There has been speculation that, though Toplady was a Calvinist, the words, " Be of sin the double cure, Save from wrath, and make me pure ," suggest that he agreed with the teachings of the Methodist preacher under whom he received his religious conversion, and of his contemporary, John Wesley, who taught the “ double cure ,” in which a sinner is saved by the atonement of Jesus, and cleansed from inbred sin by the infilling of the Holy Spirit.

" Wesley disagrees with Arminius, however, in maintaining that such apostasy was not final.

In 1763, Greek Orthodox bishop Erasmus of the Diocese of Arcadia, visited London, where John Wesley had considerable conversation with him, and ordained several Methodist lay preachers as priests, including John Jones.

John Wesley, along with a priest from the Anglican Church and two other elders, operating under the ancient Alexandrian custom, ordained Thomas Coke a " superintendent ", although Coke embraced the title " bishop ".

Holly was having trouble getting his royalties from Petty, so he hired the noted lawyer Harold Orenstein at the recommendation of his friends the Everly Brothers, who had engaged Orenstein following disputes with their own manager, Wesley Rose.

Conversely, John Calvin, Albert Barnes Adam Clarke, John Gill, and John Wesley amongst many other have affirmed this as divine truth and found no problem with its historicity.

Hollywood has also participated in the genre with actors such as Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, Brandon Lee ( son of Bruce Lee ), Wesley Snipes, Gary Daniels, Mark Dacascos, and Jason Statham.

Wesley, along with his brother, founded the Holy Club while they were at Oxford, where John was a fellow and later a lecturer at Lincoln College.

Wesley maintained the Arminian doctrines that were dominant in the 18th-century Church of England, while Whitefield adopted Calvinism through his contacts with Calvinists in Scotland and New England.

This caused serious strains on the relationship between Whitefield and Wesley, with Wesley becoming quite hostile toward Whitefield in what had been previously very close relations.

It began with a group of men, including John Wesley and his younger brother Charles, as a movement within the Church of England in the 18th century.

Also, William Hammet ( a missionary ordained by Wesley who traveled to America from Antigua with Bishop Coke ), led a successful revolt against the MEC in 1791.

Although practice varies between different national churches, most Methodist churches annually follow the call of John Wesley for a renewal of their covenant with God.

As a result of having read this book Gilbert, two years later, journeyed to England with three of his slaves and there in at drawing room meeting arranged in Wandsworth on 15 January 1759, met the preacher John Wesley.

The Methodist Church of Australasia merged with the majority of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and the Congregational Union of Australia in 1977, becoming the Uniting Church. Wesley Mission in Pitt Street Sydney is not only the largest parish in the Uniting Church but also strongly in the Wesleyan tradition.

Wesley and the Methodists would agree with the Reformed or Presbyterian denominations that infant baptism is symbolic.

During three recording sessions in 1958 and 1959, Orbison and Melson recorded seven songs at RCA Nashville, with Atkins producing, but only two songs were judged worthy of release by RCA ; Wesley Rose maneuvered Orbison into the sights of producer Fred Foster at Monument Records.

His youngest son with Claudette ( Wesley, born 1965 ) was raised by Orbison's parents ; Orbison and Barbara had a son ( Roy Kelton ) in 1970 and another ( Alexander ) in 1974.

Mystery Girl was produced by Jeff Lynne, whom Orbison considered the best producer he had ever worked with, while Bono, Elvis Costello, Orbison's son Wesley and others offered their songs to him.

There, seeking other economists interested in the new mathematical and statistical approaches to economics, he associated with Irving Fisher, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Allyn Young and Henry Schultz.

She has one son, Wesley, with her late husband, Jack Crusher.

At least one scholar, however, decries that out of seven principal black characters across the Star Trek series, only La Forge and Tuvok " really qualify as nerds, and neither of them compares with the extraordinary geekiness of the teenaged Wesley Crusher.

The original cyanoacrylates ( the chemical name for the glue ) were discovered in 1942 in a search for materials to make clear plastic gun sights for the war, when a team of scientists headed by Harry Wesley Coover Jr stumbled upon a formulation that stuck to everything that it came in contact with.

John Wesley returned to England and met with a group of clergymen he respected.

* When Andrew is describing the effects of Willow's spell, it appears that Angel, Wesley, Gunn, Lorne, and Fred were all unaware of the spell's vast effects, and even of its existence in the first place ; none of them knew that all of the Potentials were activated as Slayers.

Although Wesley and the majority of his followers were decidedly Arminian in their theological outlook, George Whitefield, Howell Harris, and Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon were notable for being Calvinistic Methodists, and the Presbyterian Church of Wales originated from the preaching of Harris and Whitfield.

