The Arminian Magazine: Consisting of Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal Redemption, Volume 5J. Fry & Company in Queen-Street: and sold at the Foundery, near Upper-Moor-Fields, and by the booksellers in town and country, 1782 - Biography |
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... prayer was nothing , unlefs the mind was flayed on God . At night , when I re- peated my cuftomary prayers , I watched my thoughts nar rowly , and foon found that they wandered from the Lord all the time . This discovery deeply affected ...
... prayer was nothing , unlefs the mind was flayed on God . At night , when I re- peated my cuftomary prayers , I watched my thoughts nar rowly , and foon found that they wandered from the Lord all the time . This discovery deeply affected ...
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... prayers and tears I had implored mercy , and in fome degree obtained it from the Lord : and in this manner I went on for about a year . I had often been ... prayer - meetings , and often followed them ACCOUNT OF MR . GEORGE STORY . 17.
... prayers and tears I had implored mercy , and in fome degree obtained it from the Lord : and in this manner I went on for about a year . I had often been ... prayer - meetings , and often followed them ACCOUNT OF MR . GEORGE STORY . 17.
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Consisting of Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal Redemption John Wesley. tended their prayer - meetings , and often followed them up and down the town , hoping they would turn and speak to me ; but none took any notice of me ...
Consisting of Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal Redemption John Wesley. tended their prayer - meetings , and often followed them up and down the town , hoping they would turn and speak to me ; but none took any notice of me ...
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... prayer . On Wednesday about noon , fhe defired her mother to get her up into the chair , which the did . A little before three , her mother holding her in her arms , fhe defired her to let her go . Then placing herself up- right in the ...
... prayer . On Wednesday about noon , fhe defired her mother to get her up into the chair , which the did . A little before three , her mother holding her in her arms , fhe defired her to let her go . Then placing herself up- right in the ...
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... prayer , he took that very paffage for his text ; and there God met with her in a faving manner ; and the at laft obtained what fhe fo long fought for in vain elfewhere , reft in Chrift , to her troubled foul . a N. B. The publisher ...
... prayer , he took that very paffage for his text ; and there God met with her in a faving manner ; and the at laft obtained what fhe fo long fought for in vain elfewhere , reft in Chrift , to her troubled foul . a N. B. The publisher ...
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Page 257 - He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His Commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Page 560 - And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: 44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 170 - But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 412 - So that the idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other...
Page 248 - ... or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit which strikes so lively on...
Page 28 - We shall not have much reason to complain of the narrowness of our minds, if we will but employ them about what may be of use to us...
Page 28 - Childish Peevishness, if we undervalue the Advantages of our Knowledge, and neglect to improve it to the Ends for which it was given us, because there are some Things that are set out of the reach of it.
Page 192 - ... we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those images to dust and confusion, which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble.
Page 232 - And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Page 642 - And, therefore, every man is put under a necessity by his constitution, as an intelligent being, to be determined in willing by his own thought and judgment, what is best for him to do; else he would be under the determination of some other than himself, which is want of liberty.