 | 1881 - 322 pages
...this history of the manifold reawakenings of modern times, wrote him a letter, in which he said, " Unless God has raised you up for this very thing,...be worn out by the opposition of men and devils." The jear 1799 — that immediately preceding the publication of the " Lyrical Ballads," to which reference... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1881 - 592 pages
...your glorious enterprise in opposing that execrable villainy, which is the scandal of religion, of England, and of human nature. Unless God has raised you up for the very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils ; but if God be for you, who... | |
 | Alexander Martin Sullivan - Ireland - 1882 - 272 pages
...wonder that, writing to Wilberforce, John Wesley used the following words : — '-" My dear friend, — Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be wearied out by the opposition of men and devils" (laughter and applause). Truly, sir, I am afraid if... | |
 | James Maurice Wilson - Universities and colleges - 1883 - 400 pages
...through your glorious enterprise in opposing that execrable villainy which is the scandal of religion, of England, and of human nature. Unless God has raised...you ? Are all of them together stronger than God?" You know the story. Twenty years of incessant struggle, and once more faith triumphed, and the material... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - United States - 1883 - 612 pages
...villainy which is the scandal of religion, cf England. and of human nature. Unless God паз raised yo i up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils ; but if God be with you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than (Jod ? Oh ! be not weary of... | |
 | Clara L. Matéaux - Adventure and adventurers - 1883 - 344 pages
...parliamentary labours against the African slave-trade, the concluding lines of which appeal were : — " If God be for you, who can be against you ? Are all of them together -stronger than God?" Wesley had certainly not found it so. " THE CINCINNATUS OF THE WEST." " Where may the wearied eye repose... | |
 | Alexander Laing - 1883 - 72 pages
...is the scandal of religion, of England, and human nature. Unless God has raised you up for this one thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils ; but if God be with you, who can be against you ? . . . Go on in the name of God, till Britain is cleared from the... | |
 | James M. Wilson - Sermons, English - 1888 - 296 pages
...opposing that execrable villainy which is the scandal of religion, of England, and of human nature. You will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils, but God is with you, and who can be against you ? Are all of them stronger than God?" And so I would say... | |
 | Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert - African American Methodists - 1890 - 190 pages
...opposing that execrable villainy" (slavery and the slavetrade), " which is the scandal of religion, of England, and of human nature. Unless God has raised...together stronger than God ? O, ' be not weary in well doing.' Go on in the name of God and the power of his might till even American slavery, the vilest... | |
 | William Holden Hutton - 1927 - 216 pages
...through your glorious enterprise in opposing that execrable villainy which is the scandal of religion, of England, and of human nature. Unless God has raised...for you, who can be against you ? Are all of them stronger than God ? Oh, " be not weary in well-doing ". Go on, in the name of God and in the power... | |
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Unless the Divine Power has raised you up to be as Athanasius contra mundum, I see not how you can go through your glorious enterprise, in opposing that execrable villainy which is the scandal of religion, of England, and of human nature. Unless God has... 
