 I answer: A Methodist is one who has "the love of God shed abroad in his heart by the Holy Ghost given unto him"; one who "loves the Lord his God with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his mind, and with all his strength.  The Quarterly Review - Page 388edited by - 1831Full view - About this book
 | Octavius Winslow - Christian life - 1847 - 276 pages
...opposition of rival interest, can lessen the obligation of every creature that hath breath to ' love the Lord his God with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his mind.' It grows out of the relation of the creature to God, as his Creator, Moral Governor, and... | |
 | William Brudenell Barter - Priesthood - 1847 - 158 pages
...both Lord and Christ 5 . Without a firm belief in this fact, no man has a reasonable ground for loving God with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength; for without a firm faith in this revelation, he cannot know that he is under the government of a God... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Presbyterian Church - 1848 - 672 pages
...as to one tittle, was to be obeyed to the fullest extent. (3.) Perfect in degrees. He was to ' love the Lord his God with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his mind,' Matt. xxii. 37. Every act of obedience behoved to be perfect in degrees, wanting nothing... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1848 - 668 pages
...Southey's statements : and are these compatible with the same Wesley, at the same time assuredly loving God with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength ? If it were right and possible for a man to love himself in God — yet can he love God in himself... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1850 - 570 pages
...down this strong hold that any sinner has built. The great and general command requires him to love the Lord his God with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength. His particular command requires him to make him a new heart and a new spirit. And every command in... | |
 | J Byres Laing - 1852 - 44 pages
...service and the glory of his Creator, Preserver, and Benefactor ; or, in the words of Christ, " to love the Lord his God with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his mind." This is the nature of piety or godliness as existing in the minds, and exhibited in the... | |
 | 1855 - 786 pages
...letter that you do not know what it is that they preach or praetise. A Methodist is one that loves God with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength ; who is continually erying out, with the Psalmist, " 'Whom have I in heaven but Thce ? and there is... | |
 | John Wesley - 1856 - 584 pages
...body? It is the complying with that kind command ; " My son, g'\e me thy heart." It is the " loving the Lord his God with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his mind." This is the sum of Christian perfection : it is all comprised in ttiat one word, love. The... | |
 | Abel Stevens - Methodism - 1859 - 526 pages
...corruptible body, is the complying with that kind command: 'My son, give me thy heart!' It is the loving the Lord his God, with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his mind." Such was his much misrepresented doctrine of Christian perfection. The Faith which he taught... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 490 pages
...corruptible body ? It is the complying with that kind command, ' Son, give me thy heart.' It is the ' loving the Lord his God with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his mind.' This is the sum of Christian perfection ; it is all comprised in that one word, love. The... | |
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