{64b} Wesley censured some of his preachers for pushing the doctrine of perfection too far. {65} Wesley’s Works, vol. viii. p. 219. and vol. xi. p. 415. {66} So called from their habit of rebaptizing those who entered their communion. They were afterwards called _Antipædobaptists_, from their objection to _pædo_ or infant baptism; and finally, the English habit of abbreviation of words at all commonly used, contracted the word into _Baptist_. {67} Mosheim. Ecc. Hist. Cant. XVI. Sect, iii. Part 2. {68a} Milton belonged to the class of Anti-Trinitarian General Baptists. {68b} That the body of Jesus was not derived from the substance of the blessed Virgin, but created in her womb by an omnipotent act of the Holy Spirit. {68c} V. Mosheim’s Ecc. Hist. {69} All who baptize infants may be termed pædo-baptists; the word is derived from the Greek πάις a child or infant, and βὰπτω to baptize. {70a} Yet the bishop ought to have known that baptism by immersion was practised in the church for many centuries, and the rubric of our common prayer leaves the option of immersion or aspersion. {70b} Condor’s View. p. 380. {75a} Marriage is enumerated in one of the Moravian hymns amongst the services of danger, for which the United Brethren are “to hold themselves prepared.” “You as yet single are but little tried, Invited to the supper of the bride, That like the former warrior each may stand Ready for land, sea, marriage, at command.” {75b} See Latrobe’s edition of Spangenburgh’s Exposition of Christian Doctrine. {79} Litany of the New Church. Office of ordination, p. 151. {80a} Rom. xxi. 27. {80b} 1 Cor. i. 3. {81a} John i. 18. {81b} John vi. 46. {82} Liturgy of the New Church Office of Baptism, p. 58. {84} “Jesus the Fountain of Life and Light,” p. 12. {85} In some places it is not till the end of a fortnight. {87a} Examination of the opinions of the Plymouth Brethren. {87b} The following is a sample from one of their published works: “The first eclogue of Virgil has always appeared to me to express most felicitously the pleasures of a _pastoral_ life as we too frequently see it in these days. With what force the following lines describe the grateful feeling of a _young clergyman_, who is recounting the benefits conferred on him by his patron: O Melibœe, Deus nobis hæc otia fecit. Namque erit ille mihi semper Deus— Ille meas errare boves, ut cernis, et ipsum Ludere, qæe vellem, calamo permisit agresti. My patron shall always be a divinity to me, for he put me into this life of ease when he gave me this _gem_, _the prettiest living in England_. He gave me this _easy duty_, so that I can let my flock wander wheresoever it may please them, as you see they do; while I myself do just what 1 like, and occasionally amuse myself with a _pianoforte_ by Stoddart, that cost eighty-five guineas.”