Memoirs of the Life of Daniel Wheeler: A Minister of the Gospel in the Society of FriendsTract Association of Friends, 1885 - 32 pages |
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Page 22 - And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed ? but where are the nine ? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.
Page 14 - I now fully believe, from what I have since been mercifully favoured to experience, that so far from being in any degree prepared for such an awful event, a deceptive feeling must have been superinduced by the state of torpor and insensibility in which I then was, and which totally benumbed any better feelings and desires as to the future. To this may be added a predominating fear, of having to endure more of those sufferings, of which I had had no small share ; which, the probability of being again...
Page 30 - Th ; woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and said to the men, ^ Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did : is not this the Christ ? " Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
Page 25 - I told him I had often thought of him, and that a petition had been raised in my heart on his account. ' Yes ;' he said, ' and I have often thought of you ; there has not been one day, not one day, but I have thought of you and of Messrs. Allen and Grellet, and always felt myself united to you three in spirit.
Page 15 - God that taketh away the sin of the world," — without which, his precious blood would have been shed in vain for me: — I should thus have died in my sins, which, unrepented of, would have followed after to judgment, in terrible array against my guilty soul — and yet when my end was apparently so near and inevitable, if such questions as are frequently proposed on the like occasions had been put to me, I have little doubt, but satisfactory answers would have been returned, as to my belief and...
Page 18 - ... new birth unto righteousness'' in his heart, — that he could not remember any outward means having been employed, unless, indeed, he might except a storm at sea, during which his mind was deeply affected ; and when, under a feeling of his own lost condition by nature, he was mercifully enabled also to see the remedy, and the entire spirituality of the Gospel dispensation. In accordance with this feeling, he remarked, — ' I was at this time convinced of Friends' principles, they being neither...
Page 25 - I have had a great deal to do. It is a very difficult thing to act for a nation, but I hope I have acted under God ; and the measures I have taken I hope are approved by Him. I am encouraged to believe so, because not a drop of blood has been spilled.
Page 17 - ... memoranda appear to have been made by our dear father ; and it is impossible at this distance of time, to supply any minute details of that important change in his sentiments and manner of life, which occurred shortly after the time to which the preceding narrative refers. In the autumn of 1795, he obtained a commission in a regiment destined for the West Indies, and sailed with the expedition appointed to this service, under Sir Ralph Abercrombie. After a most stormy and disastrous passage they...
Page 32 - ... written in a very tremulous and almost illegible hand. In these he remarks, ' I have been landed a very sick man in this city ; but my most gracious Lord hath borne me up in a marvellous manner through a multitude of distress and difficulty, for His great name's sake, and for His dear Son's sake ; — to His own everlasting praise be it spoken :' — thus evincing, that thankfulness and love to our heavenly Father, so conspicuously the covering of his mind in the time of health, still pervaded...