The Life of John Wesley, Volume 1

Hutchinson, 1820 - Methodism - 374 pages

John son of Bartholomew ejected and imprisoned	5

Birth of his brother Charles	14

Samuel the elder brother an usher at Westminster	20

Wesley is entered at Christchurch Oxford	30

Charles Wesley refuses to go to Ireland with one	44

Wesley commences fieldpreaching after Whitefields	46

Wesley closes his cashaccounts	49

Whitefields body	50

Scene at Cambuslang	241

Paroxysms of Methodism	242

Case of Thomas Haydon	248

His opinion of John Knox	250

Sanctity of his character	256

Conversion of John Maxfield	261

Corruption of the Romish Church	274

Reformation	287

Charles takes orders and accompanies	51

State of the Connection at his death	66

Wesleys laycoadjutors	73

Wesley advises his brother Samuel to discard the classics	79

Wesleys interview with the Moravian pastor Spangenberg	89

Wesley proclaims the breach to the world	92

The father is converted	97

Falls ill and sends for his brother	102

Excessive exertions at this time	106

Rejected by one of Whitefields preachers	112

JOHN HAIME	122

Is lost in the woods	124

phemy	129

He lands at Deal and describes his own imperfect	130

Advantages which he derived from his mission	136

Marries and leaves the army	143

Whitefield officiates in London with success	144

The New Birth	147

His qualifications as an orator	150

Conduct of the Clergy	152

Wesleys doctrines and opinions	154

Wesley begins to exhort people as he travels	156

Wesley writes to Mr Law reproaching him for not hav	162

Wesleys conversion	168

Instantaneous deliverance from	174

Count Zinzendor	175

Witness of the Spirit	180

Chain of beings	186

Conference with Mr Shirley	187

Wesleys perfect charity	192

Wesley in middle	209

Wesley addresses an epistle to the Church of Herrnhut	210

James Wheatley	219

Charles Wesleys second interview	220

Conduct of the Associate Presbytery of the Seceders	227

Lovefeasts in Fetterlane	228

Whitefields talents not to be estimated by his printed	233

He invites Wesley to take his place at Bristol	237

Wesleys view of the difference between himself and	295

Whitefield lays the first stone of a school for the colliers	301

View of the history of Christianity in England	305

Strong feelings expressed with levity	328

Difference with the Moravians	337

He prepares for a separation and provides a place	343

Peter Boehler arrives in England	349

First Methodist Tabernacle built	357

Writes from America to express his difference of opinion	363

Death of Whitefield	364

He still affects to look for persecution	369

Calvinism	371

Copies of his letters distributed at the Foundry	375

Whitefield sails for England	381

Wesleys sermon upon Free Grace	384

Breach between them	387

Classleaders	393

Tendency to schism	395

Baptism by immersion	407

Mr Wesleys epitaphs	409

His excessive credulity	413

Mr Wesley sends preachers	419

1	420

Physic practised by the Clergy in former times	426

Wesleys Observations on Liberty in reply to Dr Price	429

Sacheverels Defence	432

Wesley resolves to ordain priests for America and con	437

Meets Asbury	443

Popularity of Dr Coke	450

Benjamin Abbott	457

VOL I	466

The sectarian clergy refuse to administer the ordinances	467

Behmenists in England	472

Philip Henrys opinion concerning the exact time of con	478

311	489

Means for assisting poor scholars diminished	497

Effect of religion in changing the heart	503

wells time as a substitute for the Establishment	510

Title	The Life of John Wesley, Volume 1 Hutchinson's Library of standard lives Library of standard biographies The Life of John Wesley, Robert Southey
Author	Robert Southey
Edition	abridged
Publisher	Hutchinson, 1820
Original from	National Library of the Netherlands
Digitized	Dec 7, 2011
Length	374 pages

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