Wesleyans

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of heresy -- if you call the Wesleyans heretics -- as well as of the

Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Wesleyans, called back the exiles from Samoa, invited in the traders, held a general love-feast, took the lid off, proclaimed religious liberty and high tariff, and as for himself went back to the worship of his ancestors, dug up the idols, reinstated a few octogenarian priests, and observed the tabus.

THE PRINCESS 2010

Maybe he grew tired of being God, or maybe it was because the Fijian decamped with the six thousand pounds in the royal treasury; but at any rate the Second Reformed Wesleyans got him, and his entire kingdom went Wesleyan.

THE PRINCESS 2010

Yet quite a sprinkling of Catholics, Methodists and Wesleyans remained true to their beliefs and managed to maintain a few squalid, one-horse churches.

THE PRINCESS 2010

My own alma mater, Wesleyan University, is one of 19 Wesleyans.

Wheaton, Wellesley, Wesleyan. . . whatever 2010

Glenn - you know, i'm inclined to agree with you on general principle, at least in terms of sanctification, tho the Wesleyans would argue that it is actually possible...

Better Late Than Never... Happy 2008

Further, they argue, quite rightly, that the State cannot adjust itself to all the thousand and one differences between the Protestant sects; from Protestant pantheism, which is perhaps the largest, to Wesleyans and Baptists and Puseyites and Plymouth Brethren and Seventh Monarchy Men and Peculiar People-----nor can I omit from the list a delightful sect peculiar to the little village of Loxwood, which mourns at a birth and rejoices at a burial.

Belloc Speaks - The Schools 2007

Our school has Baptists, Metodists, Prebyterians, Wesleyans, and many other denominations, and we agree on most things.

Pat Robertson on Dover - The Panda's Thumb 2005

Established Church, and schools for secular instruction, maintained by government, in every village of any extent in the colony, we have a number of other sects, as the Wesleyans, Episcopalians,

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Independents, and Wesleyans, joined in unholy alliance, and turning purposely into this lane with the intention of obstructing our march and driving us back. '

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004