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To: xzins
"I’m a Methodist Only one or two of the founders were Methodist. Mitigating that, of course, is that Methodism was brand new in America at that time."

And of course the very first Methodist, the one who coined the term "Methodist", George Whitefield, was a Calvinist.

5 posted on 07/04/2013 6:59:56 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: circlecity

Yes, Whitfield was the billy graham of America in that era. He was a favorite, iirc, of Ben Franklin He was decidedly Calvinist (which verifies Anglican Calvinism, btw) yet understood the reality of Romans 10...it had to b e teaching universal OUTREACH!


10 posted on 07/04/2013 7:24:01 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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