The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, Volume 15Printed at the Conference-Office ... by Thomas Cordeux, agent, 1812 - Methodism |
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... Conscience , about Right and Wrong . Man is no longer a Moral Agent , nor the subject of praise or blame for what he does . " He strangely answers , « Certainly the pain , the remorse which is felt by any man who had been guilty of a ...
... Conscience , about Right and Wrong . Man is no longer a Moral Agent , nor the subject of praise or blame for what he does . " He strangely answers , « Certainly the pain , the remorse which is felt by any man who had been guilty of a ...
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... Conscience clearly gives to Freedom . " Is this an answer to the objection ? Is it not fairly giving up the whole cause ? He adds , " A feeling of Liberty , which I now scruple not to call deceitful , is interwoven with our nature . Man ...
... Conscience clearly gives to Freedom . " Is this an answer to the objection ? Is it not fairly giving up the whole cause ? He adds , " A feeling of Liberty , which I now scruple not to call deceitful , is interwoven with our nature . Man ...
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... conscience ; " that he may fall , not only foully , but finally , so as to perish for ever . 10. Indeed the two latter points , Irresistible Grace , and Infallible Perseverance , are the natural consequence of the former , of the ...
... conscience ; " that he may fall , not only foully , but finally , so as to perish for ever . 10. Indeed the two latter points , Irresistible Grace , and Infallible Perseverance , are the natural consequence of the former , of the ...
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... conscience , and no understanding . It is true the latter is insisted on most at large ; by a hundred instances Mr. H. has made it plain to all the world , that Mr. W. never had three grains of common sense ; that he is the veriest ...
... conscience , and no understanding . It is true the latter is insisted on most at large ; by a hundred instances Mr. H. has made it plain to all the world , that Mr. W. never had three grains of common sense ; that he is the veriest ...
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... conscience , to differ from others , ( as the Quakers do , ) in the shape or colour of their apparel , is mere superstition . Against gay apparel . Let a single intention to please God prescribe both what clothing you should buy , and ...
... conscience , to differ from others , ( as the Quakers do , ) in the shape or colour of their apparel , is mere superstition . Against gay apparel . Let a single intention to please God prescribe both what clothing you should buy , and ...
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Page 365 - If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to Whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever.
Page 341 - A Brute arrives at a point of Perfection that he can never pass. In a few Years he has all the Endowments he is capable of, and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Page 228 - But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 274 - Shall I not visit for these things? Saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Page 187 - I sign thee with the sign of the cross, and I confirm thee with the chrism of salvation, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Page 151 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 139 - Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest ? 17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
Page 342 - Would an infinitely wise Being make such glorious creatures for so mean a purpose? Can he delight in the production of such abortive intelligences, such shortlived reasonable beings? Would he give us talents that are not to be exerted? Capacities that are never to be gratified?
Page 243 - I firmly believe I am a scriptural ETTICTXOTCO? as much as any man in England or in Europe; for the uninterrupted succession I know to be a fable, which no man ever did or can prove.
Page 129 - So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our duty to do.