Methodism [ Spirituality / Associational culture / Religious Belief ]
… practice their religious duties. ‘In November 1729, at which time I came to reside at Oxford, your son, my brother, myself, and one more, agreed to spend three or four evenings in a week together. Our design was to read over the classics, … were considered by some ecclesiastical authorities as threats to the establishment and to religious sociability in itself. Methodism apparently clashed with the union of Crown and Church that was thought to guarantee peace and harmony. … enforce a strict discipline while his teachings were criticised for the supposed unruliness they defended: ‘ Conform yourself to those Modes of Worship which you approve; yet love, as Brethren, those who cannot conform. Lay so much Stress on …
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