The Primitive Methodist movement can therefore be said to have started in reaction to the Wesleyan drive towards respectability and denominationalism.
The Primitive Methodist movement exalted its poor congregations by glorifying plain dress and speech.
The Primitive Methodist movement made a virtue out of their difference.
Most of the women attending the convention were active in Quaker or evangelical Methodist movements.
For years it was strongly associated with the Calvinist Methodist movement of George Whitefield.
This meeting also can be seen as the beginning of a Methodist movement in Wales.
Mow Cop is also noteworthy as the birthplace of the Primitive Methodist movement.
The main Methodist movement outside the Church of England was associated with Howell Harris in Wales.
The Primitive Methodist movement grew out of this.
He was of Nonconformist parentage, and his parents are credited with founding the Calvinistic Methodist movement in the area.