Identifier: historyofmethodi02hurs (find matches)
Title: The history of Methodism
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903 Internet Archive (Firm)
Subjects: Methodism
Publisher: New York, Eaton & Mains
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
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ce every manmust give an account for himself to God. The foundation principle of the Conference was thusaffirmed to be sturdily Protestant. And yet Wesleys foesdeclared him to be a papist, and clerics in our own day claimhim as a High Churchman ! His early ecclesiastical grave-clothes had now quite fallen from him. The social breadth of Methodism is illustrated by anothernote of the same Conference. It was asked : Q- Ought we not to have a longer time of probation forthe rich before we admit them into our society? A. It seems not. But neither should we have a shorter.Let either rich or poor stay three months. Q. How shall we more effectually avoid respect of per-sons? A. 1. Let us take care to visit the poor as the rich.2. Let us strictly examine our hearts, whether we are not The Social Breadth of Methodism 583 more willing to preach to the rich than to the poor. 3. Wewill speak to the poor at the chapel as often as to the rich.At the first Conference it was agreed that lay preachers
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ENGRAVED BY FRY FROM A SCARCE PRINT BY BLAND, 1765. JOHN WESLEY AT THE AGE OF SIXTY-THREE. should only be employed in cases of necessity. At thethird Conference it became evident that this necessity was 584 British Methodism becoming- increasingly imperative, and we find in 1747 thebeginning of the series of examinations which Wesley insti-tuted into the qualifications for the itinerancy. The impor-tant question was asked: Q. How shall we try those who believe they are movedby the Holy Ghost and called of God to preach? A. Inquire, 1. Do they know in whom they have be-lieved? Have they the love of God in their hearts? Andare they holy in all manner of conversation? 2. Have theygifts (as well as grace) for the work? Have they (in sometolerable degree) a clear, sound understanding? Have theya right judgment in the things of God ? Have they ajust conception of the salvation by faith ? And has Godgiven them any degree of utterance? Do they speakjustly, readily, clearly? 3. Have they succe

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