FROM THE LIBRARY OF REV LOUIS FITZGERALD BENSON. D. D BEQUEATHED BY HIM TO THE LIBRARY OF PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/ohncharlOOgree WESLEY BIBLIOGRAPHY. THE WORKS OF John and Charles Wesley. A BIBLIOGRAPHY: CONTAINING AN EXACT ACCOUNT OF ALL THE PUBLICATIONS ISSUED BY THE BROTHERS WESLEY ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, WITH A LIST OF THE EARLY EDITIONS, AND DESCRIPTIVE AND ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES: BY THE ^/ REV. RICHARD GREEN, DIDSBURY COLLEGE, MANCHESTER ; Author of Life of John Wesley ; The Mission of Methodism (The Fernley Lecture for 1890) ; etc. Published for the Author by C. H. Kelly, 2, Castle Street, City Road, and 66, Paternoster Row. 1896. BURN] IV : [•KIN I ED BY I!. MOORE, "G \/.Kl II-: I'UIN I IN'. VV< >RKS. TO THE MEMBERS OF HIE WESLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE FOLLOWING PAGES RESPECT FULLY I N SC R I BED. PREFACE. IT is not too much to say, that, while Wesley's Theological teaching cannot be thoroughly understood without a careful study of his numerous writings, so neither can his indefatigable labours, nor the difficulties and oppositions in the face of which he toiled, be duly estimated. The following pages will show how varied were his literary productions ; and they can hardly fail to excite surprise that, in the midst of his ceaseless evangelistic activity, he could write so much. It is indeed he who deserves the credit of having been the first in this country to provide and diffuse cheap popular literature of a useful kind. The works are placed in the precise order in which they were published, as far as that order, by the most careful inquiry, can be ascertained. The only variations being that, for convenience of reference, the Poetical Works issued in any year are placed at the end of the list for that year. The full title-page of the first edition of each work is given,* and the name of publisher and date of issue of all known editions to the end of the century. Differences in spelling in title-pages are reproduced. They were due mainly to the fact that Wesley seldom had the opportunity of correcting the press proofs. A brief description of each book and pamphlet generally follows, and a statement of the occasion on which it was written. Where they can be discovered, the titles of works which Wesley combatted or condensed are inserted, and illustrative extracts from the Journals of the two brothers and from other writings are added, the whole forming a view of the literary labours of these remarkable men such as has not hitherto appeared. It will be observed that there is much confusion in the numbering of the Editions. It is a common characteristic ; and probably arose from the books having been published in different towns and by different printers. * Except only in a very few instances where the author has not been able to see the first edition. PREFACE. Every available source of information has been searched in order to make this list as full and accurate as possible. It was Wesley's practice to append to his publications lists of all previous works issued by him. These have been carefully examined. Advantage has been taken of the labours of previous compilers, particularly of the First Part of Dr. Osborn's valuable Outlines of fan Bibliography (London: Wesleyan Conference Office, 1869); the Chronological List of the Writings of John and Charles Wesley, by Alexander Heylin, appended to Tegg's Edition of Stevens' History of Methodism (London: Wm. Tegg, 1864); List of Works revised and abridged from various authors and List of Poetical Works published by John and Churls Wesley, in Smith's History of Wesleyan Methodism, vol. I ; and the references in Tyerman's Life and Times of John Wesley ; etc., etc. In addition to the use of his own almost complete collection of the earliest editions of all the Works published by John and Charles Wesley, the author has freely consulted the Allan and the Wesleyan Book-Room libraries, and the large collection of Wesley's publications made by the Rev. Samuel Romilly Hall, and now in Didsbury College Library ; while the help of many correspondents has been very kindly given, and is most gratefully acknowledged. He is particularly indebted to his friend and colleague, the Rev. R. Waddy Moss, for much help and counsel. RICHARD GREEN. Didsbury College, January, 1896. Ylll. BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1733. 1. A Collection of Forms of Prayer for Every Day in the Week. i2mo. 1733- With preface and questions for self-examination. There is some difficulty in determining the original title of this pamphlet. It does not appear that an early edition was in the hands of any of the compilers of the lists of Wesley's works. A fifth edition (1740), the earliest seen by Dr. Osborn, had neither the original preface nor the questions for self- examination inserted by Wesley ; but hymns were added which were first published in 1739-40. It was so in the sixth edition (1742). But in a (so-called) fifth edition, published in Bristol, 1755, the pamphlet is evidently restored to its original character. There is no author's name on the title-page. This is in accord with the preface in which the writer hides himself under the designation, " the collector of these prayers." The preface and questions for self-examination are given, and, besides the omission of the hymns, there are certain marked similarities between this edition and the republication by Wesley in his collected works, making it highly probable that the printer in Bristol (J. Palmer) had before him a copy of the original edition. A Collection of Forms of Prayer for Every Day in the Week. The Fifth Edition, Bristol : printed and sold by J. Palmer in Wine Street ; by G. Woodfall, near Charing Cross, London ; A. Dodd, at the Peacock in the Strand ; J. Robinson, Ludgate-street ; and T. Trye, near Gray's Inn, 1755, 121110., pp. 76. Fifth edition, London; Strahan, 1740; Sixth, Bristol: F. Farley, 1742; Sixth, London: Hawes, 1775; Seventh, Newcastle: Gooding, no date; Eighth, 1745; Eighth, London: II. Cock, 1755; Ninth, Dublin : 1 748. This is the first work John Wesley printed ; as he informs us in his Journal under date May 14th, 1765, " In the same year (1733) I printed (the first time I ventured to print anything) for the use of my pupils, A Collection of Forms -f n •' This is the first work John Wesley printed ; as he informs us in his Journal ider dat( * venturec of Prayer 1734. 2. A Treatise on Christian Prudence. Extracted from Mr. Norris. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxon. The second edition. London : printed by W. Strahan, and sold by Thomas Harris, at the Looking" Glass and Bible, on London-Bridge ; by Thos. Trye, at Grey's-Inn Gate, and at the Foundery, near Upper-Moor-Fields. 1742. (Price threepence), 121110., PP- 35- 9 Nos. 3-4. [1735. The first edition was published in 1734, see following letter ; but a copy of it has not been found. Third edition, Bristol : F. Farley, 1749: Fourth edition, London: 1784. " I published a Collection of Forms of Prayer for everyday, in 1733 — An Abridgment of Mr. Norris' Christian Prudence, and Reflection on the Conduct of our Understanding, in 1734 — An edition of the Christian Pattern, a Sermon on Job iii. 17, and Advice to a Young Clergyman (written by my father) in 1 735 A Collection of Psalms and Hymns in 1736 [? 1737 \ Sermon on Salvation by Faith, An Extract from ye Homilies on ye same, and ye Life of Mr. Haliburton, in 173S -A Sermon on Free G abridgment of \ 1 lemus or a Treatise on ye fear of Man, and a Collection of Hymns and 1 Poems, in 1 739- Dated at Bristol, March 15. 1739-40. — JOHN Wesley." See Rawlinson's Continuation ol Wo • I's Athena Oxonienses> in the Bodleian MSS., Oxford. This is sufficient authority for the dates assigned to Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7. 1735. 3, The Christian's Pattern: or a Treatise of the Imitation oi Christ. Written originally in Latin, by Thomas a Kempis. With a Preface containing an account of the Usefulness of this Treatise ; Directions for reading it with advantage ; and likewise an Account of this Edition. Compared with the Original, and corrected throughout, by John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxon. London: Printed for ( \ Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Churchyard. 1735. Pp« xxxix., 319. 8vo. [Five copperplate engravings.] A beautiful little pocket-edition (241110., pp. xvi. 344) was published in the same year. The title page is slightly altered, and there is "a new preface, giving some plain directions how to read this (or, indeed, any other religious hook) with improvement." An engraving of tin- Crucifixion is placed opposite the title-page. This engraving reversed was on one of the earliest Tickets of the Society. \ cond edition, 241110., was published in 1750. No other edition of the complete treatise was published by Wesley; hut h was re-printed (with some omissions) by Cordeux : [815. [2mo., pp. In .1 notice of tli.- larger edition, inserted in the smaller one, it is affirmed, •• This edition is a closer translation of the original than any hitherto published; being as literal as is consistent with elegance, ami divided, like the Latin, into distinct senten< - "Sometimes I slipped into his [Fletcher's] study on other days. I rarely siw any hook before him besides the Bible and Christian Pattern." Wesley's 1 Fletcher. •• rle was dissatisfied with Dean Stanhope's translation, and determined t<> give a full view of the self-denying purity of his favourite guide." 11. M '/.. of Wesley % h, 401. 4, Advice i" \ Voung Clergyman: In ;i letter to him, concerning, I. His Intention ; II. Converse and Demeanour; III. Reading Prayers; IV. Studios; V. Preaching and Catechising ; VI. Administering the ramenl ; Lastly, Discipline. By a Divine of the 10 1737.] Nos. 5-6. Church of England. London : Printed for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church- Yard, and sold by J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane. [Price one shilling.] 121110., pp. iv.. 69. Signed at the end : — S. W. It was written by Samuel Wesley, sen. The preface is by John Wesley. Heylin gives April as the dale for the Christian's Pattern and October for the Advice ; on what authority is not stated. The author's copy has this manuscript note, " This letter was written by Mr. Wesley for the use of Mr. Nathaniel Hoole his .... in his curacy, 1724. I had the same put into my hands in MS. by Mr. Wesley. — John Pennington." " I took some [tains a year or two since in drawing up some advices to Mr. Hoole's brother, then to be my curate at Epworth." — Let. S. W. to J. W. "Some advices 1 drew 14) for Mr. Ploole, my curate, may not be unuseful to you. Pray let no one but yourself see them." — Let. S. W. to J. W., Wroot, January 26, 1724-5. — Life of S. IV., pp. 391-2. 5, A Sermon preached at St. Mary's in Oxford, on Sunday, September 21, 1735. ^ v J omi Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxon. Publish'd at the request of several of the hearers. London : Printed for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown, in St. Paul's Church- Yard ; and J. Roberts in W r arwick-Lane, 1735. 1 21110.. pp. 26. This sermon is founded on Job iii. 17. Jackson says, " This appears to have been the first sermon that Mr. Wesley ever committed to the press." It was first republished in 1816 in a volume of sermons by Charles Wesley. The original has no title, but one was supplied by Jackson, " The trouble and rest of good men." A Sermon on "The Pleasantness of a Religious Life" (Proverbs iii. 17). By John Wesley. 8vo., 1735. Heylin says, " This I give on the authority of Watts' Bibliotheca Britannica. I have never seen it, and it appears in no edition of Wesley's sermons or works." Both Lettsome and Cooke mention it in the Preacher's Assistant ; but they evidently copy from Watts, ami all three omit the sermon on Job iii. 17. It is not in the list that Wesley gave of the books he had written (see No. 2), nor is it in any list or catalogue published by him. It is probably a mistake for the preceding sermon, which is not mentioned in any of the authorities given by Heylin. There is not the slightest probability of the existence of the latter sermon. 1737. 6. A Collection of Psalms and Hymns. Charlestown : Printed by Lewis Timothy, 1737, 121110., pp. 74. This book contains the earliest of John Wesley's translations of German hymns. It was reprinted (1882) with preface by the Rev. G. Osborn, O.D. (London: T. Woolmer, 2, Castle-Street, City-Road, E.C.) It is not, as described on the title-page, a "facsimile reprint," the first two pages only being in facsimile. It is not dated. See note under No. 2. 1 1 Nos. 7-8-9. [1738-9. There is only one copy of this edition now known. It was purchased in London, for a few shillings ; some years afterwards it was sold for £5 ; subsequently £2$ were bidden for it at a sale by auction (1894), and refused. 1738. 7. A Collection oi Psalms and Hymns. London: Printed in the year 1738, 121110., pp, 84. No author's or printer's name. This very rare volume is fully described in (Jsborn's Outlines of Wesleyan Bibliography, and in Vhe Poetical Works of J. and C. !. ii. It has never been republished. There is a copy in the Didsbury College Library ; and another in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth. No others are known. 8, A Sermon on Salvation by Faith. By John Wesley, M. A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. London : Printed for James Hutton at the Bible and Sun, next the Rose-Tavern, without Temple-Bar, 1738, 121110., pp. 23. Third edition, 1740; Fourth, London: Strahan, 1 741 ; Fifth, London: \V. Strahan, 1 74 1 ; Sixth, Newcastle: Gooding, 1743; Ninth, Newcastle: Gooding, 1745 ; An edition, Dublin, 1747; Ninth, London : II. Cock 1750 ; An edition in French, "Imprhne* a Londres, par Strahan,'' 1759; Ninth, Hawes, 1773 ; Tenth, 1776; Unnumbered, Farley, 1763 ; Ditto, 1783 ; Lon. Paramore, 1783 ; London : Paramore, 1791. This was Wesley's first publication after his "conversion." It stands, where such a sermon should, at the beginning of his collection of his published works. He preached a sermon on the same text in the last year of his life after an interval of 53 years. "Among the curious mistakes made by Wesley respecting his own writings, one of the most curious respects the date at which this celebrated sermon was preached. I lis Journal shows that he left England for Germany on Tuesday, |une 13, just live days before the Sunday on which in all editions of his works he is said to have preached before the University of Oxford. The 11th is doubtless the true date." — OSBORN. "Having preached faith in Christ there I Stanton Harcourt| on Sunday, 11, I went on to Oxford; and thence on Monday to London. We went on board the next day, Tuesday, 13, and fell down to Gravesend that night "—/ournaf, June, 173S. The error began probably in an anonymous edition ui~ the sermon printed in Dublin, 1747 the first, if not the only, edition on which any date appears. Wesley did not add the date until 1771. 1739. 9 § 'I'm. Doctrine oi Salvation, Faith, ind ('.<•< u> Works. Extracted from the Homilies of the Church of England. London : Printed for James Hutton, at the Bible and Sun, without Temple-Bar, i 739, 1 -mho., pp, 23. Third edition, 1755; Fourth, London: Strahan, 1741 ; Sixth, Strahan, 1744: Nin tie: Gooding, 1749; Ninth, Dublin: Powell, 17(7: T.nth, Bristol: Farley, [748; Eleventh, Bristol [762; Eleventh, Bristol: Pine, 1770; Twelfth, Bristol: Pine, 1 7°7 • Thirteenth, Bristol : Pine, 177°- 1739.1 No. 10. "In the following week, I began more narrowly to inquire what the doctrine of the Church of England is, concerning the much controverted point of justification by faith ; and the sum of what I found in the Homilies, I extracted and printed for the use of others."—; Journal^ November 12, 1738. The work would not be published till 1739. 10- An Abstract of the Life and Death of the Reverend Learned and Pious Mr. Thomas Halyburton, M.A., Professor of Divinity in the University of St. Andrews (Acts xiii. 41). London : Printed for John Oswald, at the Rose and Crown in the Poultry, near Stocks Market, 1739, (price, bound in plain sheep, one shilling,) i2mo., pp. xii., 107. The Recommendatory Epistle, signed George Whitefield, London, February 5, 1 738"9' The Preface, signed John Wesley, London, February, 9, 1738-9. At end :— "N.B.— The Life of Mr. Haliburton at large, with Dr. Watts' Preface, may be had for 2s. 6d. bound."' An Extract of the Life and Death of Mr. Thomas Haliburton (Acts xiii. 41). London : Printed by W. Strahan, and sold at the Founder)', near Upper-Moor-Fields ; at James Hutton's, Bookseller, at the Bible and Sun, without Temple Bar ; and at John Lewis's, in Bartholomew Close. 1 741, [Price, stitch'd, sixpence], 121110., pp. 92. Contents and preface unpaged. Second edition, Bristol : F. Farley, 1747 ; Third, Bristol : Pine, 1768 ; Third [sic) Lon : Paramore, 1795 ; Fourth, Bristol: Pine, 1773 ; Fifth, Bristol: 1742; Fifth, London: Hawes, 1777; A Fifth, London: Cordeux, 1813 ; Ninth, Newcastle: Gooding, 1749; Eleventh, Bristol: Pine, 1762. These two pamphlets are one and the same — the first, being called an Abstract, and having Whitefield's letter in it ; the second and all following editions not having the letter and being called an Extract, a term frequently used afterwards by Wesley. For some interesting facts respecting this pamphlet see Jackson's Life of C. Wesley, i. 129. This is an abridgement of "Memoirs of the Life of the Reverend, Learned and Pious Mr. Thomas Haliburton, Professor of Divinity in the University of St. Andrews in Scotland: In four parts, whereof three were drawn up by himself, the fourth collected by his friends from his private papers and his dying lips." A second edition was published in London, by R. Cuttenden, in 1718, with a " Large Recommendatory Epistle by J. Watts,"* dated May 1, 1718 ; a Dedication by his wife, and a "Preface to the Reader" by another hand. Wesley abridged it to one-fourth its original size. Wesley's estimate of these memoirs was very high. He says, in the preface, ' ; This work of God in the soul of man is so described in the following treatise, as I have not seen it in any other, either ancient or modern, in our own or any other language. So that I cannot but value it next to the Holy Scriptures, above any other human composition, excepting only the Christian Pattern^ and the small remains of Clemens Romanus, Polycarp and Ignatius." Haliburton passed through very severe struggles but the reader is left without definite knowledge of the nature of them, the style being enigmatical and but I X Nos. 11-12-13. [1739. comparatively few of the incidents of his history being given. It was published b) Wesley in the early period of his career, which may account for the mystic element that is left in it. " I cannot but look upon his life as the most perfect copy of his blessed Master's that I have yet seen," — Whitefield's letter. Hut see Southey's Life of ! , Bonn's Ed., p 156 and note. 11. Free Grace : A Sermon preach'd at Bristol. