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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE REV. JOHN WESLEY, M.A., BY THE REV. L. TYERMAN, AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE AND TIMES OF REV. S. WESLEY, M.A.," (Father of the Revds. J. and C. Wesley). IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE.
JOHN WESLEY, M.A. AGED 40 From a scarce Engraving published in 1743 Engraved by J. Cochran New York, Harper & Brothers
Page 1: WESLEYAN HERITAGE LIBRARY Biography
Page 5 and 6: chiefly taken, we find nothing but
Page 7 and 8: to disagree with the distinguished
Page 9 and 10: CHAPTER II. WESLEY'S ORDINATION, ET
Page 11 and 12: CHAPTER V. WESLEY IN TRANSITION. 17
Page 13 and 14: Publications—Thomas Whiston, A.B.
Page 15 and 16: Rough Journey—Wesley's Manifesto
Page 17 and 18: numbered by tens of thousands; whil
Page 19 and 20: ordained, and are wholly engaged in
Page 21 and 22: worship, 3282 Sunday-schools, above
Page 23 and 24: Denomination. Number of Number of N
Page 25 and 26: about 90,000 members. 3. The Americ
Page 27 and 28: egan his at Gloucester; and that So
Page 29 and 30: twelfth of the colonists attending
Page 31 and 32: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE REV. JOHN
Page 33 and 34: wall, and another stood upon his sh
Page 35 and 36: This is all that is known respectin
Page 37 and 38: him from a passion, which would be
Page 39 and 40: infirmity was his wonder-loving cre
Page 41 and 42: at all abate the haemorrhage till h
Page 43 and 44: standing at the door of a coffee-ho
Page 45 and 46: giving up his soul to God, says Wes
Page 47 and 48: "WROOTE, January 26, 1725. "DEAR SO
Page 49 and 50: else are comparatively little to th
Page 51 and 52: Yet I had frequently much sensible
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The books of Kempis and Taylor seem
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"He is certainly right, that there
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know that they will infallibly do s
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under either a physical or moral ne
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[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
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CHAPTER II. WESLEY'S ORDINATION, ET
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none exercised so great an influenc
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college allowance commences, this m
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What can exceed, in poetic grandeur
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only as it tends to show that Wesle
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and officiating as a curate in the
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the moment a penitent sinner believ
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me to another college. He did so, i
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him deacon in 1725. Nine days after
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curate, though not so much to his s
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[24] Methodist Magazine, 1798, p. 5
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at the zenith of his literary fame.
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daily toils at wakes and fairs, and
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y intemperate zeal for the Pretende
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The name was not new. Wesley says "
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whatsoever they judged to be the do
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at school, called upon him in a sta
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on Sundays, for their pupils on Mon
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The companion referred to was proba
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"Far be it from me to think that an
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ent of your mind. I have scarce any
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Wesley himself "a fair escape" when
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Divine institution may seem to othe
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Jempro is discharged, and I have ap
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dinner, they sigh for the time they
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Methodism. than the Methodists and
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"every good soldier of Christ will
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intercession,—they have no superi
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up in her that reverend respect she
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think myself any further concerned
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were almost peculiar to the place.
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"And now let us go on to matter of
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you not ordained? Did you not delib
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success, might prove a means of mak
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It was in the midst of this corresp
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His third publication was a manuscr
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[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
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[63] Ibid. p. 45. [64] Ibid. p. 47.
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On September 8 Dr. Burton wrote to
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England presented a donation of £1
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The Saltzburghers arrived in Georgi
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Such was America in 1735. What is i
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"Elegance of style is not to be wei
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Charles Delamotte was a young man o
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that he might be directed to a plac
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and drenched him to the skin. Two d
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one small town, near two hundred mi
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forward. I should be heartily glad
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"SAVANNAH, April 20, 1736. "SAVANNA
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ecame less and less, he returned to
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Hall first, and thence very soon to
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At the end of the year 1736, Wesley
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a man: perhaps I myself may have a
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leaving England that you should wan
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ules, but, in some measure, in my s
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of apples seven miles upon his back
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[52] establishment in that unhappy
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"The ocean is in tempest tossed, To
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with fever, which confined him for
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"February 5, 1737—One of the most
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of this. John Wesley was thirty-thr
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Some weeks elapsed; and then, on Au
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nothing was too much to be done or
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"10. By refusing the Office of the
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10. That, about the month of July l
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the burial, he was absent from Sava
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were about to start for England, De
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from the choice of the text, that h
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"1. Of unbelief; having no such fai
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their answering 'No,' immediately r
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printed. We have not the slightest
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[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
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[48] Gentleman's Magazine, 1792, p.
