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History of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Volume I.

History of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Volume I.

by Nathan Bangs

Nathan Bangs (1778–1862) was an American Methodist minister and one of the leading organizers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Converted in Canada in 1800, he rode as an itinerant preacher there and in the northern United States before settling into editorial and leadership work in New York. Our library holds his four-volume History of the Methodist Episcopal Church, long a standard account of American Methodism's first decades.

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First published
1838
Length
101k words · about 7 hours
Chapters
73

About this book

The first volume of Nathan Bangs's history of the Methodist Episcopal Church, published beginning in 1838. Bangs, himself a Methodist minister and editor, traces the rise of Methodism in America from John Wesley's missionaries to an organized denomination. A foundational, insider account of early American Methodism.

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Volume I. · Book I · Chapter 1
  4. Volume I. · Book I · Chapter 2 🔒
  5. Volume I. · Book I · Chapter 3 🔒
  6. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 1 · From the conference of 1773 to the commencement of the war in 1776 🔒
  7. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 1 · A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION IN VIRGINIA. IN A LETTER TO A FRIEND. 🔒
  8. Chapter2 🔒
  9. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · An account of the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with some arguments in its defense. 🔒
  10. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · II. Having thus given an account of these transactions, we proceed to offer a few arguments in their defense. Let it be recollected, 🔒
  11. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · I. Of Faith in the Holy Trinity 🔒
  12. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · II. Of the Word, Or Son of God, who was made very Man 🔒
  13. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · III. Of the Resurrection of Christ 🔒
  14. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · IV. Of the Holy Ghost 🔒
  15. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · V. Of the sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation 🔒
  16. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · Of the Names of the Canonical Books 🔒
  17. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · VI. Of the Old Testament 🔒
  18. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · VII. Of Original or Birth-Sin 🔒
  19. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · VIII. Of Free Will 🔒
  20. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · X. Of the Justification of Man 🔒
  21. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · X. Of Good Works 🔒
  22. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · XI. Of Works of Supererogation 🔒
  23. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · XII. Of Sin after Justification 🔒
  24. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · XIII. Of the Church 🔒
  25. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · XIV. Of Purgatory 🔒
  26. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · XV. Of speaking in the Congregation in such a Tongue as the People understand 🔒
  27. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · XVI. Of the Sacraments 🔒
  28. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · XVII. Of Baptism 🔒
  29. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · XVIII. Of the Lord’s Supper 🔒
  30. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · XIX. Of Both Kinds 🔒
  31. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · XX. Of the one Oblation of Christ, finished upon the Cross 🔒
  32. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · XXI. Of the Marriage of Ministers 🔒
  33. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · XXII. Of the Rites and Ceremonies of Churches 🔒
  34. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · XXIII. Of the Rulers of the United States of America 🔒
  35. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · XXIV. Of Christian Men’s Goods 🔒
  36. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · XXV. Of a Christian Man’s Oath 🔒
  37. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · SECTION V. 🔒
  38. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · SECTION VI. 🔒
  39. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · SECTION VII. 🔒
  40. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · SECTION VIII. 🔒
  41. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · On Class-Meeting 🔒
  42. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · On the Duty of Preachers to God, themselves, and one another 🔒
  43. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · On the Necessity of Union among ourselves 🔒
  44. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · Of the Trial of those who think they are moved by the Holy Ghost to Preach 🔒
  45. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · Of the Spirit and Truth of Singing 🔒
  46. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · Rules by which we should Continue Or Desist from Preaching at any Place 🔒
  47. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · On the Matter and Manner of Preaching, and other public exercises. 🔒
  48. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · Against Antinomianism 🔒
  49. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · How to provide for the Circuits in the time of Conference, and to preserve and increase the Work of God. 🔒
  50. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · Of employing our Time profitably when we are not traveling, or engaged in public exercises. 🔒
  51. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · On Baptism 🔒
  52. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · On the Lord’s Supper 🔒
  53. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · On unlawful Marriages 🔒
  54. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · On Perfection 🔒
  55. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · On Dress 🔒
  56. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · On the Privileges granted to serious Persons that are not of the Society 🔒
  57. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · On visiting from house to house; guarding against those Sins that are so common to Professors, and enforcing practical Religion 🔒
  58. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · On the Instruction of Children 🔒
  59. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · On building Churches, and on the Order to be observed therein 🔒
  60. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · On raising a general Fund for the Propagation of the gospel 🔒
  61. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · Of the Method of raising a Fund for the superannuated Preachers, and the Widows and Orphans of Preachers 🔒
  62. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · On the Printing of Books, and the Application of the Profits arising therefrom 🔒
  63. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · On bringing to Trial, finding guilty, reproving, suspending, and excluding disorderly Persons from Society and Church Privileges 🔒
  64. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · On the Manner by which immoral ministers and Preachers shall be brought to Trial, found guilty, reproved, and suspended in the Intervals of Conference. 🔒
  65. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · On the Qualification and Duty of Stewards 🔒
  66. Book II. From the First Conference in 1773 to the First Regular General Conference in 1792. · Chapter 3 · The Nature, Design, and general Rules of the United Societies 🔒
  67. Chapter 1. From the Beginning of 1785 to the End of 1786. 🔒
  68. Chapter 2. From 1787 to 1791 inclusive. · Part 1 🔒
  69. Chapter 2. From 1787 to 1791 inclusive. · Part 2 🔒
  70. Chapter 2. From 1787 to 1791 inclusive. · Part 3 🔒
  71. Chapter 2. From 1787 to 1791 inclusive. · Part 4 🔒
  72. Chapter 2. From 1787 to 1791 inclusive. · Part 5 🔒
  73. Chapter 3. An Account of the several Annual Conferences, and of the General Conference of 1792. 🔒

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