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford. Bristol: Printed by S. and F. Farley. 1739, 121110., PP- 35- Hymn on Universal Redemption, thirty-six stanzas, appended. Second edition (not so called), London: Strahan, 1740; On page 4 of this is a curious " Advertisement " relating to a pamphlet, entitled. Free Graee Indeed, written against this sermon. Third, 1741 ; Fourth, London: Printed and sold at the Foundery, 1754; Bristol : Pine, 1765; London: 1809. Tyerman says of this sermon : " It led to the division which Whitefield so devoutly deprecates ; also to the organisation of Lady Huntingdon's Connexion, and to the founding of the Calvinistic Methodists in Wales ; and finally culminated in the fierce controversy of 1770 and the publication o( Fletcher's unequalled Checks^ which so effectually silenced the Calvinian heresy that its voice has scarce been heard from that lime to this. Viewed in such alight, the difference between Wesley and Whitefield was really one of the greatest events in the history of Wesley, and even of the religion of the age." — Life of Wesley, i. 317. " It is one of the most able and eloquent of all his discourses, a triumphant specimen of impassioned argument." — Southey's /.. of /.' 486. 12. NlCODEMUS: or, a Treatise on the Fear of Man. Written in German by August Herman Frank. Abridg'd by John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Bristol : S. and F. Farley, 1739. 8vo., pp. viii. 40. ond Edition (not so called), London : W. Strahan, 1740, pp. viii. and 32. Third, Newcastle: Gooding, 1744; Fourth, Bristol: Farley, 1749; Another fourth, Dublin: Powell, 1740: fifth. Bristol: Pine, 1767: Sixth, London: 1766; Another, London : Paramore, 17S0; Seventh, London : Whitfield, 1 70S. The preface, or dedication, to tin- original edition is dated "At ( rlaucha, by Hall, 1701." The same preface in Wesley's edition is dated Octobei 26, 17;!. The Treatise was written by August Merman Franke, Minister of Glaucha, and Professor of Divinity ;ii the University of Hall (Halle), in 1701. it was translated in Scotland soon alt. 1 \ >econd edition was published in Edinburgh, 1731- Wesley's appears to have been taken from this edition, hut it i-, considerably abridged. It was a suitable pamphlel lor the early Methodists. 13. An Extract oi mm Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Journal, from his embarking for Georgia i<> liis return i<> London. (Rom. i\. 30, 31.) Bristol : Printed by S. :mnd edition, Bristol: F. Farley, 1743: Third, Bristol, 1765; Fifth, London : II' .1 775. The Preface, dated London, Sep. 29, 1740, and signed John Wesley, contains a statement of his views respecting some of the doctrines of the Moravian Church. The Journal relates mainly to his religious experience 1} n, and immediately after his "conversion," which incident is narrated. 1 1 also contains an account ol his visit to the Moravians in Germany. 19. Hymns and Sacred Poems. Published l>\ John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford; and Charles Wesley, M.A., Student of Christ-Church, Oxford. (Col. ,ii.. [6.) I ondon : Printed b) \\ . Strahan ; and sold by 16 1741.] Nos. 20-21. James Mutton, Bookseller, at the Bible and Sun without Temple- Bar, and at the Foundery, near Upper-Moor-Fields. 1740. E2m6., pp. xi. 207, iv. Distinguished in early catalogues as Vol. [I. Not republished separately, but incorporated with the Fourth (1743) ana " Fifth ( r 7S°) editions of the 17;,*) book, (No. is)- "Contains several admirable translations from the German, which doubtless came from the pen of John. The original hymns, among which are some of the finest in the English language, display a deep pathos with all the energy and daring of Charles's genius. The most remarkable hymn in the volume is one entitled, ' The just shall live by faith,' which describes Mr. Charles Wesley's religious history up to this period of his life.' 1 — Jackson's Life of C. IV., i. 243. The volume is divided into two parts ; the first comprising forty-one hymns, the second sixty-four. In the former appears for the first time, " Jesu, lover of my soul." The preface is peculiar. It relates to the way of salvation, which is the chief subject of the hymns ; but some expressions in it, Wesley saw occasion afterwards to modify. — See Plain Account of Christian Perfec- tion, pp. 27-30 (No. 238). 1741. 20. An Extract from the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Journal with regard to the Affidavit made by Captain Robert Williams. (John vii., 51.) London: printed in the year 1741. 12 mo., pp. 12. The affidavit is mentioned in the preface to the Journal, {JVorks, i. 3). See also Tyerman's Life of JVesley, i. 429-30. This very rare tract consists of such portions of Wesley's Journal printed in 1739 (see No. 14) as relate to the accusation and trial of Wesley for refusing the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper to a communicant in Savannah. The first date given (p. 2) is June 25, 1736: it should be 1 7 3 7 . Not a little scurrilous writing appeared in reference to this event. Whitefield, in The Weekly History, very stoutly defends his friend, after having made careful enquiries into the circumstances on the spot. 21- An Extract of the Life of Monsieur de Renty, a late Nobleman of France. Published by John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. (Gal. v. 6 ; James ii. 22.) London: Printed by W. Strahan ; and sold at the Foundery, near Upper MoorfAelds ; at James Hutton's, Bookseller, at the Bible and Sun without Temple Bar ; and at John Lewis's in Bartholomew Close. 1 741. [Price Stitch'd, Four-pence.] 121110., pp. 67. Second edition, Bristol: Farley, 1746; Third, Bristol: Grabham and Pine, 1760; Fourth, London, 1778; Fifth, London, 1788; Sixth, London : Whitfield, 1796 ; another, Dublin: J. Jones, 1802. This is extracted from " Phe Holy Life of Monr. De Renty, a late Nobleman oj France and sometimes Councellor to King Lewis the 13th. Written in French by John Baptist S. Jure, and faithfully translated into English, by E. S. Gent. London : John Crook, at the Sign of the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1658.'' The 358 pages of this translation are carefully abridged to 67. *7 Nos. 22-23-24. [1741. "I ended the 'Abridgment of Mr. De Renty's Lite.* O that such a life should be related by such an historian ! who by inserting all, if not more than all, the weak things that hoi}' man ever said, or did . . . has cast the shade of superstition and folly over one of the brightest patterns of 1 Ieavenly Wisdom." foiiDiaL Jan. 6, 1738. 22. Serious Considerations on Absolute Predestination. Extracted from a late author, [R. Barclay.] Bristol : Printed by S. and F. Farley, in Castle Green. 1 74 t . 1 2 mo., pp. 24. Editions unnumbered, — Bristol: 1770 ; London: 1790; London: Cordeux, 1816. " We presented a thousand of Barclay to Mr. Whitefield's congregation on Sunday. On Sunday next I propose to distribute a thousand more at the Foundery." — Letter to C. W. Works, xii. 107. 23. A Short Account of the Death or Mrs. Hannah Richardson. Published by Charles Wesley, M.A., Student of Christ-Church, Oxon. n.<\. Half-title, 121110., pp. 8. No printer's name. Dated at beginning, Saturday, April 19, 1741. Was often reprinted. Fifth edition. Newcastle: Gooding, 1743; Sixth, Bristol: F. Farley, 1748; Seventh, Foundery: 1754: Ninth, 1766 ; Tenth, 1775. Some interesting particulars of the death and burial of this young woman are given in C. Wesley's Journal (April 17 — 21, 1741.) A hymn is appended which was sung at the funeral and was probably composed for the occasion. It appeared in a volume published the following year: see No. 40, page 131. "One of the most striking and effective antidotes to the peculiarities which were taught by Molther [the ' still. ' heresy], that the brothers ever published. The entire trnct, giving an account of her life and end, is written with singular terseness and spirit. It quickly passed through many editions, and ought never to be out of print. " [ackson's Life of C. fVesley,i. 275. 24. A Dialogue between a Predestinarian am- his Frh nd. Published by John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Loudon : Printed by W. Stiahan, in the year j 74 1. 1 2mo., pp. 7. The second edition, corrected and enlarged: "Oul of Thine own Mouth!" added: London: Strahan, 17. |i. pp. [2, preface added; Third edition, Bristol : 17.(1; Thiol, Bristol: I. Farley, 17.1-': London: Cordeux, 1 N l 5 ; Another, 1N10. Jo 'ph Gurney in [778 affirmed that this was taken without acknow ledgement from / Dialogue between '//^/, by Grantham, n>o<>. Tyermnn supports the accusation Heylin says : " I have compared the two, and lind that the 1 barge 1 \ ' : groundless." I.S 1741.] Nos. 25-26-27. 25. Reflections upon the Conduct of Human Life with reference to. Learning and Knowledge. Extracted from Mr. Norris. 121110., pp. 36. Generally assigned to this year ; but no compiler appears to have seen a copy of the first edition. Second edition, London: Strahan, pp. 36, 1 741 ; Third, London: Cock, 1755; Fourth, London: Ilawes, 1776. In this extract twenty-five chapters of the original work are omitted. At the end of the third edition is appended "A Scheme of Books suited to the preceding Reflections v : see also Works, 1 77 1 , vol. viii. 26. An Extract of the Christian's Pattern: or, a Treatise of the Imitation of Christ. Written in Latin by Thomas a Kempis. Published by John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. London : Printed by W. Strahan, and sold at the Foundery, near Upper-Moor- Fields ; at James Hutton's, Bookseller, at the Bible and Sun without Temple Bar ; and at John Lewis's, in Bartholomew Close, 1741. [Price, stitch'd, eightpence.] 1 2 mo., pp. 130 Other editions 1744; Bristol: F. Farley, 1746; Bristol: Grabham, 1759; London: Havves, 1777; London: Paramore, 1780; one printed in the year 1788 ; London : Story, 1800. Frequently printed in 241110. This is an abridgement of No. 3. Eight chapters are omitted from Book I, seventeen fiom Book III, and three from Book IV. The preface and the contents are also omitted. "The Societies are not half supplied with books : not even with 'Kempis' . . . which ought to be in ever)- house." — Large Minutes, 1763, page 23, (No. 221). 27. The Scripture Doctrine Concerning Predestination, Election, and Reprobation. Extracted from a late Author. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford (1 Tim. iv. 10). London: Printed by W. Strahan ; and sold by Thomas Harris, at the Looking- Glass and Bible on London Bridge ; and at the Foundery, near Upper-Moor-Fields. 1741. 121110., pp. 16. Other editions, London: Hawes, 1775; Hawes : 1776; London: Paramore, 1782; New York: 1789, appended to "The Articles of Religion as received and taught in the Methodist Episcopal Church throughout the United States of America ;" London: Cordeux, 181 2 ; London : Mason, 1833. Incorporated in the Preservative against Unsettled Notions in Religion, 1758, (No. 191). *9 Nos. 28-29-30. [1741. 28. The Almosi Christian: a Sermon preached at St. Mary's, Oxford, before the University, on July 25, 1741. By John Wesley, M.A.. Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxon. London: Printed by W. Strahan. 1741. [Price two- pence.] 121110., ])I). 21. Sixth edition, Sheffield : John Garnett, 1744: Sixth, Bristol: Farley, 1747; Seventh, Bristol: Farley, 1 74S : Ninth. Bristol: Grabham, 175S ; Tenth, Bristol: 1762;' Eleventh, Bristol: 1700: Twelfth, Bristol: Pine, 1770; Fifteenth, London: Hawes, 1780; others 17 s -'. 17S7. " It being my turn (which comes about oner in three years), I preached at St. Mary's, before the University. The harvest truly is plenteous. St. numerous a congregation (from whatever motives they came) 1 have seldom seen at Oxford. My text was the confession of poor Agrippa, ' Almost thou persuadest me to he a Christian.' 1 have ' cast my bread upon the waters/ Let me ' find it again after many days." "—Journal^ Saturday, July 25, 1741. " We met at ten to pray for a blessing on my brother's sermon, which he is preaching at this hour before the University."- Charles Wesley's Journal same date. See curious note respecting this sermon in Tyennan's /./' i- JU2-J. 29. Christian Perfection : a Sermon preached by John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford. London : Printed 1))- W. Strahan, and sold by Thomas Harris, at the Looking-Glass and Bible on London Bridge, and at the Foundery, near LJpper-Moor-Fields. 1 74 1 . [Price sixpence.] 121110., pp. 48. Appended is a hymn of 28 stanzas entitled "The Promise of Sanctification : Ezekiel xxxvi. 25, &c. By the Reverend Mr. Charles Wesley." Itwasafter- wards published in Hymns and Sacred Poems of John and Charles Wesley, 1742, pagc25.S. Second edition, Newcastle: Gooding, I 7 1 3. " I think ii was in the latter end of the year 1740 thai I had a conversation with I >r. Gibson, then Bishop of London, at Whitehall. He asked me what I mean) by perfection. I told him without any disguise or reserve. When I ceased speaking he said, ' Mr. Wesley, if this head you mean, publish it to all the world." I answered, ' My lord, 1 will,' and accordingly w rote and published the sermon on Christian Perfection" Plain Account of Christian Perfection^ page [9; No. 238. Tyerman thinks this was Wesley's first publication this year ; but it does not appear in a catalogue at theend of The Almost Christian^ in which nearly every other publication of the year is mentioned. 30. A Conn riON "i Psalms \m> Hymns. Published by John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. London : Printed by W, Strahan ; and sold at the Foundery near Upper Moorfields; at James Hutton's, bookseller, at the Bible and Sun without Temple Bar ; and at |ohn Lewis's in Bartholomew-Close. i;m- I Pi ice, bound, ()\)c Shilling. | 1 21110., pp, i\ 126. 1741.1 Nos. 31-32. Divided into two parts : Part I containing 77 Psalms and Hymns ; Part II, 75. A title is prefixed t<> each Psalm or Hymn : some of the Hymns arc divided into two, or mure, parts. The table of contents is inaccurate. Second edition, enlarged, London : Strahan, 1743, pp. 138. "Charles Wesley, M.A., Student of Christ-Church, Oxford," is inserted on tin- title page. Though this edition is said to be "enlarged," the total number of Psalms and Hymns is less than in the first edition. There are 68 in Part 1, and 62 in Part II. Several additional psalms are inserted, hut fewer hymns. The number of pages is greater. Several changes are made in the arrangement. The third edition varies from the second. Third edition, enlarged, London: 1744: Fourth, enlarged, Bristol : 174S; fifth. Loudon: II. Cock, 1751 ; Fifth, Bristol : Grabham, 1760 ; Sixth, London: 1756, no printer's name; Ditto, Bristol: Pine, 1762; Seventh, Bristol: Pine, 1765; Eighth, Bristol: Pine, 1773; Ninth, London: Hawes, 1776; Tenth, London: Hawes, 1779; Eleventh, London: Paramore, 17S9 ; London: Printed in the year 1791 ; Twelfth, London: Paramore, 1794; Thirteenth, London: ('.. Story, 1808: Fourteenth, London: Cordeax, 1813 ; Fifteenth, 1818 ; Sixteenth, London: Cordeux, 1815. long 1 21110. ; Another, 1823; Eighteenth, London : Cordeux, 1818, long 121110. ; Seventeenth, London : J. Kershaw (printed by J. Nichols), 1824, long 121110 ; Eighteenth, London : 1825, 241110. "The Eighteenth edition, 241110., 1825, was the last published. There were, however, at least twenty-three editions, as I have seen that number, and probably there were more.*' — Ileylin. An abridged edition was bound up with the Sunday Service (see Nos. 376, .37.8). This is the third book published with this title. 31. Hymns on God's Everlasting Love. To which is added the Cry of a Reprobate, and the Horrible Decree. Bristol : printed by S. and F. Farley, at Shakespear's Head, in Castle Green. 1 741. 121110., pp. 36. Contains iS hymns, neither hymns nor verses numbered. Lour verses of the 14th hymn are omitted in the Poetical Works (iii. 31). The weird " Cry of a Reprobate" was republished in Jackson's Life of C. Wesley. 32. Hymns on God's Everlasting Love. London : printed by W. Strahan : and sold by T. Harris, at the Bible and Looking Glass on London Bridge and at the Foundery, near Upper Moor Fields. Price fourpence. No date. 1 2 mo., pp. 60. Contains 28 hymns. Of the first 17, 16 are numbered, the 14th being unnumbered. After them are eleven hymns under the title Gloria Fa/ri, numbered consecutively, 1 to 11. A second edition of the first (though not numbered as such) was published at Bristol the same year, probably to meet the great demand in London ; see Works, xii. 107. The two tracts were published together in 1756 without any author's or printer's name ; and having the title, " HYMNS ON GOD'S EVERLASTING LOVE. Ill two parts. The Second edition. London : printed in the year 1756." 121110., pp. 84. This edition differs from the First thus :— Part I., Four verses are omitted from hymn 14: Part II., Hymns 12 and 13 are omitted ; and from Gloria Palri. Nos. 2. 