Wesley and His Preachers, Their Conquest of BritainT.F. Unwin, 1903 - 309 páginas |
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... father forbade her his house ; demanding all the money he had laid out ; and required her instantly to sell all her goods in order to make the payment ! ' It is no less suggestive than interesting to take note of what Wesley thought ...
... father forbade her his house ; demanding all the money he had laid out ; and required her instantly to sell all her goods in order to make the payment ! ' It is no less suggestive than interesting to take note of what Wesley thought ...
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... father of English Deism , he was also a wild knight - errant , compared with whom ' Don Quixote was a sober man . ' Leibnitz was a poor writer , ' haughty , self - conceited , sour , impatient of con- tradiction . ' Sterne's Sentimental ...
... father of English Deism , he was also a wild knight - errant , compared with whom ' Don Quixote was a sober man . ' Leibnitz was a poor writer , ' haughty , self - conceited , sour , impatient of con- tradiction . ' Sterne's Sentimental ...
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... father . ' In political sympathies Wesley's Diary shows him to have been a strong Royalist , who regarded with much favour each of the three Georges under whom he lived , while his hereditary bias would be in favour of the Stuarts . He ...
... father . ' In political sympathies Wesley's Diary shows him to have been a strong Royalist , who regarded with much favour each of the three Georges under whom he lived , while his hereditary bias would be in favour of the Stuarts . He ...
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... father's parish of Epworth . To this acute observer of human nature the great variety of persons he met with not only served to widen his own knowledge , but to show to advantage his own characteristics . Thus at Kirton in the Midlands ...
... father's parish of Epworth . To this acute observer of human nature the great variety of persons he met with not only served to widen his own knowledge , but to show to advantage his own characteristics . Thus at Kirton in the Midlands ...
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... father , my father , I am poor John Trembath ! ' He had been converted ; he had prospered ; he was happier than he had ever before been in his life ! A very notable characteristic of Wesley was seen in the sympathy he felt for all ...
... father , my father , I am poor John Trembath ! ' He had been converted ; he had prospered ; he was happier than he had ever before been in his life ! A very notable characteristic of Wesley was seen in the sympathy he felt for all ...
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adventures afterwards appeared Arminians asked Beau Nash became believed Bristol British Isles C. H. Spurgeon called Calvinists character characteristic Charles Wesley chief Christian Church coach common congregation danger death died Edinburgh eighteenth century England English father favoured fell find Wesley Foundery George II give Gospel ground hear heard heart Henry Moore horse instance interesting Ireland Irish Isles itinerant John Wesley kind knew Lady large numbers lived London looked Lord manner Methodist preachers Methodist Revival miles morning natural never Newgate night o'clock occasion once open-air preaching passed PATERNOSTER SQUARE persons poor prayer preachers preaching present prisoners Quaker realised regarded reign of George remarks road says Wesley Scotland Scottish seemed sermon showed side soon soul speak spirit Street suffered supposed things thought took town travellers Tyburn village visited walk Wesley's Chapel Wesleyan Whitefield woman young
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Página 246 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Página 273 - I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away ; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God ; and the books were opened : And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Página 60 - Saw you him that was a lion till then, and is now a lamb; him that was a drunkard, but now exemplarily sober; the whoremonger that was, who now abhors the very lusts of the flesh? These are my living arguments for what I assert — that God now, as aforetime, gives remission of sins and the gift of the Holy Ghost, which may be called visions.
Página 24 - As soon as he got upon the stand, he stroked back his hair, and turned his face towards where I stood, and I thought fixed his eyes on me : his countenance struck such an awful dread upon me, before I heard him speak, that it made my heart beat like the pendulum of a clock ; and when he did speak, I thought his whole discourse was aimed at me.
Página 184 - Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Página 10 - I cannot believe it. I think Mr. G. had more sense. He knew my brother well; and he knew him to be not only far superior in learning, but in poetry, to Mr. Thomson, and all his theatrical writers put together : none of them can equal him, either in strong nervous sense, or purity and elegance of language. The musical compositions VOL. IV. No, 42. 2 H of his sons are not more excellent than the poetical ones of their father.
Página 116 - I found him sitting at the head of a long square table, such as is commonly used in this country by the lower class of people, dressed in a coarse blue frock, trimmed with black horn buttons ; a checked shirt, a leathern strap about his neck for a stock, a coarse apron, and a pair of great wooden-soled shoes plated with iron to preserve them (what we call clogs in these parts), with a child upon his knee, eating his breakfast...
Página 227 - The sum of what I spoke was this :— I love plain dealing. Do not you ? I will use it now. Bear with me. I hang out no false colours, but show you all I am, all I intend, all I do. I am a member of the Church of England : but I love good men of every church. My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible- bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.
Página 85 - TIMS. 9. — I preached at six to abundance of people near Ewood ; and with an uncommon blessing. Hence we rode to Todmorden. The minister was slowly recovering from a violent fit of a palsy, with which he was struck immediately after he had been preaching a virulent sermon against the Methodists.
Página 273 - We stood round the bed and fulfilled her last request, uttered a little before she lost her speech: " Children, as soon as I am released, sing a psalm of praise to God.