George Whitefield: a Biography: With Special Reference to His Labors in AmericaAmerican Tract Society, 1857 - 514 pagina's |
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Pagina 10
... spirit— Visiting the sick - Intercourse with society - Neatness ------ 445 CHAPTER XVIII . CHARACTER OF WHITEFIELD AS A PREACHER - CEN- TENNIAL COMMEMORATIONS . Prominence given by him to the truths of salvation - His ardent glow of ...
... spirit— Visiting the sick - Intercourse with society - Neatness ------ 445 CHAPTER XVIII . CHARACTER OF WHITEFIELD AS A PREACHER - CEN- TENNIAL COMMEMORATIONS . Prominence given by him to the truths of salvation - His ardent glow of ...
Pagina 12
... spirit , so far as he had the spirit of Christ . Facts reflect- ing on the reputation and feelings of others have been used only as the interests of truth seemed to demand . It would have been easy to place on almost every page an array ...
... spirit , so far as he had the spirit of Christ . Facts reflect- ing on the reputation and feelings of others have been used only as the interests of truth seemed to demand . It would have been easy to place on almost every page an array ...
Pagina 14
... spirit behind them . Thus infidelity , profligacy , and formalism almost universally prevailed . The low state of religion in the established church at that time may be learned from the Rev. Augustus M. Toplady , himself one of its ...
... spirit behind them . Thus infidelity , profligacy , and formalism almost universally prevailed . The low state of religion in the established church at that time may be learned from the Rev. Augustus M. Toplady , himself one of its ...
Pagina 16
... Spirit - were compara- tively lost sight of . The vast majority of sermons were miserable morál essays , utterly devoid of any thing calculated to awaken , convert , save , or sanctify souls . " Southey , a biographer of Wesley , who ...
... Spirit - were compara- tively lost sight of . The vast majority of sermons were miserable morál essays , utterly devoid of any thing calculated to awaken , convert , save , or sanctify souls . " Southey , a biographer of Wesley , who ...
Pagina 19
... Spirit and of the grace of God went along with sermons in those days than now . For my own part - all the glory be to God - I seldom set my foot in a pulpit in those days , but I had notice . of the blessed effects of the word . " It is ...
... Spirit and of the grace of God went along with sermons in those days than now . For my own part - all the glory be to God - I seldom set my foot in a pulpit in those days , but I had notice . of the blessed effects of the word . " It is ...
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afterwards arrived attended believe Bethesda Bishop blessed Boston Bristol called Charles Wesley Charleston Christian church church of England congregation conversation Countess of Huntingdon crowded dear divine divine grace doctrines eminent England evangelist exhorted faith field friends gave George Whitefield Georgia Gilbert Tennent glory gospel grace hath hear heard hearers heart heaven holy honor hope Howel Harris hundred invited Jesus Christ labors Lady Huntingdon letter living London Lord Jesus meeting-house ministers ministry morning multitude never Old South church orphan-house orphans persons Philadelphia poor Portsmouth prayed prayer preached twice preacher pulpit received rejoiced religion religious remarkable Sabbath salvation Savannah says Scotland seemed sermon sinners solemn soon soul speak spirit success Tabernacle tears Tennent things thou thought thousand tion town truth voice week weeping Wesley White Whitefield preached word writes wrote young zeal
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Pagina 135 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper.
Pagina 483 - There stands the messenger of truth: there stands The legate of the skies! — His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the gospel whispers peace.
Pagina 135 - I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded, I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish — gold and all.
Pagina 270 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Pagina 290 - God of our salvation : thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea. 6 Who in his strength setteth fast the mountains : and is girded about with power.
Pagina 134 - I had the curiosity to learn how far he could be heard, by retiring backwards down the street towards the river; and I found his voice distinct till I came near Front-street, when some noise in that street obscured it.
Pagina 90 - But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Pagina 11 - During the latter part of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries...
Pagina 435 - Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith ; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates ? 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
Pagina 136 - The request was fortunately made to perhaps the only man in the company, who had the firmness not to be affected by the preacher. His answer was, " At any other time, friend Hopkinson, I would lend to thee freely ; but not now ; for thee seems to be out of thy right senses.