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 . REV CHARGES WESLEY. groaning so to be, by employing thempreferably to others, buying of them, andin general helping them. Finally, members were warned thatthey must not neglect any of the ordi-nances of God, such as public worship,the reading and expounding of Scripture,the fords Supper, family and privateprayer, the study
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 . REV CHARGES WESLEY. groaning so to be, by employing thempreferably to others, buying of them, andin general helping them. Finally, members were warned thatthey must not neglect any of the ordi-nances of God, such as public worship,the reading and expounding of Scripture,the fords Supper, family and privateprayer, the study of the Word, and fast-ing and abstinence. Such is a resume of this important doc-ument, which is worth the study of everyenquirer into the history of religious in-stitutions, and especially worth the closestudy of every Methodist. The final in-junction which it contains has been al-lowed to lapse—the injunction to the practice of fasting there is ampleauthority in the Holy Scriptures and thehistory of the primitiveChurch. The Wesley broth-ers, who were both strictupon this point, observed?k Friday as a day of fasting and abstinence. The prac-tice led to a very mistakennotion among Protestant Dis-Hl senters that they were Ro-manists in disguise—a crypL
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