 | George Bancroft - Constitutional history - 1882 - 556 pages
...guiding those poor sheep in the wilderness. As our American brethren are now totally disentangled CHAP. both from the state and from the English hierarchy,...we dare not entangle them again either with the one l ' 8 4or the other. They are now at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the primitive... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1884 - 836 pages
...on the fourth was made superintendent or bishop. John Wesley wrote : "As our American brethren are now totally disentangled both from the state and from...to follow the Scriptures and the primitive Church." Several divisions exist among the American Méthodiste. The slavery question divided them before the... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 610 pages
...scriptural way of feeding and guiding those poor sheep in the wilderness. As our American brethren are now totally disentangled both from the state and from...They are now at full liberty simply to follow the Seriptures and the primitive church, and we judge it best that they should stand fast in that liberty... | |
 | Holland Nimmons McTyeire - Methodism - 1885 - 700 pages
...written in his address to the Societies in America,. after their separation from the mother country: 'They are now at full liberty simply to follow the...and we judge it best that they should stand fast in the liberty wherewith God has so strangely made them free." At the date of this letter, Asbury was... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1891 - 1042 pages
...Conference prior to the election of Asbury to the superintendency. He says, " As our American brethren are now totally disentangled both from the State and from...other. They are now at full liberty simply to follow tlie Scriptures and the primitive Church." The unity tliat had existed between the two Methodisms was... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1891 - 810 pages
...on the fourth was made superintendent or bishop. Jchn Wesley wrote : "As our American brethren are now totally disentangled both from the state and from...hierarchy, we dare not entangle them again either with i lif one or the other. They are now at lull ^liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the primitive... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1892 - 628 pages
...had prepared a 1 turgy to be used by the traveling preachers; and that as "our American brethren are now totally disentangled both from the State and from the English hierarchy," he dared not " entangle them again, either with the one or with the other. They are now," ho added,... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - Church history - 1893 - 760 pages
...expect to govern them ; and how grievously would this entangle us ! (4) As our American brethren are now totally disentangled both from the state and from...not entangle them again, either with the one or the * Wesley's Sunday Service, an adaptation of the Book of Common Prayer. other. They are now at full... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Henry Codman Potter, Samuel Macauley Jackson - United States - 1893 - 560 pages
...prepared a liturgy to be used by the traveling preachers ; and that as " our American brethren are now totally disentangled both from the State and from the English hierarchy," he dared not " entangle them again, either with the one or with the other. They are now," he added,... | |
 | Henry King Carroll - Church history - 1893 - 534 pages
...dared not " entangle them again, either with the one or with the other. They are now," he added, " at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the Primitive Church." The conference then proceeded to " form a Methodist Episcopal Church," electing both Coke and Asbury... | |
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As our American brethren are now totally disentangled both from the State and from the English hierarchy, we dare not entangle them again either with the one or the other. They arc now at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the Primitive... 
