Cleanliness

[Dave Land]

On Feb 27, 2008, at 2:09 PM, dsummersminet at comcast.net wrote:

> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Dave Land dmland at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:03:21 -0800
> To: brin-l at mccmedia.com
> Subject: Re: Cleanliness
>
> On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:06 AM, dsummersminet at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> Julia wrote
>>
>>> I couldn't help myself, too many messages titled "Godliness".  :)
>>
>> I have a general question (I do know the answer :-) ).  "Who first
>> said
>> 'Cleanliness is next to Godliness' and why?"
>
>> Are you referring to Wesley, or one of the ancient Babylonian and  
>> Hebrew
>> texts in which the idea seems to have originated?
>
> Wesley

Are you now, or have you ever been, a Methodist? Or are you just much
better-read in 18th-century theologians than most?

Dave