Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, Volume 1

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Page 124 - and'] all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy name may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy everlasting glory.
Page 23 - And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons he gathered up his feet into the bed and yielded up the ghost.'
Page 76 - Partly founded on a well-known tradition mentioned in a treatise of Plutarch (De Oraculorum Defectu), according to which, at the hour of the Saviour's agony, a cry of' Great Pan is dead!' swept across the waves in the hearing of certain mariners,—and the oracles ceased:
Page 78 - I shook off the dust of my feet and left Georgia, after having preached the Gospel there (not as I ought, but as I was able) one year and nearly nine months.
Page 40 - avail yourselves of the Deed of Declaration to assume any superiority over your brethren ; but let all things go on, among those Itinerants who choose to remain together, exactly in the same manner as when I was with you, so far as circumstances will
Page 130 - put eleven of the poorest with me : and if they can give anything, well. I will call on them weekly, and if they can give nothing, I will give for them as well as
Page 131 - To each of those whose seriousness and good conversation I found no reason to doubt, I gave a testimony under my own hand, by writing their name on a ticket prepared for that purpose: every ticket implying as strong a recommendation of the person to whom it is given, as if I
Page 130 - As the Society increased I found it required still greater care to separate the precious from the vile. In order to do this, I determined, at least once in three months, to talk with every member myself, and to enquire at their own mouths, as well as of their
Page 102 - No person shall on any account be permitted to retain any official situation in our Societies who holds opinions contrary to the total Depravity of human Nature, the Divinity and Atonement of Christ, the Influence and Witness of the Holy Spirit, and Christian Holiness as believed by the Methodists.
Page 42 - Exhort all that were brought up in the Church, to continue therein. Set the example yourself; and immediately change every Plan that would hinder their being at Church, at least two Sundays in four. Carefully avoid whatever has a tendency to separate men from the Church ; and let all the servants in our Preaching-houses go to Church once on

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