 | Franklin Jones Firth - Christian union - 1910 - 284 pages
...then considered themselves "totally disentangled both from the State and the English hierarchy, and at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the Primitive Church," "and", said Wesley, "we judge it best that they should stand fast in that liberty wherewith God has so strangely... | |
 | United States. Bureau of the Census - Church statistics - 1910 - 684 pages
...disentangled both from the state and the 1 See Methodist bodies, page 428, and Moravian Church, page 495. English hierarchy, we dare not entangle them again, , either with the one or with the other. They are now at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the Primitive Church."... | |
 | Herbert Brook Workman - Methodism - 1912 - 158 pages
...Bishop Lowth to ordain at least one of his preachers, he wrote : — " As our American brethren are now totally disentangled both from the State and from...entangle them again either with the one or the other." So in 1784, in conjunction with two other Anglican presbyters, he ordained two " elders " for England,... | |
 | Herbert Brook Workman - Methodism - 1912 - 158 pages
...to ordain at least one of his preachers, he wrote : — " As our American brethren are now totally v disentangled both from the State and from the English...entangle them again either with the one or the other." So in 1784, in conjunction with two other Anglican presbyters, he ordained two " elders " for England,... | |
 | Milo True Morrill - Restoration movement (Christianity) - 1912 - 796 pages
...hierarchy, and that he wished to avoid, quoting Mr. Wesley's will for the American societies as follows: "They are now at full liberty simply to follow the...the primitive church. And we judge it best that they stand fast in the liberty wherewith God has so strangely made them free."1 The famous Christmas Conference... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1843 - 666 pages
...Wesley, after he had given us a plan, or "sketch," of church organization in this country, left us "at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the primitive church." From this we see that this great man venerated " the primitive church," and considered a high degree... | |
 | Thomas Benjamin Neely - Methodism - 1918 - 368 pages
...Americans had asked his special aid. solves and the right to do it, as he says in his circular letter : " They are now at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the primitive Church." Doctor Thomas Coke, and the new elders, carrying the plan of reorganization with them, sailed from... | |
 | United States. Bureau of the Census - Church buildings - 1919 - 742 pages
...was also stated that as "our American brethren are now totally disentangled both from the state and the English hierarchy, we dare not entangle them again, either with the one or with the other. They are now at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the Primitive Church.... | |
 | Peter George Mode - Religion - 1921 - 776 pages
...entangle u? 4. As our American brethren are now totally disentangled, Imth from the state and the Knglish hierarchy, we dare not entangle them again, either...judge it best that they should stand fast in that lil>erty wherewith God has MI strangely made them free JOHN WESLEY." Text— Wesley's Works, Vol. VII,... | |
 | Peter George Mode - Religion - 1921 - 772 pages
...this entangle us! 4. As our American brethren arc now totally disentangled, both from the state and the English hierarchy, we dare not entangle them again,...the one or the other. They are now at full liberty simplv to follow the Scriptures and the primitive church. And We judge it best that they should stand... | |
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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... 
