Religious denominations of the world: comprising a general view of the origin, history, and condition, of the various sects of Christians, the Jews and Mahometans, as well as the pagan forms of religion existing in the different countries of the earth; with sketches of the founders of various religious sects . e United Statesamount to one-fourth of the whole number, and that theyhave several distinct synods of their own. METHODISTS. It is not generally known that the name of Methodisthad been given long before to a religious sect in England,or, at least, to a party in religion which was distin
Religious denominations of the world: comprising a general view of the origin, history, and condition, of the various sects of Christians, the Jews and Mahometans, as well as the pagan forms of religion existing in the different countries of the earth; with sketches of the founders of various religious sects . e United Statesamount to one-fourth of the whole number, and that theyhave several distinct synods of their own. METHODISTS. It is not generally known that the name of Methodisthad been given long before to a religious sect in England,or, at least, to a party in religion which was distinguishedby some of the same marks as are now supposed to applyto the Methodists. John Spence, who was librarian ofSion College in 1657, in a book which he published, says, Where are now our Anabaptists and plain pikestaff Me-thodists, who esteem all flowers of rhetoric in sermons nobetter than stinking weeds? But the denomination towhich we here refer was founded in the year 1729, by oneMr. Morgan and Mr. John Wesley. In the month ofNovember that year, the latter, being then fellow of Lin-coln College, began to spend some evenings in reading theGreek Testament with Charles Wesley, student, Mr. Mor-gan, commoner of Christ Church, and Mr. Kirkham, ofMerton College. Not long afterwards, two or three of the. M E VB J] O EH3 Kl W E S EE Yc METHODISTS. 77 pupils of Mr. John Wesley obtained leave to attend thesemeetings. They then began to visit the sick in differentparts of the town, and the prisoners also, who were con-fined in the castle. Two years after they were joined byMr. Ingham, of Queens College, Mr. Broughton, and ; and in 1735 by the celebrated Mr. Whitfield,then in his eighteenth year. At this time their number inOxford amounted to about fourteen. They obtained theirname from the exact regularity of their lives, which gaveoccasion to a young gentleman of Christ Church to say,Here is a new sect of Methodists sprung up ! alludingto a sect of ancient physicians who w
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