The life and times of the Rev. Samuel Wesley: Rector of Epworth and father of the Revs. John and Charles Wesley, the founders of the MethodistsTyerman, L. (Luke)
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The life and times of the Rev. Samuel Wesley: Rector of Epworth and father of the Revs. John and Charles Wesley, the founders of the Methodists
Tyerman, L. (Luke)
Church of England -- Clergy -- Biography; Wesley, Samuel, 1662-1735
Charles Leslie, chancellor of the cathedral church of the diocese of
Connor, one of the ablest champions the Non-jurors had; a man of
extensive learning and great merit, and the well-known author of “A
Short and Easy Method with the Deists.”
To the above, of course, must be added the primate and the six bishops.
Dr Birch, in drawing Sancroft’s character, says:—“He was slow, timorous,
and narrow-spirited; but at the same time a good, honest, and
well-meaning man. He was laborious in his studies, and had written,
perhaps, more with his own hand than any person of his time. But the
three sermons which he published give us a very low idea of his taste
and judgment, and are more suitable to a disciple of Bishop Andrews than
a contemporary of Dr Tillotson.” Turner, Bishop of Ely, was a man of
higher position than of intellect. Lake, Bishop of Chichester, is also
unknown to fame. Ken, Bishop of Bath, in some respects was a man of
mark; his works, all of a theological and practical turn, were published
in four volumes octavo. He was a man of great integrity and courage;
and, though deprived of his bishopric, to the day of his death signed
himself “late Bishop of Bath and Wells.” He died in 1710, having been in
the habit for many years of travelling with his shroud in his
portmanteau, and which he always put on when attacked by illness. White
of Peterborough is scarce worth mentioning. Thomas of Worcester died
during the first year of William and Mary’s reign; and of Frampton of
Gloucester we know nothing which is worth relating.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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