The life and times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., founder of the Methodists. Vol. 2 (of 3) — John Shaqi
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
Wesley the only Clerical Itinerant—Letters in _London
Chronicle_—Fanatical Methodists—Wesley’s Friends desert him—Rev.
J. Fletcher—Rev. W. Romaine—“Farther Thoughts on Christian
Perfection”—Advice to the Sanctified—Distress in London—“Society for
the Reformation of Manners”—A “Pious Fraud”—Scottish Ladies—Methodism
in Edinburgh, Dunbar, Barnard castle, etc.—Letter from Dr. Conyers—“A
kind of Gentleman”—Matthew Mayer—Conference Minutes, between 1753 and
1763—Howel Harris at Conference of 1763—Welsh Jumpers—Danger of rich
Methodists—Methodism in Norwich and London—Rev. Jacob Chapman—Dr.
Byrom—Increase of Methodism creates a Difficulty—Erasmus and his
Ordination—Wesley and Dr. Rutherforth—Wesley and Bishop Warburton—Jane
Cooper—Wesley’s Publications 459-496
1764.
Whitefield in Ill Health—The half insane Watchmaker—Blandford
Park—Oratorios—Wesley on his northern Journey—Unpublished
Letter by Wesley to Lady Maxwell—An adventurous Ride—Riding in
Carriages—Difficulty—Unpublished Letter by Wesley to Countess of
Huntingdon—Proposed Clerical Union—On Consecrating Churches—Defraying
Debts on London Chapels—Proposed new Theatre at Bristol—A
Pastoral Address—A Methodist Orphanage—Rev. Thomas Hartley—The
Mystics—Millenarianism—Attacks on Methodism—Wesley’s last letter
to Hervey—Hervey’s “Eleven Letters to Wesley”—Old Friends
divided—Quarrelling and its Results—Letters to Thomas Rankin—Methodist
Manifesto 497-533
1765.
Methodism at High Wycombe—A Long Tour—Alexander Knox, Esq.—Opinions
and essential Doctrines—Conference of 1765—Methodism at
Huddersfield—Important Letter to Rev. H. Venn—Disgraceful
Scene in Devonshire—Faults of Cornish Methodism—Professors
of Sanctification—Captain Webb—Methodism in Kent—A serious
Accident—“Mumbo Chumbo”—“The Scripture Way of Salvation”—Imputed
Righteousness—Celibacy—Wesley’s “Notes on the Old Testament” 534-554
1766.
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