. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church. has incorporated a weighty paragraph from this sermon in the first History of the Primitive Methodist Connexion, published in 1823. That ([notationrightly stands where it does in the History since, but for it, he might have continued tohold aloof from any and every organised religious society. On this ground, Wesleyssermon on the Trinity, and particularly the excerpt given by Hugh Bourne, may beviewed in the light of a document belonging to our sources, and for this reason mightquite properly have had insertion here. In the early part
. The origin and history of the primitive Methodist Church. has incorporated a weighty paragraph from this sermon in the first History of the Primitive Methodist Connexion, published in 1823. That ([notationrightly stands where it does in the History since, but for it, he might have continued tohold aloof from any and every organised religious society. On this ground, Wesleyssermon on the Trinity, and particularly the excerpt given by Hugh Bourne, may beviewed in the light of a document belonging to our sources, and for this reason mightquite properly have had insertion here. In the early part of this same year—1799—he Head the books of the first Quakers—great examples of patient suffering,zealous for open-air worship, mighty in faith. They would exercise faith evenin silence, until they moved whole neighbourhoods by so doing. I was muchedified in reading of the faith, patience, and sufferings of the primitive Quakers I was enabled to see a little more clearly into the mystery and power of faith,—truly their trials of faith were mnnruii MOOR. Next, sundry volumes of the Arminian Magazine —eldest of our religious serials—fell in his way ; and now, for the first time, he learned that the Arminians, whom hehad once thought of seeking out in the West of England, were the same people as theMethodists at his very doors ! After this we can quite believe him when he avers thathe knew but little of the Methodists, and that on account of the conduct of certaininconsistent professors in his neighbourhood, he had gone the length of thinking theMethodists a fallen people. Assuredly, he much needed at this juncture the offices ofa candid and well-informed friend. As Wesley had broken down harriers and prepared the way for communion, so 12 MKTHODIST (liri;c||. John Fletcher was Lnstrunientally the means of completing the work of ending thetwenty long years of conflict and giving him sure-grounded peace. It will be well fcolet Hugh Bourne describe in
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