Beverley's association with religion remained during the 19th century: as well as the majority Anglican faith, there were several non-conformist religions practised such as Methodism with John Wesley previously having preached there ; also, with the completion of the Catholic Emancipation and the refoundation of the Catholic hierarchy, the Diocese of Beverley in 1850 was chosen to cover Yorkshire, before being divided into two dioceses.

, the majority of Methodists remain committed to Arminian theology, and Arminianism itself has become one of the dominant theological systems in the United States, thanks in large part to the influence of John and Charles Wesley.

In 2004, Democratic candidate Wesley Clark was the only contender to personally visit Dixville Notch ; he was on hand when the votes were cast and counted, and he received the majority of Democratic votes cast.

The majority of rooms in Wesley and Seaton Halls house two students with residents of each hallway sharing one community bathroom.

The majority, however, began following the Methodist movement of John and Charles Wesley, who regularly visited Baughurst.

This emphasis is, in part, a reflection of the Methodist movement's earliest roots in The Oxford Holy Club, founded by John Wesley, his brother Charles, George Whitefield and others as a response to what they saw as the pervasive permissiveness and debauchery of Oxford University, and specifically Lincoln College when they attended.

On June 12, 1853, John Wesley Hillman was reportedly the first person of European descent to see what he named " Deep Blue Lake " in Oregon.

About a decade later, a streetcar line was laid down Florissant Road from what is now Suburban Avenue west to Wesley Avenue.

Among them were Juliana Shultz ( 1741 – 1810 ), a widow who arrived in the cove with her children around 1794, and Daniel Wesley Reagan ( 1803 – 1892 ), whose parents and grandparents were among the first settlers in what is now Gatlinburg.

Author and anthropocentrism defender Wesley J. Smith from the Discovery Institute has written that human exceptionalism is what gives rise to human duties to each other, the natural world, and to treat animals humanely.

Wesley taught that Christian believers are to participate in what Wesley called " the means of grace " and to continue to grow in the Christian life, assisted by God's sustaining grace.

" Denisof talked with Whedon about what storylines would have been in place had the television series received another season ; Wesley would not have died, and he and Illyria would have featured in an arc in which the transformation of Illyria to Fred would have been extended over many episodes and taken to a " much deeper, darker place " than it briefly was in the late fifth season episode, " The Girl in Question ".

Wil Wheaton was cast in the role of Wesley Crusher despite what he perceived as an awful first callback.

Other notable explorations included the Pike expedition of 1806 – 07 by Zebulon Pike, the journey along the north bank of the Platte River in 1820 by Stephen H. Long to what came to be called Longs Peak, the John C. Frémont expedition in 1845 – 46, and the Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869 by John Wesley Powell.

John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, taught what is known as entire sanctification in the holiness movement churches, such as the Church of the Nazarene, the Salvation Army, or Christian perfection in " mainstream " Methodist denominations, such as the United Methodist Church, the Methodist Church of Great Britain.

Initially, she kills Spike, Wesley, Lorne, and Angel in a confrontation, interpreting their actions as an attempt to kill her, but, during her time jumps, she drags an earlier version of Angel into the present, revealing what just took place before she detonates, potentially causing enough destruction to wipe out the continent.

According to PAD, " The story is set early in Illyria's involvement with Angel & Co. Having been deprived of her power by Wesley, she is drawn to town of Bete Noire as a potential source for not only becoming what she was before, but even achieving her previous status.

She offers advice to Wesley Crusher about doing what he wants instead of submitting to the desires of others.

As Kosinski and his assistant explain the tests to the Engineering crew, young Wesley Crusher, also invited to watch the tests, quickly grasps what the tests are to accomplish, and the alien shows admiration for Wesley's problem-solving abilities.

This prompts Alicia to leak the information to the V. S. S. E., in which they dispatch four-year agents Alan Dunaway and Wesley Lambert to remove what VSSE believes is a threat.

Wesley, while unhappy with being forced to be their current liaison, shoots that possibility down, saying the presence of either alongside Angel would not help the Senior Partners get what they want as he would ignore them in a worst-case scenario and kill them in a best-case one.

Since M-5 has disabled communications, Kirk is unable to contact Commodore Wesley and explain what is happening.

While Scotty frantically attempts to regain control of the ship, Kirk decides to let the ship drift with shields down, hoping that Commodore Wesley will realize what the situation is aboard the Enterprise.

On past albums like John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline, Dylan closed with love songs sung to the narrator's partner, and that tradition is continued with " Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight ", with a chorus that asks " Don't fall apart on me tonight, I just don't think that I could handle it ./ Don't fall apart on me tonight, Yesterday's just a memory, Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be / And I need you, yeah, you tonight.

Wesley asks what kind of business they ’ re in, and Angel explains that it doesn ’ t matter what kind of business they ’ re in ; it ’ s all about the game, and winning.