded respect wherev- er he was known . But no talents , and , it may be added , no virtues , can protect the possessor from the ridicule of fools ...
... gave him a degree of credit ; and his erudition , his keen logic , and ready speech , commanded respect wherev- er he was known . But no talents , and , it may be added , no virtues , can protect the possessor from the ridicule of fools ...
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Page 173 - I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night : ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Page 382 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people...
Page 284 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed ; and make you a new heart and a new spirit : for why will ye die, 0 house of Israel ? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God : wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Page 160 - 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 284 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.
Page 142 - So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God; And yet they are not three Gods, but one God.
Page 239 - Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh : and having an high priest over the house of God ; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Page 330 - ... with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength, and therefore they loved him as truly and as fervently as he loved England.
Page 218 - At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile, and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation, speaking from a little eminence in a ground adjoining to the city, to about three thousand people.
Page 175 - For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more ; and unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews ; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; to them that are without law...