| Henry King Carroll - Church statistics - 1893 - 570 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,... | |
| John James Tigert - 1894 - 430 pages
...govern them, and how grievously would this entangle us; " and that, since "our American brethren are now totally disentangled both from the State and from...entangle them again either with the one or the other." * " No extant forensic argument" says Stevens, "founded upon documentary evidence, is stronger than... | |
| Church statistics - 1894 - 910 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... | |
| United States. Census Office - Church statistics - 1894 - 906 pages
...had 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,... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 636 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...the one or the other. They are now at full liberty to follow the Scriptures and the Primitive Church. And we judge it best that they should stand fast... | |
| William Henry Withrow - Methodism - 1898 - 316 pages
...American brethren are now totally disentangled both from the State and the English hierarchy, we dare n»t entangle them again either with the one or the other....Scriptures and the primitive Church ; and we judge it best they should stand fast in that liberty wherewith God has so strangely nude them free. "JOHN WESLBT."... | |
| Lewis Curts - 1900 - 448 pages
...been objected that Mr. Wesley specially declared, concerning "those poor sheep in the wilderness:" "They are now at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the primitive Church." (See Wesley's letter "To Dr. Coke, Mr. - Asbury, and our brethren in North America," in the Conference... | |
| John Fletcher Hurst - Clergy - 1903 - 336 pages
...circulation among the societies, which concludes with the significant words: "As our American brethren are now totally disentangled both from the State and from...at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and primitive Church; and we judge it best that they should stand fast in that liberty wherewith God has... | |
| Religious education - 1904 - 1014 pages
...whatever with the Church of England. Thus he says in the closing paragraph: As our American brethren are ught me? »nd we judge it best that they should stand fast in that liberty wherewith God has so strangely made... | |
| John James Tigert - 1908 - 636 pages
...govern them, and how grievously would this entangle us; " and that, since "our American brethren are now totally disentangled both from the State and from...entangle them again either with the one or the other." * " No extant forensic argument" says Stevens, "founded upon documentary evidence, is stronger than... | |
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