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[86] [87] [88] [89] [90] There can
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prayers morning and evening, and ex
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late years there had appeared a gre
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literal sense to be the best, unles
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"Here ended my disputing. I could n
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To add to this would be folly. The
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He went to Oxford; but the whole of
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Wesley's successors. They are not M
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of a late interview he had with you
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This was a miserable squabble, into
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"If renouncing everything but faith
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There is another entry, similar to
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A fortnight later Wesley replied to
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scattered by the bright sunshine wh
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Dr. Barkhausen, a Muscovite physici
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with respect and kindness. At Meiss
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thirty years an itinerant, out-door
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sufficient to perplex the modern Me
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Wesley left Herrnhuth on August 12,
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least once more, were it only to sp
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he had lived most deliciously last
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The whole of Wesley's publications,
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[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
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PART II. 1739. ONDON in 1739 was wi
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classes caught the contagion, and e
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In many respects the reign of the s
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extravagance in dress, were general
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evangelist, and henceforth generall
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effects following the preaching of
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morning, I set out for Dummer, ther
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his arrival, all the churches were
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Charles Wesley passed most of the y
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st 21 , he and his brother Charles
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orphan house; and many poor familie
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worketh not, but believeth on Him t
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The following may be taken as speci
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monsters. But this moved us not; we
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combinations for vice," "religious
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sanctified with the Holy Ghost; and
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presence with them. 2. That they ha
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Life is evidently to make the subje
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"All men of thought with laughter v
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intruder; whose next performance wa
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all who receive a power of preachin
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Scriptures together; and to reprove
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zealous for the Church, and against
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dropped down in as violent an agony
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not to interpose when God was worki
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October 11. A woman showed the agon
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October 28. I called at Mrs. J—
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Whitefield himself regarded them wi
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for its own sake, or taught the peo
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so I must term them), yet many woul
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On the same day, Whitefield took hi
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This was the first Methodist meetin
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Passing from pulpits to preachers,
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already seen that Cennick was preac
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already, that there is a division b
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September, when, in the absence of
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abiding witness of the Spirit, or t
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ground he went to Georgia, and to G
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upon it as the peculiar blessing of
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expositions of Scripture, which las
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Augustus Herman Francke. Abridged b
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Wesley's hymns, it would have been
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[10] Whitefield's Journal. [11] Whi
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[65] This is true. Hence the follow
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Still there were a few instances si
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others. All this might be proper an
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one whom he had left strong in fait
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often as they could, I besought him
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thanks. A long extract from one of
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after, at Fetter Lane, Simpson repr
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desire the grace of God are to wait
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"You ask whether, in this intermedi
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to communicate, before we have fait
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y praying as by thieving." Another
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ecommended to him the writings of t
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mercies of God in Christ Jesus our
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"SAVANNAH, June 25, 1740. "MY HONOU
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election and perfection. I pray God
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"Should any believe it his duty to
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fact, it says that God has condemne
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"DEAR BROTHER,—Brother Seward tel
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"equivocal definition of the word g
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even my enemies know, if they would
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Whitefield was again severely handl
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themselves the reputation of being
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holiness." This was an ingenious hi
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ancient Christians, I could see no
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[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
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1741. ITH the exception of a week s
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at the Foundery, on a Wednesday aft
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destruction. Christ is our sole per
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would fall with him. His natural pa
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They replied that they had said not
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Cennick, and those who sympathised
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duty no longer to join with you, bu
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truth.' If you had disliked my serm
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irresistible, that they cannot but
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In London, he adopted the same proc
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with the member's name written unde
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as soon as the Spaniards landed, he
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that Wesley was a conjuror. "Everyb
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[38] to heaven. At Stratton, a crow
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"Scarcely is the form of godliness
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no necessity of a good life; and ot
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The tract, throughout, is in a high
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[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
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1742. ESLEY now began to enlarge th
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case was stronger than even this. H
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of the inquiring penitents were rec
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Despite all this, Whitefield cheeri
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sermons published by Mr. Piers, wil
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whole. The leader began and ended e
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After the formation of classes, the
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exchanged for the mason's cottage.
