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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822. Excerpt: ... THE From Ihe Wesleyan Jfcthodist Magazine. THE SUBSTANCE OF A SERMON in Liverpool, on the 30th of July, 1820, before the Conference of the Minis-ters late in Connexion with the Rtv. Jhn Wijxev, BY JOHN EMORY, The Representative of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Clturch in Jhnerica. PUBLISHED AT THE REQUEST OF THE CONFERENCE. To the President and Members of the Conference of the Ministers late in Connexion with the Rev. John Wesley,--as an affectionate and grateful acknowledgement of the hospitality and kindness with which he was treated while in England, as a Representative to their Body from the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America,--this Sermon is respectfully inscribed, by their much obliged Friend and Brother in Christ, The Author. 1 Corinthiab8 I. 21--24.. Tor after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. In this age of Missionary and Bible Societies a question has been revived, Whether the knowledge of God, and its happy effects, be not attainable by the mere exercise of reason, without the aid of revelation. For a satisfactory decision of this question, the most impartial ground is taken by the Apostle in the passage before us. He appeals to facts. He appeals to the history of the world anterior to the period of the Christian era; and on this ground he challenges the disputers of the world to meet him. "Where is the wise?" said he. "Where is the scrib...
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