APRIL 25
The more exercises he uses, winter or summer, the more health he will have.
Letter, 16th January, 1781
Many ask: “Why do you say the Methodists form no distinct party? That they do not leave the Church? Are there not thousands of Methodists who have, in fact, left the Church? Who never attend the Church Service? Never receive the Lord’s Supper there? Nay, who speak against the Church, even with bitterness, in public and private.”
I am glad of so public an opportunity of explaining this, in order to which , it will be necessary to look back some years. The Methodists at Oxford were all one body, and, as it were, one soul; zealous for the religion of the Bible, of the Primitive Church, and, in consequence, of the Church of England; as they believed it came nearer the Scriptural and primitive plan than any other national Church upon earth. When my brother and I returned from Georgia we were in the same sentiments. … Thus far, therefore, all the Methodists were firm to the Church of England.
Sermon at the Foundation of the City Road Chapel
