methodistic

I was pleased with my new view, but my friends were naturally offended at a novel line of argument which substituted a sort of methodistic self-contemplation for the plain and honest tokens of a divine mission in the Anglican Church.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Various 1909

This is St Paul's methodistic presentment of the Cross.

The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I. 1872-1939 1903

This may be called St Paul's methodistic presentment of faith.

The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I. 1872-1939 1903

Now the history of Lutheran salvation by faith, of methodistic conversions, and of what I call the mind-cure movement seems to prove the existence of numerous persons in whom -- at any rate at a certain stage in their development -- a change of character for the better, so far from being facilitated by the rules laid down by official moralists, will take place all the more successfully if those rules be exactly reversed.

The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

If we except the class of preëminent saints of whom the names illumine history, and consider only the usual run of "saints," the shopkeeping church-members and ordinary youthful or middle-aged recipients of instantaneous conversion, whether at revivals or in the spontaneous course of methodistic growth, you will probably agree that no splendor worthy of a wholly supernatural creature fulgurates from them, or sets them apart from the mortals who have never experienced that favor.

The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

If we except the class of preeminent saints of whom the names illumine history, and consider only the usual run of "saints," the shopkeeping church-members and ordinary youthful or middle-aged recipients of instantaneous conversion, whether at revivals or in the spontaneous course of methodistic growth, you will probably agree that no splendor worthy of a wholly supernatural creature fulgurates from them, or sets them apart from the mortals who have never experienced that favor.

Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876

Now the history of Lutheran salvation by faith, of methodistic conversions, and of what I call the mind-cure movement seems to prove the existence of numerous persons in whom -- at any rate at a certain stage in their development -- a change of character for the better, so far from being facilitated by the rules laid down by official moralists, will take place all the more successfully if those rules be exactly reversed.

Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876

The reasons which induced him to alter his mind were, in the first place, the piety, methodistic most of it, which was then mixed up with politics; and secondly, a growing fierceness of temper, which made the cause of the people a religion.

The Revolution in Tanner's Lane Mark Rutherford 1872

JOHNSON himself, we are told by one who knew him, "had always a metaphysical passion for one princess or other, -- the rustic Lucy Porter, or the haughty Molly Aston, or the sublimated methodistic Hill Boothby; and, lastly, the more charming Mrs. Thrale."

Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807

A Rake turned methodistic, or Eclectic -- [184] (For that's the name they like to pray beneath) -- [cr]

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806