The Life of Wesley: And Rise and Progress of Methodism, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - Methodism |
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... speak a word to those of the inferior clergy who take upon them to study and practise physic for hire : this must needs be sinful , as taking them off from their spiritual employment . Had they studied physic before they entered holy ...
... speak a word to those of the inferior clergy who take upon them to study and practise physic for hire : this must needs be sinful , as taking them off from their spiritual employment . Had they studied physic before they entered holy ...
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... speak against me . " As to the proposal of letting some other person read for her , she thought her husband had not con- sidered what a people they were ; not a man among them could read a sermon without spelling a good part of it , and ...
... speak against me . " As to the proposal of letting some other person read for her , she thought her husband had not con- sidered what a people they were ; not a man among them could read a sermon without spelling a good part of it , and ...
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... speak at all till he was more than four years old , and consequently was thought to be deficient in his faculties : but it seems as if the child had been laying up stores in secret till that time , for one day when some question was ...
... speak at all till he was more than four years old , and consequently was thought to be deficient in his faculties : but it seems as if the child had been laying up stores in secret till that time , for one day when some question was ...
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... speak to it . The noises were now various as well as strange , loud rumblings above stairs or below , a clatter among a number of bottles , as if they had all at once been dashed to pieces , foot- steps as of a man going up and down ...
... speak to it . The noises were now various as well as strange , loud rumblings above stairs or below , a clatter among a number of bottles , as if they had all at once been dashed to pieces , foot- steps as of a man going up and down ...
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... speak if it had power , and tell him why it troubled the house ; and upon this three distinct knockings were made . He then questioned it if it were Samuel his son , bidding it , if it were , and could not speak , to knock again : but ...
... speak if it had power , and tell him why it troubled the house ; and upon this three distinct knockings were made . He then questioned it if it were Samuel his son , bidding it , if it were , and could not speak , to knock again : but ...
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