Ok, so the last thing I have marked up in the first two vols of Wesley's Journals reminds me of the part of the Discipline that we totally rejected quite some time ago:
"Let all our chapels be built plain and decent; but not more expensive than is absolutely unavoidable: otherwise the necessity of raising money will make rich men necessary to us. But if so, we must be dependent upon them, yea; and governed by them. And then farewell to the Methodist discipline, if not doctrine too."
Wed, Nov 23, 1757, Wesley's entry:
"I was shown Dr. Taylor's new meeting house, perhaps the most elegant one in Europe. It is eight-square, built of the finest brick, with sixteen sash windows below, as many above, and eight skylights in the dome, which are purely ornamental. The inside is finished in the highest taste, and is as clean as any nobleman's saloon. The communion table is fine mahogany, the latches of the pew-doors are polished brass. How can it be thought that the old, coarse Gospel should find admission here?"
I guess now I need to spend a couple years and read the next two volumes here and there.
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