 | Eva Jean Wrather - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 306 pages
...straight from New Testament Christianity, and John Wesley congratulated his American brethren on being "at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the primitive church." But the idea of "restoration" as their exclusive end and aim was set forth by a number of small, independent... | |
 | Kenneth Cracknell, Susan J. White - Religion - 2005 - 302 pages
...now "totally disentangled both from the State and the English Hierarchy," Wesley thought they were "at full liberty, simply to follow the scriptures and the primitive church." But at the same time that "liberty" may not have been as "full" as we might imagine, for he certainly... | |
 | John Beeson - Religion - 2007 - 214 pages
...North America, with this paragraph: As our American brethren are now totally disentangled from both The State, and from the English Hierarchy, we dare not entangle them again either with one or the other. They are now free to follow the scriptures and the primitive church. And to stand... | |
 | S. T. Kimbrough - Church - 2007 - 312 pages
...brethren, "To Dr. COKE, Mr. ASBURY, and our Brethren in NORTH AMERICA," it instructed the young church: "They are now at full liberty, simply to follow the Scriptures and the Primitive Church."9 The injunction to follow Scripture was hardly needed but it did effectively found the new... | |
 | Methodism - 1877 - 602 pages
...embrace it. At present I cannot see any better method than that I have adopted. trom the State and the English hierarchy, we dare not entangle them again...Scriptures and the primitive Church. And we judge it best they should stand fast in that liberty wherewith God has so strangely made them free. "JOHN WESLEY."... | |
 | David Hempton - Electronic books - 2005 - 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,... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1855 - 604 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...hierarchy, we dare not entangle them again, either with this or the other. They are now at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the primitive Church.... | |
 | 1912 - 600 pages
...of Mr. Wesley, were "totally disentangled both from the State and the English hierarchy." He added: "They are now at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures and the Primitive Church, and we judge lt best that they should stand fast in that liberty wherewith God has so strangely made them free."... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1891 - 1022 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 the English hierarchy, we dare not entangle them ngain either with the one or the other. They are now at full liberty simply to follow the Scriptures... | |
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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... 
