The history of Methodism . latter word wasassociated in England withtoo much secular pomp tosatisfy his simple tastes. Itwas not his wish to multiplybishops of the Anglicantype. He desired a moreprimitive Church order; asDr. Gregory has expressedit, •• not prelatical, but pres-byterial; not hierarchical,but evangelistic; not dio-cesan, but itinerant. Theterm bishop, in this primi-tive sense, was afterwardadopted by the MethodistEpiscopal Church. Wesleyraised no objection to the designation Episcopal, thoughhe clung tenaciously to his term superintendent. The history of the Methodist Episcopal
The history of Methodism . latter word wasassociated in England withtoo much secular pomp tosatisfy his simple tastes. Itwas not his wish to multiplybishops of the Anglicantype. He desired a moreprimitive Church order; asDr. Gregory has expressedit, •• not prelatical, but pres-byterial; not hierarchical,but evangelistic; not dio-cesan, but itinerant. Theterm bishop, in this primi-tive sense, was afterwardadopted by the MethodistEpiscopal Church. Wesleyraised no objection to the designation Episcopal, thoughhe clung tenaciously to his term superintendent. The history of the Methodist Episcopal Church shows that Wesleys fear of the hierarchical use of the more simple and exact term bishop was groundless. Watson has well stated Wesleys position. He never did pretend to ordain bishops in the modern sense, but only according to his view of primitive episcopacy . . founded upon the principle of bishops and presbyters being of the same degree; a more extended office only being assigned to the former, as in thehi. FRCM A COPPERPLATE. REV. J \MKS CREIGHVON. The clergyman who assisted at Dr. Cokesconsecration. 970 British Methodism primitive Church. For, though nothing can be more obviousthan that the primitive pastors are called bishops or presby-ters indiscriminately in the New Testament, yet at anearly period those presbyters were, by way of distinction,denominated bishops, who presided in the meetings of thepresbyteis, and were finally invested with the government of several churches,with their respectivepresbyteries; so thattwo offices were then,as in this case, graftedupon the sameorder. The Metho-dist bishops, saysWatson, have inpractice as well exem-plified the primitivespirit as in piinciplethey were conformedto the primitive dis-cipline. Eleven days afterhis arrival in AmericaDr. Coke was preach-ing in Barretts chapel in the midst of a forest, wherehe had a noble congregation. As he was preachingFrancis Asbury entered, and an impressive scene followedas the repr
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