 | Joseph Beaumont Wakeley - Wesley Family - 1869 - 404 pages
...the Wesleys: "As to your designs and emplovments, what can I say less of them than valde jrrobo, \ and that I have the highest reason to bless God that...to turn the war against the world and the, devil. Go, then, in God's name in the path in which your Saviour has directed you, and the path in which your... | |
 | Joseph Beaumont Wakeley - 1870 - 424 pages
...that I have the highest reason to bless God that he has given me two sons together at Oxford to whonj he has given grace and courage to turn the war against the world and the devil. Go, then, in God's name in the path in which your Saviour has directed you, and the path in which your... | |
 | Luke Tyerman - Methodism - 1870 - 590 pages
...highest reason to bless God that He has given me two sons together at Oxford, to whom He has granted grace and courage to turn the war against the world and the devil?" At the same time, however, he advised them to obtain consent to visit the prisoners from the chaplain,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1871 - 424 pages
...go forward." Part of his father's answer, dated Sept. 21, 1730, was this : " And now as to your own designs and employments, what can I say less of them...them. They have but one more enemy to combat with, the flesh; which, if they take care to subdue by fasting and prayer, there will be no more for them... | |
 | John Kennedy - Christian life - 1877 - 388 pages
...Wesleys. The rector of Epworth blessed God -who had given him two sons together at Oxford who had received grace and courage to turn the war against the world and the devil. He bade them defy reproach, and animated them in God's name to go on in the path to which their Saviour... | |
 | F. E. Cooke - 1879 - 280 pages
...there could do, they did through earnest prayers and cheering words. " I bless God," one letter said, " that He has given me two sons together at Oxford,...the devil, which is the best way to conquer them." The home sympathy must have been ti greatest help possible to the brothers, when express? in such words... | |
 | Gibson Craig - Biography - 1879 - 320 pages
...had in after-years the bad taste and want of charity to doubt ; " I bless God that I have two sons at Oxford to whom He has given grace and courage to turn the war against the world and the Devil." He also said that, when he was an undergraduate, he had performed that work, and had reflected on it... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - English literature - 1881 - 408 pages
...of gratitude from the old man that " God had given him two sons together at Oxford, to whom he had given grace and courage to turn the war against the world and the devil." Just as Wesley was developing into enthusiasm and extravagance, he fell in with William Law — the... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - English literature - 1881 - 404 pages
...of gratitude from the old man that " God had given him two sons together at Oxford, to whom he had given grace and courage to turn the war against the world and the devil." Just as Wesley was developing into enthusiasm and extravagance, he fell in with William Law — the... | |
 | Holland Nimmons McTyeire - Methodism - 1885 - 700 pages
...highest reason to bless God that he has given me two sons together at Oxford, to whom he has granted grace and courage to turn the war against the world and the devil? I hear my son John has tho honor of being styled the ' Father of the Holy Club; ' if it be so, I must... | |
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And now as to your own designs and employments, what can I say less of them than, Valde probo :* and that I have the highest reason to bless God, that he has given me two sons together at Oxford, to whom he has given grace and courage to turn the war... 
