John Wesley and the Evangelical Reaction of the Eighteenth CenturyMacMillan and Company, 1870 - 412 pages |
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... , being wholly occupied with the past , could not attempt to embody . A note at the end of the volume discusses a point on which the view here taken differs from that of Wesley's Methodist biographers . It seemed worth while to go a 2.
... , being wholly occupied with the past , could not attempt to embody . A note at the end of the volume discusses a point on which the view here taken differs from that of Wesley's Methodist biographers . It seemed worth while to go a 2.
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... attempt to delineate the influence of a par- ticular man upon his age . Hence the background to the central figure is treated with an attention which will seem out of proportion to the slightness of the whole sketch , unless it is ...
... attempt to delineate the influence of a par- ticular man upon his age . Hence the background to the central figure is treated with an attention which will seem out of proportion to the slightness of the whole sketch , unless it is ...
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... attempt made in the following pages . They aim at delineating John Wesley so far as he formed the centre to a great religious revival ; and regarded from this point of view it will be found that , though he exhi- bited great powers of ...
... attempt made in the following pages . They aim at delineating John Wesley so far as he formed the centre to a great religious revival ; and regarded from this point of view it will be found that , though he exhi- bited great powers of ...
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... attempt to bring the message of the Gospel to those who filled in the Lincolnshire . village the place of the publicans and sinners of Jerusalem . Of course the children of such a mother were not left without special religious ...
... attempt to bring the message of the Gospel to those who filled in the Lincolnshire . village the place of the publicans and sinners of Jerusalem . Of course the children of such a mother were not left without special religious ...
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... attempt to understand them . Our venerable mother , ' says the great historian from whom we have already quoted , ' had contrived to unite the opposite extremes of bigotry and indifference ; ' and these blended influ- ences II . ] 25 ...
... attempt to understand them . Our venerable mother , ' says the great historian from whom we have already quoted , ' had contrived to unite the opposite extremes of bigotry and indifference ; ' and these blended influ- ences II . ] 25 ...
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