7, 8, 9, IO, and II. 21 No. 33. [1742. Third. Bristol: I 'inc. 1770: 17th hymn omitted from this and subse- quent editions. Fourth, London: Hawes, 1779: Another, Paramore, [792. "This is the blasphemy clearly contained in the horrible decree of predestin- ation, and here I h\ my foot." — Sermon on Free Grace, (No. 111. Wesley did not coin the phrase The Horrible Decree. A work had previously appeared with the following title, Fate and Destiny inconsistent with Christianity: or, The Horrid Decree of Absolute, Unconditional Election and Reprobation fully detected. Showing the grand error of asserting that Christ did not die for ali men, but for an elect number only. In eight Conferences between Epenetus and Eutychus. By Edward Bird. London : Rivmgton, 17 jo. (See also, Calvin's use of the term, quoted in Poetical Works of 'J. and C. Wesl iii. pref. note \viii ). This being the first anonymous publication of hymns by the WeSjleys, it may be proper to refer to the fact that the brothers agreed not to distinguish their hymns. The editor of the Poetical Works says that any distinction now- attempted must be to a great extent, if not wholly, conjectural. But his own inquiries have led him to think it likely that John Wesley contributed more largely to these joint publications than is commonly supposed : and that the habit of attributing almost everything found in them to his brother, is scarcely consistent with a due regard to accuracy. -(Adv. vol. viii. p. jcv.) 1742. 33. A Sermon preach'd on Sunday, April 4, [742 \ before the University of Oxford. By Charles Wesley, M.A., Student of Christ-Church. London: Printed by VV. Strahan, and sold by Thomas Harris, at the Looking Class ami Bible, on London Bridge; by Tho, Trye, at Gray's Inn-Gate, Holborn ; and at the Foundery, near Upper-Moor-Fields, 1742. [Price Two-pence.] 1 21110., pp. 29. [Text, Ephesians, v. 14.] The Second edition, London: Strahan, 1742; Third, London: Strahan, 1742; Fifth, Bristol: 1'. Farley, [743; Fifth, Newcastle; Seventh, 1745: Tenth, Bristol: 1745: Twelfth, Bristol: Farley, 1740; Thirteenth, Bristol: Grabham, n.d. ; Fifteenth, London: 174": Sixteenth, London: Cock. 17. pi: Nineteenth, Bristol: rim-, 1701 ; Twentieth, London: II. Fenwick, [763; Twentieth, Bristol: i7".>: Twenty-first, London: 171.7 ; Twenty-first, Bristol: \\ . Pine, Twenty-second, London: 1771: Twenty-third, 1775: Twenty-sixth, London: Paramore, 1780; Twenty-sixth, London: [782; Twenty- seventh, London: Hindmarsh, [782 ; London : Paramore, 17833 with the words "This Sermon is not to be sold, but given away," on the title-page; Another in 1784; Twenty-seventh, [786; Another. 17S0; Twenty-ninth, 1; The Sermon was advertised as " Recommended l>y Mr. Whitefield," in The \ History (London: Lewis, Saty., Ma) 8, 1 John Wesle) writes in his Journal ( Works % i. 364), "About two in the after- noon, being the time my brothei was preaching at Oxford, before the Univei 1 red a few persons to meet with me, and join in prayer. We continued herein much longer than we at first designed, and believed we had the petition we asked ol ( lod. 1742.] Nos. 34-35. "It is doubtful whether any Sermon in the English language, or in any language upon earth, has passed through so many editions, or has been a means of so much spiritual good."' (See Jackson's Life of C. Wesley, i., 310; also for other particulars. ) 34- The Character of a Methodist. By John Wesley, At. A., Fellow of Lincoln College in Oxford. ("Not as though I had already attained.") Bristol : printed by Felix Farley, and sold at his Printing Office, in Castle- Green, and by J. Wilson, in Wine-street ; in London : by Thomas Trye, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, and Thomas Harris, on the Bridge and at the Fotmdery. 1742. nmo., pp. 20. On pp. 18-20 is a hymn of sixteen stanzas entitled, "The Whole Armour of Clod," afterwards published in Charles Wesley's Hymns and Saered Poems, vol. I., p. 236 (No. 138). The hymn appears to have been omitted after the second edition. Second edition, Bristol : F. Farley, 1742, precisely as first edition ; Another, London: 1742; Third, Newcastle: Gooding, 1743; London: 1743, {French); Fifth, London: 1745 ; Another, Dublin: S. Powell, 1747 ; Seventh, Bristol : Farley, 1751 ; Seventh, London: Cock, 1751 ; Eighth, Bristol: 1763; Ninth, London: 1765; Ninth, Bristol: W. Pine, 1769; Tenth, London: Paramore, 1786 ; Thirteenth, London : Story, 1802; Sixteenth, London: Cordeux, 1814 ; Another, London: Mason, 1835. The greater part of this tract is incorporated, in a condensed form, in the Plain Accoutit of Christian Perfection, 1765 (No. 238) ; and of it Wesley says, "These are the very words, wherein I largely declared, for the first time, my sentiments of Christian Perfection," id. p. 17. He had previously, to some extent, treated of the subject in the Sermon on Christian Perfection (No. 29). 35- The Principles of a Methodist. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford. Occasioned by a late Pamphlet, intitled, "A Brief History of the Principles of Methodism."' [By Rev. Joseph Tucker, Vicar of All Saints, Bristol.] Bristol : Printed by Felix Farley, and sold at his shop in Castle Green, and by John Wilson, in Wine Street : in London, by Thomas Trye, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, and Thomas Harris, on the Bridge; and at the Foundery, Upper-Moor-Fields. 1742. i2mo.,pp. ii. 32. Second edition, Bristol: Felix Farley, 1746; Edition not numbered, Dublin: S. Powell, 1747; Third, London: 1756; Fourth, London: R. Hawes, 1777; Unnumbered, London, for the Author, 1789; London: Whitfield, 1796. The date on the title page is 1742. The pamphlet which "occasioned" it not having been published till July, 1742. it is clear that the book cannot have been issued before this year ; and, therefore, that the date of 1740, given in all the editions of Wesley's Works, must be an error. It does not appear in any catalogue before 1742. Nos. 36-37-38. [1742. Wesl "I have often wrote on controversial points before, but not with any particular person, so thai this is the first time I have appeared in controversy properly SO called. I now tread an untried path with fear and trembling ; fear not of my adversary, out of myself." — Preface to the reader. It is a brave defence of his teaching. 36. A Companion for the Altar. Extracted from Thomas a Kempis. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln- College, Oxon. Bristol: F.Farley. 1742. 1 21110., pp. 24. iid edition, Bristol : Felix Farley, 1742 : Third. London : \Y. Strahan, 1744; Fourth, London: 1750; Fourth, Dublin : Powell, 1748; Fifth, London : Cock, 1755: Sixth, Bristol: 1701: Another, Bristol: 1765 : Another, Bristol : Line, 1769 ; Another, called the Eighth, Lond.m : I [awes, 1 769. This is taken from Look iv. of The Christian's Pattern (No. 3) as it appears in The Extract of the same (No. 26) ; but it is a little further condensed. It was kept constantly on sale. 37. An Extract oi ihk Revd. Mr. John Wesley's Journal, from August 12, 1738, to Nov. 1, 1739. (Acts v - ,v s > 39«) Bristol : Printed by Felix Farley, and sold at 1 lis shop in Castle-Green, and by John Wilson, in Wine- Street ; In London, by Thomas Trye, near Grey's-Inn- Gate, and Thomas Harris, on the Bridge; and at the Foundery, in Upper-Moor-Fields. 1742. [2 mo., pp. iv., 98. [Xo. iii.] iid edition. Bristol : Felix Farley, 174S ; Third, [748 ; Unnumbered, London: Sold at the New Chapel, City-Lead. i;n s : Aii' ither, London : 1S05. Both Wesley and his work were greatly traduced from the beginning. In he published these extracts from his extensive MS. Journals, and so was led to give to the world one <>f the most interesting and instructive records of ministerial labour ever written. '• What I design in the following extract is openly to declare to all mankind, what it is that the Methodists (so-called) have done ami are doing now," ■>■. 38. A Collection ok Tunes sei ro Music, as rHE\ are Commonl\ Sung ai the F01 ndery, London: Printed by A. Pearson, and sold by T. Harris, at the Looking- Glass and Bible, on London Bridge ; 'I'. Trye, at Gray's- Jnn ( i;it<-, llollioin, and at the Foundery, near Upper Moor-Fields. 1 742. 1 2mo., pp. 36. are .|j Tunes, the melody only is printed, with a verse ol a hymn interlined. Ai the head oi each nine is its name, with ;i reference to the page in vol. I.. II.. "i 111.. ,,| Hymns and N 15, 10. 40,) from which iIk' hymn is taken. The notation i-- ver) curious. This i> the insi Method isl Tune-book. On iliis account, and from the character oi th< tunes, ii i- lull ol interest. I reallj /'■ "Old Methodisl Tunes." 1742.] Nos. 39-40-41. It was reproduced in facsimile, with a preface by Osborn ; (London : Woolmer. 1882). 39. An Elegy on the Death of Robert Jones, Esq., of Fonmon-Castle, in Glamorganshire, South-Wales. (Wisdom of Solomon V., 3, 4, 5). By Charles Wesley, M.A., Student of Christ-Church, Oxford. Bristol : Printed by F. Farley, and sold at his shop in Castle- Green. 1742. 4to., pp. 26. Second edition. Bristol: F. Farley, 1748, (i2mo., pp. 22); another, not numbered, London : Printed and sold at New Chapel, 1789. Reprinted in A Collection of Moral and Sacred Poems, published by Wesley, 1744, in three vols. (No. 58); in Charles Wesley's Journal, 1849 ; and in Bards of Epworlh, 18*56. In this elegy on a fellow-collegian, a convert under his ministry ami an attached friend, Charles Wesley "describes Mr. Jones's early life, conversion, subsequent piety, exemplary conduct as a husband and a father, his attachment to the Church of England, catholic spirit, fidelity to his Christian profession, and triumphant death,"" —Life of C. ll\, i. 314. In spirited verse his friend endeavours to " Bring back his virtues into open day, The sinner, convert, friend, and dying saint display." 40. Hymns and Sacred Poems. Published by John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford, and Charles Wesley, M.A., Student of Christ Church, Oxford. (Titus ii. n-14.) Bristol: Printed and sold by Felix Farley, in Castle-Green ; J. Wilson, in Wine-Street; and at the School-Room in the Horse-Fair ; in Bath by W. Frederick, Bookseller ; and in London by T. Harris, on the Bridge : also at the Koundery, in Upper-Moor-Fields. 1742. 121110. pp. xii. 304. viii., and one page of errata. The preface, on Christian Perfection, " the subject of many of the verses," is evidently by John W'esley. Second edition bears date 1743 ; another 1745, both Bristol : Farley. The former was sold "also by A. Bradford, in Philadelphia." Third edition, London: Printed in the year 1756. This is the third volume having the same title, and is called Vol. III. in some early catalogues. It is divided into Parts I and II ; the former containing fifty-one hymns, the latter erne hundred and ten, of which seven are " Hymns for Children."' " Five of these, with four from other sources and some prayers, appear to have been soon after published in a separate form, without title, name, or date," (Osborn) : see also No. 99. In this volume " Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child," and " Wrestling Jacob," appear for the first time. 41. A Collection of Hymns published by John W^esley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford : and Charles Wesley, M.A., Student of Christ-Church, Oxford. [Price Three-pence.] London: Printed by W, Strahan. 1742. 1 21110., pp. 36. 2 5 Nos. 42-43. [1743. Another edition, London: Strahan, 1743, with the additional words on the title-page, "Extracted from the First volume of Hymns and Sacred Poems (No. 151: Another Dublin: S. Powell, 1749; Another Belfast: James Magee, 1750. One of the editions is said to he priced two-pence. "Another beautiful illustration of Wesley's desire to elevate the poor is found in the publication of this tract. The book from which it was extracted sold for tWO-and-sixpenoe, and was out of their reach. He therefore selected twenty-four of the choicest pieces contained in it, and sold them at three-pence, a tenth part of the price of the volume." — Osborn, Meth. />//>., p. 12. 1743. 42. Thoughts on Marriage and \ Single Life. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxon. Bristol: Printed by Felix Farley ; and sold by the Booksellers of Bristol, Bath, London, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Kxeter; as also by A. Bradford in Philadelphia. 1743. 1211m., pp. 12. nd edition, Bristol : 1''. Farley, 1743. A short and thoughtful tract, written in Wesley's condensed style, in reply to a question frequently asked of him, '■ Which is to be preferred, a married state or a single life," and because he had never seen "any treatise upon it that was just and agreeable to Holy Writ, and at the same time short and so plain that every reader of a common capacity might understand it.'' It is sometimes named in catalogues, Thoughts on Marriage and Celibacy. 43. The Nature, Design, \ni> General Rules of the United Societies, in London, Bristol, King's Wood, and Newcastle upon Tyni Printed by John Gooding, on the Side. [Price one penny.] 174^, i2mo., pp. .2. Signed by John Wesle) only, and dated Februi ^42-3. A hymn of eighteen verses, entitled, '"A Prayer lor those who are Convinced oi Sin," follows the Rules in this edition, and in several of those published during the lifetime of Wesley. Second edition, Bristol: Farley, dated May 1, [743; tin- "1" in paragraph 7, page 9, is exchanged tor " We,"' and the name oi Charles Wesley is added, as in all subsequent editions. Third, Bristol : Farley, 171;; Fourth, London: Strahan, 1744, (on the title-page of this edition added the words "To which are subjoin'd the Rules of the band Societies"); Fifth, Bristol: Farley, 1747; Fifth, Dublin : 1747 ; Sixth, Dublin: Powell, 1758, (two hymns) j Sixth, London: 1750; Seventh, London: T. Pasham, I755 J Eighth, London: 1 li, London: [764; Ninth, London: 171.0; also Bristol, 1700: Tenth, B Line, i77"-. Tenth, 1 Ion: 1772, (dated at the end Ma} 1. 1764); Eleventh, London: Hawes, 1774; Sixteenth, London: Hawes, 1770; Seventeenth, London: Paramore, 1781 : Eighteenth, London: Para 1782; Nineteenth, London: Paramore, another Nineteenth, 17855 Twentj first, London: [790; Twentj second, I. Ion: Paramore, 170;; Twenl) third, London; Paramore, 1794; another, 1700: one nol numbered, London: <'.. Story, [800 ; many subsequently. 26 1743.1 Nos. 44-45. In sonic editions the following curious addition is made to the rule forbidding the wearing ot costly apparel, — "particularly the wearing of Calashes, High- heads, or enormous Bonnets." From the twenty-third edition (1794), "To receive what they are willing to give toward (he relief of the poor" is changed, as to the latter phrase, into, li for the support of the Gospel.'''' Towards the close of the century, the wording of the Rules was for some time much altered. In the fourth edition (1744) are added "THE RULES OF THE BAND Societies, drawn up Dec. 25, 1738,'" together with " Directions given to the Band SOCIETIES, Dec. 25, 1744." The hymn is omitted. The fifth edition is restored to the original form. These Rules and Directions were afterwards often reprinted as a separate pamphlet, (121110., pp. 4) : see No. 57, also Mi'n. Couf. 1749, page 4. (No. 136). 44 A Word in Season : or, Advice to a Soldier, (i. Tim. vi. 12.) Newcastle upon Tyne : Printed by John Gooding, on the Side. Sold by R. Akenhead, on Tyne Bridge, Newcastle ; by T. Trye, at Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holbourn ; at the Foundery, near Moor-Fields, London ; and at the New School in the Horse Fair, Bristol, 1744. [Price one penny.] 12 mo., pp. 8. The above is a copy of the title-page of the earliest edition I have seen. The book, however, must have been written in this year or sooner; for Charles Wesley mentions his giving a copy to the captain of the mob at Sheffield, May 25, 1743,— -Jo urnal, vol. i., p. 328. It is frequently mentioned in the early catalogues under the heading " Books published by Mr. John Wesley,'' but for the first time in 1743. It was also issued with the title Adviee to a Sailor. No copy appears with the writer's name ; but the style is sufficient evidence of the authorship. An edition, London : 1756 ; another, London : 1789. This is the first of a number of "Words" addressed to various classes of people, published at different times, and generally of four pages in extent. 45- A Practical Treatise on Christian Perfection. Extracted from a late Author [W. Law] by John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxon. Newcastle upon Tyne : Printed by John Gooding, on the Side ; sold by R. Akenhead, on Tyne-Bridge, Newcastle ; by T. Trye, at Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holbourn ; at the Foundery, near Upper-Moor-Fields, London ; and at the New School in the Horse-Fair, Bristol. 1743. [Price One Shilling]. 121110., pp. 115. This is a very carefully prepared extract from A Practical Treatise upon Christian Perfection, by William Law, A.M. (London: Innys, 1726. 8vo., pp. 546). The influence of Law's writings upon Wesley's mind was very great, although he did not wholly agree with his views. He says "In 1727 I read Mr. Law's 'Christian Perfection, 3 and "Serious Call,' and more explicitly resolved to be all devoted to God, in body, soul and spirit." — Letter in Journal, May 14. 1765. See also Works, i. 99, x. 403, &c. 2 1 Nos. 46-47-48. [1744. 46. The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to come. Abridged by John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. (i Cor. i. 27.) Newcastle upon Tyne : Printed by John Gooding, on the Side ; sold by R. Akenhead, on Tyne-Bridge, Newcastle ; by T. Trye, at GrayVInn-Gate, Holbourn; at the Foundery, near Upper-Moor-Fields, London ; and at the Now School in the Horse Fair, Bristol. 1743. [Price Fourpence.] 