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The Religious World Displayed, Or, a View of Judaism, Paganism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (3)
The Religious World Displayed Or a View of Judaism Paganism Christianity and Mohammedanism - 3 Author:Robert Adam Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1809 Original Publisher: s.n. Subjects: Religions Deism Religion / General Religion / Comparative Religion Religion / Deism Religion / History Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos o... more »r missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: METHODISTS. Name. -- The body of Christian! to which this name is chiefly alnd properly applied, are the followers of the late Rev. John Wesley, %vho was the founder of this numerous and daily increasing society. The name was first given to Messrs John arid Charles Wesley, and some serious young students, who associated with them, by a student of Merton College, Oxford, on account Of the regularity which they maintained in their lives, and pursued in their studies : in allusion to a certain college of physicians, who flourished at Rome about the time of Nero; and were remarkable for putting their patients under regimen, and practising medicine by method; for which reasons they were termed Methodists. But there are other religious bodies to which the term is applied. It is given to the followers of Mr Whitfield, -- to the English Independents, patronized by the late pious Countess of Huntingdon, -- also to manyof the clergy and lay members of the church of England; and, in short, to every person of any denomination, who manifests a more than ordinary degree of personal religion, and of concern for the salvation of mankind. There is, however, only one body to which the name properly he- longs ; for only one denomination take it to themselves ; and thus convert what was originally given to them, as a term of reproach, into a distinguishing appellation. These are the followers of the lale John Wesley, who hold the opinions which he taught, and maintain ...« less