Remarks on Methodism, by a minister of the Church of England [- Wills.].1813 |
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... practice of Christianity . - Union with Christ no unfailing assurance of it , according to St. Paul and St. Peter . - Moral fitness a requisite qualification for the divine favour . - The Clergy calumniated as preachers of new doctrines ...
... practice of Christianity . - Union with Christ no unfailing assurance of it , according to St. Paul and St. Peter . - Moral fitness a requisite qualification for the divine favour . - The Clergy calumniated as preachers of new doctrines ...
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... . The reprehension of its principles not inconsistent with tolerance and charity . - Christian practice the true criterion of Divine Grace . - Conclusion PAGE 177 216 REFLECTIONS ON METHODISM , & c . & c . CONTENTS . vii.
... . The reprehension of its principles not inconsistent with tolerance and charity . - Christian practice the true criterion of Divine Grace . - Conclusion PAGE 177 216 REFLECTIONS ON METHODISM , & c . & c . CONTENTS . vii.
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... practice of its precepts , he requires Father and Son are one , ( , one thing , or substance , ) is a mystery , which when the barrister has explained , we will allow his defiance to be something more than a mere bravado : — " I will ...
... practice of its precepts , he requires Father and Son are one , ( , one thing , or substance , ) is a mystery , which when the barrister has explained , we will allow his defiance to be something more than a mere bravado : — " I will ...
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... practice , established by the gospel , and depend on the promise of Christ , that " his words will not pass away . " When any passage occurs of which the meaning is less obvious , their own incapacity might be reasonably acknowledged ...
... practice , established by the gospel , and depend on the promise of Christ , that " his words will not pass away . " When any passage occurs of which the meaning is less obvious , their own incapacity might be reasonably acknowledged ...
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... practice have prevailed , and all can- not be educated in error , on whatever side truth be sup- posed to lie . Our preaching should be not conversion to all , but to all conversion or improvement . This is proved from the gospel ...
... practice have prevailed , and all can- not be educated in error , on whatever side truth be sup- posed to lie . Our preaching should be not conversion to all , but to all conversion or improvement . This is proved from the gospel ...
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Page 238 - In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Page 9 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth...
Page 120 - YE who do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins, and are in love and charity with your neighbours, and intend to lead a new life, following the commandments of GOD, and walking from henceforth in his holy ways ; draw near with faith, and take this holy sacrament to your comfort; and make your humble confession to ALMIGHTY GOD, devoutly kneeling.
Page 144 - Marvel not at this ; for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of Man, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation
Page 43 - Christian men are discerned from others that be not christened ; but it is also a sign of regeneration, or new birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive baptism rightly are grafted into the Church ; the promises of the forgiveness of sin, and of our adoption to be. the sons of God by the Holy Ghost, are visibly signed and sealed; faith is confirmed and grace increased by virtue of prayer unto God.
Page 103 - And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Page 108 - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...
Page 42 - BAPTISM is not only a sign of profession, and mark of difference, whereby Christian men are discerned from others that be not christened ; but it is also a sign of regeneration, or new birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive baptism rightly are grafted into the Church ; the promises of the forgiveness of sin, and of our adoption to be.
Page 133 - He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
Page 133 - God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth ; but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.