The Works of the Reverend John Fletcher, Volumen3

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B. Waugh and T. Mason, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1833
 

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His power to bind to loose and to bless in the name of the Lord
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The earnestness with which he began and continued to fill up the duties of his vocation
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The manner in which he divided his time between prayer preaching and thanksgiving
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The fidelity with which he announced the severe threatenings
31
His profound humility
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The ingenuous manner in which he acknowledged and repaired his errors
35
His detestation of party spirit and divisions
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His rejection of praise
38
His universal love
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His particular love to the faithful
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His love to those whose faith was wavering XVIII His love to his countrymen and his enemies
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His love to those whom he knew only by report
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His charity toward the poor in giving or procuring for them temporal relief
44
His charity toward sinners in offering them every spiritual assistance
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The engaging condescension of his humble charity
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His courage in defence of oppressed truth
50
His prudence in frustrating the designs of his enemies
51
His tenderness toward others and his severity toward himself
53
His love never degenerated into cowardice but reproved and consoled as occasion required
54
His perfect disinterestedness
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His condescension in labouring at times with his own hands that he might preach industry by example as well as by precept
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The respect he manifested for the holy estate of matrimony while Christian prudence engaged him to live in a state of celibacy
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The ardour of his love
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His generous fears and succeeding consolations
65
The grand subject of his glorying and the evangelical manner in which he maintained his superiority over false apostles XXXIII His patience and fort...
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His courage in consoling his persecuted brethren
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His humble confidence in producing the scals of his ministry
72
His readiness to seal with his blood the truths of the Gospel XXXVIII The sweet suspense of his choice between life and death
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The constancy of his zeal and diligence to the end of his course
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His triumph over the evils of life and the terrors of death
78
APOSTLES
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A fourth objection refuted
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A farther refutation of the same objection
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The different dispensations are produced by that lovely variety with which
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The different preachers under these different dispensations
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THE PORTRAIT OF ST PAULPART THIRD AN ESSAY
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The connection of morality with the second part of the apostles creed
211
An appeal to experience
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The same subject continued
222
APPEAL TO MATTER OF FACT AND COMMON SENSE
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VINDICATION OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH OF THE TRINITY
379
INTRODUCTION Showing the occasion of the work and addressing the reader
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EXPOSTULATORY letter to the Rev Dr Priestley in four parts
398
Our Lord claimed the Divine honour of being the proper Son of God
412
The inspired writers give Christ the names and titles and ascribe
431
The apostles represent Christ as the immediate author of the Divine
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Christ is the Redeemer and Saviour of lost mankind
446
Christ is the final and universal Judge
453
Divine worship was paid to him by patriarchs prophets and apostles
461
Christ is also very man
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Objections answered
483
PREFACE by the editor
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The subject continued Page
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All the prophets exhibit Christ as the bruiser of the serpent and
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The testimony borne by the prophets to the Godhead of Christ
530
The evangelists and apostles attest his divinity
544
The same subject continued
550
SOCINIANISM UNSCRIPTURAL CONTINUED IN LETTERS
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The two Epistles to the Corinthians considered and many passages of
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The Epistle to the Philippians and that to the Colossians must be viewed
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The Epistle to the Thessalonians equally inconsistent with common sense
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The Epistle to the Hebrews affords abundant proof of the absurdity
589
The Epistle of St James and those of St Peter exhibit a doctrine
595
The same doctrine of Christs mere humanity represents the apostle John
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It represents Christ himself as uttering declarations absurd and even
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Página 462 - And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes ; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying ; neither shall there be any more pain : for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said. Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write : for these words are true and faithful.
Página 172 - Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent...
Página 112 - For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness ; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
Página 149 - In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation : in whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Página 31 - And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; that ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Página 38 - Now I beseech you, brethren-, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Página 77 - And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there : save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
Página 116 - THE condition of man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith and calling upon God : Wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God, by Christ, preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Página 453 - And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was : and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.
Página 142 - 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?

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