 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...  Nineteenth Century and After - Page 4861891Full view - About this book
 | John Whitehead - 1805 - 570 pages
...been, says he, till very lately, so very tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church." During this summer, his preaching at Bristol was attended with some extraordinary circumstances, which... | |
 | George Bourne - Funeral sermons - 1807 - 366 pages
...; " Having been till very lately, so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church." During this summer, his preaching at Bristol was attended with some extraordinary circumstances, which... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1809 - 460 pages
...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 almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church. April 1, In the evening (Mr. Whitefield being gone), I begun expounding our Lord's sermon on the Mount,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 496 pages
...irregular steps at Bristol ; though he confesses that he had been so tenacious of decency and order, that he should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if not done in a church. The multitudes which attended the preaching of Wesley were great, though not... | |
 | Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...irregular steps at Bristol; though he confesses that he had been so tenacious of decency and order, that he should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if not done in a church. The multitudes which attended the preaching of Wesley were great, though not... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...irregular steps at Bristol ; though he confesses that he had been so tenacious of decency and order, that he should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if not done in a church. The multitudes which attended the preaching of Wesley were great, though not... | |
 | Robert Southey - Clergy - 1820 - 562 pages
...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 almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church." The next day he observed that our Lord's Sermon on the Mount, was " one pretty remarkable precedent... | |
 | Robert Southey - Methodism - 1820 - 856 pages
...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 almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church." The next day he observed that our Lord's Sermon on the Mount, was " one pretty remarkable precedent... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 606 pages
...been all my life, till very lately, so tenacious of every point relating \f> decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin if it had pp not been done in a church." The disease which Methodism excited had not appeared at Bristol under... | |
 | 1841 - 488 pages
...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 almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church." Monday, April 2d. Mr. Wesley, for the first time in England, preaches in the open air. "At four in... | |
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