Wesleyan Methodism Regarded as the System of a Christian Church |
Other editions - View all
Wesleyan Methodism Regarded as the System of a Christian Church (Classic ... William Harris Rule No preview available - 2017 |
Wesleyan Methodism: Regarded as the System of a Christian Church William Harris Rule No preview available - 2019 |
Wesleyan Methodism Regarded as the System of a Christian Church William Harris Rule No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
abuses acolyth allowed ancient Anglican apostles appointed assembled authority baptism bishops body brethren called catechumens catholic century character charge charity Christ Christendom Christian circuits communicants communion Conference congregations constitution council of Laodicea deacons declension discipline distinct divine doctrine duty ecclesiastical episcopal eucharist evangelical exercise faith Father feast flock gospel guard Heathen holy orders holy scripture Holy Spirit honour influence instruction Irenæus Jerusalem Jews Justin Martyr labour Lactantius Lord Lord's love-feasts mankind means of grace ment Methodism Methodist ministers ministers of religion ministry observe ordination pastors persons piety prayer preach preachers presbyterate presbyters priests primitive principle profess Protestant reformation regard religious render Roman Roman Catechism sacraments sacred salvation sect secular shepherds sinners sion society solemn souls speak superintendent supper synod teach Tertullian things tion truth universal church Wesley Wesleyan word worship δὲ καὶ τῆς τοῦ
Popular passages
Page 42 - WILL you be diligent in prayers, and in reading of the Holy Scriptures, and in such studies as help to the knowledge of the same, laying aside the study of the world and the flesh?
Page 41 - Will you be ready, with all faithful diligence, to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's word; and to use both public and private monitions and exhortations, as well to the sick as to the whole, within your cures, as need shall require, and occasion [shall] be given ? Answer. I will, the Lord being my helper.
Page 79 - Now I beseech you, brethren-, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Page 10 - God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
Page 62 - Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 2.
Page 2 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 19 - What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in ? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
Page 42 - Christ; and to make both yourselves and them, as much as in you lieth, wholesome examples and patterns to the flock of Christ ? Answer. I will apply myself thereto, the Lord being my helper. The Bishop. WILL you maintain and set forwards, as much as lieth in you, quietness, peace, and love, among all Christian people, and especially among them that are or shall be committed to your charge ? Answer.
Page 43 - Happy, if with my latest breath I may but gasp his name ; Preach him to all, and cry in death, "Behold, behold the Lamb!
Page 152 - And the Catholic Faith is this : that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance.