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
Milner says it was his own Perhaps it was imprudent for him to
imprudence that introduced him into have been in such a disreputable
such society. place; but he left it, “indignant
at the villanous principles and
practices” he had witnessed: and
never went again.
Milner says it is not true that the No one says it was. He left the
scene at the Calves-head Club was Dissenters years before this. But,
the cause of his leaving the if the scene at the Calves-head
Dissenters. Club was not the cause of his
leaving the Dissenters, it was the
cause of his writing his letter
respecting Dissenting Academies.
Milner says that he infers that The only band of profligates with
Wesley, in his youth, “associated whom Wesley associated in his youth
with a band of profligates.” were the profligates at the
Dissenting academies, and, in one
instance, a band of profligates at
the Calves-head Club, who called
themselves Dissenters.
Milner says the Dissenters had no We do not, for a single moment,
more to do with the disgraceful entertain the thought that the
proceedings of the Calves-head Club Calves-head Club had the
than their accusers had. approbation of the Dissenters as a
whole, or of even any considerable
minority; but still, there cannot
be a doubt that the members of the
club were men who considered
themselves Dissenters,
notwithstanding their utter
unfitness to be members of any
Dissenting Church.
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