George Whitefield: a Biography: With Special Reference to His Labors in AmericaAmerican Tract Society, 1857 - 514 من الصفحات |
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... began to rea- son as they did , and to ask why God had given me passions , and not permitted me to gratify them . In short , I soon made great proficiency in the school of the devil . I affected to look rakish , and was in a fair way of ...
... began to rea- son as they did , and to ask why God had given me passions , and not permitted me to gratify them . In short , I soon made great proficiency in the school of the devil . I affected to look rakish , and was in a fair way of ...
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... began , " says he , " to assist her occasionally in the public - house , till at length I put on my blue apron and my snuffers , washed mops , cleaned rooms , and in one word , became professed and common drawer for nearly a year and a ...
... began , " says he , " to assist her occasionally in the public - house , till at length I put on my blue apron and my snuffers , washed mops , cleaned rooms , and in one word , became professed and common drawer for nearly a year and a ...
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... began to live by rule , and pick up the very fragments of his time , that not a moment might be lost . " It is painful to read Whitefield's own account of the mortifications of body to which he now submitted ; and we are not surprised ...
... began to live by rule , and pick up the very fragments of his time , that not a moment might be lost . " It is painful to read Whitefield's own account of the mortifications of body to which he now submitted ; and we are not surprised ...
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... began to read the holy Scriptures upon my knees ; laying aside all other books , and praying over , if possible , every line and word . This proved meat indeed and drink indeed to my soul . I daily received fresh life , light , and ...
... began to read the holy Scriptures upon my knees ; laying aside all other books , and praying over , if possible , every line and word . This proved meat indeed and drink indeed to my soul . I daily received fresh life , light , and ...
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... began his ministry . There is a fascination as well as fervor , or rather a fascination arising from fervor , in some of his earliest as well as his later dis- courses . How bold and beautiful is the peroration of that on " Intercession ...
... began his ministry . There is a fascination as well as fervor , or rather a fascination arising from fervor , in some of his earliest as well as his later dis- courses . How bold and beautiful is the peroration of that on " Intercession ...
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الصفحة 135 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper.
الصفحة 483 - There stands the messenger of truth: there stands The legate of the skies! — His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the gospel whispers peace.
الصفحة 135 - I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish — gold and all.
الصفحة 270 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
الصفحة 290 - God of our salvation : thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea. 6 Who in his strength setteth fast the mountains : and is girded about with power.
الصفحة 134 - I had the curiosity to learn how far he could be heard, by retiring backwards down the street towards the river; and I found his voice distinct till I came near Front-street, when some noise in that street obscured it.
الصفحة 90 - But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
الصفحة 11 - During the latter part of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries...
الصفحة 435 - Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith ; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates ? 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
الصفحة 136 - The request was fortunately made to perhaps the only man in the company, who had the firmness not to be affected by the preacher. His answer was, " At any other time, friend Hopkinson, I would lend to thee freely ; but not now ; for thee seems to be out of thy right senses.