The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . wn par-ish he had a Methodist preaching-housebuilt. It is doubtful whether, had hesurvived, he would not have come intocollision with Wesley. Death carriedhim off some years before the bitter Cal-vinistic controversy broke out, and asGrimshaw was a decided, though moder-ate, Calvinist, he might have been drawninto the dispu
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . wn par-ish he had a Methodist preaching-housebuilt. It is doubtful whether, had hesurvived, he would not have come intocollision with Wesley. Death carriedhim off some years before the bitter Cal-vinistic controversy broke out, and asGrimshaw was a decided, though moder-ate, Calvinist, he might have been drawninto the dispute. It is characteristic ofWesleys tolerant and magnanimous at-titude that he should have been ready todelegate such powers to a brother clergy-man who differed from him in his theo-logical bias. An inquiry into the exact bearing ofthe Deed of Declaration and its influenceon the subsequent history of Methodismmay be held over until the Act of Ordi-nation at Bristol has been dealt act was performed some eightmonths later, but its effects were immedi-ate in changing the whole polity of Meth-odism on the Western continent. The twomeasures were substantially co-relative,but the later one was more significantand more drastic. Asbury s appeal to Wesley to devise. HM miRB-j
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