Troy Conference Miscellany: Containing a Historical Sketch of Methodism Within the Bounds of the Troy Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with Reminiscences of Its Deceased, and Contributions by Its Living Ministers. With an AppendixJ. Lord, 1854 - 423 pages |
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... first Methodist sermon in America was preached by Capt . Webb at Albany , or at least that he there held the first Methodist meetings for exhortation 66 and prayer . I learn also that he visited and HISTORY OF METHODISM . 21.
... first Methodist sermon in America was preached by Capt . Webb at Albany , or at least that he there held the first Methodist meetings for exhortation 66 and prayer . I learn also that he visited and HISTORY OF METHODISM . 21.
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... prayer . I learn also that he visited and preached . at Schenectady . No society , however , was formed in either of these cities until several years subsequent to 1766. Capt . Webb afterwards returned to England where his labors were ...
... prayer . I learn also that he visited and preached . at Schenectady . No society , however , was formed in either of these cities until several years subsequent to 1766. Capt . Webb afterwards returned to England where his labors were ...
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... prayer for direction . I knew that the Lord was with me . In the night season , in a dream , it seemed to me that the whole country , up the North river , as far as Lake Champlain , east and west , was open to my view . " After ...
... prayer for direction . I knew that the Lord was with me . In the night season , in a dream , it seemed to me that the whole country , up the North river , as far as Lake Champlain , east and west , was open to my view . " After ...
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... prayer was made in his behalf , and while the man of God and the pious cottagers bowed around him were engaged in earnest supplication , the sinner's friend spoke peace to his troubled soul . That day , December 27 , 1798 , the name of ...
... prayer was made in his behalf , and while the man of God and the pious cottagers bowed around him were engaged in earnest supplication , the sinner's friend spoke peace to his troubled soul . That day , December 27 , 1798 , the name of ...
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... prayer , without making any reference to the preacher or the words he had spoken . I refused to wait for any refreshments , and hurried away to the afternoon appointment , which was distant about four miles . Here I also met a large ...
... prayer , without making any reference to the preacher or the words he had spoken . I refused to wait for any refreshments , and hurried away to the afternoon appointment , which was distant about four miles . Here I also met a large ...
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Page 69 - The Father hears him pray, His dear anointed One : He cannot turn away The presence of his Son : His Spirit answers to the blood, And tells me I am born of God. 5 My God is reconciled ; His pardoning voice I hear : He owns me for his child ; I can no longer fear: With confidence I now draw nigh, And, "Father, Abba, Father,
Page 325 - Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared...
Page vii - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 374 - I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
Page 359 - So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road That leads me to the Lamb.
Page 77 - For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Page 348 - For the living know that they shall die : But the dead know not any thing, Neither have they any more a reward ; For the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; Neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 326 - And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. 13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.
Page 90 - But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
Page 324 - I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.