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 |
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Pàgina 180
... Clapham , and held at the same time at least three lecturerships in the City . He formed a close friendship with John Thornton , who lived on the Common , and his connexion with Clapham tended no doubt greatly to strengthen his new ...
... Clapham , and held at the same time at least three lecturerships in the City . He formed a close friendship with John Thornton , who lived on the Common , and his connexion with Clapham tended no doubt greatly to strengthen his new ...
Pàgina 181
... Clapham , where John Venn , the worthy son of a worthy father , was rector . And here it may be noticed that Henry Venn , unlike many of the Evangelicals , lived again , so far as his principles are concerned , in his children and ...
... Clapham , where John Venn , the worthy son of a worthy father , was rector . And here it may be noticed that Henry Venn , unlike many of the Evangelicals , lived again , so far as his principles are concerned , in his children and ...
Pàgina 186
... Clapham gave him a stated allowance of £ 200 a year at Olney , with a permission to draw more if necessary ; and the small town , or large village , of Olney became a great Evangelical centre . Newton used to hold prayer - meetings in ...
... Clapham gave him a stated allowance of £ 200 a year at Olney , with a permission to draw more if necessary ; and the small town , or large village , of Olney became a great Evangelical centre . Newton used to hold prayer - meetings in ...
Pàgina 197
... Clapham Common , and he himself lived long enough to see the nucleus formed of that little knot of good men commonly known as the " Clapham Sect . " John Thornton . John Thornton's services to Christianity and philanthropy generally and ...
... Clapham Common , and he himself lived long enough to see the nucleus formed of that little knot of good men commonly known as the " Clapham Sect . " John Thornton . John Thornton's services to Christianity and philanthropy generally and ...
Pàgina 198
... pleasure in His praise employ , And Thornton is familiar with the joy . Henry Thornton ( 1760-1815 ) , the second son of John XIII THE CLAPHAM SECT Henry 199 Thornton , became not 198 CHAP . MINOR CURRENTS UP TO 1789.
... pleasure in His praise employ , And Thornton is familiar with the joy . Henry Thornton ( 1760-1815 ) , the second son of John XIII THE CLAPHAM SECT Henry 199 Thornton , became not 198 CHAP . MINOR CURRENTS UP TO 1789.
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Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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,
Pàgina 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.