"The Episcopal Church Defended" Reviewed: Being a Vindication of Methodist Episcopacy, with Corrections of the Errors and Misrepresentations Contained in the Work Reviewed |
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... Letters addressed to the Rev. Allen Steele , with his replies , " and is designed to discharge that duty which the author considers to be due from him to his peo- ple , and to the public generally . The channel chosen through which to ...
... Letters addressed to the Rev. Allen Steele , with his replies , " and is designed to discharge that duty which the author considers to be due from him to his peo- ple , and to the public generally . The channel chosen through which to ...
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... letters , being a correspondence between Mr. Bolles and myself , necessity calls upon me to redeem my promise made , to review it . In entering upon this duty it is manifest , that a fair and full understanding of all matters at issue ...
... letters , being a correspondence between Mr. Bolles and myself , necessity calls upon me to redeem my promise made , to review it . In entering upon this duty it is manifest , that a fair and full understanding of all matters at issue ...
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... letters addressed to me , should not be permitted to continue before the public un- answered . The medium of the press , through which he has communicated , being one of his own selection , how muchsoever to be regretted , I am ...
... letters addressed to me , should not be permitted to continue before the public un- answered . The medium of the press , through which he has communicated , being one of his own selection , how muchsoever to be regretted , I am ...
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... letters , that the whole controversy is made to rest on personal material ; the review of Methodist Episcopacy being simply ap- pended and presented as a kind of sequence . In order , however , to be guided by some arrangement in my ...
... letters , that the whole controversy is made to rest on personal material ; the review of Methodist Episcopacy being simply ap- pended and presented as a kind of sequence . In order , however , to be guided by some arrangement in my ...
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... letter to me ; as this will enable the reader fully to understand the matter at issue . The first efforts made to organize a Methodist Episcopal Church in Batavia , were commenced in the year 1816 , and from that year to the present ...
... letter to me ; as this will enable the reader fully to understand the matter at issue . The first efforts made to organize a Methodist Episcopal Church in Batavia , were commenced in the year 1816 , and from that year to the present ...
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Page 36 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 7 - Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Page 98 - They desired (as did two or three more the next day) that he would spend some time with them in prayer, and advise them how to flee from the wrath to come ; which they saw continually hanging over their heads.
Page 152 - DO you trust that you are inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost to take upon you this Office and Ministration, to serve God for the promoting of his glory, and the edifying of his people?
Page 228 - But when in the course of Divine Providence, these American States became independent with respect to civil government, their ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included; and the different religious denominations of Christians in these States were left at full and equal liberty to model and organize their respective Churches, and forms of worship, and discipline, in such manner as they might judge most convenient for their future prosperity; consistently with the constitution and laws of...
Page 98 - ... some time with them in prayer, and advise them how to flee from the wrath to come; which they saw continually hanging over their heads. That...
Page 227 - I have this day set apart as a superintendent, by the imposition of my hands and prayer (being assisted by other ordained ministers...
Page 207 - England, and a man whom I judge to be well qualified for that great work. And I do hereby recommend him to all whom it may concern, as a fit person to preside over the flock of Christ. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four. JOHN WESLEY.
Page 152 - And are they holy in all manner of conversation ? 2. Have they gifts (as well as grace) for the work? Have they (in some tolerable degree) a clear, sound understanding, a right judgment in the things of God, a just conception of salvation by faith ? And has God given them any degree of utterance? Do they speak justly, readily, clearly ? 3.
Page 153 - Have they a just conception of salvation by faith ? And has God given them any degree of utterance ? Do they speak justly, readily, clearly? — 3. Have they fruit? Are any truly convinced of sin, and converted to God, by their preaching ? " As long as these three marks concur in any one, we believe he is called of God to preach. These we receive as sufficient proof that he is moved thereto by the Holy Ghost.