1 21110., pp. 49. >nd edition, Newcastle: Gooding, 1744; another Second, London: 1745: Third, Bristol: Farley, 1 74S ; Fourth, London: Trye, 1 7 5 S ; Fifth, Bristol: Pine, 17OO; Sixth, London: Paramore, 1 7 S 7 ; Eighth, London : Story, 1802. This abridgement was prepared doubtless for the benefit of the poor. The allegory is compressed to the utmost degree, and thereby <■>( course the picturesque quaintness of the inimitable original is sacrificed. Works of art will not bear such treatment. It cannot be called one of Wesley's successful works, however good his aim may have been. 47- -\ N Earnest Appeal to M en of Reason \\i> Religion. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford. (John vii. 51.) Newcastle upon Tyne. Printed by John Gooding, on the Side. [Price Sixpence.] 1743, 121110., pp. 59. iid edition, Bristol: F. Farley, 174.}. On page 53 of this edition is found a hymn entitled "Primitive Christianity," of two parts, ol fourteen and sixteen stanzas respectively. Third edition, Bristol: Farley, [744; Another, miscalled the third, Bristol: Farley, 1749, has appended a second hymn, " For a Person called forth to bear his Testimony"; Fourth, Dublin: S. Powell, 1747: Fifth, Dublin : Powell, ; Sixth, Bristol: 1705 ; Another Sixth, Bristol: Pine, 1771; Another, also called the Sixth, 1775 ; Seventh, London : Paramore, [786; Eighth, 1796. Wesley describes it to be, "a plain account both of our principles and our actions.'' lie dwells on the nature and reasonableness of true religion, addressing himself chiefly t<> "those who do not receive the Christian system as of God." lie then enters upon a defence ol Scriptural principles, which he applies in fervent appeals to religious | especially t<> membersofthe Church of England. See also Telfords Lifeofjohn Wesley^ pi In his collected works (177J), We ley says this was published in 1744. This is plainly a mistake, for both the first and second editions bear date 174, : and it is in more than one catalogue ol tint year. As he quotes the rhyme, which is not appended to the fust edition, it is probable he had a later one before him. 1744. 48- A Serioi Call i<> \ Hol^ Life. Extracted from a late Author [W. Law.] By John Wesley, M. A., Fellow of Lincoln < College, < Oxford. N upon T\ ne : Printed b) John Gooding, on the Side: sold by k. Akenhead, on ryne-Bridge, Newcastle \ bj L Prye, at 1744.] Nos. 49-50. Gray's Inn (late, Holbourn; at the Foundery, near Upper- Moor Fields, London ; and at the New School in the Horse-Fair, Bristol. 1744- [Price Two Shillings.] 121110., pp. iv. 230. An edition, presumably the second, but nol so called, London: Paramore, 1 7 S 1 . in this are the words, often inserted ai that time, "This hook not to be sold, but given away." Third edition, entitled "An Abridgment of Mr. Law'sSerious Call to a Holy Life." London : G. Story, 1804. "A treatise which will hardly be excelled, if it he equalled, in the English tongue, either for beauty of expression, or for justness and depth of thought." — Wesley's Works, vii. 297. "The most famous, if not the greatest of all Law's Works. Next to the Bible it contributed more than any other book to the rise and spread of the great evangelical revival of the eighteenth century." — Canon Overton's Life of Law, p. 109. The " Extract of the Christian's Pattern," the " Treatise on Christian Perfection,"' and the " Serious Call " were sometimes bound together in one volume. 49- The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God. Extracted from Mr. Edwards, Minister of Northampton, in New-England. By John Wesley, MA., Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford. London : Printed by W. Strahan ; and sold by T. Trye, near Gray's-Inn- Gate, Holbourn ; and at the Foundery, near Upper Moor Fields. 1744. [Price Four-pence.] i2mo., pp. 48. Second edition, London : Cock, 1755 ;• Third edition, London : Paramore, 1795. The work from which this is extracted is thus advertised in the Weekly History, May 15, 1742: — " The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God, applied to that uncommon operation that has lately appeared on the minds of many of the people in New-England. With a particular consideration of the Extraordinary Circumstances with which this work is attended. By Jonathan Edwards, A.M., Pastor of the Church of Christ, at North- ampton ; which was lately re-printed in London and recommended by the Rev. Dr. J. Watts, with a Preface by the Rev. Mr. Cooper, of Boston, giving some account of the present work of God in those parts, and some Letters of Dr. Coleman to Dr. Watts. Boston : 1741. London: re-printed for S. Mason, 1742. N. B. — The above Discourse is earnestly recommended (by the Rev. Mr. Whitefield, and the Rev. Mr. Wesley) to the serious perusal of all Christians of all Denominations, especially to Ministers." 50- Extract of Count Zinzendorf's Discourses on the Redemption of Man by the Death of Christ. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. New- castle-upon-Tyne : Printed by John Gooding, on the Side ; sold by R. Akenhead, on Tyne Bridge, Newcastle ; 29 Nos. 51-52. [1744. by T. Trye, at GrayVInn-Gate, Holbourn, at the Foundery, near Upper-Moor-Fields, London; and at the New-School in the Horse-Fair, Bristol. 1744. [Price Six-pence.] 121110., pp. 78. Extracted from " Sixteen Discourses upon Luther's Explanation of the Second Article of the (/reed.'" Wesley, at first much impressed by the Moravians, and deeply indebted to several of them for help in one period of his spiritual life, was obliged, at length, to separate entirely from them. See Preface to Fourth Extract from Journal (No. 53). Never re-printed. 51- The Life of God in the Soul of Man ; or, the Nature and Excellency of the Christian Religion. Abridged by John Wesley, M A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford (Eph. iv. 18, Gal. ii. 20, Rom. viii. 14). Newcastle-upon- Tyne : Printed by John Gooding, on the Side ; sold by R. Akenhead, on Tyne Bridge, Newcastle ; by T. Trye, at Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holbourn ; at the Foundery, near Upper-Moor-Fields, London; and at the New-School in the Horse-Fair, Bristol. 1744- [Price fourpence.] 1 21110., pp. 48. Second edition, Bristol : F. Farley, 1748, evidently printed from the same type as the first edition, except the title-page ; another, Dublin : 1'owell, 1748; Third, London: Printed in the year 1756; Third, Bristol: Pine, 1770; Fourth, London: 1777; Fifth, London: 1790; Sixth, London : Whitfield, 1797. This treatise was written by Henry Scougall, A.M., Sometime Professor of Divinity in King's College, Aberdeen. He was the son o\ Bishop Scougall, and died in the year 167N. The hook was lirst published in I (>J 7, without the author's name, by Bishop Burnet. It was a favourite with the Wesleys when at Oxford. Charles Wesley lent it to W'hilelicld, w ho says of it, "Though I had lasted, watched and prayed, and received the Sacrament so long, yet 1 never knew what true religion was till God sent me that excellent treatise by the hand of my never-to-be-forgotten friend." Tyerman's /.. of WhiUfield^ i. 17. immended it to all his preachers. 52 A Briei Account of the Occasion, Process, \m» Issue of a Late Tryal at the Assize, heldat Gloucester, the third of March, 1743. Between some of the people call'd Methodists, Plaintiffs, and certain Persons of the down of Minchin-Hampton, in the said county, Defendants. Extracted from Mr. Whitefield's Letter. By John Wesley, A.M., Felloe of Lincoln College, Oxford. (Acts xix, 35 p»,) [Preface is signed by |«>hn Wesley and dated Ma) i, [744.] Bristol. 1711. r smo., pp. [2. Another, Bristol : Farley, 1 748, unnumbered. A hymn oi ten stanzas, entitled " A prayei foi Mi> Majesh Ki was appended. It was afterwards printed in Hymns for Times oj Trouble ,///,/ /', 1 w, ution, 1N0. 5'»). 3° 1744.] Nos. 53-54 This is from an account of an action commenced by Whitefield against the ringleaders of a mob that assailed him and his congregation in Minchin- Hampton. It was published by him in A Letter to a Friend (London: J. Robinson, 1744. 8vo., pp. 15). 53- An Extract of the Reverend Mr. John Wesley's Journal, from November i, 1739, to September 3, 1741. (Job. xxxii. 16, 17, 21, 22.) London : Printed by \V. Strahan ; and sold by T. Trye, at Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holbourn ; and at the Foundery, near Upper-Moor Fields. 1744. [Price One Shilling.] 121110., pp. 120. [No. iv]. Second edition, Bristol : Felix Farley, 1749. Prefixed is a letter to the Moravian Church, " more especially that part of it now or lately residing in England." It is signed by John Wesley, and dated June 24, 1744. The same date appears at the end of the Journal. Two hymns are appended. The special interest of this Extract arises from its containing exact accounts of Wesley's relations with the Moravians. In the letter prefixed he speaks with much plainness and openness, not hesitating to tell them, in a fraternal spirit, both what he approved and what he disapproved in their opinions and conduct. 54. A Narrative of the late Work of God at and near Northampton, in New England. Extracted from Mr. Edwards's Letter to Dr. Coleman. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Bristol : Printed by Felix Farley, and sold by him at his house in Castle Green ; at the Schoolroom in the Horse Fair, and by J. Wilson in Wine Street. In London : by T. Trye, near Gray's Inn Gate, Holborn ; Henry Butler, at the corner of Bow Churchyard, and at the Foundery, near Moorfields. In Exeter by B. Thorne and E. Score ; as also at the several societies in England, n.d. i2mo., pp. 48. Second edition, London : H. Cock, 1755. Wesley writes in his Journal, Oct. 9, 1738, "I set out for Oxford. In walking, I read the truly-surprising narrative of the conversions lately wrought in and about the town of Northampton, in New England." He sent an extract to a friend, whose reply threw him into great perplexity, and led him to much heart-searching, which is recorded at some length in his Journal, (see Works, i. 160-3). I am quite unable to assign the precise date of the publication of this pamphlet. There is no date upon the title-page, nor any that affords any clue in the body of the work. There is one — Friday. June 27, 1743 ; but this is obviously an error : it should be 1740. It was certainly not published for some considerable time after Wesley read the account in 1738. Osborn and Tyerman assign it to 1742; Heylin to 1744. It docs not appear in any catalogue till 1745. Probabl) 1744 is the proper date. 3-1 Nos. 55-56. [1744. 55- Scriptural Christianity. A Sermon preached August 2 l, 1744, at St. Mary's Church in Oxford, before the University. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College (Ezek. xxxiii. 4). London: Printed by W. Strahan, and sold by T. Trye, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holbourn, Henry Butler, at the corner of Bow Church- Yard; and at the Foundery near Upper Moorfields. 1744. (I 'rice Threepence). 121110., pp. 31. I'reface to the Reader is dated Octob. 20, 1744, and signed John Wesley. Fourth edition, London: Strahan, 17 \\: Fifth, London: 1714: another, not numbered, Newcastle: Gooding, 174P Fifth, Newcastle: 1745; Sixth, Bristol: F. Farley, [748; Sixth, Bristol: 1748; Sixth, Dublin: 1749; another, London : liawes, 1775: London: Whitfield, 1798. In the Preface, Wesley says he should not have printed the sermon, but for the false and scurrilous accounts of it which had been published in every corner of the nation. "Friday, August 24 (St. Bartholomew's Day). I preached, I suppose the last time, at St. Mary's, lie it SO. I am now clear of the blood of these men. I have fully delivered my own soul. . . . It was determined that when my next turn to preach came, they would pay another person to preach lor me. And so they did twice or thrice, even to the time that I resigned my Fellow- ship."— -Rules. Hist., i\\, 187 (No. 355). " At ten I walked with my brother, and Mr. Piers and Meriton, to St. Mary's, where my brother bore his testimony before a crowded audience, much increased by the racers. Never have I seen a more attentive congregation. They did not let a word slip them. Some of the Heads stood up the whole time and fixed their eyes on him. [f they can endure sound doctrine like this, he will surely leave a blessing behind him. The Vice-Chancellor sent alter him and desired hi- notes : which he sealed up and sent immediately." C. Wesley's Journal. See also Jackson's Life of C. Wesley, i. 402 56. The Case of John Nelson. Written by Himself. (Amos iii. i brave endurance in the cause of , and a painful exposure oi the condition of bullish life at the ts much lighl on the ..nix struggles ol Methodism. "It being .,111 thanksgiving day, I read John Nel on's Case, a pi mi accomplishment oi the promise, 1 will give you a mouth and wisdom, .-... ' < '. w . itey'sjountal, Bristol, Sept. 17. 1; 1 1 1744.] Nos. 57-58. 57. Rulks of the Band Sociktiks. Drawn up December 25, 1738. Directions given to the Band Societies, December 25, 1744. 2 2 mo., pp. 3. The above appear together in a pamphlet, without date or name of printer. They were frequently reprinted. Under No. 43 it is stated that in the Fourth edition of the '* Rules of the United Societies," published 1744, the " Rules of the Hand Societies given. This seems to have been the first time the Band Rules appeared in print. For an account of the origin of the " Band Societies," see Wesley's Works, viii. 255-6. The Band Society in London was begun May 1, 1738. (ibid. viii. 380). "The meeting called 'the bands,' or ' the body band,' consists of as many persons as belong to any or all the bands in that society." — See Crowlher's Portraiture of Meth. 1S15, page 282. In the Minutes of Conference, 1744, (No. 136), page 4, the question is asked, — "Q. 4. What are the Rules of the Bands ? A. They are these (which were read and considered)." To these were added the Directions, and they were published together at the end of 1744. 58. A Collection of Moral and Sacred Poems. From the most celebrated English Authors. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford. In Three Volumes. Bristol : Printed by Felix Farley. Sold also by J. Wilson, in Wine-Street ; in London, by T. Trye, near Gray's-Inn-Gate ; H. Butler, near Bow-Church; and at the Foundery, Upper-Moor-Fields ; in Exeter by Mr. Score and Mr. Thorne. 1744. [Price, unbound, 7s. 6d.] Vol. I. 121110., pp. vii., 347. Vols. II. and III. A Collection of Moral and Sacred Poems, publish'd by John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford. Bristol : Printed by Felix Farley, 1 744 ; and sold by the Booksellors of London, Newcastle, Bristol, Bath, Exeter, &c. i2mo., pp. 373 and 288. The Dedication to " The Right Honourable the Countess of Huntingdon," who suggested the publication, is dated Oxford, Aug. 1744, and is signed by John Wesley. There is neither index nor table of contents. A few only of the authors' names are given. On page 206 of Vol. III. we read, "The poems that follow are by the Revd. Mr. John and Charles Wesley." The first of these is entitled " God's Greatness," and was first published in Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739, page 161, (No. 15). The second is the Elegy on the Death of R. Jones. — (See No. 39). The remaining fifteen appear here for the first time. In the Dedication Wesley says he had long had the design of attempting something of this kind, and that he revised all the English poems that he knew, and selected what appeared most valuable in them, omitting only Spenser's Works, " because scarce intelligible to the generality of modern readers." These volumes were never reprinted. Nos. 59-60-61-62. [1744-5. 59. Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution. (Micah vi. 9.) London: Printed in the year 1744. 121110., pp. 47. This consists of three parts: — I. Hymns for Times of Trouble; thirteen hymns. 2. Hymns in Time of Persecution ; sixteen hymns. 3. Hymns to be sung in a Tumult ; four hymns. The hymns in each part are separately numbered, and only seven have titles. The Second edition is enlarged by the addition of 15 hymns, under the title of Hymns for Times of Trouble ', For the Year 1745. The passage of Scripture on the title-page is changed to Isaiah i. 19, 20. The names of the authors are added, — " By John and Charles Wesley, Presbyters of the Church of England ;"' also, to the former date, " Re-printed at Bristol, by Felix barley, 1745." [Price sixpence.] It is paged continuously, and the number of pages is increased to 69. Third edition, enlarged, London : 1756 (see No. 60). 60- Hymns for Times of Trouble. (Isaiah xxiv. 15.) 121110. pp. [2. This small tract is without date, or author's or printer's name. There is much uncertainly as to the time of its first publication. Osborn inserts it under I 745> " because it was certainly written about this time." Heylin assigns it to the same year. It does not appear in the catalogues until 1 746. It is inserted here on account of its connection with the previous publication. It contains only 6 hymns, numbered but untitled. It was incorporated with the Third edition of No. 59, making in all five parts and 54 hymns, 121110. pp. 82. "In these very spirited compositions the national sins are confessed and lamented : the mercy of Cod is earnestly implored in behalf of a guilty people ; civil war is deprecated as a great and terrible calamity ; the preservation of the Protestant religion, and a revival of its primitive spirit, are both solicited as the most important of all blessings ; and the king is specially commended to the divine protection, not as the creature of the popular will, but as God's vice- gerent and his minister for good to the people. Life v t i. ^60 : see also pp. 359-40S. The hymns were written in a time of great national disquiet, and of much violent persecution of the Methodists. 61. A Hymn at the Sacrament. [2mo., pp. 4. This hymn contains ten stan/as. It was republished amongst the llaneous Hymns and Poems" (Poetical Works of J. and C. Wesley t viii. 441), with this note appended, " Published separately as a tract of four pages without name or dale, but probably before 1745* " ' l a >s "- 'HO in the New Supplement in the Methodist Hymn Book now in use. The fifth and eighth verses are omitted. It is there attributed to Charles Wesley. 