The Life of Wesley: And the Rise and Progress of Methodism, Том 1

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820 - Всего страниц: 622
 

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Wesleys appeal concerning fieldpreaching
49
Whitefields body 599
50
John becomes acquainted with William Law
56
Methodists become unpopular in the Islands 482
61
John is urged to apply for the succession to his fathers
65
Lies in state in the Chapel
66
Instability of his converts
67
Death of Samuel Wesley the father
72
Wesleys laycoadjutors
73
Moravians on board the ship
77
But not to affect the praise of learning
79
Speech of TomoChichi
83
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Riots 4
87
Wesleys interview with the Moravian pastor Spangenberg
89
ALEXANDER MATHER
90
Dedicates the Journal in which this is done to the
92
Wesley attempts to form an union of clergymen
96
Charles becomes obnoxious to the people at Frederica
97
Goes to London and marries there
102
Wesley in love with Sophia Causton
106
GEORGE STORY
125
Is driven to despair by one of Whitefields preachers
126
Wesley exhorts Whitefield not to pursue his voyage
136
Whitefield officiates in London with success
144
The New Birth
147
His qualifications as an orator
150
Wesley begins to exhort people as he travels
156
Instantaneous conversion
158
Wesleys conversion
168
Instantaneous deliverance from sin
174
The Bohemian Church
175
Witness of the Spirit
180
Christian David incites the Protestants to emigrate
181
Chain of beings
186
Debate whether they shall join the Lutheran Church
187
Wesleys perfect charity
192
Wesley proceeds to Herrnhut
196
Wesleys supremacy
201
Discipline of the Moravians
203
Frequent change of preachers
207
He returns to England
209
Select bands
214
Charles Wesleys second interview
220
Methodism in Wales
224
Whitefield returns from Georgia to raise contributions
226
Fieldpreaching
229
Attacked from the pulpit at Aberdeen
230
Whitefield nearly murdered at Dublin
271
Corruption of the Romish Church
274
Strong feelings expressed with levity
275
Reformation
287
John takes counsel concerning marriage
296
View of the history of Christianity in England
305
The sequestered Clergy
319
Want of zeal
325
Advantages of the Reformation
331
CHAP X
337
Whitefields courtship
349
Changes his tone and censures the Moravians
357
Mr Fletcher
359
Writes from America to express his difference of opinion
363
He still affects to look for persecution
369
Conference with Mr Shirley 600
371
Copies of his letters distributed at the Foundry
375
Whitefield sails for England
381
Difference with the Moravians
388
Itinerancy
395
Wesley hears him preach and assents to the practice
398
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400
Mr Fletchers Illustrations of Calvinism 605
409
Society formed at New York by Philip Embury and Cap
418
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
425
Attacked by Caleb Evans
429
Mrs Wesleys method of teaching her children to read
432
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435
21
449
Forestpreaching
453
Rule respecting spirituous liquors
461
Thomas à Kempis
466
The sectarian clergy refuse to administer the ordinances
467
instr
472
Visits the neighbouring islands
473
Baptism by Immersion
474
Extravagant language of the Moravians
479
He is hospitably entertained in Jamaica
480
Zinzendorfs notion that all souls are female
484
Hobbess parallel between the Romish Clergy and
490
Offence given by the Deed of Declaration
494
Means for assisting poor scholars diminished
497
Effect of religion in changing the heart
503
Many of his friends adhere to the Brethren
504
System of itinerancy proposed by the fanatics of Crom
510
Yearly covenant
511
They name this settlement Herrnhut

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