The Life of the Rev. Charles Wesley: Comprising a Review of His Poetry, Sketches of the Rise and Progress of Methodism, with Notices of Contemporary Events and Characters, Volume 2John Mason, 1841 - Methodism |
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... happiness through eternity . How does this assurance change the nature of things ! ' Sorrow is joy , and pain is ease , If thou , my God , art here ! ' The slightest suffering received from Him is an inestimable blessing 2 THE LIFE OF.
... happiness through eternity . How does this assurance change the nature of things ! ' Sorrow is joy , and pain is ease , If thou , my God , art here ! ' The slightest suffering received from Him is an inestimable blessing 2 THE LIFE OF.
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... thou ? " The fact is undeniable , that John and Charles Wesley were the personal friends of Mr. Venn , when this justly - celebrated Clergyman obtained his best and highest qualifications for the sacred office . Charles was also a ...
... thou ? " The fact is undeniable , that John and Charles Wesley were the personal friends of Mr. Venn , when this justly - celebrated Clergyman obtained his best and highest qualifications for the sacred office . Charles was also a ...
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... thou suffer'dst to redeem , Into those hands of thine ! O that we then might prove , Like him , the crowning grace , And join our glittering friends above In everlasting lays ! It appears to have been in the autumn of the year 1753 ...
... thou suffer'dst to redeem , Into those hands of thine ! O that we then might prove , Like him , the crowning grace , And join our glittering friends above In everlasting lays ! It appears to have been in the autumn of the year 1753 ...
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... thou , Lord , shalt save both man and beast . " Remember me at family prayers , and in private . I am afraid of myself , that , when I return , I shall cumber the ground as heretofore . Preaching once a week in the country might be a ...
... thou , Lord , shalt save both man and beast . " Remember me at family prayers , and in private . I am afraid of myself , that , when I return , I shall cumber the ground as heretofore . Preaching once a week in the country might be a ...
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... thou seest our bleeding heart . Whom thyself hast planted there , From our bleeding heart to tear ; This most sensibly we feel , This we own impossible . Dearest of thy gifts below , Nature cannot let her go ; Nature , till by grace ...
... thou seest our bleeding heart . Whom thyself hast planted there , From our bleeding heart to tear ; This most sensibly we feel , This we own impossible . Dearest of thy gifts below , Nature cannot let her go ; Nature , till by grace ...
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Page 129 - Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee : hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity : the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Page 486 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 469 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 88 - He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Page 123 - Repent ye therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord...
Page 421 - Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 2. As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
Page 101 - Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Page 115 - Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Page 14 - And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in •the mount that is called the mount of Olives.
Page 55 - Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.