 | Abel Stevens - Methodism - 1858 - 486 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." The next evening, Whitefield being gone, he began expounding to a small " Society " the Sermon on the... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1859 - 926 pages
...Having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in the church." Charles follows the example of Whitefield and of John. First in the field of a farmer... | |
 | Abel Stevens - 1860 - 402 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 have thought the saving of soiils almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church." The next evening, Whitefleld being gone,... | |
 | John Eadie - Church history - 1862 - 720 pages
...which he (Whitfield) set me the example on the Sunday, having been all my life, till very lately, so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order that I should have thought the saving of souls a sin, if it had not been done in a church." However, on the following day, Mr. Wesley preached from... | |
 | Samuel Rowles Pattison - England - 1864 - 408 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,...the saving of souls almost a sin if it had not been in a church." John Wesley's own testimony to the nature of the Christian life and its counterfeits,... | |
 | 1864 - 684 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,...the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been dome in a church." In Ireland, at one time, he was greatly indignant at being asked to go to one of... | |
 | 1865 - 786 pages
...the fields, of which ho set mo an examplo 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." In the evening of the next day, while ho was "expounding our Lord's Sermonen the Mount," it struck... | |
 | John Richard Andrews (barrister.) - 1865 - 84 pages
...the fields, of which he set me the example on Sunday, having been all my life, till very lately, so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order,...the saving of souls almost a sin if it had not been in a church. . . . My brother Charles would scarce hear the mention of it, till appealing to the oracles... | |
 | Joseph Stratford - 1865 - 448 pages
...the fields, of which he set me an example on Sunday ; having been all niy life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls a sin if it had not been done in a church." Alas ! there are not a few who seem to think so now ! "... | |
 | William Conant Church - American literature - 1874 - 876 pages
...first to this strange way of preaching in the fields ; 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." He soon found means to justify himself to himself. He was an ordained priest, and as such, he writes,... | |
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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... 
