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Página 19 - No Freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful Judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land.
Página 36 - ... must give an account. We will admonish him of the error of his ways : we will bear with him for a season. But then, if he repent not, he hath no more place among us. We have delivered our own souls.
Página 26 - Of the love of God shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us k.
Página 31 - ... this load upon me — for exercising this very power — for shackling myself in this manner, — than for all my preaching put together. Because preaching twice or thrice a day is no burden to me at all ; but the care of all the preachers and all the people, is a burden indeed.1 This explanation of his position is not belied by an appeal to the facts of his life.
Página 49 - No person shall on any account be permitted to retain any official situation in our societies, who holds opinions contrary to the total depravity of human nature, the divinity and atonement of Christ, the influence and witness of the Holy Spirit, and Christian holiness, as believed by the Methodists.
Página 37 - God. (4.) The members of our Societies are delivered from every apprehension of clandestine expulsions ; as that superintendent would be bold indeed, who would act with partiality or injustice in the presence of the whole meeting of leaders. Such a superintendent, we trust, we have not among us; and if such there ever should be, we should be ready to do all possible justice to our injured brethren.
Página 31 - Therefore, all talk of this kind is highly injurious to me who bear this burden merely for your sakes.
Página 33 - It is agreed, that the management of the temporal and spiritual concerns of the Society shall be separated, as far as the purposes of peace and harmony can be answered thereby; or as they have ever been separated in times of the greatest peace and harmony, viz., 1.
Página 31 - The preachers who choose to labour with me, choose to serve me as sons in the gospel." And, " the people who choose to be under my care, choose to be so on the same terms they...
Página 35 - Supper, or concerning the old or the new Plan (so called), the Superintendent of the Circuit, or the majority of the Trustees, Stewards and Leaders of the Society so disturbed, shall have authority to summon a meeting of the Travelling Preachers of the Circuit, and the Trustees, Stewards and Leaders of that Society. Evidence shall be examined on both sides, and if the charge be proved, the Superintendent Preacher shall expel from the Society the person so offending.