THE DOCTRINES AND DISCIPLINE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 1864. WITH AN APPENDIX. + New York: PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & PORTER, 200 MULBERRY-STREET. 1866. $16,275 FEB 7 1992 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by CARLTON & PORTER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. 8388 563 1864 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. DEARLY BELOVED BRETHREN,-We think it expedient to give you a brief account of the rise of Methodism, both in Europe and America. "In 1729, two young men in England, reading the Bible, saw they could not be saved without holiness: followed after it, and incited others so to do. In 1737, they saw, likewise, that men are justified before they are sanctified: but still holiness was their object. God then thrust them out to raise a holy people.' 99* In the year 1766, Philip Embury, a These are the words of Messrs. Wesley themselves. |