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) l 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."
Which of the following was part of the "Strictness of Life"?
A) Avoiding members of the opposite sex
B) Spreading the news about Methodism to unbelievers
C) Abstaining from fashionable diversions
D) Praying at least five times per day
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