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... individual men , and as these , for the most part , occupy nearly the same level as to age , a term of forty or fifty years gives the extreme limits of the personal energy and influence of any such band of men ; and never hitherto has ...
... individual men , and as these , for the most part , occupy nearly the same level as to age , a term of forty or fifty years gives the extreme limits of the personal energy and influence of any such band of men ; and never hitherto has ...
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... individual reader take his place beside the writer ; nor , without some looking to itself , should the Christian body of one age allow itself to pass judgment upon that of another age . We must not forget that there is action and ...
... individual reader take his place beside the writer ; nor , without some looking to itself , should the Christian body of one age allow itself to pass judgment upon that of another age . We must not forget that there is action and ...
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... individual opinions , and pre- sented a front of unanimity to the world . This was true of Jesuitism ; but it was not true of Methodism . Methodism rose as great rivers do , from several springs of nearly equal volume ; and it spread ...
... individual opinions , and pre- sented a front of unanimity to the world . This was true of Jesuitism ; but it was not true of Methodism . Methodism rose as great rivers do , from several springs of nearly equal volume ; and it spread ...
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... individual wilfulness . The Wesleys ' mother was the mother of Methodism in a religious and moral sense ; for , her courage , her sub- missiveness to authority , the high tone of her mind , its independence , and its self - control ...
... individual wilfulness . The Wesleys ' mother was the mother of Methodism in a religious and moral sense ; for , her courage , her sub- missiveness to authority , the high tone of her mind , its independence , and its self - control ...
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... individual ex- perience , and the symbolic record of his personal religious history , came forth a cramped Christianity ; nevertheless , it had a recommendation , most important in whatever is to control the mass of the people that of ...
... individual ex- perience , and the symbolic record of his personal religious history , came forth a cramped Christianity ; nevertheless , it had a recommendation , most important in whatever is to control the mass of the people that of ...
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