CONTENTS.

PART I.

ORIGIN, DOCTRINES, AND ADMIN-

ISTRATIVE RULES.

CHAPTER I.

ORIGIN AND ARTICLES.

Sec. 1. Origin of the Methodist E. Church Page 13

Sec. 2. Articles of religion........

15

CHAPTER II.

GENERAL RULES, AND RECEPTION OF MEMBERS.

Sec. 1. The nature, design, and general rules,

of our United Societies........

25

Sec. 2. Of receiving members into the Church 30

CHAPTER III.

OF THE CONFERENCES.

Sec. 1. Of our deportment at the Conferences

Sec. 2. Of the General Conference........

Sec. 3. Of the Annual Conferences............

Sec. 4. Of the Quarterly Conferences............

CHAPTER TV.

OF THE MINISTERS.

Sec. 1. Of the election and consecration of

Bishops, and of their duty...

.......Page 40

Sec. 2. Of the Presiding Elders, and of their

duty..

43

Sec. 3. Of the election and ordination of

travelling Elders, and of their duty........... 45

Sec. 4. Of the election and ordination of trav-

elling Deacons, and of their duty.............. 45

Sec. 5. Of the reception of preachers from

the Wesleyan Connexion and from other

denominations.........

48

Sec. 6. Of the examination of those who think

they are moved by the Holy Ghost to preach 49

Sec. 7. Of the method of receiving travelling

preachers on trial....

Sec. 8. Of receiving travelling preachers into

full connexion.....

50

51

Sec. 9. Of the rules for a preacher's conduct 53

Sec. 10. Of the duty of preachers to God,

themselves, and one another........

55

Sec. 11. Of the duty of those who have charge

of circuits or stations.........

58

Sec. 12. Of the matter and manner of preach-

ing......

64

Sec. 13. Rules by which we should continue

or desist from preaching at any place...... 64

Sec. 14. Of visiting from house to house,

guarding against those things that are so

common to professors, and enforcing practi-

cal religion........

65

Sec. 15. Of employing our time profitably

when we are not travelling, &c........... Page 71

Sec. 16. Of the necessity of union among our-

selves

Sec. 17. Of supernumerary and superannuated

or worn-out preachers.................

Sec. 18. Of local preachers........

CHAPTER V.

OF THE MEANS OF GRACE.

Sec. 1. Of public worship..................

72

73

74

77

Sec. 2. Of the spirit and truth of singing....... 78

Sec. 3. Of class-meetings and love-feasts........ 79

Sec. 4. Of band societies.....

CHAPTER VI.

OF THE INSTRUCTION OF CHILDREN.

81

Of Sunday schools and the religious instruction

of children.......

85

CHAPTER IX.

OF BRINGING MINISTERS AND MEMBERS TO TRIAL,

AND OF THE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES.

96

Sec. 1. Of the trial of a Bishop........Page 90

Sec. 2. Of the method of proceeding against

accused travelling ministers or preachers... 91

Sec. 3. Of the trial of local preachers............

Sec. 4. Of bringing to trial, finding guilty, and

reproving, suspending, or excluding, dis-

orderly persons from society and Church

privileges..........

98

Sec. 3. Of the ministration of baptism to such

as are of riper years.......

107

CHAPTER III.

FORMS OF ORDINATION.

Sec. 1. The form of ordaining a Bishop...Page 122

Sec. 2. The form and manner of ordaining

Elders.....

Sec. 3. The form and manner of making of

Deacons.....

132

144

CHAPTER IV.

THE FORM OF SOLEMNIZATION OF MATRIMONY.

The form of solemnization of matrimony...... 149

CHAPTER V.

ORDER OF THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD.

The order of the burial of the dead.............. 155

OF CHURCHES AND CHURCH PROPERTY.

Sec. 1. Of building churches, and the order to

be observed therein......

169

Sec. 2. Form of a deed of settlement............ 171

Sec. 3. Of trustees.......

175