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... history we will consider the evolution of the later episcopacy from the simple forms of the early Christian Church , the modification of views in the Church of England after the Protestant Reformation , the change of Wesley's views in ...
... history we will consider the evolution of the later episcopacy from the simple forms of the early Christian Church , the modification of views in the Church of England after the Protestant Reformation , the change of Wesley's views in ...
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... history of the organization . As the founders of the Methodist Episcopal Church claimed that their episcopacy was in harmony with the episcopate of the early Christian Church in New Testament times , the work will open with a brief ...
... history of the organization . As the founders of the Methodist Episcopal Church claimed that their episcopacy was in harmony with the episcopate of the early Christian Church in New Testament times , the work will open with a brief ...
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... history involved touches various Churches in Europe and America , and may , therefore , interest various classes of readers . T. B. NEELY . PHILADELPHIA , February 6 , 1888 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. THE BISHOPRIC IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN 8 ...
... history involved touches various Churches in Europe and America , and may , therefore , interest various classes of readers . T. B. NEELY . PHILADELPHIA , February 6 , 1888 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. THE BISHOPRIC IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN 8 ...
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... history . . . . The elders of those early times were probably like the sheykhs who have continued to the present day both among the Bedouins of the desert and in the settled villages of the Arabian peninsula . Their tenure of office ...
... history . . . . The elders of those early times were probably like the sheykhs who have continued to the present day both among the Bedouins of the desert and in the settled villages of the Arabian peninsula . Their tenure of office ...
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... , for schism , for a change in the organization . . . . There is no trace of a break in the continuity : and there is con- • • sequently a strong presumption , which subsequent history confirms , 14 THE EPISCOPACY OF METHODISM .
... , for schism , for a change in the organization . . . . There is no trace of a break in the continuity : and there is con- • • sequently a strong presumption , which subsequent history confirms , 14 THE EPISCOPACY OF METHODISM .
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