Become More

Study: The General Rules (Para. 8b-11) 33:36 ↓

8b. By running with patience the race which is set before them, denying themselves, and taking up their cross daily; submitting to bear the reproach of Christ, to be as the filth and offscouring of the world; and looking that men should say all manner of evil of them falsely, for the Lord's sake. 9. It is expected of all who desire to continue in these societies that they should continue to eviden...

Study: Rules for Singing 30:56 ↓

Wesley’s Rules for Singing 1761   1. Learn these tunes before you learn any others, afterwards learn as many as you please. 2. Sing them exactly as they are printed here, without altering or mending them at all; and if you have learned to sing them otherwise, unlearn it as soon as you can.   3. Sing all – see that you join the congregation as frequently as you can. Let not a slight degree of weakn...

Study: Advice to Methodists (Para. 1-4) 30:08 ↓

Advice to a People Called Methodist by John Wesley Disce, docendus adhuc quæ censet amiculus. -- HOR. October 10, 1745. 1. By Methodists I mean, a people who profess to pursue (in whatsoever measure they have attained) holiness of heart and life, inward and outward conformity in all things to the revealed will of God; who place religion in an uniform resemblance of the great object of it; in a ste...

Study: Advice to Methodists (Para. 5-8) 29:18 ↓

5. You believe, farther, that both this faith and love are wrought in us by the Spirit of God; nay, that there cannot be in any man one good temper or desire, or so much as one good thought, unless it be produced by the almighty power of God, by the inspiration or influence of the Holy Ghost.   6. If you walk by this rule, continually endeavoring to know and love and resemble and obey the great Go...

Study: Advice to Methodists (Para. 13-15) 32:37 ↓

13. And as much offence as you give by your name, you will give still more by your principles. You will give offence to the bigots for opinions, modes of worship, and ordinances, by laying no more stress upon them; to the bigots against them, by laying so much; to men of form, by insisting so frequently and strongly on the inward power of religion; to moral men, (so called,) by declaring the absol...

Study: Advice to Methodists (Para. 16-20) 24:56 ↓

16. Add to this, that you do not leave them quite, you still rank yourselves among their members; which, to those who know not that you do it for conscience' sake, is also a provoking circumstance. "If you would but get out of their sight!" But you are a continual thorn in their side, as long as you remain with them.   17. And (which cannot but anger them the more) you have neither power, nor rich...