The History of the Religious Movement of the Eighteenth Century, Called Methodism (Volume 1); Considered in Its Different Denominational Forms, and Its Relations to British and American Protestantism (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER n. ABMINIAN METHODISM IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND: 1750-1760. Success in Cornwall--Wesley in Scotland--His slight Success--He itinerates in England--State of the Societies--Proselytism of the Baptists--Nathaniel Gilbert and Methodism in the West Indies--First African Methodist--Happy Deaths of Methodists--James Wheatley the first expelled Methodist Preacher--John Bennet's Secession--Grace Murray--Wesley's fraternal Disposition toward Calvinists--Whitefield--Wesley preaches and administers the Sacrament to the Calvinistic Leaders at Lady Huntingdon's House--Sketches of Thomas Lee and Christopher Hopper--Charles Wesley ceases to itinerate--Death of Meriton--Fletcher of Madeley--Wesley's Desire for Rest and Solitude--His unfortunate Marriage--His serious Sickness--His Epitaph--His Notes on the New Testament--James Hervey--Wesley's Address to the Clergy--His Views of Ministerial Qualifieations. At the beginning of the present period of our narrative Wesley wrote to one of his preachers that from Newcastle to London, and from London to Bristol, God was everywhere reviving his work.1 He visited Cornwall repeatedly during this time.2 At St. Just he still found the largest of his societies in the west; so great a proportion of believers he had not seen in any other part of the nation, nor "any society so alive to God." He laid there the foundation of a new chapel, and when it was completed pronounced it the best in the country. Preaching-houses had begun to dot the west generally, but they were as yet very humble structures, and scarcely distinguishable as chapels. He assembled at St. Ives the stewards of all the Cornish 1 Letter to Joseph Cownley. Lives of Early Methodist Preachers, vol. i, p. 100. "Journal, 17.10,1758,1757. societies in a quarterly meeting, ...