CONTENTS. CHAP I. SEC their Duty PAGS SEC I. . Of the Origin of the Methodist Episcopal Church 5 Articles of Religion 7 SEC III. Of the General and Yearly Conferences 21 Sec iy. Of the Election and Consecration of Bishops, and of their duty · 27 SEC y. Of the Presiding Elders, and of 31 AEC VI. Of the Election and Ordination of travelling Elders, and of their 34 SEC VII. Of the Election and Ordination of travelling Deacons, and of their 35 SEC VIII. Of the Method of receiving Preachers, and of their Duty 36 SEC IX Of the Duties of those who have the charge of Circuits 43 SEC x. Of the Trial of those who think they are moved by the Holy Ghost to 49 SEC XI. Of the Matter and Manner of Preaching, and of other public Ex- 50 SEC XII. Of the Duty of Preachers to God, themselves, and one another 52
SEC XIII. Rules by which we should con 56 guarding against sins that are so 57 Of the instruction of Children 66 SEC xvi. Of employing our time profita- bly, when we are not Travelling or 67 69 Of the Method by which im- 70 Sec" xix. How to provide for the circuits in time of Conference, and to pre- serve and increase the Work of God. 73 SEC XX. Of the Local Preachers 74 Sec I. The Nature, design, and general Rules of the United Societies Meetings 83 Sec Iv. Ofthe Privileges granted to seri. ous Persons who are not of our Soci. SEC VII. Of bringing to Trial, finding Guilty, and reproving, suspending, or excluding disorderly Persons from Society and Church Privileges 100 CHAP. III. Sacramental Services. SEC I, The Order for the Administration The Ministration of Baptism of In- SEC II. The Ministration of Baptism to SEC III. The Form of Solemnization of CHAP. IV. The form and manner of making and ordain- ing Bishops, Elders, and Deacons. PART SECOND. Of the Boundaries of the annual SEC 11. Of Building Churches, and the 130 SEC 111. Of the qualification, appointment, and duty of the Stewards of circuits 190 isters and Preachers, and to their Wives, Widows, and Children 190 Sec v. Of raising annual Supplies for the Propagation of the Gospel, for the making up the Allowances of the Of the Printing and Circulating The following BOOKS are published under the patronage, and for the use of the Methodist E. piseopal Church, in the United States of Amer. ica, and to be had of DANIEL HITT and Tho. MAS WARE, No. 192 corner of Church and White-streets, New-York, Superintendents of 'the Book Business for the said Methodist Church, and of the Methodist Ministers and Preachers in their several Circuits. The Methodist Hymns, two books bound together, 87} cents Methodist Discipline, 37 cents. Coke's Commentaries, 6 vols. $48. Notes on the New Testament, by the Rev. John Wesley, $3 Wood's Dictionary of the Bible, now in the press. The Saint's Everlasting Rest, 87} cents Wesley's Sermons, 9 vols. 86 50 cents Fletcher's Checks, 6 vols. $5 Life of the Rev. John Fletcher, by Mr. Ben. A new and improved edition, never before published in America, $1 Experience of several eminent Methodist Preachers, a new and enlarged edition, $1 The experience and ministerial labours of se. veral eminent Methodist Preachers, never before published in America, $1 Experience of Mrs. Hester Ann Rogers, with her Letters, 75 cents Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, 70 cents Appeal to Matter of Fact and Common Sense, by the Rev. John Fletcher, 70 cents Experience and Gospel Labours of Benjamin Abbott, 75 cents. Alleine's Allarm and Baxter's Call, 50 eents son. |