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Wesley, John

  1. An eighteenth-century English clergyman; the founder of the Methodist Church . His brother Charles is well known as a writer of hymns, including “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing.”


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First Awakening: mid-18th century (Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley).

Survivalist John Wesley, Rawles talks to Sara Nelson from an undisclosed location.

There is a very characteristic letter by John Wesley, and close by it a letter by Blackstone, part of which is worth reproducing.

In the churchyard, under a great tree, still standing, John Wesley preached his last open-air sermon.

We can hardly fancy the John Wesley whom we know living in any other century than his own.

John Wesley is sometimes quoted as unfavourable to the connection of Church and State.

John Wesley, the future leader of the religious revival of the eighteenth century, was the master-spirit of this society.

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