Lackington's Confessions, Rendered Into Narrative: To which are Added Observations on the Bad Consequences of Educating Daughters at Boarding-schoolsB. Crosby and Company, 1804 - 150 pages |
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... Methodist ; one of a people , whose simple manners , honest lives , and generous benevolence he had wantonly aspersed in his other works . No body can know to what extent Mr. Lackington is the dupe of his own inconstant fancy in all ...
... Methodist ; one of a people , whose simple manners , honest lives , and generous benevolence he had wantonly aspersed in his other works . No body can know to what extent Mr. Lackington is the dupe of his own inconstant fancy in all ...
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... Methodist . To the Me- thodists he is by no means a niggard of his concessions , confessions , and contritions . And here Mr. Lackington does himself much honour . The Methodists had been sufferers by his dereliction from their tenets ...
... Methodist . To the Me- thodists he is by no means a niggard of his concessions , confessions , and contritions . And here Mr. Lackington does himself much honour . The Methodists had been sufferers by his dereliction from their tenets ...
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... Methodist , and now possibly not several of any de- nomination of well informed christians , who must not have either read , or heard of , the passage in question . In the minutes of the conference held in August 1770 , it runs thus ...
... Methodist , and now possibly not several of any de- nomination of well informed christians , who must not have either read , or heard of , the passage in question . In the minutes of the conference held in August 1770 , it runs thus ...
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... Methodist , of which he has favoured us with an example . He has had preachers from the congregations of the late Mr. Wesley , to preach to the poor and ignorant of his neighbourhood , to whom Mrs. Lackington has piously distributed ...
... Methodist , of which he has favoured us with an example . He has had preachers from the congregations of the late Mr. Wesley , to preach to the poor and ignorant of his neighbourhood , to whom Mrs. Lackington has piously distributed ...
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... Methodists , for years an injured sect , ) to whom he has returned . The confessionalist may be depended on in the article of his zeal . Not deeming the last pages of the Confessions worthy to be narrated , we have , it will be ...
... Methodists , for years an injured sect , ) to whom he has returned . The confessionalist may be depended on in the article of his zeal . Not deeming the last pages of the Confessions worthy to be narrated , we have , it will be ...
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Page 79 - But yet all is not done; man disobeying, Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins Against the high supremacy of Heaven, Affecting godhead, and, so losing all To expiate his treason hath nought left, But to destruction sacred and devote, He, with his whole posterity, must die. Die, he or justice must; unless for him Some other, able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction ; death for death.
Page 76 - Not me? They, therefore, as to right belong'd, So were created, nor can justly accuse Their Maker, or their making, or their fate, As if predestination over-rul'd Their will, dispos'd by absolute decree, Or high foreknowledge. They themselves decreed Their own revolt...
Page 75 - Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High thron'd above all height, bent down his eye, His own works and their works at once to view.
Page 97 - Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not ; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Page 63 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering ; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Page 76 - Not what they would ? what praise could they receive? What pleasure I from such obedience paid, When will and reason (reason also...
Page 95 - Rests too in hope of meeting once again Its better half, never to sunder more. Nor shall it hope in vain: — The time draws on, When not a single spot of burial earth, Whether on land, or in the spacious sea, But must give back its long-committed...
Page 98 - A lewd young fellow seeing an aged hermit go by him barefoot, Father, says he, you are in a very miserable condition, if there is not another world. True son, said the hermit; but what is thy condition if there is?
Page 117 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Page 61 - T' improve those charms, and keep them in repair, For which the spoiler thanks thee not? Foul feeder ! Coarse fare and carrion please thee full as well, And leave as keen a relish...