The Life of the Rev. Thomas Coke, LL. D.: Including in Detail His Various Travels and Extraordinary Missionary Exertions, in England, Ireland, America, and the West-Indies: with an Account of His Death, on the 3d of May, 1814, While on a Missionary Voyage to the Island of Ceylon, in the East-Indies. Interspersed with Numerous Reflections; and Concluding with an Abstract of His Writings and Character |
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Page 123 - calls play. Let this rule be observed with the strictest nicety; for those who play when they are young, will play when they are old. 19. Each student shall have a bed to himself, wherever he boards. 20. The students shall lie on mattresses, not on featherbeds ; because we believe the mattresses to be more
Page 67 - baptise, or to administer the Lord's supper. Here, therefore, my scruples are at an end; and I conceive myself at full liberty, as I violate no order, and invade no man's right, by appointing and sending labourers into the harvest. " I have accordingly appointed Dr. Coke and Mr. Francis Asbury to be joint
Page 74 - not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on the hands of the Presbytery.
Page 391 - eternity for our final reward. Full of this conviction, we trust that God, having made us instrumental in turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, will give us our part in the first resurrection, that on us the second death may have no power.
Page 67 - I have accordingly appointed Dr. Coke and Mr. Francis Asbury to be joint Superintendants over our brethren in North America; as also Richard Whatcoat and Thomas Vasey, to act as elders among them, by
Page 36 - such a foundation as is likely to stand as long as the sun and moon endure : that is, if they continue to walk by faith, and to shew forth their faith by their works: otherwise I pray God to root out the memorial of them from the earth.
Page 36 - land, on which our preaching-houses were built, might have seized them for their own use; and there would have been none to hinder them, for the Conference would have been nobody, a mere empty name. " You see, then, in all the pains I have taken about this absolutely necessary Deed, I have been labouring not for myself,
Page 122 - 10. From evening prayer till bed-time, they shall be allowed recreation. 11. They shall all be in bed at nine o'clock, without fail. 12. Their recreations shall be gardening, walking, riding, and bathing without doors; and the carpenter's, joiner's, cabinet-maker's, or turner's business within doors. 13. A large plot of ground shall be appropriated for a garden, and
Page 124 - of our sentiments; for though the latter was essentially mistaken in his religious system, yet his wisdom in other respects, and extensive genius, are indisputably acknowledged. The employments which we would recommend for the recreation of the students, are such as are of the greatest public utility,—agriculture and
Page 306 - An act to prevent persons pretending, or having pretended to be ministers of the Gospel, or missionaries from any religious society whatever, and not invested with holy orders according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England or the Church of Scotland, from acting as preachers or school-masters.