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service twice daily; and the church
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preaching or reading prayers, but h
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himself. I found in him, what I hav
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eturned to Birstal in about a fortn
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needed it; and now, with £1 6s., h
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mob did their utmost to force a her
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too slow. In every society, let the
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"I now tread an untried path, 'with
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[27] A day or two afterwards Miss C
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1743. URING the year 1743, Wesley s
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themselves, a large proportion were
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The day came; and about fifteen hun
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Wesley was followed by Mr. Williams
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a distance of sixty yards. They wen
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Again they cried, "Bring him away,
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Even this is not all. The clergyman
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into fragments with his axe. Anothe
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ten cowardly ruffians attacked one
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of the three communities,—the Arm
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communicate on the same occasion. T
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The two thousand members of the Lon
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you have enjoyed, you will make no
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of being deceitful workers; but, ho
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A fourth publication, belonging to
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Societies cannot exist without rule
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true principles of the Christian ed
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common swearer, a sabbath breaker,
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[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
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1744. ESLEY spent more than half of
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opportunity to explain the principl
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mournful case of Thomas Beard, a qu
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On the day following, the conferenc
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every member should bring, once a w
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ecommended to take lemonade, candie
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vice-chancellor, the proctors, most
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men, so filled with the Holy Ghost
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many of you take the name of God in
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God and man than Dr. Borlase and hi
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ever yet appeared in Christendom."
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hearers; some in public houses; som
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which he became a clergyman of the
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sanctification, or a sanctified man
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those which Wesley had drawn up for
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nothing that can in any way offend
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8. "The Distinguishing Marks of a W
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[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
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Where is the Canorum?" (an unmeanin
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fame," and was committed to prison;
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The article, though neatly written,
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if we can help it." Dissensions als
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on the present occasion. I rejoice
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that "a believer is not holy in him
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On the 11th of March, Wesley wrote
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which was still standing. In the im
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was erected, which still stands, an
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title of "regent of the kingdoms of
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day, in public and in private, to p
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town's yard, and their firearms to
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forgotten. But I beg you, sir, to b
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"We believe that the threefold orde
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sanctified at the time of writing h
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was translated to the diocese of Ox
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after another into the numerous rec
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the mire! Go, drink on, till thy na
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doctrines I teach are no other than
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[21] Brand's History. [22] Brand's
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flaming seraph, his soul glowed wit
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"Q. Does a church in the New Testam
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apart or ordaining to the ministry
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you up to propagate His spiritual k
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"You say (2) that gentleman brought
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St. Peter aptly describes as "marve
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"I will not presume, sir, to mentio
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W. "And is not that a sin?" A. "Yes
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Considering the high price of money
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In a short time, he proposed it to
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Having spent a fortnight among the
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doctor was come, where was his fee?
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Notwithstanding Wesley's almost inc
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3. In the month of March, the Rev.
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swearing, perjury, sabbath breaking
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[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
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"GEORGE WHITEFIELD." [1] So much fo
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times and seasons we have had; soul
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opportunity to get away; and, after
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establishment, were unable to agree
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home of Wesley, and the "theologica
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written a letter desiring the Wesle
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of her brother's house, she quietly
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called the poor-house) we have now
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Two doctrines were discussed at the
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The remainder of the conference sit
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"ST. IVES, July 10, 1747. "DEAR SIR
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Wesley landed in Dublin Bay on Sund
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the populace called him "swaddling
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so bewitched his followers, that hi
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Appended to the letter is a magnifi
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