Studies in Christian Biography: Or, Hours with Theologians and ReformersC. S. Francis and Company, 1850 - 395 páginas |
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Studies in Christian Biography: Or, Hours with Theologians and Reformers Samuel Osgood Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 319 - In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed.
Página 354 - ... the exercise of God's perfections to produce a proper effect, in opposition to their lying eternally dormant and ineffectual ; as his power being eternally without any act or fruit of that power ; his wisdom eternally ineffectual in any wise production, or prudent disposal of any thing, &c. The manifestation of his internal glory to created understandings. The communication of the infinite fulness of God to the creature. The creature's high esteem of God, love to God, and complacence and joy...
Página 323 - An't please your worship, they have convarted my wife. Till she went among them, she had such a tongue ; and now she is as quiet as a lamb.' ' Carry them back, carry them back,' replied the justice, ' and let them convert all the scolds in the town...
Página 6 - Lord, this name of my Saviour Thy Son, had my tender heart, even with my mother's milk, devoutly drunk in, and deeply treasured; and whatsoever was without that name, though never so learned, polished, or true, took not entire hold of me.
Página 13 - Then I slept, and woke up again, and found my grief not a little softened; and as I was alone in my bed, I remembered those true verses of Thy Ambrose. For Thou art the " Maker of all, the Lord, And Ruler of the height. Who, robing day in light, hast poured Soft slumbers o'er the night, That to our limbs the power Of toil may be renew'd. And hearts be rais'd that sink and cower, And sorrows be subdu'd.
Página 309 - New Edition, with Notes by the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Esq., and Remarks on the Life and Character of John Wesley, by the late Alexander Knox, Esq.
Página 24 - No spot on earth has helped to form me so much as that beach. There I lifted up my voice in praise amidst the tempest. There, softened by beauty, I poured out my thanksgiving and contrite confessions. There, in reverential sympathy with the mighty power around me, I became conscious of the power within.
Página 79 - And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Página 325 - So fine an old man I never saw. The happiness of his mind beamed forth in his countenance ; every look showed how fully he enjoyed " the gay remembrance of a life well spent ;" and wherever he went he diffused a portion of his own felicity.