The Methodist Magazine, Volume 1J. Soule and T. Mason for the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, 1818 - Methodist Church |
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... earth . The united exertions of thousands of all denominations of Christians to spread the holy scriptures - the unadulterated word of God , savours much of that catholic spir- it by which the friends of christianity should always be ...
... earth . The united exertions of thousands of all denominations of Christians to spread the holy scriptures - the unadulterated word of God , savours much of that catholic spir- it by which the friends of christianity should always be ...
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... Earth , Venus , and Mercury , are the names of the sev- en principal planets . Of these seven , Mercury is nearest the sun ; and for that reason is mostly invisible to the astronomer . As he is near nineteen times smaller than our earth ...
... Earth , Venus , and Mercury , are the names of the sev- en principal planets . Of these seven , Mercury is nearest the sun ; and for that reason is mostly invisible to the astronomer . As he is near nineteen times smaller than our earth ...
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... earth in comparison with Jupiter ! there would be no less than eight thousand globes like ours necessary to form one equal in size to that of Jupiter . Saturn , whose distance from the sun is upwards of nine hundred millions of miles ...
... earth in comparison with Jupiter ! there would be no less than eight thousand globes like ours necessary to form one equal in size to that of Jupiter . Saturn , whose distance from the sun is upwards of nine hundred millions of miles ...
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... earth we inhabit , with the magnificent scene it pre- sents us , in comparison of the beauty of the firmament ? If this earth were annihilated , its absence would be no more observed than that of a grain of sand from the sea shore ...
... earth we inhabit , with the magnificent scene it pre- sents us , in comparison of the beauty of the firmament ? If this earth were annihilated , its absence would be no more observed than that of a grain of sand from the sea shore ...
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... earth , than the rational beings who inhabit it . However wonderful the preservation of human creatures may be , we can say , with truth , that the cares of Providence towards animals are still more astonishing proofs of the wisdom ...
... earth , than the rational beings who inhabit it . However wonderful the preservation of human creatures may be , we can say , with truth , that the cares of Providence towards animals are still more astonishing proofs of the wisdom ...
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Page 147 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Page 453 - Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Page 247 - Man, of the substance of his mother, born in the world; perfect God and perfect Man; of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting; equal to the Father, as touching his godhead and inferior to the Father as touching his manhood.
Page 458 - Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
Page 465 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Page 53 - When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools. Pay that which thou hast vowed. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Page 391 - Welcome, sweet day of rest, That saw the Lord arise; Welcome to this reviving breast, And these rejoicing eyes! 2 The King himself comes near, And feasts his saints today, Here we may sit, and see him here, And love, and praise, and pray. 3 One day amidst the place Where my dear God hath been, Is sweeter than ten thousand days Of pleasurable sin.
Page 246 - I believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible : And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds ; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father...
Page 249 - Thus, we repeat, He admonishes men to return to God ; to reestablish their original likeness to him ; and He, who is " the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person...
Page 247 - THE Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting of the Father, the very and eternal God, and of one substance with the Father, took Man's nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin, of her substance...