The life and times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., founder of the Methodists. Vol. 1 (of 3) — John Shaqi
The life and times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., founder of the Methodists. Vol. 1 (of 3)Tyerman, L. (Luke)
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The life and times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., founder of the Methodists. Vol. 1 (of 3)
Tyerman, L. (Luke)
Methodism; Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Whitefield goes to Georgia—He returns to England—Crime
and Criminals—Wesley’s Labours in 1738—Wesley _almost a
Christian_—Doctrines which Wesley was taught by Bohler—When and
how was Wesley converted?—Peter Bohler—Wesley in heaviness—His
Sermon on “Salvation by Faith”—Doctrines which gave birth
to Methodism—Wesley in search of Truth—A petulant Letter to
William Law—Further Correspondence—Moravian Follies—Mrs. Hutton
and her Lodgers—Correspondence with Samuel Wesley—Strange
Confessions—Wesley in a Labyrinth—He becomes a member of the
Moravian Society—Rules of Fetter Lane Society—Wesley goes to
Germany—Watteville—Cologne—Marienborn—Wesley, under Zinzendorf’s
management, turns gardener—Herrnhuth—Christian David—Experiences of
Herrnhuthers—Their Daily Life—Wesley returns to London—Letters to
the Herrnhuthers and Zinzendorf—Wesley and Bishop Gibson—William
Warburton—First Sermons against the Methodists—Wesley’s Rules for Band
Societies—His first Hymn-Book 171-211
PART II.
1739.
London in 1739—Moorfields—Metropolitan Depravity—Provincial
ditto—Religious Revival in New England—Howel Harris and the Revival
in Wales—Great Religious Movement in Scotland—Wesley shut out of
Churches—Unpublished Letter from Wesley to Whitefield—A _Fracas_ at St.
Margaret’s, Westminster—Whitefield begins Out-door Preaching—Remarkable
Lovefeast in Fetter Lane—A Conference at Islington—Haziness—Interviews
with Bishops—Wesley’s Labours in London—Answers to Prayer—Original
Letter from Whitefield to Wesley—Wesley becomes an Out-door
Preacher—Sermons preached by Wesley in 1739—Reasons assigned
for Out-door Preaching—Methodist Congregations—“Beau” Nash and
Wesley—Persecution—The _Scots Magazine_—Rev. Ralph Skerrett,
D.D.—Rev. John Wilder, M.A.—Rev. Charles Wheatley, M.A.—Rev.
Henry Stebbing, D.D.—Rev. Joseph Trapp, D.D.—Rev. Tristam Land,
M.A.—Whitefield Abused—Rev. Josiah Tucker—Bishop Gibson—Whitefield’s
Reply to Gibson—Wesley and the Bishop of Bristol—Another Attack on
Whitefield—The _Weekly Miscellany_—“The Methodists, a Burlesque
Poem”—Rev. James Bate, M.A.—Doddridge on the Methodists—Rev.
Joseph Williams, of Kidderminster, and C. Wesley—“Religious
Societies”—Strange Scenes at Bristol, Kingswood, and London—Whitefield
respecting them—C. Wesley Condemns them—Rev. Ralph Erskine and others,
concerning them—Wesley’s Opinion—Kingswood—Kingswood School—First
Methodist Chapel Built—The London Foundery—John Cennick, Methodism’s
first Lay Preacher—Lay Preaching—Partly unpublished Letter from
Whitefield to Wesley—Moravian Heresies—First Methodist Society
Founded—Adventures—Differences between Wesley and the Clergy—Wesley and
his Mother—Death of Wesley’s Brother, Samuel—Wesley’s Publications in
1739 213-291
1740.
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