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History of the Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Revised and Brought Down to 1856 by W.p. Strickland
History of the Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church Revised and Brought Down to 1856 by Wp Strickland Author:Robert Emory General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1843 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or 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 book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Unconditional Perseverance of all that have once experienced Faith in Christ;" and " A Plain Account of Christian Perfection, as believed and taught by the Rev. John Wesley, from the Year 1725 to the Year 1765." These tracts were inserted in the subsequent editions of the Discipline, (except that of 1796,) until 1812, when they were omitted. They may now be found in the volume entitled, " Doctrinal Tracts," and in Wesley's Works, vol. vi, pp. 81, 483. 1790. In the edition of 1790 the Articles of Re ligion and the Doctrinal Tracts, instead of being pub lished as an appendix to the Discipline, were inserted in the body of it, and a new tract was added, " On the Nature and Subjects of Christian Baptism." These constituted, in the order they have been cited, sections thirty-five to thirty-nine of this edition. 1791. In the Discipline of 1791 was inserted a new section, namely, " § 9. Of Band Societies." 1792. Another General Conference having been convened in 1792, the Discipline of the church was revised and somewhat altered. The sections were now distributed into three chapters, of which the first, containing twenty-six sections, related to the ministry; the second, containing eight sections, to the membership ; and the third, containing ten sections, embraced the temporal economy of the church, the Doctrinal Tracts, and the Forms. A General Conference having been held regularly, every four years from this time, no alterations were made in the Discipline, except at its successive sessions. 1796. The Discipline of 1796 is distinguished from all others, by containing notes on the respectivesections, p...« less