The Methodist Articles of Religion
John Wesley, 1784
The twenty-five articles John Wesley abridged from the Thirty-Nine Articles for the Methodists in America, adopted at the Christmas Conference of 1784.
- Article I. Of Faith in the Holy Trinity
- Article II. Of the Word, or Son of God, who Was Made Very Man
- Article III. Of the Resurrection of Christ
- Article IV. Of the Holy Ghost
- Article V. The Sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation
- Article VI. Of the Old Testament
- Article VII. Of Original or Birth Sin
- Article VIII. Of Free Will
- Article IX. Of the Justification of Man
- Article X. Of Good Works
- Article XI. Of Works of Supererogation
- Article XII. Of Sin After Justification
- Article XIII. Of the Church
- Article XIV. Of Purgatory
- Article XV. Of Speaking in the Congregation in Such a Tongue as the People Understand
- Article XVI. Of the Sacraments
- Article XVII. Of Baptism
- Article XVIII. Of the Lord's Supper
- Article XIX. Of Both Kinds
- Article XX. Of the One Oblation of Christ, Finished Upon the Cross
- Article XXI. Of the Marriage of Ministers
- Article XXII. Of the Rites and Ceremonies of Churches
- Article XXIII. Of the Rulers of the United States of America
- Article XXIV. Of Christian Men's Goods
- Article XXV. Of a Christian Man's Oath
Text from Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, volume 3 (1877), at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Public domain.