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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.
Around the Biblioblogosphere James F. McGrath 2009
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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.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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Mr. Foxall was a convert to Wesleyanism, and a lay minister.
A Portrait of Old George Town Grace Dunlop Peter
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Wesleyanism, indeed, is essentially missionary in spirit, her original aim being to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world.
Great Britain and Her Queen Annie E. Keeling
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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.
Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham Harold Joseph Laski 1921
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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 George Jean Nathan 1920
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But I had many inquiries as to the tenets of Wesleyanism.
The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad Edward John Thompson 1916
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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
The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day Evelyn Underhill 1908
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