 ... the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost," — joy, that is to say, in the holy, healthful, and helpful Spirit.  The life of the rev. John Wesley, M.A. to which is prefixed, some account of ... - Page 214by John Whitehead - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Henry Ware - 1847 - 474 pages
...the internal energy of the individual soul. " The kingdom of God is within you." " The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." Its external forms and rites are all for the sake of the inward operation on the spirit ; and... | |
 | Civilization, Medieval - 1846 - 210 pages
...we are informed that the religion of Christ is not a religion of forms — that the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost ; but now ceremonies were multiplied, men were led to addict themselves to these as of primary... | |
 | Nicholas Van Alstine - Universalism - 1847 - 488 pages
...raiment taken out of the city. Is this the kingdom of God ? Does not Paul say, " the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace. and joy in the Holy Ghost ?" Rom. xiv. 17. 6. The wicked should be punished at that time with horrid ruin. Were the Jews... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1847 - 500 pages
...stood near the east end of the church, upon my father's tomb-stone, and cried, ' The kingdom of heaven is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.' " During the week, and on the next Sunday, he preached from that singular pulpit, which he... | |
 | William Gibbons - Hicksites - 1847 - 218 pages
...God is within you." Luke xvii. 20. The apostle speaks of it as a " state." " For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink ; but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." Rom. xiv. 7. " This kingdom," says Joseph Phipps, " stands not in locality, not in any here,... | |
 | Theology - 1847 - 496 pages
...stood near the east end of the church, upon my father's tomb-stone, and cried, ' The kingdom of heaven is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.' " During the week, and on the next Sunday, he preached from that singular pulpit, which he... | |
 | William Gibbons - Hicksites - 1847 - 218 pages
...God is within you." Luke xvii. 20. The apostle speaks of it as a " state." " For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink ; but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." Rom. xiv. 7. " This kingdom," says Joseph Phipps, " stands not in locality, not in any here,... | |
 | Christian union - 1849 - 780 pages
...one another, as Christ also hath received us to the glory of God." " The kingdom of God," moreover, "is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." Ordinances there are, and " diversities of gifts," and " differences of administrations," but... | |
 | 1849 - 586 pages
...and distinctions, which " have not profited," and cannot profit you without it. "The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." It is not Baptismal Regeneration, or Apostolical Succession, or Priestly Absolution, or any... | |
 | Charles Wesley - 1849 - 520 pages
...their disappointment last night. At six in the evening we went forth. My text was, " The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." The people were amazingly serious. All behaved with the utmost decency. It is evidently the... | |
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