United States or Tuvalu ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The whole point was quaintly expressed by Bishop John Gambold: The Doctrine of the Unitas By Providence was meant, In Christendom's degenerate days, That cold lump to ferment, From Scripture Pearls to wipe the dust, Give blood-bought grace its compass just, In praxis, truth from shew to part, God's Power from Ethic Art. But the last line must not be misunderstood.
After the death of Zinzendorf in 1760, the Society recovered for the most part a healthier condition, but did not regain any prospect of that wider influence in England which Gambold and others had once begun to hope for, and perhaps to anticipate.
He called, along with his brother Charles, on John de Watteville at Lindsey House; and, above all, when Lord Lyttleton, in his book "Dialogues of the Dead," attacked the character of the Brethren, John Wesley himself spoke out nobly in their defence. Gambold and Mr. Okeley?
His visit to William Law at Mr. Gibbon's house at Putney in 1732 the correspondence he carried on with him for several years afterwards his readings of the mystic divines of Germany his loving respect for the company of Moravians who were his fellow-travellers to Georgia in 1736 his meeting with Peter Böhler in 1738 the close intercourse which followed with the London Moravians the fortnight spent by him at Herrnhut, 'exceedingly strengthened and comforted by the conversation of this lovely people, his intimate friendship with Gambold, who afterwards completely threw in his lot with the United Brethren and became one of their bishops, all these incidents betoken a deep and cordial sympathy.
Word Of The Day