The Life of Wesley: And the Rise and Progress of Methodism, Volume 1

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820 - 622 pages

Birth of his brother Charles	5

Mr Shirleys Circular Letter concerning the Minutes	9

Reports concerning him	20

Wesley commences fieldpreaching after Whitefields	24

Charles Wesley taken up for a Jacobite	26

Preternatural noises in the parsonage at Epworth	28

Of Predestination	37

The Countess of Huntingdon obtains his discharge	43

Laypreaching contended for 266	266

ཚ	269

Origin of the French Prophets 272	272

Religious wars	275

The yearly covenant	281

Whitefield produces the same paroxysms as Wesley	282

Wesley accused of being a Papist	288

Death of Samuel Wesley	294

Mr Toplady	45

Wesleys appeal concerning fieldpreaching	49

Chanceconverts	55

Charles takes orders and accompanies	58

Effects of fieldpreaching M	61

Lies in state in the Chapel	66

Dislike of the farmers	67

Wesleys laycoadjutors	73

Moravians on board the ship	77

But not to affect the praise of learning	79

Speech of TomoChichi	83

JOHN OLIVER 88998	86

Wesleys interview with the Moravian pastor Spangenberg	89

Wesley attempts to form an union of clergymen	96

Charles becomes obnoxious to the people at Frederica	97

Meets Asbury	103

Wesley in love with Sophia Causton	106

Rejected by one of Whitefields preachers	112

Wesley exhorts Whitefield not to pursue his voyage	136

GEORGE STORY	145

Wesley arrives in London as soon as Whitefield leaves it	154

Lady Maxwell	161

Mrs Hutton complains to Samuel	164

The moral or Adamic law 167	167

Spiritual death or the death of the soul a consequence	168

Effect of Wickliffes writings	175

Debate whether they shall join the Lutheran Church	187

Discipline of the Methodists	188

Wesley proceeds to Herrnhut	196

Wesley hears Christian David preach	205

Charles Wesleys second interview	220

Methodism in Wales	224

Whitefield returns from Georgia to raise contributions	226

Attacked from the pulpit at Aberdeen	230

Scene at Cambuslang	241

Wesley at Bristol	242

Paroxysms of Methodism	245

Numbers at the time of Wesleys death	248

His opinion of John Knox	250

Conversion of John Maxfield	260

Wesley in middle age	296

Their separation	303

View of the history of Christianity in England 305	305

Advantages of the Papacy	311

Corruption of the Roman Church	312

James Relly	314

The sequestered Clergy	319

Want of zeal	325

Wesley suspects their real character	333

Instantaneous conversion	335

Difference with the Moravians	337

He prepares for a separation and provides a place	343

Peter Boehler arrives in England	349

Perfection	350

Wesley proclaims the breach to the world	355

Count Zinzendorf	356

First Methodist Tabernacle built	357

Writes from America to express his difference of opinion	362

Death of Whitefield	364

Conference with Mr Shirley	371

Writes to Whitefield complaining that the Wesleys	379

Charles Wesley inclined to the Moravians	388

Fieldpreaching	398

Wesley hears him preach and assents to the practice	404

The value of a good conscience	409

Wesley visits him at Birstall	415

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS	423

Dr Owen	429

Conference at Baltimore	437

Scheme of the Methodist Church in America	445

Rule respecting spirituous liquors	461

Thomas à Kempis	466

John Baxter	467

Behmenists in England	472

Coincidence of opinion between Wesley and South	478

Zinzendorfs notion that all souls are female	484

Settlement of the Conference	490

Ministry of Angels	503

Laughter	505

wells time as a substitute for the Establishment	510

Title	The Life of Wesley: And the Rise and Progress of Methodism, Volume 1 The Life of Wesley: And the Rise and Progress of Methodism, Robert Southey
Author	Robert Southey
Edition	2
Publisher	Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820
Original from	Pennsylvania State University
Digitized	6 Dec 2013
Length	622 pages

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