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405 Etymology dictionary, p. Amerind (n.).2
1899, coined by Maj. John Wesley Powell at the Bureau of American Ethnology, where he was director, from American + Indian .
406 Etymology dictionary, p. celluloid (n.).2
transparent plastic made from nitro-celluloses and camphor, 1871, trademark name (reg. U.S.), a hybrid coined by U.S. inventor John Wesley Hyatt (1837-1900) from cellulose + Greek-based suffix -oid .
407 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).
408 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 …
409 Etymology dictionary, p. -or.4
… (John Wesley wrote that -or was "a fashionable impropriety" in England in 1791).
410 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 .
411 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 …
412 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 …
413 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 …
414 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Justification.59
… and Wesley becomes in a sense normative for the race.
415 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 …
416 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 …
417 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sanctification.51
6. Wesley’s Personal Testimony
418 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 …
419 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 …
420 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,