Wesleyan Methodism a Revival of Apostolic Christianity: A Sermon, Preached by Appointment Before the Wesleyan Conference on Monday, August 5, 1839, on Occassion of the Centenary of Wesleyan Methodism |
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... question was weak and contemptible in the world's estimation . The men who were intrusted with it enjoyed no distinction arising from birth , or rank , or learning . They were mostly selected from the humblest classes of mankind . Yet ...
... question was weak and contemptible in the world's estimation . The men who were intrusted with it enjoyed no distinction arising from birth , or rank , or learning . They were mostly selected from the humblest classes of mankind . Yet ...
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... question , for instance , were placed in oppo sition to other persons and things , which they were designed to " confound " and " bring to naught ; " and by these we are unques . tionably to understand Jewish tradition and heathenism ...
... question , for instance , were placed in oppo sition to other persons and things , which they were designed to " confound " and " bring to naught ; " and by these we are unques . tionably to understand Jewish tradition and heathenism ...
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... question , it will be requisite to glance at the state of the world upon which this ministry was intended to bear . And here a melancholy scene is brought before us . Of that age it might indeed be said : " Darkness covered the earth ...
... question , it will be requisite to glance at the state of the world upon which this ministry was intended to bear . And here a melancholy scene is brought before us . Of that age it might indeed be said : " Darkness covered the earth ...
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... question , we have ample information in the New Testament . No sooner was St. Paul converted than it is said , " Straightway he preached Christ in the syn- agogue , that he is the Son of God . " Speaking of himself , and of his brethren ...
... question , we have ample information in the New Testament . No sooner was St. Paul converted than it is said , " Straightway he preached Christ in the syn- agogue , that he is the Son of God . " Speaking of himself , and of his brethren ...
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... question . The Wesleys and their fellow - labourers expatiated large- ly , and with undiminished interest , upon the efficacy of Christ's atone- ment , and the prevalence of his intercession ; through which they taught their hearers to ...
... question . The Wesleys and their fellow - labourers expatiated large- ly , and with undiminished interest , upon the efficacy of Christ's atone- ment , and the prevalence of his intercession ; through which they taught their hearers to ...
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Page 5 - And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
Page 7 - Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed ; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings...
Page 22 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him...
Page 7 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live ; as chastened, and not killed ; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing ; as poor, yet making many rich ; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 7 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep...
Page 5 - For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel : not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
Page 14 - ... not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Page 5 - And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power : 5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Page 2 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Page 8 - For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man...