The History, Constitution, Rules of Discipline and Confession of Faith: Of the Calvinistic Methodists in Whales

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Simpkin, Marshall, & Company, 1850 - Methodist Church - 65 pages
 

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Page 31 - 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 29 - 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 49 - 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 35 - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther...
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 mquiry ; 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...
Page 46 - God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons, Gal.
Page 33 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain -glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Page 29 - ... by our words we shall be justified, and by our words we shall be condemned ; believing, and declaring this belief, that a very loose and wanton conversation was a besetting sin amongst them.
Page 29 - And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another...
Page 39 - formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.

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