The Life of Wesley: And the Rise and Progress of Methodism, Volumes 1-2

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B. Gilley, no. 92 Broadway, J. Seymour, print., 1820

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Moravians on board the ship
91
Creek Indians in England
97
Charles becomes obnoxious to the people at Frederica
107
Forms a society in the army of Flanders
163
Debate whether they shall join the Lutheran Church decid
175
Wesley proceeds to Herrnhut
182
Wesley hears Christian David preach
189
Charles Wesleys second interview
200
Lovefeasts in Fetterlane
206
Wesley at Bristol
217
Wesley commences fieldpreaching after Whitefields exam Puge
220
Charles Wesley taken up for a Jacobite
222
Lay preaching contended for
235
Whitefield produces the same paroxysms as Wesley
247
Ceremonies at an evening meeting
253
Cases of supposed possession
259
View of the history of Christianity in England
265
Mr Shirleys Circular Letter concerning the Minutes
269
Corruption of the Romish Church
270
The sequestered Clergy
278
Growth of Infidelity
284
Difference with the Moravians
290
Extravagant language of the Moravians
296
Wesley proclaims the breach to the world Page
303
Wesley confers with him and Spangenberg
306
Writes from America to express his difference of opinion
309
Exhorts him to be humble
315
rica
318
Wesley charges him with this
321
Breach between them
327
Itinerancy
334
Fieldpreaching
335
Wesley visits him at Birstall
348
Effects of enthusiasm
352
Physic practised by the Clergy in former times
357
Thomas à Kempis
379
Coincidence of opinion between Wesley and South
386
Ravings of the persecuted Hugonots
392
Hobbess parallel between the Romish Clergy and the Fai
393
Ignorance of the country clergy
399
First laypreachers
405
Wesleys sisters
5
His sister Wright
14
Wesley relates miracles
20
Outrages at Wednesbury
24
Riots 354
28
Charles Wesley in danger at Devizes
37
Wesleys laycoadjutors
55
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61
THOMAS OLIVERS
65
Charles Wesley refuses to go to Ireland with one who would
67
He continues to preach notwithstanding
68
What is faith? 129
129
Wesley exhorts Whitefield not to pursue his voyage in con
136
Whitefield officiates in London with success 142
142
Discipline of the Methodists 144
144
Excites jealousy concerning his doctrine 148
148
Forbidden to engage in trade 150
150
The Methodists in London are formed into bands 154
154
Select bands 156
156
Wesleys conversion 160
160
Psalmody 162
162
Methodism in Wales 164
164
The Bohemian Church 166
166
Finds access to people of rank 170
170
Count Zinzendorf 172
172
Scene at Cambuslang 176
176
His opinion of John Knox 183
183
Berkeleys hints for converting the people 190
190
Whitefield nearly murdered at Dublin 198
198
Wesley in middle age 215
215
Their separation 221
221
James Wheatley 227
227
Conference with Mr Shirley
232
Wesley suspects their real character 242
242
Maxfield separates from Wesley 250
250
He preaches in Moorfields during the Whitsunholydays 256
256
She becomes the patroness of the Calvinistic Methodists 262
262
Controversy 271
271
Abuse of Wesley 278
278
CHAPTER XXVI
286
Tendency to schism 293
293
Is easily duped 299
299
Reunion ineffectually proposed 301
301
Their progress interrupted by the war 305
305
Wesleys Observations on Liberty in reply to Dr Price 312
312
The American Methodists ordain for themselves 317
317
Scheme of the Methodist Church in America 323
323
Forestpreaching 329
329
Rule respecting spiritous liquors 335
335
History of an Irish family 341
341
Rash conduct of Dr Coke 348
348
Numbers at the time of Wesleys death 356
356
Amusements 366
366
Whitefield lays the first stone of a school for the colliers
371
Alarming sermons 373
373
The value of a good conscience
375
Effects of Methodism upon the educated classes 877
379
Prisons 386
387
Laypreachers jealous of Charles 393
393
He outlives all his first disciples 399
399
The Pretender
413
CHAP XX
436

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Pagina 160 - In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed.
Pagina 284 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.
Pagina 142 - So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God; And yet they are not three Gods, but one God.
Pagina 239 - Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh : and having an high priest over the house of God ; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Pagina 330 - ... with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength, and therefore they loved him as truly and as fervently as he loved England.
Pagina 218 - At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile, and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation, speaking from a little eminence in a ground adjoining to the city, to about three thousand people.
Pagina 175 - For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more ; and unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews ; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; to them that are without law...

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