 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 936 pages
...the weekly contributions were to go " towards the support of the gospel." The Society is described as "a company of men having the form, and seeking the...may help each other to work out their salvation." "The only condition previously required of those who desired admission into these societies " is "a... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - Methodist Episcopal church - 1908 - 548 pages
...memorial of our early ecclesiastical life.— Com. of Revision, 1892. in Europe, and then in America. Such a society is no other than "a company of men...may help each other to work out their salvation." If 28. That it may the more easily be discerned whether they are indeed working out their own salvation,... | |
 | Edwin Hubert Burton - Bishops - 1909 - 410 pages
...tended to become mechanical. In their rules the first followers of Wesley describe themselves as " a company of men, having the form, and seeking the power, of godliness ; united in order 1 Though Wesley and his friends had been styled Methodists as early as 1729, while they were still... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1850 - 698 pages
...wise cast out ;" — and, hence, Wesley dared not open a gate more narrow. For what was his society? "A company of men having the form, and seeking the...one another in love, that they may help each other work out their salvation." What, then, were the conditions of membership and "fellowship ? " There... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1840 - 540 pages
...exhort you, brethren, not to forget the high and holy object of our organization. We profess to be " a company of men having the form and seeking the power...together, to receive the word of exhortation, and to help each other work out their salvation." We are a voluntary association, organized, as we believe,... | |
 | Arminianism - 1814 - 1018 pages
...individual might need. * Such a society, and such classes, (as Mr. Wesley justly observes,) are none other than a company of men, having the form, and...together, to receive the word of exhortation, and to watcli over one another in love, that they may help each other to work out their salvation.' " The... | |
 | Arminianism - 1820 - 980 pages
...to be saved from their sins," and who, " having the form, and seeking the power of godliness," were "united in order to pray together, to receive the...exhortation, and to watch over one another in love, that they might help each other to work out their salvation." And from the time of her first attending class-meetings,... | |
 | 1914 - 464 pages
...necessities. If 27. This was the rise of the UNITED SOCIETY, .first in Europe, and then in America. Such, a society is no other than "a company of men...another in love, that they may help each other to ivork out their salvation." ^ 28. There is only one condition previously required of those who desire... | |
 | Eric McCoy North - Charities - 1914 - 200 pages
...strongly. After a brief account of the origin of the Societies, Mr. Wesley defines such a society as "no other than 'a company of men having the form and seeking the power of godliness, united that they may help each other to work out their salvation.' " He continues: "That it may the more easily... | |
 | Eustache Charles Edouard Dorion - Methodism - 1915 - 170 pages
...of men having the form and seeking the power of godliness, united in order to pray together, . . . and to watch over one another in love, that they may help each other to work out their salvation." There was but one condition of membership stipulated, "A desire to flee from the wrath to come, and... | |
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Such a society is no other than " a company of men having the form and seeking the power of godliness, united in order to pray together, to receive the word of exhortation, and to watch over one another in love, that they may help each other to work out... 
