The Story of Methodism Throughout the World: From the Beginning to the Present Time ... Giving an Account of Its Various Influences and Institutions of To-day

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Wiley & Company, 1889 - 827 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 76 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2.
Sayfa 108 - An't please your worship, they have convarted my wife. Till she went among them, she had such a tongue; and now she is as quiet as a lamb.' ' Carry them back, carry them back,' replied the Justice, ' and let them convert all the scolds in the town.
Sayfa 78 - IN the latter end of the year 1739, eight or ten persons came to me in London, who appeared to be deeply convinced of sin, and earnestly groaning for redemption.
Sayfa 110 - Such a society is no other than "a company of men having the form and seeking the power of godliness, united in order to pray together, to receive the word of exhortation, and to watch over one another in love, that they may help each other to work out their salvation.
Sayfa 69 - I could scarce reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which he set me an example on Sunday ; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church.
Sayfa 110 - Doing to others as we would not they should do unto us. Doing what we know is not for the glory of God : as, The putting on of gold and costly apparel. The taking such diversions as cannot be used in the name of the Lord Jesus. The singing those songs, or reading those books which do not tend to the knowledge or love of God. Softness and needless self-indulgence ; Laying up treasure upon earth. Borrowing without a probability of paying; or taking up goods without a probability of paying for them.
Sayfa 63 - I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
Sayfa 63 - Just as I went out I opened it again on those words, ' Thou art not far from the kingdom of God.' In the afternoon I was asked to go to St. Paul's. The •anthem was, ' Out of the deep have I called unto thee, O Lord...
Sayfa 63 - In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed.
Sayfa 269 - ... without, that which came upon him daily, the care of all the churches.

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