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Falls into despair, and throws himself into the river 90

Attempt suicide a second time

Is permitted to follow his own course, and becomes a

Opposed by his father

His vindication of himself

The father is converted

Pawson becomes melancholy

He receives the assurance

Becomes a preacher

ALEXANDER Mather

Joins the Rebels in 1745

Is delivered to justice by his father

Goes to London, and marries there

Objects to working at his business as a baker on Sundays 102

Is admitted by Wesley to preach

Excessive exertions at this time

Cruelly used by a mob

Account of the change wrought in him by religion

A reprobate boy and young man -

Affected by hearing Whitefield

Rejected by one of Whitefield's preachers

Attends the Methodists

His exertions as a preacher

Suffers dreadfully from the small-pox

Pays all his debts

Attacked by the mob at Yarmouth

His deliberation concerning marriage

CHAP. XVIII.

His first stage of doubt and despair

In the act of committing blasphemy, he is frightened

Enlists as a soldier

Is driven to despair by one of Whitefield's preachers '126

Charles Wesley comforts him

Goes to the continent.

Forms a society in the army in Flanders

Brings one ofhis comrades to a court-martial for blas-

Is in the battle of Fontenoy

His second state of despair

He continues to preach, notwithstanding

Admitted as a travelling preacher

The disease leaves him when an old man

He dies in the fulness of hope

Sampson STANIFORTH

His profligate life in the army

Converted through the means of a comrade

Describes a vision, in which he is persuaded that his sins

Marries, and leaves the army

Settles as a preacher

His happy old age

His miscellaneous reading

His search after happiness

Becomes an unbeliever

Uneasiness of his mind

Reasons with the Methodists

Joins them froin the workings of his own mind

Never becomes an enthusiast

Provision for the lay-preachers

Allowance for their wives

Wesley establishes a school at Kingswood

System of education there

III management of the school

Conference of the preachers

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CHAP. XX.

Wesley's doctrines and opinions

The moral or Adamic law

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CHAP. XXIV.

Wesley in middle age

Charles Wesley marries

John takes counsel concerning marriage

Marries Mrs. Vizelle

Her jealousy and insufferable conduct

Their separation

Tendency of Methodism to schism
Wesley favours the arguments of the separatists

But opposes the separation

Scheme of the Rellyan Universalists

Excesses at Everton
Wesley suspects their real character
Controversy with Bishop Lavington

With Warburton

Maxfield separates from Wesley

Prophecy of the end of the world

Wesley's Primitive Physic

He recovers from a consumption

His epitaph, written by himself

Progress of Calvinistic Methodism

Whitefield's courtship

He preaches in Moorfields during the Whitsun-holydays 353

First Methodist Tabernacle built

Lady Huntingdon

Whitefield invited to preach at her house

She becomes the patroness of the Calvinistic Methodists 361

Founds a seminary for them at Trevecca

Death of Whitefield

Minutes of Conference in 1771

Lady Huntingdon offended at these Minutes

Mr. Shirley's Circular Letter concerning the Minutes 371

Meeting at the Conference, and apparent reconciliation 372

Fletcher's controversial writings

Abuse of Wesley

Wesley's sermon upon Free Grace

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CHAP. XXVI.

Wesley attempts to form an union of clergymen

Rev. William Grimshaw

Tendency to schism

Erasmus the Greek Bishop

Baptism by immersion

Wesley's manner of dealing with crazy people

Cases of infidelity

His own stage of doubt

He encourages a certain kind of insanity

Is easily duped

His excessive credulity

He publishes the Arminian Magazine

CHAP. XXVII.

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Methodism in America
Society formed at New York by Philip Embury and Cap-

tain Webb
Mr. Wesley sends preachers
Their progress interrupted by the war
Wesley's “Calm Address"
Attacked by Caleb Evans
Defended by Mr. Fletcher
Wesley's Observations on Liberty, in reply to Dr. Price
He instructs his preachers in America to refrain from

politics

The English preachers obliged to fly

The sectarian clergy refuse to administer the ordinances

to the Methodists

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Impossibility of obtaining episcopal ordination in Ame-

The American Methodists ordain for themselves

Asbury sets this aside, and refers the affair to Mr. Wesley 436

Wesley resolves to ordain priests for America, and con-

secrates Dr. Coke as a bishop

His letters of ordination

Dr. Coke sails for New York

Conference at Baltimore

Scheme of the Methodist Church in America

Their address to Washington

Foundation of Cokesbury College

Discipline of the College

Popularity of Dr. Coke

He makes himself obnoxious by preaching against

Forest-preaching

Riotous devotion at their meetings

Benjamin Abbott

Rule respecting spirituous liquors

Odd places in which Dr. Coke preached

He complains of the location of the preachers

Rapid increase of the Methodists.

CHAP. XXVIII.

Methodism in the West Indies

Mr. Gilbert forms a society in Antigua

John Baxter

History of an Irish family.

Coke is driven to the West Indies

He is well received at Antigua

Visits the neighbouring islands

His second voyage to the West Indies

Lands in Barbadoes

Methodism proscribed in St. Eustatius

Rash conduct of Dr. Coke.

He is hospitably entertained in Jamaica

Begs money for the West Indian Missions

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