Excerpt from The Ministry and Polity of the Christian Church: Viewed in Their Scriptural and Theological Aspects and in Relation to Principles Professed by the Wesleyan Methodists

These pages are not written with any desire to place the subject of Wesleyan economy obtrusively before the public. The writer would gladly have spent his spare and treasured moments in thinking on subjects more congenial to his taste; just as the people of his own communion, in general and at all times, would rather occupy themselves in fulfilling the higher claims of their Christian calling, than in apologetic controversy: but as the economy in question has been Violently assaulted, and its agree ment with Scripture made matter of doubt or denial, a necessity arose for examining this subject to its very foundations.

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