A Candid and Impartial Inquiry Into the Present State of the Methodist Societies in Ireland: Wherein Several Important Points Relative to Their Doctri

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Excerpt from A Candid and Impartial Inquiry Into the Present State of the Methodist Societies in Ireland: Wherein Several Important Points Relative to Their Doctrines and Discipline Are DiscussedThis took place at the university of Oxford. The Reverend J ohn and Charles Wesley were eminently conspicuous as leaders of this little band of Christians. They gladly endured theobloquy and reproach which the strictness o'f the1r piety, the fervour of their zeal, and the ardour of their charity drew from the learned professors'of chris tianity 'in' that consecrated seminary. It appears that the novelty of genuine piety, exhibited in a christian college, first excited the wonder and as tonishment, then provoked the ridicule and con tempt, and finally produced the decided opposi tion, and, as fa1 as it could be carried, the perse cutioh'ofthose men whose sole business in' this world, had they attended to it, was'to promote, defend, and propagate that very piety, which um happily became the object of their aversion and s'corn, when actually exhibited in-the lives of its genuine professors.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.