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Commerce and Culture: Benjamin Gregory’s Sidelights on Wesleyan Sanctity in the Later Nineteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Martin Wellings
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In September 1790, some six months before his death, John Wesley was pleased to observe in a letter to Robert Carr Brackenbury that an unnamed Methodist, Brother D., ‘has more light with regard to full sanctification’. ‘This doctrine,’ Wesley continued, ‘is the grand depositum which God has lodged with the people called Methodists; and for the sake of propagating this chiefly He appeared to have raised us up.’

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Studies in Church History , Volume 47: Saints and Sanctity , 2011 , pp. 334 - 345
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 2011

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