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401 Etymology dictionary, p. grand (adj.).4
… . John Wesley Powell, scientific adventurer, who explored it; earlier it had been known as Big Canyon. For grand slam see slam (n.2).
402 Etymology dictionary, p. methodist (n.).2
… Charles Wesley. The name had been used at least since 1686 for various new methods of worship; it was applied to the Wesleys by their fellow-students at Oxford …
403 Etymology dictionary, p. -or.4
… (John Wesley wrote that -or was "a fashionable impropriety" in England in 1791).
404 Etymology dictionary, p. Wesleyan (adj.).2
"pertaining to Wesley," 1771, in reference to John Wesley (1703-1791), founder of Methodism. The surname is from various places in England named West Leigh (or some variant). Related: Wesleyanism .
405 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Essenes.42
… round Wesley. The extreme probability, from the fact that the name is not found in the New Testament, is that it was the nature of a nickname, like "Quakers" applied …
406 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Healing, Gifts of.6
… , Luther, Wesley) and little societies of earnest Christians (e.g. the Waldenses, the early Moravians and Quakers) who have reasserted Christ's gospel on its …
407 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Justification.56
… time Wesley's opponents accused him of departing from this doctrine, especially on account of his famous Minute of 1770, but this was due to a radical misunderstanding …
408 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Justification.59
… and Wesley becomes in a sense normative for the race.
409 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Justification.61
… by Wesley, 1807; Junkins, 1839; Hare, new edition, 1839 (1st edition with preface by Jackson, 1817); Kerwick,t 1841; Heurtley, 1846 (Bampton Lectures for 1845); McIlvaine …
410 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Predestination.32
… , Arminius, Wesley, Rothe, Dorner, Luthardt; W. Cunningham, The Reformers, and the Theology of the Reformation, 1862; James Orr, article "Calvinism," in Hastings, Encyclopedia …
411 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sanctification.51
6. Wesley's Personal Testimony
412 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sanctification.52
… John Wesley gave great offense to his clerical brethren in the Anglican church. From the beginning of his work in 1739, till 1760, he was formulating this doctrine …
413 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sanctification.53
… work. Wesley's advice to the preachers of this evangelical perfection was to draw and not to drive, and never to quote any threatenings of God's word against …
414 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sanctification.54
Wesley's perfection of love is not perfection of degree, but of kind. Pure love is perfect love. The gradual growth toward perfect purity of love is beautifully expressed in Monod's hymn,
415 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sanctification.65
The attainment of this grace is certified by the total cessation of all Servile fear ( 1 John 4:18 ). Wesley added to this the witness of the Spirit, for which his only proof-text is 1 Corinthians 2:12 .
416 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sanctification.71
… the Wesleys, still universally sung, are filled with this doctrine, in which occur such expressions as:
417 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sanctification.77
… perfection Wesley ascribed the success of his work in the conversion, religious training and intellectual education of the masses of Great Britain. It …
418 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sanctification.78
6. Wesley's Personal Testimony: On March 6, 1760, Wesley enters in his Journal the following testimony of one Elizabeth Longmore: "`I felt my soul was all love …
419 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sanctification.79
We have Wesley's only recorded testimony to his own justification in these words (May 24, 1738): "I felt my heart strangely warmed .... and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins," etc.
420 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sign.2
… anything. Wesley and Spurgeon were as firm believers in the validity of such methods of intercourse between man and God as were Moses and Gideon, Peter and …