 | John Whitehead - Methodism - 1845 - 584 pages
...fields, of which Mr. Whitefield had set him the example; "Having been," says he, "till very lately so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order,...which made much noise, and gave great offence. Under the sermon, some persons trembled from head to foot: others, fell down and cried with a loud and bitter... | |
 | Christianity - 1845 - 614 pages
...the fields, of which he set me an example on Sunday : having been all my life (till very lately) BO tenacious of every point relating to decency and order,...the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been in a Church. Bristol, April 1. In the evening (Mr Whitefield being gone) I begun expounding our Lord's... | |
 | Protestantism - 1847 - 648 pages
...circumstances. In his own language, " so tenacious was he of every point relating to decency and order, that he should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done In a church." But the necessities of perishing multitudes, and the fact that many pulpits were closed against him... | |
 | John Whitehead - Methodist Church - 1852 - 582 pages
...fields, of which Mr. Whitefield had set him the example; "Having been," says he, "till very lately so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almoit a ¡in, if it had not been done in о church." During this summer, his preaching at Bristol... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 418 pages
...the fields, of which he set me an example on Sunday ; having been all my Hie, 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.' Mindless of the practice ot the Apostles, or fancying it unsuitable to his day, he had held his prejudices... | |
 | Christian sects - 1853 - 414 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.' Mindless of the practice of the Apostles, or fancying it unsuitable to his day, he had held his prejudices... | |
 | 1854 - 622 pages
...scarcely reconcile myself 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." But as years rolled on, his views materially changed on ecclesiastical authority and church order.... | |
 | 1855 - 590 pages
...reconcile myself," he says, " 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." Circumstances, however, compelled him to that to which, from his education and feelings, he had a strong... | |
 | John Wesley - 1855 - 738 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, that I should liave thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church. noon, I submitted... | |
 | John Wesley - 1856 - 748 pages
...the fields, of which he set me an example on Sunday ; having been all my life (till very lately) eo tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of soals almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church. April 1. — In the evening (Mr. Whitefield... | |
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I could scarce reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in 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, that I should have... 