1745. 62- ' N > >" ■ riONS for Children. London: Printed for \l. Cooper, at the Globe, in Paternoster Row. 1745. Price 3d., or 20s. a hundred to those who rive them away, mo., pp. 30. H 1745.] Nos. 63-64. Second edition, London : M. Cooper, 1745, pp. 38. Appended is the tract "Swear not at all," (No. 78), one of the "Words" to be mentioned afterwards. Another edition, unnumbered, Newcastle : Gooding, 1746; Third, 1747; Fourth, Dublin: Powell, 1749 ; Fourth, London: 1755; Seventh, London: Cock, 1760; London: Mason, n.d., 24mo. Chiefly translated from the French of Abbe Floury and M. Poiret. "Although the great truths herein contained are more immediately addrest to Children, yet are they worthy the deepest consideration both of the oldest and wisest of men." — Preface, addressed " To all Parents and Schoolmasters." " I despair of seeing any [tracts] in the English tongue superior to those extracts from Abbe Fleury and M, Poiret, published under the title of ' Instructions for Children.' I have never yet seen anything comparable to them, either for depth of sense, or plainness of language." — Wesley's Works, xi., 339. "Monday, July 4 (1743), and the following days, I had time to finish the ' Instructions for Children.' " — Journal. It is not mentioned in Catalogues until 1745. The book was subsequently translated into Latin for use in the School at Kingswood, and published as I>istructiones Pueriles (No. 117). 63. A Farther Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. (Psalm cxli. 5.) [Part I.] London : Printed by W. Strahan ; and sold by T. Trye, near Gray's-Inn- Gate, Holbourn ; Henry Butler, at the corner of Bow Church-Yard ; and at the Foundery, near Upper-Moor fields. 1745. [Price, bound, one shilling.] i2ino., pp. 106. At the end is a letter addressed to the Reverend Mr. Thomas Church, dated London, Decern. 22, 1744. It begins, " Since this was in the press." The Appeal must, therefore, have been published early in 1745. It appears in the catalogues of that year. It is distinguished as Part I. on the third page, not on the title. Appended is a hymn of four stanzas, entitled "An Act of Devotion." Fourth edition, Bristol: Grabham, 1758; Fifth, London: Hawes, 1778 ; Another Fifth, London : 1786. The first part of the Farther Appeal was written in reply to several hostile pamphlets, particularly one by the Bishop of London, and one by the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, in which Wesley's doctrines and his field-preaching and its effects are assailed. He vindicates his teaching as being in harmony with Scripture and the doctrines of the Church of England, his method as lawful, and the effects as not being " such as had been weakly and wickedly reported." 64. A Farther Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. (Psalm cxli. 5.) London : Printed by W. Strahan ; and sold by T. Trye, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holbourn ; Henry Butler, in Bow Church-Yard ; and at the Foundery, near Upper-Moor-Fields. 1745. [Price, unbound, one shilling.] i2mo., pp. 78. This is Part II., but is not so distinguished on the title-page, but on page 3. 35 No. 65. [1745. Ditto, Ditto. Part III. (Luke xix. 41, 42.) London : Strahan, &C. r 745. paged in continuation of Part II.. together pp. 139 (wrongly printed 239). Dated at end, London, Dec. iS. 1745. a year later than No. 63. It must therefore have been published either at the close of 1745 or early in 1746. It is placed here for convenience. These two parts appear always to have been published together. Third edition, Bristol : Farley, 1746 ; Fourth, London : Strahan, 1746; another Fourth, Bristol: Pine, 1765: Sixth, [J " I retired to Newington in order to finish the Farther Appeal, the stale of the public affairs loudly demanding that whatever was done should he done quickly.'— -Journal, Nov. 25, 1745. Wesley presented a copy of Tarts II. and III. to every clergyman and alderman of Leeds. Part II. is an earnest appeal indeed, addressed to members of the Church of England first, and toothers, on the moral state of the nation. Part III. is a defence of the whole Methodist work, and an account of the brutal treatment the Methodists had received in many parts of the country. " I waited on Mr. 15 — e, Rector of — , who had sent to me as soon as he had read the ' Farther Appeal.' lie said, ' Sir, all this is sad truth. Put what can we do to help it ?' I went afterwards to another clergyman, who had likewise sent and desired to speak with me. How is this? I thought the publication of this tract would have enraged the world beyond measure. And, on the contrary, it seems nothing ever was published which softened them so much." — /ounia/, Jan. 8, 1746. 65. An Answer to the Rev. Mr. Church's Remarks on the Rev. John Wesley's Journal. In a Letter to that Gentleman. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, (i Kings xx. 11.) Bristol: Printed by Felix Farley, and sold by him at his house in Castle Green, at the School-Room in the Horse-Fair, and by J. Wilson, in Wine Street; in London by T. Trye, near Grey's-Inn-Gate, Holbornj Henry butler, at the Corner of bow Church-Yard j and at the Foundery, near Moor Fields : and in Exeter by B. Thome and E. Score, [ Price 4(1.] 1 21110., pp. 46. I at the end Bristol, Feb. 2, 1744-5, and signed John Wesley. It is in the 1745 catalogues. •iid edition, London : Strahan, 1745. In the letter named in No. '•;. 1 fi n nee is made to Mr. Church's remarks on Wesley's lasl fournal ; and Wesle) promises "attentively to consider the points therein objected to." This is his reply to Church, whose pamphlel is entitled, "Remarks on //:<■ Rev. Mr. John Wesle^s last Journal \ wherein he gives an account of the ti>t and occupy nearly eleven pages ; then follows a short and distinct state- ment of the "difference between the Moravian doctrine and ours," signed by the two brothers, and dated London, May 20, 1745. Six hymns are appended, which were most likely written for the occasion. They are highly characteristic of the authors. In a letter dated Oct. 8, i860, the late Dr. George Morley, who was a careful collector of Wesleyana, states that he had traced certain hymns to " a tract published 1 74 1, entitled A Short View of the Difference between the Moravians Now in England, and the Rev. Mr. John and Charles Wesley." It is possible that such a tract was published by Wesley in 174 1. It was the year after he had separated from the Moravians ; and the year in which he " had a conversation of several hours with P. Bohler and M. Spangenberg," and a long conversation, in Latin, with Count Zinzendorf, in each case on subjects treated of in the above tract— No. 68 ; in which some expressions occur similar to those used in both conversations. The pamphlet of 1841 may have been a part of the pamphlet named above, which is expressly dated May 20, 1 745, and signed by John and Charles Wesley; and is said to be "extracted chiefly from a late Journal." This Journal was not published until 1744 ; — the preface is dated June 24 of that year, and is addressed to "the Moravian Church, more especially that part of it now or lately residing in England.'' If, therefore, the earlier pamphlet was also an extract from the Journal, Wesley must, contrary to his usage, have quoted from his unpublished MS. Journal. Mr. C. D. Ilardcastle, who is my informant, examined the tract at Dr. Morley's house many years ago, noting the date and the peculiarity of the title, and that the hymns were the same as those in the larger tract. He does not think it contained all that the later one docs. After long inquiry, I have foiled to find a copy, and have no more information concerning it than is given above. It is not named in any catalogue. The later tract would supersede it. An abridgement of the pamphlet was inserted by Wesley in his Preservative against Unsettled Notions in J\e/igion, (No. 191 ), published in 1758, and this has been included in two editions of his Works. 69. A Collection of Receits for thi LTsi of the Poor. (Homo sum: Humani nihil h me alienum puio.—TRR.) Bristol: Printed by F. Farley. Price Twopence. 121110.. pp. 17. luT edition, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, printed bj John Gooding* 1745, [Price Two-pence], [2 mo., pp. 16. It is difficult to determine which ot these was first published. fl in Bristol, August 1st, ai th< yed some days, visiting the "hit: in Wiltshire and Somerset." 11 1 »m Sept. 18 wcastle. The order given is probably the correct one. 1745.] Nos. 70-71-72. No date on title, nor author's name ; but a characteristic Advertisement, on the reverse of the title, is dated August, 1745. In this advertisement hi " I suppose there are very few infallible medicines ; but believe most of those which follow will fail as seldom as any, and much more seldom than the costly ones in common use. From a vast number, I have selected those, which are not only cheap, but safe : very few of them, if they do no good, being likely to do much harm. For most distempers, I have set down several. If one does not help, another may. And they may generally be tried one (at some distance) after another, using the easiest and simplest first." For an Ague six different remedies are given. One is curious, " Spread soft wax, about the thickness of a crown piece, large enough to cover the wrist. On this spread the leaves of the tops of Rue, not yet fully open'd. Let this plaister lie on the wrist live or six days." One for St. Anthony's Fire is, "A cloth dipped in blood, and laid on moist." For the Gout, " Use little flesh, no strong drink, and much exercise." For Head-ache, "Wear Green hemlock that is tender, thickly spread on the soles of your feet. Shift it every day." Etc., etc. 70. A Dialogue Between an Antinomian and his Friend. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford. London : Printed by W. Strahan. and sold by T. Trye, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holbourn ; Henry Butler, at the corner of Bow-Church-Yard ; and at the Foundary, near Upper-Moorfields. 1745. [Price One-penny.] i2mo., pp. 12. A Second edition, London: Strahan, 1745; Third. 1745. 71. A Second Dialogue, &c. (Rom. hi., ult.), London, &c, as above, but with the spelling, " Holborn " and "Foundery." i2ino., pp. 12. Dated at the end, London, Aug. 24. 1745. Second edition, London: Foundery, 1755; Third, Bristol : 1745; Third, London: Hawes, 1 778; Third, (including both dialogues), London : Whitfield, 1798. The words of the Antinomian are taken from various authors, and are printed in italics. The origin of the Dialogues is shown in the Minutes of a Conference held at Bristol, Aug. 2nd., 1745, when the question was asked, "What can we do to stop the progress of Antinomianism ? Ans. 1st, Pray without ceasing, that God will speak for himself. 2d, Write one or two more dialogues." An extract from each is given in the Preservative against Unsettled Notions in Religion, (No. 191). 72. Modern Christianity : exemplified at W r ednesbury and other adjacent Places in Staffordshire. (Tua res agitur paries quum proximus ardet.) Publish'd by John AVesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Printed by John Gooding, on the Side ; sold by R. Akenhead, on Tyne-Bridge, Newcastle ; 39 No. 73. [1745. by T. Trye, at Gray's-Inn-Gate, Hoi bourn ; at the Foundery, near Upper-Moorfields, London j and at the New-School in the Horse-Fair, Bristol. 1745. [Price Two-pence.] i2mo., pp. 26. Second edition, London: Strahan, 1745. At the end before the last paragraph is the date Oct. 22, 1743. The last paragraph may have been added at the time of publication. The pamphlet was obviously not printed at the time it was written. It does not appear in the catalogues for 1743, 1744, or the earlier 1745. In an advertisement prefixed, Wesley says, " It was our desire and design that the following accounts, drawn up long since, should have slept for ever ; but the gross misrepresentations of these facts, which are still spread abroad from clay to day, constrain us at length to speak the naked truth," &c. In an old catalogue the title is altered to, Sufferings of the Primitive Methodists at Wednesbury (which ought never to be forgot ). This describes the character of the pamphlet. It is a precise and painful account of a brutal persecution of the Methodists by the mobs of Wednesbury and Walsall, in which Wesley and several others had nearly lost their lives. " I received a full account of the terrible riots which had been in Staffordshire. I was not surprised at all : neither should I have wondered if, after the advices they had so often received from the pulpit, as well as from the episcopal chair, the zealous high churchmen had rose, and cut all that were Methodists to pieces. Resolving to assist them as far as I could, I set out early in the morning."' — Journal, June, 18, 19, 1743. On an inner page, dated September 9, 1745, are "proposals for printing, by subscription, Three Volumes of Sermons, by John Wesley, M.A." 73. Advice to the People called Methodists. (Disce, docendus adhuc qua censet amiculus [misprinted amicuius] — Hor.) Printed in the year 1745. [Price One Penny.] 1 2 mo., pp, 1 1. Dated at end, October 10, 1745. Second edition, London : 1746; Fourth, Bristol : 174": 1 ifth, Bristol: F. barley, 1 746 J Another, Dublin: S. Lowell, i 74S : London: 1 75 1 ; London : I'aramore, 1 787 ; London : Cordeux, 1818. The Methodists had been very unjustly treated in many parts of the country, and the}' greatly needed encouragement and help. But their assailants had not always been careful to distinguish between them and others who were classed with them. As the Methodists showed more earnestness in attention to religious duties than most of their neighbours, the term became applied to any persons who displayed more than ordinary religious fervour and was even attached to the wildest fanatics, for whose extravagancies Wesley was unwilling his people should be blamed. He, therefore, first specifies whom he means " by this ambiguous term." He ays, " By Methodists 1 mean, a people who to pursue (in whatsoever measure they have attained) holiness of heart and life, inward and outward conformity in all things to the revealed will iA God : who place religion in uniform resemblance of the great Object ol it ; in ly imitation of Him they worship, in all ML inimitable perfection : more particularly, in Justice, Mercy and Truth, or universal Love rilling the heart and governing the life." To such he writes this very seasonable pamphlet. It contains tender advice to the Methodists to consider the circumstances in which they stood and their liability to give offence, to trust in God, to be true to their principles, and not to talk much of their persecutions. 40 1745.] Nos. 74-75-76. 74 A Collection of Prayers for Families. Publish'd by John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Half-title, i2mo., pp. 24. No date or printer's name. [Price Twopence] at the end. Many editions. A twenty-seventh, London : Mason, 1843, is noted. Found in a 1745 Catalogue, and therefore inserted here. Probably not written by Wesley, but extracted by him from some unmentioned author. It is reprinted in the several editions of his works, and in the second edition of the Christian Library (No. 131). It contains a morning and evening prayer for each day of a week. This devotional manual is admirably suited to its high purpose. The prayers are comprehensive, but brief, each covering about a page and a half. They are written in plain and appropriate language, — the language of humility, thankfulness and faith. The petitions and the inter- mingled thanksgivings are most fitly expressed. It is a little compilation well adapted to aid a family in the offering of its daily devotions. If Wesley did not write it, he was at great pains to adapt it to general use. 75. A Letter to the Author of the Craftsman concerning Real Christianity, Disparag'd under the name of Methodism. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. London: Printed in the year 1745. 1 2 mo., pp. 4. Signed at the end John Wesley. This is very scarce. It is not named by Osborn. A copy is in the Didsbury College Library, and one in the Wesleyan Conference Office Library. It is in the last edition of the collected Works, but not in the first. It is not mentioned in the catalogues, nor does it appear to have been republished separately. " Another attack on Methodism was one published in the Craftsman of June 22, and copied in the London .AFa^azi>ie and other periodicals of the period. It was, in fact, an onslaught upon the government of the day, entitled ' Ministerial Methodism, or Methodists in Politics' ; but in castigating ministers of state, it grossly calumniates ministers of Christ. The article, though neatly written, was supremely silly : Wesley at the urgent request of his friends, answered it." — Tyerman's Life of Wesley, i. 475. 76. A Word in Season; or, Advice to an Englishman. i2mo., pp. 6 or 8. No name of writer, or of place or date of printing. Under date Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1745, Wesley says in his Journal, "I wrote ' A Word in Season ; or Advice to an Englishman.' " He was then in Sheffield. In a week he was in Newcastle. That this tract was published in 1745 is evident; but where it was first printed cannot be told, neither can the first edition be distinguished. An edition called the third, pp. 11, has two hymns annexed, — one, "Regard, thou righteous God, and true," and one, "For His Majesty King George." Many editions were issued, some with, others without, the hymns. An eighth is noted, with John Wesley, Fellow of Lincoln College, on title-page, London : Strahan 1745, pp. 8, with the two hymns. Whether the hymns were in the first edition is uncertain, though it is most likely they were. In the collected Works (1771) this note is added, " This was published at the beginning of the late rebellion." Nos. 77-78-79-80-81. [1745- 77- A Word to a Drunkard. i2mo., pp. 4. No date or name. " I wrote ' A Word to a Drunkard.' "—Jouma/, Nov. 28, 1745. This is an appropriate place in which to notice several of these "Words." They were addressed to different classes of people, and directed against some of the prevalent vices of the day. They were mostly of four pages, written in courteous but earnest language ; convenient, little, effective appeals, that were scattered broadcast by the itinerant evangelists. They are without date, or name of writer or printer. The following are generally supposed to have been published about this time. 78- ''Swear not at all." 121110., pp. 4. Half-title. Sometimes the title is " Swear not at all, saith the Lord God of heaven and earth " ; sometimes " A Word to a Swearer." This appears as an appendix of two pages to an edition of histructions for Children (Xo. 62), bearing date 1 745. It also appears in a 1745 catalogue. 