Methodism Successful, and the Internal Causes of Its Success (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Methodism Successful, and the Internal Causes of Its SuccessThese historical facts illustrate the incompetency of Armi nianism, or of the Methodist doctrines, to supply the energies of a religious body without artificial and unscriptural appli anoes, such as Methodism has. This of itself Shows those doctrines to be fundamentally wrong, and not, like the gospel truth, the proper channels of divine life. Doctrines that cannot preserve church life by the preaching and ordi nances which God has appointed, without the aid of a gal vanio battery, are not the incorruptible seed that liveth and abideth forever. But do not Calvinistic churches die out?That is the question. Do they? Do churches while Cal vinistic die out? Single branches, from local causes, here and there may die from a tree that has living root and stock, but. Where did the main body of any community of Calvinistic churches die out before they had lost their Calvinism? And very rarely did any go away from Calvinism but through the Arminian road. There have, as we have already seen, been many instances in which churches have first migrated into different regions of doctrines, and then have sickened and died. And the adoption of simple Arminianism by a church has, in the light of all history, been shown to be the first stage of a consumption on its vitals. This approach to death has come for want of the quickenmg force of the doctrines of the cross. The church is sanctified through the truth. Cut off from the truth, no human art can prolong its life.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.