The Following Is an Excerpt from John Wesley's "Advice to Methodists

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The following is an excerpt from John Wesley's "Advice to Methodists" (Evaluating the Evidence 18.3) : "Your Strictness of Life, taking the whole of it together, may likewise be accounted new. I mean, your making it a Rule, to abstain from fashionable Diversions, from reading Plays, Romances, or Books of Humour, from singing innocent Songs, or talking in a merry, gay, diverting Manner; your Plainness of Dress; your Manner of Dealing in Trade; your Exactness in observing the Lord's Day; your Scrupulosity as to Things that have not paid Custom; your total Abstinence from spirituous Liquors (unless in Cases of Extreme Necessity) ; your Rule, 'not to mention the Fault of an absent Person, in Particular, of Ministers, or of those in Authority,' may justly be termed new."
This passage provides evidence for which of the following?

• A)Methodists were expected to behave in ways that reflected their spiritual beliefs.
• B)Methodists believed that outward signs of piety were of little importance.
• C)Methodists were, in many ways, similar to Catholics.
• D)Methodists placed few rules and restrictions on believers.

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