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Excerpt from The Union Considered, and the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada Defended
When Mr. Wesley commenced the formation Of classes in England, it is not at all probable that he contemplated the organization of any separate or distinct community of people, out of the establiished church of that country. His Object doubless was, to reform the church of England, and to spread as far as possible, scriptural holiness over the land. But like Luther in the reformation of the sixteenth century, he was led on, almost unconsciously, step after step, by the unseen hand Of the Almighty, as the exigencies of the cause required, until he not only formed the Methodist Societies in the United Kingdoms, but also organized by his own action, a regular Methodist Church in America, with its Bishops, Elders and Deacons, commissioning them, under the Great Head of the Church, to feed the ¿ock of Christhover which the Holy Ghost had made them overseers.
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