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Página 48 - 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. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
Página 45 - My brother, I must first ask you one or two questions. Have you the witness within yourself? Does the Spirit of God bear witness with your spirit, that you are a child of God ?" I was surprised, and knew not what to answer.
Página 99 - Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils ; but if God be for you, who can be against you ? Are all of them together stronger than God ? Oh ! be not weary of well-doing.
Página 95 - In age and feebleness extreme, Who shall a sinful worm redeem ? Jesus, my only hope thou art, Strength of my failing flesh and heart-; O ! could I catch a smile from thee, And drop into eternity...
Página 85 - HERE LIETH THE BODY OF JOHN WESLEY, A BRAND PLUCKED OUT OF THE BURNING; "WHO DIED OF A CONSUMPTION IN THE FIFTY-FIRST YEAR OF HIS AGE. NOT LEAVING, AFTER HIS DEBTS ARE PAID, TEN POUNDS BEHIND HIM! PRAYING, God be merciful to me an unprofitable servant! He ordered that this, if any, inscription should be placed on his tombstone.
Página 62 - Scream no more, at the peril of your soul. God now warns you by me, whom He has set over you. Speak as earnestly as you can, but do not scream. Speak •with all your heart, but with a moderate voice. It was said of onr Lord, ' He shall not cry ' ; the word properly means, He shall not scream.
Página 32 - Would you be angels ? I question whether a mortal can arrive to a greater degree of perfection than steadily to do good, and for that very reason patiently and meekly to suffer evil. For my part, on the present view of your actions and designs, my daily prayers are that God would keep you humble : and then I am sure that if you continue to suffer for righteousness...
Página 83 - He filled my heart with faith, and my mouth with words, shaking their souls as well as their bodies. The earth moved westward, then east, then westward again, through all London and Westminster. It was a strong and jarring motion, attended with a rumbling noise like that of thunder.
Página 32 - I hear my son John has the honour of being styled the ' Father of the Holy Club :' if it be so, I am sure I must be the Grandfather of it ; and I need not say, that I had rather any of my sons should be so dignified and distinguished, than to have the title of His HOLINESS.
Página 58 - Fri. 23. — About three in the afternoon I went to my mother, and found her change was near. I sat down on the bedside. She was in her last conflict ; unable to speak, but I believe quite sensible. Her look was calm and serene, and her eyes fixed upward, while we commended her soul to God. From three to four, the silver cord was loosing, and the wheel breaking at the cistern ; and then, without any struggle, or sigh, or groan, the soul was set at liberty. We stood round the bed, and fulfilled her...