79- A Word to a Sabbath Breaker. 121110., pp. 4. This was generally published with the title, " Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy.*' In a 1745 catalogue it is called " An earnest Persuasive to keep the Sabbath holy," and, like all these "Words," is priced at "2s. a hundred." 80. A Word to a Street Walker. 1 21110., pp. 4. Also published as " A word to an Unhappy Woman," which is the title given to the tract in the collected Works, ix. 290, (No. 276). One edition was printed in the year 1748 ; another, London, 1761. It afterwards bore the title (as did another tract to be noticed), "A Word to whom it may concern," printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundery, Upper-Moor-Fields, 17S4 ; also "A Word to a Prostitute." When the first edition was published is uncertain. It is not in the catalogues of 1746, but is in those of 1749. 81. A Word to a Condemned Malefactor. 121110., pp. 4. Half-title ; neither name nor date. Reprinted at the end of Prayers for Condemned Malefactors i 1785, (No, This, like the two preceding " Words," is written in a very tender but earnest spirit. The language is striking and pungent, calculated to carry conviction to the heart of the reader and to arouse to thought and consideration. Wesley seems to have written these brief pieces with the utmost care. The folly, the sinfulness, the danger of the practices which he condemns arc verj faithfully exposed. But, while not abating in the slightest degree the Consequences of evil doing, he opens in each tract a path Oi hope to the penitent. 1 lis interest was very great in the class for \\ hom this particular tract • I his brother and their "Helpers" visited the prisons, and accompanied many "a condemned malefactor" to the gallows. 42 1745.] Nos. 82-83. 82- A Word to a Protestant. i2mo., pp. 4. First edition, small type, no hymns. It is so described by Osborn and placed under this year. It is much longer than the other " Words," and sometimes occupies six pages, or with the hymns, twelve pages. One title-page is as follows : — A Word to a Protestant. By John Wesley, M.A. , Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. The Eighth edition, London : Printed by W. Strahan, and sold by T. Trye, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holbourn ; H. Butler, in Bow-Church- Yard ; and at the Foundery, near Upper- Moor- Fields. 1745. [Price One Penny.] Three hymns are appended, " Where have I been so long?'' "Forgive me, O Thou jealous God," " O Thou who seest what is in man." i2mo., pp. 12. Eight editions in one year ! Another edition, Bristol : Felix Farley, 1746 ; Another, Dublin : Pow r ell, 1749 ; Another, Bristol : Farley, n.d. He first explains the word Papists, and then states some of the errors held by them, those "which defile the purity of Christianity" and those that "strike at its very root ;" particularly "the grand Popish doctrines of Merit, Idolatry, and Persecution.'' He then explains the word Protestant, and proceeds to exhort the would-be Protestant to avoid the errors against which he professedly protests. "Be a real Protestant .... Cast away all trust in your own righteousness, all hope* of being saved by your own works .... Put away the idols out of your heart .... And if you love God love your brother also .... Let this be your truly Protestant zeal : While you abhor every kind and degree of persecution, let your heart burn with love to all mankind, to friends and enemies, neighbours and strangers, to Christians, Heathens, Jews, Turks, Papists, Heretics ; to every soul which God hath made." This tract was called for by the wild and virulent treatment w 7 hich the Methodists received at the hands of excited mobs and professedly Protestant teachers, as is shown in one of the publications of this year, entitled Modern Christianity, exemplified at Wedncsbury, (No. 72). In the collected Works, 1 77 1 , ix. 324, (No. 276), a note says : "This was wrote during the late rebellion." Other Words were published subsequently. 83- Hymns on the Lord's Supper. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and Charles Wesley, M.A., Student of Christ-Church, Oxford. With a preface concerning The Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice. Extracted from Dr. Brevint. (1 Cor. xi. 24.) Bristol: Printed by Felix Farley. 1745. 121110., pp. xxxii. 141. Second edition, Bristol : F. Farley, 1747 ; Third, London : H. Cock, 1751 : This and someother editions have "by John and Charles Wesley, Presbyters of the Church of England," on title-page ; Fourth, London : 1757; Another, Bristol: Grabham ; Fifth, London: 1755 ; Fifth, Bristol: 1762; Sixth, Bristol : 1771 ; Seventh, Bristol : 1775; Seventh, London : 1776 ; Ninth, London, Paramore : 1786 ; Tenth, London : Paramore, 1794 ; Eleventh, London : Kershaw, 1825. 43 Nos. 84-85- [1745-6. Contains 166 hymns in five numbered sections, with an additional section, entitled "After the Sacrament." The Preface was sometimes published separately. It is taken from The Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice. By way of Discourse, Meditation and Prayer vpon the Xature, Parts and B/essings of the Holy Communion. By Daniel Brevint, D.D., Dean of Lincoln. "The Epistle." which is prefixed, is addressed to the Right Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Carteret, and is dated, Durham, Jan. 24, 1673, an( l signed " Dan. Brevint." The book was for some time out of print and a third edition was published in 1739. Wesley has abridged it in his usual style. He has omitted the " Epistle." The eight sections are preserved as in the original, hut the work is reduced from 134 to 32 slightly larger pages. See " Advertisement, '' Poetical JTorhs, hi. page 1 S3: Jackson's Life of C. Wesley, i. 421-2. The volume was in great demand, as is shown by the number of editions published. Wesley taught his people by precept and his own practice the importance of frequent communion. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was administered to the Societies in London every Sabbath Day. In 1871 a volume was published entitled "Tin; EUCHARISTIC MANUALS of John and Charles Wesley, reprinted from the original editions of 1748-57-94, edited, with an introduction, by W. E. Dutton." It contained ./ Companion for the Altar, (No. 36), Brevint's Preface and the Hymns on the Lord's Supper. The object of the publication was to attempt to prove that Wesley held High Church doctrine on this Sacrament. 84. Hymns for the Nativity of our Lord. 121110., pp. 24. The First edition has no name, date, or place. The title as above occupies the first page ; the hymns begin on the second. 'iid edition, Bristol: Felix Farley, 1745, 121110., pp, 24:* Third, Dublin: Powell, 1747;* Fourth, Dublin: 1751 : Fourth, Bristol: F. Farley, 1750; Tenth, London: 1750; Eleventh, 1755: Fifth, Bristol: Farley, 1756;* Sixth, Bristol: Pine, 1761 ;* Bristol: Tine. 1704: Ditto, 1768; Ditto, 1772; London: Paramore, 17S2; London: Hawes, n.d. ; London: Cordeux, 181 5, together with Hymns lor New Year's Day, paged consecutively; liitto, 1816 ; Eleventh, London: J. Kelshaw, 1825. Ten other editions have been noted, dated 1762-6-8, 1770-7, 1782-4-7, 1801-9. •• Pray tell R. Sheen that I am hugely displeased at his reprinting the Nativity Hymns, and omitting the very best hymn in the collection — 'All glory to God in the sky." 1 beg they may never more be printed without it. Omit one or two and 1 will thank you. They are namby-pambical. I wish you would give us two or three invitatory hymns. We want such exceed- tter from J. W. to C. W., dated, Dec. Jo. 1701 : //',.• ,'.. \ii. I I 5. From those marked with an asterisk the eighteenth hymn was omitted. Mr. Hardcastle thinks this was printed first in 1744. his authority being the [r. Love, a large collector of Wesleyan Hymn-books. Hut it is not mentioned in either oi two [745 catalogues, one of them dated Septembei 9. 1746. 85. Li on for Children. Printed in the year 1746. [Price 6d. I 1 2 mo., pp. 7". The Preface, addressed "To All Parents ami School- Masters," is dated February 24, 1745-6. No name of author or printer. The vignette is the same as appeals in the first edition of Hymns on ; . Lister at New-Street-End, 17.17: another Fourth, London: II. Cock, 1751 : Another edition, Bristol: Pine, 1 77 1 . Samuel Hitchens died .it Bisveal, mar Redruth, on Aug. n>. (see No. 89). His brother Thomas died on Sep. 1-!, [746. On the following Sunday Wesley was preaching in Gwennap " to an immense multitude of people," and he Bays, "In the close oi my sermon 1 read them the account oi Thomas riitchens's death, and they COUld li"! ("iical thru d.aie to gO tO him and be with Uui t," — Journal, 5° 1747.] Nos. 103-104. 103. A Letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London : Occasioned by his Lordship's last Charge to his Clergy. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. (Job. xxxii. 21, 22.) London: Printed by W. Strahan. Sold by T. Trye, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn ; and at the Foundery, Upper-Moor-Fields. 1747. [Price twopence.] 121x10., pp. iii., 32. Dated at the end, London, June 11, 1747, and signed John Wesley. A hymn by Charles Wesley appended, (entitled, but not in the pamphlet, " For one called forth to bear his testimony "). Jackson describes the hymn as of "almost unparalleled sublimity and force ;" adding, "Nothing could give so perfect a view of the spirit in which he had exercised his ministry, from the time at which he began his glorious career in Moor-Fields and Kennington Common to this period of his life." — Life of C. Wesley, i. 543. Second edition, Bristol : Farley, 1749 ; another, Dublin : 1748. In the Bishop's Charge are several very severe strictures on the teaching of Wesley, the Moravians, and Whitefield. Wesley answers for himself and his friends pithily, and with great plainness and force. It is one of many pamphlets he had occasion to write in defence of his work and his doctrine. His closing words are, "But I must draw to a conclusion. Your lordship has without doubt had some success in opposing this doctrine. Very many have, by your lordship's unwearied endeavours, been deterred from hearing it at all ; and have thereby probably escaped the being seduced into holiness, have lived and died in their sins. My Lord, the time is short. I am past the noon of life, and my remaining years flee as a shadow. Your lordship is old and full of days, having past the usual age of man. It cannot therefore be long before we shall both drop this house of earth, and stand naked before God ; no, nor before we shall see the great white throne coming down from heaven, and Him that sitteth thereon. On his left hand shall be those who are shortly to dwell in everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels. In that number will be all who died in their sins, and among the rest those whom you preserved from repentance. Will you then rejoice in your success ? The Lord God grant it may not be said in that hour, ' These have perished in their iniquity, but their blood I require at thy hands.'" See also Moore, L. of Wesley, ii. 415. 104. A AVord to a Freeholder, &c. 121110, pp. 4. The earliest edition recorded is dated 1748. It has a woodcut on the title- page — a large swan, with a coronet and chain. Another edition, London : 1767 ; another, printed in the year 1767 ; another London : Paramore, 1783. " We reached Colestock, dropping wet, before seven. The rain ceased while we were in the house, but began when we took horse, and attended us all the way to Exeter. While we stayed here to-day to dry our clothes, I took the opportunity of writing 'A Word to a Freeholder. ' "—Journal, June 24, 1747- It was written on the eve of an election, against bribery, and in favour of that " Parliament man " who loved his God, his King, and his country. At the Conference of 1767 Wesley advised his preachers to " read everywhere the Word to a Freeholder, and disperse it as it were with both hands." 5 1 Nos. 105-106. [1747. 105. Hymns for Those that seek, and those that have, Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ. London : Printed by W. Strahan, and sold by Thomas Trye, near GrayVInn-Gate, in Holbourn ; and at the Foundery, near Upper-Moor-Fields. 1747. [Price Six-pence.] i2mo., pp. 70. Eight lines of errata at the end. No name of author : no index. To all the hymns but one a tune is assigned from Hymns o>i the Great Festivals (No. 94). A few of the hymns have titles prefixed. nd edition, Bristol: Farley, 1747; another, not numbered, Dublin: Powell, 1747; Third, Bristol: Farley, 1749: Third, Newcastle: Gooding, 1751 : another, Dublin: 1750; Fourth, London: Cock, 1 755 ; Fourth, London : 1765; Fifth, London : 1756: Sixth, London: 1761 ; Seventh, Bristol: Line, 1765; Eighth, Bristol: Line, 170S ; Ninth, London: HaWes, 1776; Tenth, London: Hawes, 1779 ; another, London : Paramore, 1788. This little volume was written by Charles Wesley amidst peculiar circum- stances. Its author was in the hey-day of his strength and his evangelistic labours. At no time in his life did he work harder in seeking to promote the redemption from evil of the poor, ignorant, and degraded multitudes then to be found in the land. His Journal at this period is one continuous record oi toil and endurance, for it was the time of the fiercest opposition to the uprising Methodism on the part of the mobs, instigated in many instances by their mistaken clergy. The persecution he endured assumed the utmost violence and brought him often into the greatest peril. Yet he appears to have toiled on in a spirit of glad exultation and fervent praise. His ministry was wondrously successful. Very many persons in all parts of the country were led to seek, and many found, the Redemption of which he sang. For he was not merely the poet of the evangelical revival. As a preacher he was equal to any of his companions in the impassioned fervour of his appeals and in his success. The hymns relied the condition amidst which the)- were written, although there are no direct references to the circumstances of the writer. The) answer to the title they bear. They are words of penitent inquiry and of earnest prayer, of exhortation and help ; words setting forth the excellency of the Redeemer and oi I lis great Redemption,— words to encourage to hope, to patience, and to faith. The little volume deserves the highest place amongst the group not given. on persons being allowed to preach who had not received a University education and permission from a properly constituted authority. This applying t<> Wesley's lay-preachers, he undertakes to defend them. He imagines a physician who, having received a medical training and authority to practise, nevertheless fails to effect any cures ; he asks what objection can be raised to an unlearned man who lias some little knowledge of medicine, using his power, if he prove himself able to effect cures and does actually effect them : and he quotes the indisputable maxim, Medicus est Physicians of the soul," and evidently with some inefficient clergymen in view, who, though having had a University training, yet turned no sinners from the error of their ways, he presses home an appeal to his opponent oil behalf of the men who, though they lacked an academical training, were able to lead men from sin to righteousness, and had actually A^mc so. The spirit of the whole is expressed in one sentence : " Every Christian, if he is able to do it, has authority to save a dying soul." 111. Lessons for Children. Part III. Printed in the year 1 7 |S. 1 2 mo., pp. 1 24. 55 and 100. The same vignette is used in each of the first three parts. The Biblical Lessons, published in this and the two preceding parts, reach to the end of the Book OI Proverbs. The fourth part was not published until after an interval of six years. 112. A Short Latin Grammar. Bristol: Printed by Felix Farley. 1 7.1 s - ' 21110., pp, 37, The second edition, corrected and enlarged, Bristol: W. Tine, 170;, pp. 4S ; Fourth. 17SS ; Fifth, London: Hlanshaid, [813. " I read over Mr. Holmes's ' Latin Grammar,' and extracted from it what edful to perfect our own." Journal, (Jet. 15, 1750. This must have been for the second edition. 54 1748.] Nos. 113-114-115-116-117. 113. A Short English Grammar. Bristol : Printed by Felix Farley. 1748. 121110., pp. 12. Second edition, Bristol : 1761 ; Third edition, London: Hawes, 177S. Short enough to delight the heart of the laziest schoolboy. An English Grammar of only nine i2mo pages is a curiosity. As may be supposed, it is very rudimentary. It was sold for one penny. Certainly Wesley strove to provide for the youngest, the poorest, and the most illiterate. 114. Thom;e a Kempis de Christo Imitando. Libri Tres. Interprete Sebast. Castellione. In Usum Juventutis Christiana?. Edidit Ecclesiae Anglicanae Presbyter. Bristoliae: Typis F. Farley. Anno Salutis, 1748. i2mo., pp. 143. This is an abridgement of the Imitation y similar to the Extract of the Christianas Pattern, (No. 26). It and the other Latin books and the Grammars were prepared for use in the Kingswood School. It is not included in any edition of Wesley's Works. It has no preface or introduction of any kind. It displays very careful editing. Probably Wesley himself carried this and all the Latin books through the press. Copies of it are seldom seen. No reprint of this beautiful little book is known. 