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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 9

Chapter X.--Chrysostom in Exile. His Death. a.d. 404-407.

… He was of small stature (like David, Paul, Athanasius, Melanchthon, John Wesley, Schleiermacher). He had an emaciated frame, a large, bald head, a lofty, wrinkled forehead, deep-set, bright, piercing eyes, pallid, hollow cheeks, and …

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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 147

14. For all these things then let us give thanks to God who loveth man; and for His tender care over us, render Him a recompense, that will

… Compare the lines in one of Wesley's hymns, "And on the eagle wings of love, To joys celestial rise." [1491] 1 Cor. xii. 21. [1492] See Hom. VIII. 1. [1493] Or, take thee up …

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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 13

Chapter XIV.--Chrysostom as a Preacher.

… far more artificial, and is overlaid with a multifarious learning, from which Chrysostom's was entirely free. Wesley is almost his match in simple, straightforward, practical exhortation, but does not rise into flights of eloquence …

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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 25

Chapter I.--The Greeks Claim, Without Reason, the Invention of the Arts.

… 331.) Southey's Life of Wesley; an invaluable work, and one which presents this eminent saint in a most interesting light, even to worldly men. Ed. New York, Harpers, 1853. Address of Tatian to the …

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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 337

TATIAN.

… Southey, Robert, his remarks concerning John Wesley, 62. Spirit, the Holy, 71. Spirits, two kinds, 70. St. Jerome, 61, 62. St. Paul, 62. Tatian, Introductory Note, 61. equivocal position of, 61. influenced by Justin, 61 …

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Chrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 14

INTRODUCTION TO THE TREATISE ON THE PRIESTHOOD.

… We might compare it with the association or club formed by John Wesley and his brother at Oxford which first earned for them the nickname of "Methodists." Chrysostom and his friends placed the general regulation …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 240

Chapter XV.--Sermon on the Mount Continued. Its Woes in Strict Agreement with the Creator's Disposition. Many Quotations Out of the Old Testament in Proof of This.

… 24. [See Southey's Wesley, on "Riches," vol. ii. p. 310.] [4011] Deut. viii. 12-14. [4012] Tertullian says, ex Perside. [4013] Insilit. [4014] Isa. xxxix. 6. [4015] Jer. ix. 23, 24. [4016] Isa. iii …

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Augustine — Exposition on Psalms • SECTION 141

26. But this was discipline; admonition, not desertion. Lastly, giving thanks, he saith what? "And being turned Thou hast made me alive, and

… te infecit, "that infected thee." [3142] [Augustin here talks like the poet Cowper, or like Wesley and Whitefield: and the fact is very instructive in connection with his doctrine of baptism. See Cowper's "Truth …

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Fathers of the Second Century • SECTION 24

1. The Phrygian enthusiasm, like the convulsionism of Paris [413] in the last century, was a phenomenon not to be trifled with; especially w

… Southey suggests, that, in the Roman Communion, John Wesley would have been accommodated with full scope for his genius, and canonized as a saint, while his Anglican mother had no place for him. [421] But …

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Chrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 68

Homily XIX.

… Moreover, the following context makes lust a source of covetousness, which is true, and not covetousness the source of lust, which is not true.--G.A.] [390] [Compare John Wesley's sermon on the "Duty …

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