 | Roger Finke, Rodney Stark - 1992 - 352 páginas
...preachers never to let study interfere with soulsaving: "If you can do but one, let your studies alone. We would throw by all the libraries in the world rather than be guilty of the loss of one soul." As noted in Chapter 2, Weis (1936), in his invaluable work on the colonial clergy,... | |
 | Jennifer Blair - 2005 - 464 páginas
...Church in Canada (1829) , Ryerson advised : "If you can do but one, let your studies alone. We ought to throw by all the libraries in the world, rather than be guilty of the loss of one soul" (49). Ryerson's complicated position — that reading could help convert and sustain... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1839 - 236 páginas
...if there were such a case of necessity, that we could not read and study for ourselves, and instruct the ignorant too, I would throw by all the libraries...world rather than be guilty of the perdition of one soul : at least I know that this would be my duty. III. It will be objected by many, " that this course... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 630 páginas
...necessity, that we could not read for ourselves in the course of our further studies, and instruct the ignorant too, I would throw by all the libraries...world, rather than be guilty of the perdition of one soul ; at least I know this is my duty. Object. 2. ' But this course will destroy the health of our... | |
 | John Wesley - 1826 - 432 páginas
...If you can do but one, either follow your studies, or instruct the ignorant; let your studies alone: I would throw by all the libraries in the world, rather than be guilty of the perdition of one soul. It is objected, 2. " The people will not submit to it." If some do not, others will gladly :... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1856 - 272 páginas
...be idle, or triflingly employed." But, 4. If you can do but one, let your studies alone. We ought to throw by all the libraries in the world, rather than be guilty of the loss of one soul. It is objected, II. " The people will not submit to it." If some will not, others... | |
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We ought to throw by all the libraries in the world, rather than be guilty of the loss of one soul. It is objected, II. " The people will not submit to it," If some will not, others will. 
