LIST OF AUTHORITIES. Wesley's Journals. Life of John Wesley, by Southey. Coke and Moore. Rev. John Whitehead. Life of Charles Wesley, by Rev. Thomas Jackson. Samuel Wesley, by L. Tyerman. The Wesley Family, by Adam Clarke. Original Letters by Rev. John Wesley and Friends, by J. Priestley. Memoir of Whitefield, by John Gillies. Two first parts of his Life, by George Whitefield. Memoir of Rev. Cornelius Winter, by Wm. Jay. Benson's Life of J. W. de la Flechère. Works of Rev. John Fletcher. Terræ Filius, by Nicholas Amhurst. Works of Dr. Vicesimus Knox. Sir William Hamilton on University Education. Huber on the English Universities. Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works, with Memoir. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations. Benham's Memoirs of James Hutton. Essay towards giving some just Ideas of Count Zinzendorf, by J. Hutton. Latrobe's Translation of Spangenberg's Memoir of Zinzendorf. Ledderhose's Life of Spangenberg. Rimius, Rise and Progress of the Herrnhutters. Diary and Correspondence of Philip Doddridge. Account of the Society for the Reformation of Manners, 1700. Josiah Woodward's Account of the Religious Societies. Historical Collections on Remarkable Periods, by Rev. John Gillies. Memoirs of James Lackington. Oglethorpe, by James. Wright. Private Journal of John Byrom. (Vol. 32 of Cheetham Society's publications.) Works of Rev. William Law. Materials for an adequate Biography of Wm. Law, by E. Walton (not Society and Manners in France and Italy, by Dr. John Moore. Enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists compared, by G. Lavington. Charges, Directions, and Pastoral Letters, by Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London. Codex of Ecclesiastical Law, by Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London. Tristram Laud's Letter to Whitefield. Remarks on Wesley's Journal, by Thomas Church. Letter to Whitefield by Thomas Church. Sentiments of Tillotson, recommended to Mr. Whitefield and his Followers. Various Anti-Methodist Tracts and Sermons, by Joseph Trapp, H. Observations upon the Conduct and Behaviour of Methodists. Works and Life of Thos. Wilson, Bishop of Sodor and Man. Full Answer to Rev. John Wesley's Remarks, by Rowland Hill. Three Letters to Fletcher, by Sir R. Hill. Hervey's Works, with Life. Gambold's ditto. Colton's Episcopal Church in America. Wilberforce's American Church. (Vol. 27 of Englishman's Library). Lord Mahon's History of England. JOHN WESLEY, AND THE RELIGIOUS REVIVAL OF THE 18TH CENTURY. CHAPTER I. BIRTH AND PARENTAGE. THERE are probably few names familiar to all Englishmen which have gathered round them associations so misleading as those which surround John Wesley. For those who take their impressions from hearsay, it is no more than a symbol for the religion of the illiterate. Others, to whom it is familiar through cursory mentions in the literature of the day, recall, on hearing a name coupled with Richelieu by Lord Macaulay, and with Luther by Mr. Buckle, vague notions of able ecclesiastical organization and controversial zeal. Neither view (if the following delineation be correct) can be accepted without large modification. Wesley reached. the, age of thirty-six without any exclusive devotion to the religious teaching of a particular class; his organizing power, great as it was, does not exhibit his character on its strongest side, while his advocacy of particular doctrines brings forward his weakest. B |