 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
 | Robert Plues - 1862 - 80 pages
...body ? It 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.' This is the sum of Christian perfection: it is all comprised in that one word, Love. The... | |
 | Samuel Rowles Pattison - England - 1864 - 408 pages
...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. God is the joy of his heart, and the desire of his soul ; which... | |
 | Abel Stevens - Methodist Church - 1864 - 556 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 is his much misrepresented doctrine of Christian perfection.9 Wesley taught that this... | |
 | Thomas Espinelle ESPIN - Methodism - 1864 - 292 pages
...Southey's statement ; 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 lose himself in God — yet can he lose God in himself,... | |
 | Abel Stevens - Methodism - 1866 - 302 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 is his much misrepresented doctrine of Christian perfection. Wesley taught that this... | |
 | Abel Stevens - History - 1866 - 288 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 is his much misrepresented doctrine of Christian perfection. Wesley taught that this... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1866 - 528 pages
...ever. None, then, as I have said, can to any purpose which God intends, love his neighbour as himself, but he who loves the Lord his God with all his heart. He who loves God is taught from above to know the value of his own soul. Happiness—spiritual, immortal... | |
 | Norman Macleod - Sermons - 1867 - 280 pages
...that of God, with whom He is one, was Perfect Love. He, and He alone of all the sons of men, loved the Lord his God with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his mind, and with all his strength, and his neighbour as Himself. And He has told us, moreover, in... | |
 | None - History - 1867 - 144 pages
...The Character of a Methodist.' In this I described a perfect Christian thus, u A Methodist' is one who loves the Lord his God with all his heart and with all his soul, with all his mind and with all his strength. God is the joy of his heart and the desire of... | |
 | James Brotherston Laughton - Bible - 1869 - 608 pages
...fulfilled the whole moral law. He sought no relaxation of its most stringent obligations. He loved the Lord His God with all His heart, and with all His soul, and with all His strength, and with all His mind, and His neighbour as Himself — yea, better than Himself; for while we were... | |
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