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THE DOCTRINES

AND

DISCIPLINE

OF THE

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

1864.

WITH AN APPENDIX.

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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.

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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.

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