The doctrines of Methodism examined and confuted, by a presbyter of the Church of England

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Page 10 - They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Page 16 - Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
Page 15 - Persons, equal and distinct, whose names are, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ; that the Son became man, and through the operation of the Holy Spirit took flesh and a human soul in the womb of the most pure Virgin Mary, died for us upon the cross, rose again, ascended into Heaven, and will come from thence at the end of the world to judge all the living and dead, to give paradise to the good, and hell to the wicked, for ever ; and furthermore, upon the same motive, I believe every thing that the holy...
Page 8 - What doth it profit, my Brethren, though a Man fay he hath Faith, and have not Works ? Can Faith fave him...
Page 5 - BUT there were falfe prophets alfo among the people, even as there fhall be falfe teachers among you, who privily fhall bring in damnable herefies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themfelves fwift deftruction.
Page 16 - I fay unto you, what things foever ye defire " when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and
Page 3 - Thefe are murmurers, complainers, walking " after their own lufts, and their mouth fpeak" ing great fwelling words, having men's perfbns " in admiration becaufe of advantage. But, " beloved, remember ye the words which were '' fpoken before of the Apoftles of our Lord '' Jefus Chrift, how that they had told you " there mould be mockers in the laft time, who " mould walk after their own ungodly lufts.
Page 14 - Chrift's divine million ; that he was the Son of God, the Saviour of the world : but none of them ever pretended to deny, that there was fuch a perfon as Jefus Chrift^ who was the author of the Chriftian religion, and appeared in Judea in the reign of Tiberius. Tacitus's teftimony, as well as that of Celfus, is very exprefs to this purpofe *. And fome of the heathens went fo far as to fpeak very honourably of him. So did the emperor Alexander...

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