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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...just as he had done in 1773. Accordingly we leave that question for the present undecided.8 1Journal, ii. 321, ed. 1821.!The difficulties and dangers of a merely verbal proof, i. e., one based upon the employment of particular words, especially when we have any reason to believe that the terms may subsequently have acquired a technical meaning, in contrast with a real proof, i. e., one based upon an historical examination of the facts of the existing situation, when the materials exist for arriving at those facts, may be further illustrated by the circumstance that Asbury was probably familiar with the application of the term "general Conference" to the conferences annually held by Mr. Wesley in England. For in the text of "A Plain Account of Christian Perfection, as Believed and Taught by the Rev. Mr. John Wesley, From the Year 1725 to the Year 1765," as inserted in the Disciplines of 1791 and 1792, occurs this language: "To cast a fuller light on this important subject, I shall lay before the reader the Minutes of several of our general Conferences on this weighty, this momentous doctrine."--Discipline of 1791, p. 103; of 1792, p. 108. See, also, Discipline of 1801, p. 114; of 1805, p. 101; and of 1808, p. 99. This is evidently Mr. Wesley's language; but it should be added that in the texts of the Plain Account in the Disciplines of 1789 and 1790, it does not occur. Whether the omission was occasioned by the insertion of some hymns in these editions, omitted in the later, we cannot say. Nor are the means at hand for determining how early the language appeared in the English editions of the Plain Account. The point is unimportant save as an illustration of the possible dangers of merely verbal proof. CHAPTER IX. The Genesis Of...
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