115. Mathurini Corderii Colloquia Selecta. In Usum Juventutis Christianas. Edidit Ecclesire Anglicanae Presbyter. Bristoliae : Typis F. Farley. Anno 1748. 1 2 mo., pp. 51. Another, Londini : Cordeux, Anno Salutis, 1813. The conversations are arranged in four sections according to their difficulty to the beginner in Latin. The earliest consists of very short questions with equally simple replies, and the subjects throughout are of a moral, religious, or ecclesiastical character. 116. Historle et Pr.ecepta Selecta. In Usum Juventutis Christianas. Edidit Ecclesiae Anglicanae Presbyter. Bristoliae: Typis F. Farley. Anno Salutis, 1748. 1 2 mo., pp. 79. These are arranged in five books, of which the subjects are respectively God, prudence, justice, courage, and temperance. The contents are only slightly argumentative, chiefly moral advice varied with anecdote. Crisp maxims abound, especially at the headings of the various chapters, such as, " It does not matter how many, but how good are the books you read," and " The will to sin is itself sin." 117- Instructiones Pueriles. In Usum Juventutis Christianas. Edidit Eeclesiae Anglicanae Presbyter. Bristoliae : Typis Felix Farley. Anno Salutis, 1748. 121110., pp. 39. Second edition, Bristolise : Typis Gulielmi Tine, Anno Salutis 1765 ; Another, Londini : Cordeux, 1812 ; Another, Bristoliae : Line, 1791. 55 No. 118. [1748. This is divided into six sections of six or seven pages each. Everything is put in a pithy and compact form, few sentences occupying more than a couple of lines. And the tone throughout is dogmatic and certain, as though the writer was of opinion that boys should listen and obey, and were best trained by imperatives. It is substantially a translation of the Instructions for Children noticed already under No. 62. The whole book is divided into Praelectiones, and is sometimes entitled Prcclectiones Puerile*: see Short Account of Kingswood School, p. 2, (No. 127). 118. A Serious Answer to Dr. Trapp's Four Sermons on the Sin, Folly, and Danger of being Righteous over- much. Extracted from Mr. Law. By John Westley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Cork : Printed by George Harrison, 1748. i2mo., pp. 60. A hymn of 25 stanzas, headed Isaiah Ixiv., is appended, taken from Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740, (Xo. 19). Another, London: 1 749, I2mo., pp. 48: Another, Dublin: S. Powell, 1749, no hymn. There is a little uncertainty about the dale of this publication. All the authorities give 1749 ; but Harrison's is plainly dated 1 748. Wesley was much in Ireland in both years. Dr. Trapp's pamphlet was entitled The Nature, Folly, Sin, and Danger of being Righteous overmuch ; with a particular view to the Doctrines and Practices of certain Modern Enthusiasts. Being the substance of Four Discourses lately preached in the Parish- Churches of Christchurch and St. Lawrence Jewry, Loudon: and St. Martinis in the field, Westminster. By Joseph Trapp, I ). I ). London: 1739, 8\o., pp. 69. Three editions were issued in the course of the year. The Sermons were mainly directed against Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, and ./ Practical Treatise upon Christian Perfection; against Whitefields Journal^ — " that rhapsody of madness. spiritual pride and little less than blasphemy"; and against the irregular services of the Methodists, particularly the field-preaching which had then begun. "We have heard of Field-Conventicles in Scotland among the Enthusiasts of that country. We haw in former limes had something of this nature in England, as practised by Brownists, Anabaptists, Quakers, Ranters, or such like, but for a Clergyman of the Church of England t>> pray and pleach in the lie-Ids, in the country, or in the streets in the city, is perfectly new, never heard of before; afresh honour to the Messed age in which we have the happiness to live. To pray, preach and sing psalms in the streets and fields, is worse, if possible, than intruding into pulpits by downright violence and breach of the peace. I could say much here ; but am quite ashamed to speak upon a subject which is a shame and reproach, not only to our Church and country, hut to human nature itself." pp. 57, $&, To this, Law replied with calmness and dignity, urging upon all, ami upon the clerg) in particular, the necessity of holiness in heart and life, free From all sevent) and I 1 a perfect contrast both in spirit and diction to thi worl of his opponent. It has been styled, " As grand a piece of w riling a. < an he I' >u 1 h I in the English I has included the subslan reply, carefully editing the whole according to his usual method, lie lias even given some of l peculiai ami mysti< views, but he has drawn attention to the hut that the)- aie not supported b) Scripture. 1748-9.1 Nos. 119-120. 119. A Letter to a Friend concerning Tea. Homo sum : Humani nihil a me alienum puto. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford. London : Printed by W. Strahan, in the year 1748. i2mo., pp. 16. Dated at the beginning Newington, Dec. 10, 1748. Second edition, Bristol : Farley, 1749. Wesley describes the ill-effects upon himself and others of the use of (strong green) tea ; and urges its abandonment, on the grounds of health and economy, by many cogent and well-sustained arguments. Two years before issuing this tract he had talked " largely" with both the men and women leaders on the use of tea. They agreed it would save great expense, as well of health as of time and money, if the poorer people of the Society could be persuaded to abmdon its use ; and they resolved to begin and set the example. The effect upon himself of " breaking off a custom of six and twenty years' standing " was strange enough. He says, " The first three days my head ached, more or less, all day long, and I was half asleep from morning to night. The third day my memory failed almost entirely." But he persevered, and sought his " remedy in prayer." His headache passed away ; his memory became strong as ever, and he found no further inconvenience. But twelve years after, "at the close of a consumption," he recommenced its use, under medical advice. The explanation of the injurious effects of the tea is to be found mainly in the character of the tea itself. He mentions a number of other drinks which he recommends in preference to tea. 1749. 120. An Extract of the Revd. Mr. John Wesley's Journal, from Sept. 3, 1741, to October 27, 1743. [No. v.] Bristol : Printed by Felix Farley, and sold at the School Room in the Horse-Fair ; also by T. Trye, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn ; and at the Foundery, near Upper-Moor-Fields, London. 1749. i2mo,pp. 123. Another, Dublin: Powell, 1749; Another, Bristol: Pine, 1769; London : Paramorc, 1797. * This little volume contains accounts of unwearied labour in travelling and preaching, of physical suffering, of exposure to danger through the violence of opposing mobs, of diligent visitation of poor prisoners in their cells and of the members of his societies in their homes, of the institution of his class-meetings and the holding of his first love-feasts in London, of discomforts arising from the defection of some of his people, the unkindness of false friends and the bitterness of controversies into which he was unwillingly led, of singular incidents which some might, as he feared, ascribe to mere enthusiasm and extravagance, and, withal, of the increasing success of his preaching and toil. It also records the death of his mother and his preaching her funeral sermon in Bunhill-Fields, to " an almost innumerable company of people," his preaching from his father's tomb in Epworth and being denied the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper by the curate of the parish. And it closes with a brief but vivid account of the extremely violent treatment that lie received at the hands of an infuriated mob in Wednesbury and the neighbourhood. The whole forms a striking illustration of the great and varied difficulties amidst which Methodism in its earlier years grew up. 57 Nos. 121-122. [1749. 121. A Letter to the Reverend Doctor Cowers Middleton, Occasioned by his late Free Enquiry. The Second edition. Bristol : Printed by Felix Farley, and sold at the School-Room in the Horse-Fair ; also by T. Trye, near (iray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn ; and at the Foundery near Upper-Moor-Fields, London, 1749. i2mo., pp. 102. Dated at the beginning, January 4, 1748-9, and at the end, January 24, 1748-9. Dr. Middleton's book, a quarto volume of nearly 400 pages, was entitled A Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Powers, which are supposed to hare subsisted in the Christian Church, from the Earliest Ages, through severed successive centuries. By which it is shewn that 7ve have no sufficient reason to believe, upon the Authority of the primitive Fathers, that any such powers were continued to the Church after the days of the Apostles. By Conyers Middleton, D.D. London: Manby and Cox, 1749, 4to., pp. cxli., 232, \x. Wesley makes this severe charge, "In your late Enquiry you endeavour to prove — First, That there were no miracles wrought in the primitive Church ; Secondly, that all the primitive Fathers were fools or knaves ; and most of them both one and the other. And it is easy to observe, the whole tenour of your argument tends to prove, Thirdly, That no miracles were wrought by Christ or his Apostles ; and, Fourthly, That these, too, were fools or knaves, or both." Wesley plies him with the severest logic. " I had designed to set out with a friend for Rotterdam ; but being much pressed to answer Dr. Middleton's book against the Fathers, I postponed my voyage, and spent almost 20 days in that unpleasing employment."— -Journal, Jan. 2, 1749. "I looked over the celebrated tract of Mr. Daille, 'On the Right Use of the Fathers.' I soon saw what occasion that good man had given to the enemies of God to blaspheme: and that Dr. Middleton, in particular, had largely used that work in order to overthrow the whole Christian system." — Ibid, Jan. 28. "lie took but little notice of the Doctor's flippant remarks on what he called the Methodistical Miracles. Hut when he essayed his great powei t" Sap the foundations of that religion which he had bound himself, by every sacred obligation, to maintain and enforce, Mr. Wesley ceased, comparatively, from his great labours for nearly twenty days (as In- informs us), and in that time produced a reply to the Doctor's ponderous volume against the Miracles ol the Primitive Church. There were but few men, even of those who knew Mr. Wesley, that could imagine that so many months, as the days he has mentioned, would suffice to wade through the Fathers of the three first centuries and produce such a triumphant refutation." Moore's life of J. Wesley, ii. 413, 414. 122. A Plain Axcouni of Genuine Christianity. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, in Crane Lane. 1753. 121110., pp. 16. Another, Bristol: E. Farley, 1755; Bristol: bine, 1 7t> 1 ; Bristol: Pine, 1 70s ; I. ond., n: Paramore, 1779; London; [788. This tract i^ taken entirely and without any change from the close of the previous publication, tin- last page only being omitted. In it SV\ riey considered, "1. What is a Christian indei 2 What is real, genuine Chnstianil What Is the surest and most accessible evidence that it i> ol God?" It u,h 58 1749.] Nos. 123-124-125. kept in constant circulation, many editions of it being issued. When the first edition was published is not known. Its appropriate place seems to be immediately after the book from which it was taken. " Perhaps the most beautiful of all Mr. Wesley's tracts." — Wesley's Works, 1829, Pref. \i. 123. The Manners of the Antient Christians. Extracted from a French Author [Fleury] by John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford. Bristol : Printed by Felix Farley, and sold at the School-Room in the Horse-Fair; also by T. Trye, near Grays-Inn-Gate, Holborn ; and at the Foundry near Upper-Moor-Fields, London, 1749. 121110, pp. 24. [Price Two-pence.] Second edition, Bristol: F. Farley, 1749; Third, Bristol: Pine, 1767; Fourth, Bristol: Pine, 1771 ; Fifth, London: 1791 ; Sixth, London: Whitfield, 1798. Contains a brief description of the character of Christ, the condition of the Church at Jerusalem, and the state of the heathen before their conversion ; then of the habits of the Christians, particularly their prayers, reading of the Scriptures, and fasting, their general demeanour, their marriages, public assemblies, care for the poor and sick, and their hospitality. A very useful tract. Included in the collected Works, 1771, (No. 276). 124. A Token for Children. Extracted from a late Author [see No. 63] by John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. (Luke x. 14.) [Should be Mart] Bristol : Printed by Felix Farley. 1749. i2mo., pp. 34. Second edition, Bristol, 1749 ; Another second, Bristol : Grabham, 1759- This is an interesting, almost curious, instance of the care with which Wesley, in his desire to provide for the religious wants of all classes, utilised whatever fell in his way. It is a series of extracts taken from A Token for Children : Being an exact account of the Conversion, holy and exemplary lives, and joyful deaths, of several young Children : by James Janeway, Minister of the Gospel. Ten examples are given and carefully abridged, and published without preface or comment. Wesley's care for the young may be seen on turning to ' Children,' 8cc, in the Index to his collected Works. 125. Directions concerning Pronunciation and Gesture. Bristol : Printed and sold by Felix Farley, at the Printing-Office in Castle-Green : Sold also by T. Trye, near Gray's-Inn Gate, Holborn, London. 1749. [Price One Penny.] i2mo., pp. 12. Another, Bristol : Pine, 1770 ; Another, London : l8ll. Referred to in the Journals and some catalogues under the title of Rules for Action and Utterance. 59 Nos. 126-127. [1749. The following arc sonic of the Rule- fur Gesture ; " I. Never cfatp your hands, nor thump the pulpit. 2. Use the right hand most, and when you use the left let it be only to accompany the other. 3. The right hand may be gently applied to the breast, when you speak of your own faculties, heart or conscience. 4. You must begin your action with your speech, and end it when you make an end of speaking. 5. The hands should seldom be lifted up higher than the eyes, nor let clown lower than the breast. 6. Your eyes should have your hands in view, so that they you speak to may see your eyes, your mouth, and your hands all moving in concert with each other, and expressing the same thing. 7. Seldom stretch out your arms sideways, more than half a foot from the trunk of your body. 8. Your hands are not to be in perpetual motion. This the antients call'd the babbling of the hands.*' These, with others in the same tract, will convey some idea of Wesley's own manner when preaching. He sometimes collected as many of his preachers together as he could, and read to them these rules : see Jour., Feb. 23, 1749. "I read Mr. Sheridan's 'Lectures on Elocution' . . . and was disappointed. There is more matter in the penny tract, 'On Action and Utterance,' abundantly more, than in all Mr. S.'s book, though he seems to think himself a mere phoenix." — -Jour., Aug. 10, 1775. 126. A Plain Accouni of THE People called Methodists. In a letter to the Rev. Mr Perronet, Vicar of Shoreham in Kent. Bristol: Printed by F. Fai ley. 1749. 121110., PP- 34- Signed by John Wesley. Another, Dublin : Powell, 1749 ; Second edition, London : Strahan, 1749; Fifth, London: II. Cock, 1755; Sixth, Bristol: Pine, 1764; Eighth, London: 1786; Ninth, London: Paramorc, 1795. This is a brief account of the '' whole < Keonomy " of the early Methodists, " not only their practice on every head, but likewise the reasons whereon it is grounded, the occasion of every Step they have taken, and the advantages reaped thereby." Works, ii. 167-8. "In that little tract. 'A Plain Account of the People called Methodists.' you see our whole plan. We have but one point in view, to be altogether Christians; scriptural, rational Christians; tor which we will know not only the world, but the almost. Christians, will never forgive us."— Letter by J. \V., Met*. Mag., 1825, p. 653. " I have not merely read, but I have devoured your letter addressed to Mr. Perronet, entitled, A Plain Account, drV. . . . 1 will, as speedily as possible, translate and publish that letter."— Letter from John de Koker ; Rotterdam, Oct. IO, 1749. See Wesley's Works, ii. 168. 127. A Short Accouni of mm School i\ Kingswood, near Bristol. Bristol: Printed by Felix Parley. 1749. 1 2II10. pp. t society, the shame of mankind, the scum of the earth." 135. Minutes of some late Conversations between mm. R.EVD. M. WESLEYS AND OTHERS. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, in Crane-lane. 1749. 121110., pp. 30. 136. Mimm iME LATE CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN nil'. Revd. M. Wi leys and Others. Dublin: Printed by s. Powell, in Crane-lane 1749. i2mo., pp. 32. Neither <»f these was re-printed separately. Tin 1 ire rHE First Printed Mini rBS oi rHE Conference. TheyareW< ley's abridgement and re-arrangement of the MS. Minutes of the meetings of the Conference, [744-8 The former relates to "Conversations" held at the Conferences of 64 1749.3 No. 137. 