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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... morning . Here , for his quietness , regularity , and application , he became a favourite with the master , Dr. Walker ; and through life he retained so great a predilection for the place , that on his annual visit to London he made it ...
... morning . Here , for his quietness , regularity , and application , he became a favourite with the master , Dr. Walker ; and through life he retained so great a predilection for the place , that on his annual visit to London he made it ...
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... morning , and going into company an hour later in the evening . As his religious feelings grew upon him , that state of mind came on which led the enthusiasts of early ages into the wilderness . He began to think that such society as ...
... morning , and going into company an hour later in the evening . As his religious feelings grew upon him , that state of mind came on which led the enthusiasts of early ages into the wilderness . He began to think that such society as ...
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... morning . An introduction to this little fellowship soon followed ; and he also , like them , " began to live by rule , and to pick up the very fragments of his time , that not a moment of it might be lost . " They were now about ...
... morning . An introduction to this little fellowship soon followed ; and he also , like them , " began to live by rule , and to pick up the very fragments of his time , that not a moment of it might be lost . " They were now about ...
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... morning till five they used private prayer : from fiye till seven they read the Bible together , carefully comparing it with the writ- ings of the earliest ages , that they might not lean to their own understandings . At seven they ...
... morning till five they used private prayer : from fiye till seven they read the Bible together , carefully comparing it with the writ- ings of the earliest ages , that they might not lean to their own understandings . At seven they ...
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... morning they landed on a small uninhabited island , where Mr. Oglethorpe led them to a rising ground , and they all knelt and returned thanks to God for having arrived in safety . Mr. Oglethorpe went that day to Savannah , and returned ...
... morning they landed on a small uninhabited island , where Mr. Oglethorpe led them to a rising ground , and they all knelt and returned thanks to God for having arrived in safety . Mr. Oglethorpe went that day to Savannah , and returned ...
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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...