A History of the English Church: Overton, J. H. The English church from the accession of George I to the end of the eighteenth century (1714-1800)William Richard Wood Stephens, William Hunt Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1906 - Great Britain |
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... importance of the Church as a factor in the development of the national life and character from the earliest times has come to be more fully and clearly recognised . But side by side with this increase of interest in the history of our ...
... importance of the Church as a factor in the development of the national life and character from the earliest times has come to be more fully and clearly recognised . But side by side with this increase of interest in the history of our ...
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... importance of " external religion " ; and which dubbed Bishop Beilby Porteus a Methodist " because he strove to revive the observance of Good Friday , has by no means died out . A prosaic element was introduced into English theology in ...
... importance of " external religion " ; and which dubbed Bishop Beilby Porteus a Methodist " because he strove to revive the observance of Good Friday , has by no means died out . A prosaic element was introduced into English theology in ...
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... important epoch . the work . The subject is one which lends itself more readily to the essay - like than to the historical or chronological mode of treat- ment , and it will be observed that most writers upon it have adopted that method ...
... important epoch . the work . The subject is one which lends itself more readily to the essay - like than to the historical or chronological mode of treat- ment , and it will be observed that most writers upon it have adopted that method ...
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... important feature in the religious history of the eighteenth century , but it marks a change from what was an appeal mainly to the head to what was an appeal mainly to the heart , from the intellectual to the emotional . Both appeals ...
... important feature in the religious history of the eighteenth century , but it marks a change from what was an appeal mainly to the head to what was an appeal mainly to the heart , from the intellectual to the emotional . Both appeals ...
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... importance to the higher and purer tone which prevailed at Court , because the direct influence of such improvement would ecessarily be limited to a small area , and at any rate in the middle of the eighteenth century to England . As ...
... importance to the higher and purer tone which prevailed at Court , because the direct influence of such improvement would ecessarily be limited to a small area , and at any rate in the middle of the eighteenth century to England . As ...
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Page 81 - 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.
Page 115 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Page 81 - I began to pray with all my might for those who had in a more especial manner despitefully used me and persecuted me. I then testified openly to all there what I now first felt in my heart.
Page 236 - The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins ; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, and were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Page 348 - Ireland ; and that the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government of the said united church shall be and shall remain in full force for ever, as the same are now by law established for the church of England ; and that the continuance and preservation of the said united church, as the established church of England and Ireland...
Page 317 - Indian scholars and missionaries ; where he most exorbitantly proposes a whole hundred pounds a year for himself, forty pounds for a fellow, and ten for a student. His heart will break if his deanery be not taken from him, and left to your Excellency's disposal. I discouraged him, by the coldness of Courts and Ministers, who will interpret all this as impossible, and a vision, but nothing will do...
Page 200 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on Earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste And natural in gesture ; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too...
Page 63 - ... intemperance, and fearlessness of committing crimes, in the lower, as must, if this torrent of impiety stop not, become absolutely fatal." He further asserts that " Christianity is ridiculed and railed at with very little reserve, and the teachers of it without any at all;" and this testimony was made but one year before that which is commemorated as the epoch of Methodism.
Page 174 - Now let me gain perfection's height ' Now let me into nothing fall ! Be less than nothing in my sight, And feel that Christ is all in all '. SERMON XLI. — Wandering Thoughts. " Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ,
Page 261 - I reduced the study of divinity into as narrow a compass as I could, for I determined to study nothing but my Bible, being much unconcerned about the opinions of councils, fathers, churches, bishops, and other men, as little inspired as myself.