Author: Nathan Bangs
Publisher:
Published: 2015-07-16
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9781331553168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from A History of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Vol. 3 Armed with the panoply thus furnished them, the Wesleyan missionaries who first visited our shores were prepared to promulgate and defend the doctrines and to enforce the discipline of their founder. As before said, however, they mainly insisted on experimental and practical godliness, urging upon all, high and low, rich and poor, the necessity of a change of heart, such a change as should be productive of a reformation of life and conduct, in order to insure everlasting salvation. Instead of exhausting their strength in controversial preaching on those debatable points about which they dif fered from Calvinists, Unitarians, Arians, and Universal iste, they generally contented themselves with a plain and unvarnished statement of their doctrinal views, with urging upon the people experimental and practical reli gion, and with defending themselves when assailed by others. This defence, however, often became necessa ry, more especially in the northern and eastern states, where the people were more accustomed to a critical ex amination of doctrinal points, and questions of doubtful disputation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book A History of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) written by Nathan Bangs and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Vol. 3 Armed with the panoply thus furnished them, the Wesleyan missionaries who first visited our shores were prepared to promulgate and defend the doctrines and to enforce the discipline of their founder. As before said, however, they mainly insisted on experimental and practical godliness, urging upon all, high and low, rich and poor, the necessity of a change of heart, such a change as should be productive of a reformation of life and conduct, in order to insure everlasting salvation. Instead of exhausting their strength in controversial preaching on those debatable points about which they dif fered from Calvinists, Unitarians, Arians, and Universal iste, they generally contented themselves with a plain and unvarnished statement of their doctrinal views, with urging upon the people experimental and practical reli gion, and with defending themselves when assailed by others. This defence, however, often became necessa ry, more especially in the northern and eastern states, where the people were more accustomed to a critical ex amination of doctrinal points, and questions of doubtful disputation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.