The Life and Times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., Founder of the Methodists, Band 2

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Harper, 1872

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Seite 460 - Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God: so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
Seite 525 - Lo ! he comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain ! Thousand thousand saints, attending, Swell the triumph of his train ; Hallelujah ! God appears on earth to reign. 2 Every eye shall now behold him, Robed in dreadful majesty ; Those who set at nought and sold him, Pierced and nailed him to the tree, Deeply wailing, Shall the true Messiah see.
Seite 485 - GOD bless the King — I mean the faith's defender! God bless (no harm in blessing!) the Pretender! But who pretender is, or who is King — God bless us all! — that's quite another thing.
Seite 488 - I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Seite 616 - Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us...
Seite 315 - JOHN NEWTON, CLERK, Once an infidel and libertine, A servant of slaves in Africa, Was by the rich mercy of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, Preserved, restored, pardoned, And appointed to preach the faith he Had long laboured to destroy, Near 16 years at Olney in Bucks ; And — years in this church.
Seite 559 - ... at the ends. Wondrous clean, but as evidently an actor as Garrick. He spoke his sermon, but so fast, and with so little accent, that I am sure he has often uttered it, for it was like a lesson. There were parts and eloquence in it ; but towards the end he exalted his voice, and acted very ugly enthusiasm ; decried learning, and told stories, like Latimer, of the fool of his college, who said,
Seite 198 - Conference began at Leeds. The point on which we desired all the preachers to speak their minds at large, was, " Whether we ought to separate from the Church ? " Whatever was advanced on one side or the other, was seriously and calmly considered ; and on the third day we were all fully agreed, in that general conclusion, That (whether it was lawful or not) it was no ways expedient.
Seite 64 - And for a further vindication of the Catechism truly representing the doctrines and practices of the Church of Rome, in the point of their praying to the Cross.
Seite 74 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee : but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down ; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

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