Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

and hence, being turned out of these, they went to the highways and
hedges to compel sinners to come to the marriage feast. For as they had
sufficiently learned that nothing but the gospel could be the power of God
unto salvation to them that believe, they boldly and zealously proclaimed
Christ crucified wherever they found a crowd of sinners; using extempore
prayer, and preaching without notes. This seemed a new thing in the
earth; and while many were awakened and turned to God, several, who
did not think that such extraordinary exertions were necessary, ridiculed
their zeal; and others, who imagined God could not give his approbation
to any kind of spiritual service that was not performed within the walls
of a church, became greatly offended: and it is a fact that not a few
opposed and blasphemed.
METHODISM.
AN itinerant ministry established in these kingdoms for upward of
fourscore years, teaching the pure unadulterated doctrines of the gospel,
with the propriety and necessity of obedience to the laws, has been the
principal means, in the hand of God, of preserving these lands from those
convulsions and revolutions that have ruined and nearly dissolved the
European continent. The itinerant ministry to which this refers, is that
which was established in these lands by the late truly reverend, highly
learned and cultivated, deeply pious, and loyal JOHN WESLEY, A.M.,
formerly a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford; whose followers are
known by the name of METHODISTS; a people who are an honour to their
country, and a blessing to the government of their most excellent and
revered king, George III.; who, through a long reign, has been the patron
of religion and learning, and the father of his people.
The following declaration was inserted in an album, by Dr. Clarke,
during the last conference which he attended, exactly one month before
his death:—