THE WESLEYAN VINDICATOR AND CONSTITUTIONAL METHODIST. EDITED BY THE REV. SAMUEL JACKSON, AND A SUB-COMMITTEE. FOR THE YEAR MDCCCL. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY JOHN MASON, 14, CITY-ROAD; SOLD AT 66, PATERNOSTER-ROW, MDCCCL. 10 15 17 21 23 27 29 30 31 32 An Exposure of the false Character, absurd Proposals, and disorderly Proceed- ings, of the pretended Delegate-Meeting, held in Albion Chapel, Moorgate, The real Questions at issue between professed Wesleyan Reformers and Con- 85 Resolutions of Delegates: a Soliloquy about Signing. A Page from the History of Agitation You have Power: how has it been used?.. American Judgment on the Writers of the "Fly-Sheets 125 Letter from the Rev. Barnabas Shaw, sen., Wesleyan Missionary in South Africa, to the Rev. Thomas Jackson, President of the Conference, concerning the A serious Remonstrance with the Members of the Wesleyan-Methodist Socie- ties who are hearkening to the unreasonable, un-Methodistical, and unscrip- "Wesleyan Methodism as it is," in all the essential Principles of Discipline, The Judgment of the Rev. Daniel Isaac, on the unscriptural and impracticable Theory of Church-Government which was set forth and urged by the Disturbers of Wesleyan Methodism in the Year 1828; and which has been revived and contended for in 1849-50 Interrogation a Part of English Statute-Law THE WESLEYAN VINDICATOR AND CONSTITUTIONAL METHODIST. EDITED BY THE REV. SAMUEL JACKSON, AND A SUB-COMMITTEE. JANUARY, 1850. THE CASE STATED. THE object of the present publication, and the cause of its being issued, will be evident to readers from its title, as well as from the contents of our prospectus. Wesleyan Methodism has been assailed, both in its constitutional principles and in its administration: our object is to defend it from assailants, and to preserve the unsuspecting from being misled by them. Reflecting men cannot be surprised that Methodism should thus be assailed: this has been the common lot of good systems, as well as of good men, in all times; it has been the case with Methodism and its promoters from the beginning. Like the genius of our British civilization, Methodism was cradled in the storm; and from the hardihood of its training, a more robust strength and enduring vitality have been the results. The profane and the worldly treated the Wesleys with persecuting scorn and derision; and, with the exception of a few men of superior Christian enlightenment, the Clergy of the Establishment strengthened the hands of the persecutors. Nor was danger to the new evangelic enterprise experienced merely from those without: perhaps it was greater from jealousy within. There were some, thus early, in our own Israel, who said of the Wesleys what Korah and his dissatisfied coadjutors said of Moses and Aaron : "Ye take too much upon you wherefore lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord?" John Wesley's reply was, that he had not sought the power and authority he possessed; others had voluntarily given it him, and, believing it to be a trust under God, he could not surrender it. But, perceiving that evil had already begun to work, and that there were indications of strifes and divisions among his assistants in LONDON PUBLISHED BY JOHN MASON, 14, CITY-ROAD ; B |