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  • BOOK 1 - FROM 1773 [PART 4]
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    First regular conference, and minutes of; stations of preachers; numbers; reason for a particular rule; Mr. Rankin sets himself to correcting abuses; labors of Mr. Asbury; Mr. Rankin in New York, and Mr. Asbury in Baltimore; Light Street church begun; second conference; minutes of; increase of members; Boardman and Pilmoor return to England; Mr. Asbury enlarges the sphere of his labors; others imitate him; the former sickens from excessive labor; third conference; Mr. Rankin takes too much authority; symptoms of war; Mr. Asbury goes south; great revival in Virginia; death of R. Williams; Mr. Jarratt’s account of this revival; corroborated by others; letter from Mr. Wesley; differences between Mr. Rankin and Mr. Asbury.

    [PART 5] Symptoms of hostilities; English preachers suspected; Deer Creek conference; disastrous results of war in some places, and revivals in others; English preachers consult about returning home; imprudent conduct; effects of Mr. Wesley’s pamphlet; Mr. Asbury left alone; Leesburgh conference; Mr. Asbury’s seclusion; sufferings of Mr. Garrettson; of Mr. Hartley; Mr. Asbury’s liberation; conference at Judge White’s; troubles on account of the ordinances; Fluvanna conference, and ordination of the preachers; causes a temporary division; minutes of conference; reason for one item; rule against the use of spirituous liquors; breach healed which had been occasioned by administering the ordinances; salutary effects of this adjustment; sad effects of the war; farther sufferings of Mr. Garrettson; Choptank conference; labors of Mr. Jarratt; capture of Lord Cornwallis; tenth conference, numbers, etc.; eleventh conference, numbers, etc., rules; peace proclaimed, and its effects; Mr. Wesley’s letter; end of an apostate; twelfth conference, numbers, etc.; revival; minutes not printed.

    [PART 6] Important period of Methodism; state of the societies in Europe and America; independence of the country; Mr. Wesley determines to grant them a church organization: the steps taken; his letter to Dr. Coke, etc.; credentials of Dr. Coke; his arrival in America; Mr. Asbury’s account of their meeting; Mr. Garrettson sent to call a conference; conference assembles in Baltimore, Dec. 25, 1784, when Mr. Asbury is elected and consecrated bishop; others elected and ordained elders; defense of these measures, 1. A call for those things; 2. Character of those who did them; 3. Presbyters and bishops the same order; 4. The doctrine of succession not defensible; 5. Mr. Wesley’s right; 6. He invaded the right of no one else; 7. He ordained ministers for the Methodists only; 8. He did not separate from either the English or Protestant Episcopal Church; 9. Form of church government not prescribed; 10. Proved; 11. Distinction between the power of ordination and jurisdiction; 12. Character of those who established the Methodist Episcopal Church; the people acquiesced in these measures; blessed results of these things; articles of religion; rules adopted; method of holding conference; constituting elders, and their duty; deacons; receiving preachers, and their duty; of making collections; class meetings; duty of preachers; necessity of union; manner of singing; rules for preaching; against Antinomianism; how to provide for circuits, etc.; of employing time, etc.; baptism; Lord’s supper; unlawful marriages; perfection; dress; privileges to nonprofessors; visiting from house to house; instruction of children; building churches; raising a general fund; for superannuated preachers, etc.; printing books; trial of disorderly persons; of immoral ministers; of stewards; general rules; rules on slavery.

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