The Life of Wesley;: And the Rise and Progress of Methodism, 1. köide

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Evert Duyckinck and George Long; Clayton & Kingsland, printers, 1820
 

Contents

Mr Toplady
45
Wesley commences fieldpreaching after Whitefields
46
Wesleys appeal concerning fieldpreaching
49
Whitefields body 599
50
Chanceconverts
55
John becomes acquainted with William Law
56
Effects of field preaching
61
Lies in state in the Chapel 562
66
Dislike of the farmers
67
John is urged to apply for the succession to his fathers
68
Wesleys laycoadjutors
73
Wesley consents to go out to the new colony in Georgia
74
Moravians on board the ship
77
But not to affect the praise of learning
79
Speech of TomoChichi
83
JOHN OLIVER
86
Wesleys interview with the Moravian pastor Spangenberg
89
Wesley attempts to form an union of clergymen
96
Charles becomes obnoxious to the people at Frederica
97
Impossibility of obtaining episcopal ordination in Ame
103
Wesley in love with Sophia Causton
106
THOMAS OLIVERS
108
JOHN HAIME
122
Wesley exhorts Whitefield not to pursue his voyage
136
Whitefield officiates in London with success
144
GEORGE STORY
145
The New Birth 573
147
Wesley arrives in London as soon as Whitefield leaves it
154
Lady Maxwell
161
The moral or Adamic law
167
Hence the necessity of a new birth
168
CHAP V
175
Debate whether they shall join the Lutheran Church de Page
187
Wesley proceeds to Herrnhut
196
Discipline of the Methodists
197
Discipline of the Moravians
203
He returns to England
209
Charles Wesleys second interview
220
Methodism in Wales
224
Whitefield returns from Georgia to raise contributions
226
Attacked from the pulpit at Aberdeen
230
Wesley at Bristol
242
Case of Thomas Haydon
248
Methodism in Ireland
256
Conversion of John Maxfield
260
Lay preaching contended for
266
Origin of the French Prophets
272
Corruption of the Romish Church
274
Number of Clergy injuriously diminished
312
The sequestered Clergy
319
Its want of auxiliaries
325
Wesley suspects their real character
333
Extravagant language of the Moravians
337
Maxfield separates from Wesley
343
Peter Boehler arrives in England
349
Perfection 580
350
Count Zinzendorf
353
Wesley proclaims the breach to the world
355
First Methodist Tabernacle built
357
Whitefield differs from Wesley concerning predestination
362
Death of Whitefield
364
Extravagance of Whitefields language
368
Conference with Mr Shirley 600
371
Copies of his letters distributed at the Foundry
375
Whitefield sails for England
381
Breach between them
387
Ministry of Angels 581
388
Classleaders
393
Fieldpreaching
398
Wesley hears him preach and assents to the practice
404
Mr Fletchers Illustrations of Calvinism 605
409
Wesley visits him at Birstall
415
Methodism in America
416
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
423
28
426
Dr Owen
429
He instructs his preachers in America to refrain from
432
30
434
Wesley resolves to ordain priests for America and con
437
Their address to Washington
446
Benjamin Abbott
457
Odd places in which Dr Coke preached
463
Thomas à Kempis
466
The sectarian clergy refuse to administer the ordinances
467
Behmenists in England
472
Coincidence of opinion between Wesley and South
478
Methodists become unpopular in the Islands
482
Zinzendorfs notion that all souls are female
484
Numbers at the time of Wesleys death
489
Hobbess parallel between the Romish Clergy and
490
Easy terms of admission
495
Means for assisting poor scholars diminished
497
Effect of religion in changing the heart
503
System of itinerancy proposed by the fanatics of Crom
510
Yearly covenant
511

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