Quotes from 'The Dilemma of Non-Uniting Methodists'...

For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? John 5:46-47

For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. John 17:8

I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. John 17:14

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. John 17:17

Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Luke 24:25

And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. Luke 24:44