Posted on 08/20/2019 8:01:08 AM PDT by Perseverando
The King of England was the head of the Anglican Church from the time of Henry VIII.
Beginning in 1535, all English subjects, including those in English colonies, were required to the Oath of Supremacy:
"I (state your name) do utterly testify and declare in my Conscience, that the King's Highness is the only Supreme Governor of this Realm ... in all Spiritual or Eclesiastical things ... So help me God."
For most of England's history from 1535 to 1829, not to take the Oath of Supremacy was considered treason, resulting in government prosecution, fines, arrest, imprisonment, and in cases, being hanged, drawn and quartered, beheaded, or burned at the stake.
In 1735, a young Oxford graduate and named John Wesley was sent as the Anglican minister to the new American Colony of Georgia. He had hopes of evangelizing the Indians.
His brother, Charles Wesley, was secretary to Georgia's Governor, James Oglethorpe.
On the trip over, their ship, the Simmonds, was also carrying a group of 25 German Moravian missionaries, as Wesley noted in his journal:
"Sunday, January 25, 1736 At seven I went to the Germans (Moravians). I had long before observed ... their humility ... by performing those servile offices for the other passengers, which none of the English would undertake ... saying ... 'their loving Savior had done more for them' ...
If they were pushed, struck, or thrown down, they rose again and went away; but no complaint was found in their mouth."
The Moravian missionary movement was begun just a decade earlier, in 1727, by Count Ludwig von Zinzendorf and the Christian refugees whom he had allowed to live
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I don’t think I believe the 300,000 miles on horseback. It comes out to 20 miles a day EVERY SINGLE DAY for 41 years. When would you have time to preach? John Wesley died just shy of 88 years old so it would be 9 and 1/3 miles for every day from birth to death. It would be 20 years driving 15,000 miles a year in an automobile or ten years at 30,000 miles per year. I have ridden horseback and I have pedaled a bicycle, it is easier to cover twenty miles or more on a bicycle than on horseback if you are young and in shape and it is MUCH faster too on roads that are not too hilly but I doubt that there are very many dedicated cyclists who have covered 300,000 miles on a bike, even in a lifetime.
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Back when Germans were true Christians. After 200 years of humanistic philosophy, they’re descending back into the mud and pig shit of their pre-Christian pagan days
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