The Life of Wesley: And the Rise and Progress of Methodism, Volumes 1-2

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

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Contents

Samuel accepts the mastership of Tiverton school
82
Death of Samuel Wesley the father
88
Moravians on board the ship
91
Creek Indians in England
97
Charles becomes obnoxious to the people at Frederica
107
Whitefield officiates in London with success
142
Charles Wesley taken up for a Jacobite
148
Wesley arrives in London as soon as Whitefield leaves it
149
Wesley writes to Mr Law reproaching him for not having
155
Mrs Hutton complains to Samuel
162
Methodism in Wales
164
Account of the change wrought in him by religion
165
Expulsion of the Protestants
168
Wesley commences fieldpreaching after Whitefields exam
169
Debate whether they shall join the Lutheran Church decid
175
Wesley proceeds to Herrnhut
182
Wesley hears Christian David preach
189
Conduct of the Associate Presbytery of the Seceders towards
192
Charles Wesleys second interview
200
Lovefeasts in Fetterlane
206
Wesley at Bristol
217
BARTHOLOMEW WESLEY great grandfather of John an eject
222
Exultation of Wesley at the effect which he produces
232
Wesley at Blackheath
239
Corruption of the Romish Church
270
The sequestered Clergy
278
Growth of Infidelity
284
John son of Bartholomew ejected and imprisoned He dies
286
Count Zinzendorf 172
290
Extravagant language of the Moravians
296
Samuel son of John leaves the Dissenters and enters
297
Wesley proclaims the breach to the world
303
Wesley confers with him and Spangenberg
306
Writes from America to express his difference of opinion
309
Exhorts him to be humble
315
Wesley charges him with this
321
Breach between them
327
Itinerancy
334
Fieldpreaching
335
Wesley visits him at Birstall
348
Physic practised by the Clergy in former times
357
John Wesley born at Epworth
360
Thomas à Kempis
379
Coincidence of opinion between Wesley and South
386
Ravings of the persecuted Hugonots
392
Hobbess parallel between the Romish Clergy and the Fai
393
Ignorance of the country clergy
399
First laypreachers
405
Wesleys spare diet and regular exercise while a schoolboy 54
54
Wesleys laycoadjutors
55
His management of them
61
THOMAS OLIVERS
65
He thinks it easy to convert the Savages 90
90
Numbers at the time of Wesleys death
93
94
94
His happy old
106
Wesley exhorts Whitefield not to pursue his voyage in con
136
Attacked from the pulpit at Aberdeen
168
They name this settlement Herrnhut 173
173
Scene at Cambuslang
176
His opinion of John Knox
183
Wesley in middle age 215
215
Their separation 221
221
James Wheatley 227
227
Conference with Mr Shirley
232
239
239
Wesley suspects their real character 242
242
246
246
Maxfield separates from Wesley 250
250
Wesley accused of being a Papist
252
He preaches in Moorfields during the Whitsunholydays 256
256
Wesleys view of the difference between himself and
258
She becomes the patroness of the Calvinistic Methodists 262
262
View of the history of Christianity in England
265
CHAPTER XXVI
286
Tendency to schism
293
Is easily duped
299
Reunion ineffectually proposed 301
301
VOL I
303
Their progress interrupted by the
305
Wesleys Observations on Liberty in reply to Dr Price 312
312
His letters of ordination
318
Their address to Washington
324
Riotous devotion at their meetings
331
337
337
Mr Fletcher 267
339
The sectarian clergy refuse to administer the ordinances to
356
Offence given by the Deed of Declaration
360
Whitefield lays the first stone of a school for the colliers
371
Effects of Methodism upon the educated classes
377
Wesley ordains preachers for Scotland
387
His excellent health and spirits
405
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
413
Mr Fletchers Illustrations of Calvinism
426
CHAP XX
436

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