I thought the Baptists had finally given up and become Methodist. We Methodists are heart people. Baptists have no hearts at all. Instead Baptists have the Bible which they use as a club to beat one another into submission. In this respect, I am on the side of the Baptists…. Hopefully Baptists are just too mean (and I mean that as a compliment) to make the mistakes the Methodists have made. (Hauerwas, 2007, pp. 110–111)
The true liberty of man is to know, obey, and enjoy his Creator and to do all the good unto, and enjoy the happiness with and in, his fellow-creatures that he is capable of…. To love ourselves, and truly to seek our own welfare, is both liberty and our indispensable duty. But the conceit that man could advance either his honor or happiness by disobedience instead of obedience was first injected by the father of lies, and all such conceits ever since are as false as he is. (Backus, 1773)
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