On Attending the Church Service (1771) [ Practices ]
… men, almost from the time of the apostles. And hence, as early as the second century, within a hundred years of St. John's removal from the earth, men who were afraid of being partakers of other men's sins, thought it their duty to … complain, that some of his fellow-labourers had forsaken him, having "loved the present world." And not long after, St. John reproved divers of the angels, that is, the ministers, of the churches in Asia, because, even in that early period, … been bred among Christians of any other denomination." … Religion … Methodism … Churches … Children … Corruption … John Wesley, Sermons on Several Occasions (1771), sermon 104 [text from the 1872 edition ]. … On Attending the Church …
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