The life and times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., founder of the Methodists. Vol. 2 (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. 2 (of 3)
Tyerman, L. (Luke)
Methodism; Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Horace Walpole on Methodism—Whitefield and the Wesleys, a Threefold
Cord—Wesley gives Lectures to Seventeen Preachers—Charles
Wesley Married—Wesley in Ireland—Slanderous Falsehoods—Terrible
Persecutions in Cork—Butler, the Ballad Singer—Letter in _Bath
Journal_—John Bennet—Whitefield’s Letter to Bennet—The First
Methodist Agitator—Grace Murray—Wesley’s Courtship with Grace
Murray—Coquetry—Rival Lovers—Wesley’s Reasons for Marrying—A
Wedding—Painful Scenes—Who was Blamable?—A Fire Put Out—Rough Usage in
Lancashire—Wesley again in Trouble with Moravians—Original Letter by
Wesley—Moravian Balderdash—Wesley’s Publications—Elocution—Dr. Conyers
Middleton—Wesley on the Clergy and Learning—“The Christian Library”
32-67
1750.
Fraternization—Whitefield—“The Impostor Detected”—Rev. Charles
Manning—Earthquakes—London in Sackcloth—Bishop Sherlock’s
Warning—Hymns on Earthquakes—Death of (Mehetabel Wesley) Mrs.
Wright—John Jane—Jonah on Board—An Overgrown Brute leading a Drunken
Rabble—Roger Ball—Lætitia Pilkington—Wesley in Ireland—Rev. Richard
Lloyd—Renewed Outrages in Cork—Drunken Parson at Bandon—Long Rides—Two
Termagants—Letters on Irish Methodism—On Preaching—Complaints
against Preachers—The “Gifted Itinerants” in _Bristol Weekly
Intelligencer_—Wesley in the West of England—Zinzendorf—Spitalfields
Chapels—Publications—Logic—Rev. Mr. Bailey, of Cork, Castigated—Bishop
Lavington’s Vulgar Outpourings—Wesley’s Reply to Lavington 68-94
1751.
Moravianism—Abominations at Leeds and Bedford—“The Contents of
a Folio History of the Moravians”—Zinzendorf and the British
Parliament—Letter by John Cennick—Wesley’s Marriage—Mrs. Vazeille—A
curious Episode—Wesley’s Marriage a great Blunder—Wesley Resigns
his Fellowship—Wesley’s Wife and Brother—Connubial Sorrows—Foolish
Correspondence with Sarah Ryan—Jealousy and Cruelty—A manly
Letter—Original Letter by Wesley’s Wife—Wesley on the Wing—A
Bolton Barber—Rev. J. Milner—Benjamin Ingham—Wesley’s First Visit
to Scotland—Scottish Methodism—Conference at Leeds—Kingswood
Troubles—James Wheatley Tried and Expelled—Strange Proceedings
at Norwich—Wheatley condemned to do Public Penance—Number of
Itinerant Preachers—A Serious Sifting—Wesley’s Complaints—An
Agreement—Mischievous “Gospel Preachers”—Whitefield becomes
a Slaveowner—Wesley at Tiverton—John Downes—Wesley on
Languages—Calvinistic Fallacies 95-136
1752.
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