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 . nd con-trolling force. It was to bethe means, as has been wellsaid, of bringing the Calvin-istic theology into line withthe inwardness of Germantheology It is not that the term orthe idea of conversion wasunknown before. But therecognition of a force which,acting upon a whole com-munity in a invsterious man-ner turns number
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 . nd con-trolling force. It was to bethe means, as has been wellsaid, of bringing the Calvin-istic theology into line withthe inwardness of Germantheology It is not that the term orthe idea of conversion wasunknown before. But therecognition of a force which,acting upon a whole com-munity in a invsterious man-ner turns numbers of hither-t ) indifferent people into fer-vent believers, was certainlynew to the world. Suchconditions came t be knownas revivals. Xo sooner had Edwardspublished his Thoughts on the Re-vival than Weslcv republished it inEngland in a somewhat abridged form,under the title, Thoughts Concerningthe Present Revival of Religion in XewEngland (London, 17-1.)). Edwards treatment of the subject in his pamphlet is not that of a man whohas at length succeeded in attaining theobject of his desires, and recounts hissuccess in a placidly satisfied is not the least trace of this at-titude. Rather does it resemble thecareful, almost anxious, record of a sci-.
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