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... proceedings , so obvious and so hate- ful to those who have the disposition and the means for judging fairly on the subject , furnishes , to a considerable extent , its own most certain antidote . But all persons do not possess the ...
... proceedings , so obvious and so hate- ful to those who have the disposition and the means for judging fairly on the subject , furnishes , to a considerable extent , its own most certain antidote . But all persons do not possess the ...
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... proceedings of the Manchester District Meeting , are not a matter with which any Quarterly Meeting has any right to meddle ; and that the entertainment of that question on the occasion referred to , was of course illegal . The " Friend ...
... proceedings of the Manchester District Meeting , are not a matter with which any Quarterly Meeting has any right to meddle ; and that the entertainment of that question on the occasion referred to , was of course illegal . The " Friend ...
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... proceedings of our Wesleyan courts of trial and appeal require to be assimilated . If they suppose themselves to have just cause of complaint against any individual , or any set of indi- . viduals , in the body , their proper course ...
... proceedings of our Wesleyan courts of trial and appeal require to be assimilated . If they suppose themselves to have just cause of complaint against any individual , or any set of indi- . viduals , in the body , their proper course ...
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... proceedings being , both to themselves and to the Body , far more damaging and perilous , than any general evil of which , as they pretend , there may be reason to complain . MODERN ATTEMPTS TO SUBVERT THE METHODIST ECONOMY AND MORALS ...
... proceedings being , both to themselves and to the Body , far more damaging and perilous , than any general evil of which , as they pretend , there may be reason to complain . MODERN ATTEMPTS TO SUBVERT THE METHODIST ECONOMY AND MORALS ...
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... proceedings of these men are a direct attempt to subvert that vital principle of the Wesleyan constitution , that ... proceeding . There are certain officers of the body , the Missionary Secretaries , for instance , who have been ...
... proceedings of these men are a direct attempt to subvert that vital principle of the Wesleyan constitution , that ... proceeding . There are certain officers of the body , the Missionary Secretaries , for instance , who have been ...
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Page 36 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself : But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. " Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Page 100 - Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre ; holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. And let these also first be proved ; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
Page 53 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Page 142 - Oh blameless Bethel! to relieve thy breast? When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall?
Page 100 - For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Je-sus.
Page 72 - But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
Page 63 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Page 23 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number : he calleth them all by names, by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power, not one faileth.
Page 106 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace...
Page 63 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; — And labour, working with our own hands...