The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, Volume 9Printed at the Conference-Office ... by Thomas Cordeux, agent, 1811 - Methodism |
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... Never did God vouchsafe me greater comforts : never did I perform my journeys with less fatigue , or see such a con- tinuance of the divine presence in the congregations to whom I preached . " In December he returned to Savannah , and ...
... Never did God vouchsafe me greater comforts : never did I perform my journeys with less fatigue , or see such a con- tinuance of the divine presence in the congregations to whom I preached . " In December he returned to Savannah , and ...
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... never believe , he is a child of God , who belongs to that vile congregation ! Can he , do you think , be a child of God , who holds such detestable opinions ? or he that joins in such senseless and superstitious , if not idol- atrous ...
... never believe , he is a child of God , who belongs to that vile congregation ! Can he , do you think , be a child of God , who holds such detestable opinions ? or he that joins in such senseless and superstitious , if not idol- atrous ...
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John Wesley. f when he was eleven years old , and had never lost it for an hour , ) after he had rejoiced in God with joy unspeakable , during the whole course of his illness , was too much ex- hausted to speak many words , but just said ...
John Wesley. f when he was eleven years old , and had never lost it for an hour , ) after he had rejoiced in God with joy unspeakable , during the whole course of his illness , was too much ex- hausted to speak many words , but just said ...
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... never to part with his dear decrees , who being pressed to read them , replied , " No , I will never read Mr. Fletcher's Writings ; for if I did , I should be of his mind . " He now , likewise , wrote several other valu- able Tracts ...
... never to part with his dear decrees , who being pressed to read them , replied , " No , I will never read Mr. Fletcher's Writings ; for if I did , I should be of his mind . " He now , likewise , wrote several other valu- able Tracts ...
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... never was man more emi- nently qualified ; no , not Mr. Whitefield himself , ) he would have done more good , than any other man in England . I cannot doubt but this would have been the more excellent way . However , though he did not ...
... never was man more emi- nently qualified ; no , not Mr. Whitefield himself , ) he would have done more good , than any other man in England . I cannot doubt but this would have been the more excellent way . However , though he did not ...
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Page 225 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Page 237 - Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Page 191 - Thy people also shall be all righteous : they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
Page 129 - And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things ; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Page 179 - And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth ; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Page 309 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Page 311 - And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them : for that is delivered unto me ; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
Page 219 - 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.
Page 276 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Page 347 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked, that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it, or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.