The life and times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., founder of the Methodists. Vol. 3 (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. 3 (of 3)
Tyerman, L. (Luke)
Methodism; Wesley, John, 1703-1791
her dying day:--Rebecca Mills, always firm and unmoved, resting on
the Rock of ages, and in life and death uniformly praising the God
of her salvation:--Elizabeth Duchesne, for near forty years zealous
of good works, and who shortened her days by labouring for the poor
beyond her strength:--William Osgood, a good man, who began life
in poverty, but increased more and more till he was worth several
thousand pounds:--Michael Hayes, who lived above a hundred and four
years, mostly in vigorous health, and as he lived, so died, praising
God:--Mrs. Kiteley, a perfect pattern of true womanhood, a good wife,
a good parent, a good mistress, who, after many years of active
benevolence, redeemed a poor friendless youth from prison, took the
jail distemper, and died:--Heller Tanner, diligent, patient, loving
to every man, and zealous of good works:--Bilhah Aspernell, who, for
six-and-thirty years, without intermission, walked in the light of
God’s countenance, was always in pain, yet always rejoicing, and going
about doing good; who on Sunday evening met her class as usual, and
the next day sent for her old fellow traveller, Sarah Clay, and said
to her, “Sally, I am going.” “Where are you going?” She cheerfully
answered, “To my Jesus, to be sure!” and spoke no more:--Thomas Vokins,
a man of a sorrowful spirit, who always hung down his head like a
bulrush, but who died triumphing over pain and death, and rejoicing
with joy full of glory:--Mr. Bespham, many years master of a man of
war, whose faith was full of mercy and good fruits:--George Parsons,
a flame of fire wherever he went, losing no occasion of speaking or
working for God; so zealously, so humbly, so unreservedly devoted
to God, that few like him were left behind him:--Eleanor Lee, who
lived in the enjoyment of perfect love for sixteen years, and of whom
Wesley testified, “I never saw her do any action, little or great,
nor heard her speak any word, which I could reprove”:--Ann Thwayte,
a woman of faith and prayer, for whom Wesley preached a funeral
sermon:--Merchant West, a pattern of diligence in all things, spiritual
and temporal:--Charles Greenwood, a melancholy man, full of doubts
and fears, but who, two days before he died, was made so unspeakably
happy that he exclaimed, “God has revealed to me things which it is
impossible for man to utter”:--George Hufflet, for many years a burning
and shining light:--Ann Sharland, whose cancer in her breast caused
her continual pain, but who triumphed gloriously through Christ;--and
Robert Windsor, prudent, serious, diligent, full of mercy and good
fruits.
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