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- noun The
theological system propounded by John Wesley; commonly calledMethodism .
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He was known as John the Apostate, having thrown down Catholicism, Methodism, Second Reformed Wesleyanism, and had pronounced religious liberty and high tariffs and took to worshiping his ancestors.
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Quadrilateral Thoughts uses Wesleyanism as a case study in membership.
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Since the re-establishment of Wesleyanism in this island, it has continued to struggle against the opposition of the Bishop, and most of the clergy, and against the inveterate prejudices of nearly the whole of the white community.
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Mr. Foxall was a convert to Wesleyanism, and a lay minister.
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Wesleyanism, indeed, is essentially missionary in spirit, her original aim being to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world.
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Wesleyanism, on the one hand, and the Oxford movement on the other, pointed the inevitable moral of even an approximation to the Hobbesian view.
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The old folks wear home-made clothes and stick to the farm; the native-born children order their garments from mail-order tailors and expose themselves in the chautauquas and at the great orgies of Calvinism and Wesleyanism.
The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind
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But I had many inquiries as to the tenets of Wesleyanism.
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Presbyterianism, that into Congregationalism, and that into Baptistism, etc., etc. Methodism has attempted to reform all, but has reformed itself into many forms of Wesleyanism.
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Every element of Wesleyanism is to be found in primitive
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