Personal Narrative of a Tour Through a Part of the United States and Canada: With Notices of the History and Institutions of Methodism in AmericaLane & Scott, 1849 - 431 sidor |
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Sida 259 - Bishop. I shudder, I start at the very thought ! Men may call me a knave, or a fool, a rascal, a scoundrel, and I am content; but they shall never, by my consent, call me a Bishop ! For my sake, for God's sake, for Christ's sake, put a full end to this ! Let the Presbyterians do what they please, but let the Methodists know their calling better.
Sida 228 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Sida 244 - By a very uncommon train of providences, many of the provinces of North America are totally disjoined from their mother country, and erected into independent States. The English Government has no authority over them, either civil or ecclesiastical, any more than over the States of Holland.
Sida 292 - They shall not do away the privileges of our ministers or preachers of trial by a committee, and of an appeal : neither shall they do away the privileges of our...
Sida 292 - The General Conference shall have full powers to make rules and regulations for our Church, under the following limitations and restrictions, viz. 1. The General Conference shall not revoke, alter, or change our articles of religion, nor establish any new standards or rules of doctrine contrary to our present existing and established standards of doctrine.
Sida 245 - As our American brethren are now totally disentangled, both from the State and the English hierarchy, we dare not entangle them again either with the one or the other. They are now at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the primitive Church.
Sida 245 - If any one will point out a more rational and scriptural way of feeding and guiding those poor sheep in the wilderness, I will gladly embrace it. At present I cannot see any better method than that I have taken.
Sida 233 - State, where the clergy were not required to take the state-oath ; though, with a clear conscience, I could have taken the oath of the Delaware State, had it been required ; and would have done it, had I not been prevented by a tender fear of hurting the scrupulous consciences of others.
Sida 340 - The first rise of Methodism, (says he) was in November 1729, when four of us met together at Oxford : the second was at Savannah, in April 1736, when twenty or thirty persons met at my house : the last was at London, on this day, when forty or fifty of us agreed to meet together, every Wednesday evening, in order to free conversation, begun and ended with singing and prayer.* This is hardly accurate ; as Mr.
Sida 246 - My answer then was, if the preachers unanimously choose me, I shall not act in the capacity I have hitherto done by Mr. Wesley's appointment. The design of organizing the Methodists into an Independent Episcopal Church, was opened to the preachers present, and it was agreed to call a general conference, to meet at Baltimore the ensuing Christmas; as also that brother Garrettson go off to Virginia to give notice thereof to our brethren in the south.
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