John Wesley and the Evangelical Reaction of the Eighteenth CenturyMacMillan and Company, 1870 - 412 pages |
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... laws they never read , and renewed the solemn promise when they had discovered the impossibility of keeping it , that Wesley , about a score of years after his entrance on the University , poured forth from the pulpit of St. Mary's such ...
... laws they never read , and renewed the solemn promise when they had discovered the impossibility of keeping it , that Wesley , about a score of years after his entrance on the University , poured forth from the pulpit of St. Mary's such ...
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... Law begot Methodism , ' and that the work which alone recalls Law's name to the reading public of the present day - the ' Serious Call ' - made a great impression on Wesley , and contains a description which was realized in the ...
... Law begot Methodism , ' and that the work which alone recalls Law's name to the reading public of the present day - the ' Serious Call ' - made a great impression on Wesley , and contains a description which was realized in the ...
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... Law says , ' I was once a kind of oracle to Mr. Wesley . ' Twice or thrice in the year , the two brothers travelled the whole dis- tance from Oxford to London on foot to visit this oracle , the mark of a devotion in which they were not ...
... Law says , ' I was once a kind of oracle to Mr. Wesley . ' Twice or thrice in the year , the two brothers travelled the whole dis- tance from Oxford to London on foot to visit this oracle , the mark of a devotion in which they were not ...
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... Law said , and his pupil heard and remembered , ' if we may thereby attain at least to mediocrity . ' The other would have saved him from much rationalistic narrowness if he could have fully received it . ' Sir , you are troubled ...
... Law said , and his pupil heard and remembered , ' if we may thereby attain at least to mediocrity . ' The other would have saved him from much rationalistic narrowness if he could have fully received it . ' Sir , you are troubled ...
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... the laying too much stress on the instituted means of grace to the neglect of the weightier matters of the Law ; or the multiplying pru- : dential means upon ourselves so far as to obstruct the II . ] 57 WESLEY AT OXFORD .
... the laying too much stress on the instituted means of grace to the neglect of the weightier matters of the Law ; or the multiplying pru- : dential means upon ourselves so far as to obstruct the II . ] 57 WESLEY AT OXFORD .
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