The Methodist Magazine, Volume 1J. Soule and T. Mason for the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, 1818 - Methodist Church |
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... bodies which are strewed in that space , to fill you with astonishment at the greatness of the artificer . It is in the centre of our system that the throne of the sun is established . That body is more than a million of times larger ...
... bodies which are strewed in that space , to fill you with astonishment at the greatness of the artificer . It is in the centre of our system that the throne of the sun is established . That body is more than a million of times larger ...
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... body , which equals the sun both in size and splendour . Each star , then , is not only a world , but also the centre of a planetary system . It is in this light we must consider the stars , which shine over our heads in a winter night ...
... body , which equals the sun both in size and splendour . Each star , then , is not only a world , but also the centre of a planetary system . It is in this light we must consider the stars , which shine over our heads in a winter night ...
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... bodies ! Their splendour dazzles me ; their beauty en- chants me . However , all beautiful as it is , and richly adorned , yet is this sky void of intelligence . It knows not its own beau- ty ; while I , mere clay , whom God has moulded ...
... bodies ! Their splendour dazzles me ; their beauty en- chants me . However , all beautiful as it is , and richly adorned , yet is this sky void of intelligence . It knows not its own beau- ty ; while I , mere clay , whom God has moulded ...
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... bodies of wild beasts which inhabit forests and deserts are so formed , that the hair falls off in summer , and grows again in winter , till it becomes a fur which enables the ani- mal to endure the most severe cold . Other kinds of ...
... bodies of wild beasts which inhabit forests and deserts are so formed , that the hair falls off in summer , and grows again in winter , till it becomes a fur which enables the ani- mal to endure the most severe cold . Other kinds of ...
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... body , and requested Cloe Smead , her nurse , to sleep with her . " O what union there is , " said she , " between Chris- tians , O , it seems as though it was heaven here , the more of Christians the more of God , " and spake much 24 ...
... body , and requested Cloe Smead , her nurse , to sleep with her . " O what union there is , " said she , " between Chris- tians , O , it seems as though it was heaven here , the more of Christians the more of God , " and spake much 24 ...
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Page 149 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Page 457 - Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Page 462 - Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
Page 102 - For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth : it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 250 - I believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible: And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God; begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God; begotten, not made; being of one substance with the Father...
Page 395 - WELCOME, sweet day of rest, That saw the Lord arise : Welcome to this reviving breast, And these rejoicing eyes. 2 The King Himself comes near, And feasts His saints to-day ; Here we may sit, and see Him here, And love, and praise, and pray. 3 One day amidst the place Where my dear God hath been, Is sweeter than ten thousand days Of pleasurable sin.
Page 251 - THE Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting of the Father, the very and eternal God, and of one substance with the Father, took Man's nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin, of her substance...
Page 393 - And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Page 405 - Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles ; how much more their fulness?
Page 108 - My grace is sufficient for thee. My strength is made perfect in weakness.