The Works of John and Charles Wesley: A Bibliography ...

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AMS Press, 1906 - 291 pages
 

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Page 74 - What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Page 243 - I buried what was mortal of honest Silas Told. For many years he attended the malefactors in Newgate, without fee or reward ; and I suppose no man for this hundred years has been so successful in that melancholy office. God had given him peculiar talents for it ; and he had amazing success therein. The greatest part of those whom he attended died in peace, and many of them in the triumph of faith.
Page 224 - I have prepared a liturgy, little differing from that of the church of England, (I think the best constituted national church in the world,) which I advise all the...
Page 59 - A Token for Children, being an Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives and Joyful Deaths of Several Young Children, by James J anew ay.
Page 76 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 151 - Have we read or heard of any person since the apostles, who testified the gospel of the grace of God through so widely extended a space, through so large a part of the habitable world ? Have we read or heard...
Page 109 - HERE LIETH THE BODY OF JOHN WESLEY, A BRAND PLUCKED OUT OF THE BURNING; "WHO DIED OF A CONSUMPTION IN THE FIFTY-FIRST YEAR OF HIS AGE. NOT LEAVING, AFTER HIS DEBTS ARE PAID, TEN POUNDS BEHIND HIM! PRAYING, God be merciful to me an unprofitable servant! He ordered that this, if any, inscription should be placed on his tombstone.
Page 232 - He was full as much called to sound an alarm through all the nation as Mr. Whitefield himself: nay, abundantly more so, seeing he was far better qualified for that important work. He had a more striking person, equal good breeding, an equally winning address ; together with a richer flow of fancy, a stronger understanding, a far greater treasure of learning, both in languages, philosophy, philology, and divinity...
Page 169 - We, whose names are underwritten, being thoroughly convinced of the necessity of a close union between those whom God is pleased to use as instruments in this glorious work, in order to preserve this union between ourselves, are resolved, God being our helper, I.
Page 148 - Wesley, who has stated the case with equal force and truth, " the sum of all is this; one in twenty (suppose) of mankind, are elected; nineteen in twenty are reprobated! The elect shall be saved, do what they will .- the reprobate shall be damned, do what they can.

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