The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1840 |
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... John Abernethy , have been for the most part retailed a thousand times . The following story of the latter is , however , not quite so hackneyed as some others . ' Of Mr. Abernethy's independence , and strict regard to what is right ...
... John Abernethy , have been for the most part retailed a thousand times . The following story of the latter is , however , not quite so hackneyed as some others . ' Of Mr. Abernethy's independence , and strict regard to what is right ...
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... JOHN ROGERS . Vol . I. Popery . London . 8vo ,, pp . 362 . IN most cases it is a matter of less difficulty to bring men to the approval of a good purpose , than to bring them into a cordial agreement with regard to the best means of ...
... JOHN ROGERS . Vol . I. Popery . London . 8vo ,, pp . 362 . IN most cases it is a matter of less difficulty to bring men to the approval of a good purpose , than to bring them into a cordial agreement with regard to the best means of ...
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... John Rogers extends to the destruc- tion of this last antagonist , no less than to the final overthrow of his holiness the pope . Our friends the Wesleyans will especially do well to prepare themselves for the worst , for loud as may be ...
... John Rogers extends to the destruc- tion of this last antagonist , no less than to the final overthrow of his holiness the pope . Our friends the Wesleyans will especially do well to prepare themselves for the worst , for loud as may be ...
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... John Wesley writes , ' In November , 1729 , at which time I came to reside at Oxford , your son , my brother , myself , and one morc , agreed to spend three or four evenings in a week together . Our design was to read over the classics ...
... John Wesley writes , ' In November , 1729 , at which time I came to reside at Oxford , your son , my brother , myself , and one morc , agreed to spend three or four evenings in a week together . Our design was to read over the classics ...
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... John Wesley's Journal from his embarking for Georgia ( 1735 ) to his return to London . ' It is remarkable that active Methodism should have originated on a day so distinguished in the annals of old Nonconformity . 6 " Though I felt ...
... John Wesley's Journal from his embarking for Georgia ( 1735 ) to his return to London . ' It is remarkable that active Methodism should have originated on a day so distinguished in the annals of old Nonconformity . 6 " Though I felt ...
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Page 181 - Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, That they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Page 441 - Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom be honour and power everlasting.
Page 675 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Page 186 - The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice ; the floods lift up their waves. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Page 606 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain, Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Page 496 - A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench : He shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Page 419 - The King of France with twenty thousand men, • Marched up the hill, and then marched down again.
Page 295 - I am certain she was not joined with good works, and left the court in a staggering condition: Charity came to the King's feet, and seemed to cover the multitude of sins her sisters had committed; in some...
Page 368 - ... clear as the sun, fair as the moon, and terrible as an army with banners...
Page 123 - ... truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation : others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.