1744-7, and as the conversations were mainly on questions of doctrine, the pamphlet was afterwards called "The Doctrinal Minutes." The latter embraces the Conferences of 1744-8 ; and as it contains the regulations on discipline, it was called " The Disciplinary Minutes." " Up to this time (1749) all that had been recorded of the several Conferences previously held was preserved and circulated in MS. No printed Minutes of an earlier date than these have yet been discovered. It is remarkable that while the first of these two Tracts was largely circulated at the time, and even reprinted by Mr. Wesley in his own edition of his Works, vol. xv., the second, which contains the Minutes of the first Conferences on the subject of discipline, was suffered to become so scarce, that when it was reprinted, in 1862, only two copies beside that put before the printer, were known to exist. Historically it is of great value still. Probably the circumstance of its being printed in Ireland contributed to its extreme scarcity ; though in the case of the smaller tract that circumstance did not operate. Possibly also Mr. Wesley considered it superseded by the subsequent publications, technically called ' The Large Minutes.' " — Osborn. A manuscript copy written by John Bennet, one of the " Helpers" who was present at most of these early Conferences, has lately been found ; and is about to be printed under the auspices of the Wesley Historical Society. In Wesley's own copy of the latter pamphlet he has changed the word "Assistants," in the first instance to "Preachers or Helpers," and afterwards to "Helpers." And, to the list of books ordered to be kept "for our own use at London, Bristol, and Newcastle," he has added the Christian Library and Wesley 's Hymns and Poems. These rare pamphlets are reprinted in Vol. I. of the revised 8vo. edition of the Minutes of Conference, (London : Mason, 1862). They are placed there as the first Minutes, in lieu of the compilation to be found in the original 8vo. edition, 181 2 (prepared by order of the Conference of that year by Mr. Benson), which compilation seems to have been made from the " Doctrinal Minutes " (No. 135), and from the second edition of the Large Minutes (1763), to be noticed hereafter. There were no other annual Minutes printed until 1765. The only known records of the intervening Conferences are the short notices of them in Wesley's Journal ; a few MS. memoranda by different persons, most of which are published in the revised Minutes ; a brief account of the Conference of 1749 contained in the first edition of the Large Minutes (1753) ; and extracts from the decisions of other Conferences, embodied in the second edition of the Large Minutes (1763). 137. Hymns Composed for the use of the Brethren. By the Right Reverend and Most Illustrious C.Z. Published for the Benefit of all Mankind, in the year 1749. i2mo., pp. 12. No name of author or printer given. On the reverse of the title is this address, " To the Reader. The following hymns are copied from a Collection printed some months since for James Hutton, in Fetter Lane, London. You will easily observe, That they have no affinity at all to that old Book called The Bible : the Illustrious Author soaring as far above this, as above the beggarly elements of Reaso7i and Common- Sense.'''' Afoot-note cut from an old book reads as follows: "See a Collection of Moravian Hymns, published by Mr. Westley ; and printed for Mr. Lew is, in Paternoster Row." In a Catalogue of Wesley's, of this year, is mentioned "Moravian Hymns, price id." That the "Brethren" felt themselves compromised by the Count's hymns is obvious from the action taken in 65 No, 138. [1749. reference to his hymn-book. — See Life of Zinzevdorf by Rev. August Gottlieb Spangenberg; London : Holdsworth, 1838. Perhaps the less said about these so-called hymns the better. They have their place in the history of the very painful discussions of that time ; but they have long been expunged from the Hymn-book of the Moravian Church. 138. Hymns and Sacred Poems. In Two Volumes. By Charles Wesley, M.A., Student of Christ-Church, Oxford. Bristol : Printed and sold by Felix Farley. 1749. i2mo. Vol. I., pp. 332, iii.; Vol. II., pp. 336, iii. " A second edition of these hymns was published in the year 1752 : and that without any other alteration, than that of a few literal mistakes." — Works, xi. 393. Another, called the second edition, Bristol: F. Farley, 1755 and 1756 — a less correct edition. Index to first lines added. These volumes were published by subscription. The price " in quires" was five shillings, of which half was to be paid on subscribing. The author left a small manuscript volume containing the names of persons who subscribed for 1 145 copies of the work. The preachers acted as agents, distributing the books and collecting the subscriptions. Stevenson says, " The work was published by subscription in order to raise money for the author's marriage, and to enable him to commence house-keeping." — 7Yie Meth. Hymn -Book, p. 21. The tables of contents are the same in the several editions. Each volume is divided into two parts, and many of ihe hymns are grouped together under various heads. Most of the hymns have titles prefixed. Hitherto the hymn books have borne the joint names of the two brothers, and no other intimation has been given of their authorship ; but these are authenticated as of Charles's composition exclusively. Many of the hymns in these volumes were suggested by the personal circumstances of the writer. " Some of them are founded upon particular texts of Scripture ; others express the author's religious feelings in particular states of mind ; not a few were written upon special occasions, us the death of friends, providential deliverances, the success of his ministry, the persecution and opposition with which he had to contend. Several of them are intended foi the use of persons in peculiar circumstances, such as ministers of the Gospel, medical practitioners, widows, the afflicted and the dying. More than one-fourth of the second volume consists of ' 11) 'inns for Christian Friends. 1 Many of these were originally addressed to Sarah (Iwynne before his marriage with her, and others after their union ; a few verbal alterations being occasionally made, for the purpose of giving them a more general character, ana of adapting them to popular use. While these volumes exhibit his piety and genius to great advantage, they throw considerable light upon his personal history, and his prevalent habits of thought. The first volume concludes with a hymn of unusual length and of almost unparalleled sublimity and force. Nothing could give so perfect a view of the spirit in which he had exercised his ministry, Iroin tli'' time at which he began his gloi ions career in M. 001 fields and kcnninglon- Common to this period of his life.*' The hymn is entitled " For a I called forth to bear his Testimony." See Life of C. //'. , i. 542-5: also The Methodist Hymn Book, by ('<. J. Stevenson, p. 20. "Intheyeai 1710 my brother printed two volumes of 'Hymns and Sacred Poems.' As I did not see these before' they were published, there were BODM things in them that I did not approve of."— T. Wesley's Works, \i. 391. That he approved generally of the work is evident, for he extracted 143 hymns from it for bis Collection of Hymns, (No. 348). A small tract containing a number of hymns taken from these volumes was issued anonymously in 1 759, 1750.] Nos. 139-140-141. 1750. 139. Sermons on Several Occasions. In Three Volumes. By John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford. Vol. III. London : Printed by W. Strahan, and sold by T. Trye, near Gray's-Inn Gate, Holbourn ; J. Robinson, Ludgate-street ; at the Foundery, near Upper Moorfields ; and at the School Room in the Horse-Fair, Bristol. 1750. i2mo., pp. 260. Contains twelve Sermons. Second Edition, Bristol : W. Pine, no date, one additional sermon ; another, Dublin: 1750; 4th Edition, London: Paramore, 1787. " I retired to Kingswood, to write part of the volume which I had promised to publish this winter. "— Journal, Oct. 30, 1749. "I retired to Newington once more, and on Saturday, 16, finished my sermons." — ibid. Dec. II, 1749. Several of the sermons from this and the two preceding volumes (Nos. 88 and 107) were frequently reprinted separately. Among the instances are a pamphlet extracted from this volume and published under the title of Three Sermons on the Original, Nature, Properties, and Use of the Law , and its Establishment through Faith: (Isa. xlii, 21.) Bristol: F. Farley, 1751 ; the sermon on Catholic Spirit, published 1755, with hymn on Catholic Love, by C. W. ; also A Caution against False Prophets (Matt, vii., 15-20), particularly recommended to the peotle called Methodists. Bristol: Grabham, 1758. 140. A Letter to the Author of The Enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists Compar'd. (Agedum ! Pauca, accipe contra. — Hor.) London : Printed by H. Cock, and sold by G. Woodfall, near Charing-Cross ; A. Dodd, at the Peacock, in the Strand ; J. Robinson, in Ludgate- Street ; T. Trye, near Gray's Inn ; and T. James, under the Royal-Exchange. [Price Four-pence.] i2mo., PP- 45- Dated, at the end, Canterbury, Feb. I, 1749-50; and signed, John Wesley. A severe " postscript " on last page. The anonymous author of the " Comparison " was George Lavington, Bishop of Exeter. His performance was very unworthy either of his ability or his dignity. He first directed his rude assault against Whitefield ; then against Wesley. Whitefield replied at once, though he thought that " upon some accounts it did not deserve an answer ; " the Rev. Vincent Perronet, Vicar of Shoreham, published three separate, carefully written letters of defence ; and Wesley wrote a second Letter at the end of the year. But the Bishop's writing was its own severest condemnation. "Bishop Lavington, the anonymous author, deserves to be coupled with the men who flung dead cats and rotten eggs at the Methodists, not with those who assailed their tenets with arguments, or even serious rebuke."— -John Wesley, by Julia Wedgwood, p. 313. 141. The Cause and Cure of Earthquakes. A Sermon preach'd from Psalm xlvi. 8. London : Printed in the year 1750. i2mo., pp. 24. No name of writer or printer, 67 No. 142. [1750. Second edition, London, 1756, states on the title page that it was occasion'd by the earthquake on March 8, 1750, and gives the author's name, Charles Wesley, M.A., late Student of Christ Church, Oxford, but neither printer nor publisher. Osborn thinks it was probably printed by Strahan, whose woodcut appears in the first edition. There were several of the Wesley pamphlets published about this time in London without the name of printer or publisher. It would be interesting to know why. "This morning (Mar. 8) at a quarter after five we had another shock of an earth- quake far more violent than that of February 8th. I was just repeating my text, when it shook the Foundery so violently, that we all expected it to fall upon our heads. A great cry followed from the women and the children. I immediately cried out, ' Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed and the hills be carried into the midst of the sea : for the Lord of hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge.' lie filled my heart with faith and my mouth with words, shaking their souls, as well as their bodies." — Letter from C. W. to J. W., Life of C. W. i. 549. "Many flocked to the morning word, and were yet more stirred up thereby. I have scarce ever seen so many at intercession. At the chapel I preached on the occasion, from Psalm xlvi., with very great awakening power."— -Journal CAN'., Mar. 9, 1750. " Fear filled our chapel, occasioned by a prophecy of the earthquake's return this night. I preached my written sermon on the subject with great effect, and gave out several suitable hymns." — Ibid, April 4, 1750. (See Hymns occasioned by the Earthquake, published in this year, No. 148). Jackson says the sermon was first published " in all probability within a few weeks of the memorable eighth day of March, 1750, on which the shock of an earthquake was strongly felt in the metropolis of Great Britain, and excited general consternation and alarm. Although this impressive sermon was published anonymously, no doubt can be entertained about its being the production of Mr. Wesley's pen. The sentiments and manner are purely ll'cs/cyan, and it is also advertised for sale among his other single sermons in several of Mr. Wesley's old catalogues." — Pref. ll'cs/cys Sermons, edited by Thomas Jackson. Two vols., London: Kershaw, 1S25. He thus seems to have made the mistake of attributing it to John Wesley. Nor is it ascribed to Charles in the 1829 edition of Wesley's Works. It is also attributed to John in a "tract series" of sermons, issued from the Hook-room. London ■ Mason, n.d. Bui it was certainly written by Charles. 142. A Compendium of Logick. Bristol: F. Farley. 1750. 1 21110., pp. 33. Second edition, enlarged, London: printed in the year 1750, pp. 42, containing an Appendix, "Of the manner of using Logic, extracted from Bishop Saunderson"; Third, no date, London: pp. 4S ; Fourth, enlarged, London: CordeilX, 1S11. "We mI OUt at five, and at six came to the sands. But the tide was in, so that we could nol pas,. So I .sal down in a little COttagC fol time 01 foul hours, and translated Aldrich's Logic."- Journal, Mar. 25, 1750. This was prepared for use in the school at Kingswood. Though Logic was not in the ordinary curriculum, it was presci ibed for those " w ho designed to go through a course of Academical learnin ni of Kin School, (No. 127). The Compendium is t mere outline oi Aldrich's Artis Logicct Compendium. Wesley was thoroughly tutored in dialectics, lie tells Us, " For several years I was Moderator in the disputations which wen- held six times a week at Lincoln College, in Oxford. 1 could not avoid acquiring 1750.] Nos. 143-144-145. hereby some degree of expertness in arguing ; and especially in discerning and pointing out well-covered and plausible fallacies. I have since found abundant reason to praise God for giving me this honest art. By this when men have hedged me in by what they call demonstrations, I have been many times able to dash them in pieces ; in spite of all its covers, to touch the very point where the fallacy lay ; and it flew open in a moment." And he goes on to show how he had been aided by it in particular instances, especially in some of the controversial pieces that have just come under our review. 143. A Letter to the Revd. Mr. Baily, of Corke, in Answer to a Letter to the Revd. John Wesley. By J. W., M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, in Crane-Lane. 1750. 12 mo., PP- 3i- Dated at the beginning, Limerick, June 8, 1750, not signed. Second edition, London: J. Robinson, 1750. " Thursday 14. — Sufficient for this day was the labour thereof. We were on horseback, with but an hour or two's intermission, from five in the morning, till within a quarter of eleven at night. Friday, 15. — We set out at four, and reached Kilkenny about noon — my horse tired in the afternoon, so I left him behind, and borrowed that of my companion. I came to Aymo about eleven, and would very willingly have passed the rest of the night here, but the good woman of the inn was not minded that I should. At last she opened the door just wide enough to let out four dogs upon me. So I rode on to Ballybrittas — about twelve I laid me down. I think this was the longest day's journey I ever rode ; being fifty old Irish, that is, about ninety English miles. Saturday, 16. — I rested, and transcribed the 'Letter to Mr. Baily.'"— -Journal, June 1750. This was a letter of defence in reply to one of great virulence written under the pseudonyms of "George Fisher" and " Philalethes." In Wesley's reply is an account of the rough handling the Methodists received in Cork from the rabble and even from the Corporation. 144. A Short Account of God's Dealings with Mr. Thomas Hogg. Written by Himself in a Letter to his Minister. London : Printed in the Year 1750. 121110., pp. 10. Dated Nov., 1741, and signed Thomas Hogg. A hymn is appended with the date, June 29, 1750, and the title, " On the Death of Mr. Thomas Hogg." It is in Vol. vi. of the Poetical I Forks, pp. 209-10. An epitaph follows it. Another edition. Bristol : Pine, 1769. "I preached a written sermon at Spitalfields, on my beloved friend and brother Hogg. The chapel was crowded, and the house of mourning was turned to an house of great rejoicing."' — C. Wesley's Journal, July II. Hogg was one of the very early Methodists, a member of one of the first select Bands that met at the Foundery, and one of Wesley's stewards. 145. PH/EDRi Fabtjl/e Selects. In Usum Juventutis Christian;' 1 . Edidit Ecclesiae Anglicanae Presbyter. Bristoliae : Typis F. Farley. Anno Salutis, 1750. i2mo., pp. 35. Another of the carefully prepared books designed for use in the School at Kingswood. They were occasionally re-published, and kept on sale until the early part of this century. 69 Nos. 146-147-148-148* [1750. 146. Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia Selecta. In Usum Juventutis Christians. Edidit Ecclesiae Anglicans Presbyter. Bristoliae : Typis F. Farley. Anno Salutis, 1750. 121110, pp. 85. Another, Londini, Cordeux, 1813. A Latin life of Erasmus occupies the first four pages, and is followed by a table of contents. Twelve of his colloquies have been selected, and each is introduced by a good summary of its contents. There are no notes of any kind, but the text has been carefully read, and is printed from type of unusual excellence for its date. 147. Hymns for New Year's Day, 1750. Bristol: Printed by Felix Farley. [Price One Penny.] i2mo., pp. n. Seven Hymns. No date. Published also as Hymns for New Year's Day, 1752, London : Cock; and for 1755, London: Printed and sold at the Foundery; Another for 1758; afterwards simply as Hymns for New War s Day. Several editions, 1 761 -6-9, 1777, 1785, 1791, and others. Sometimes bound up with Nativity Hymns (No. 84). "At four in the morning our room was excessively crowded while I proclaimed the Gospel year of Jubilee. We did not part without a blessing." — C. Wesley's Journal, Jan. I, 1 750. Of the seven hymns in this tract, four have a direct reference to the year of Jubilee, and some of them doubtless were sung for the first time at that service, for which they had been prepared. One, now printed for the first time, was the well-known "Watch-night" hymn — Come let us anew Our journey pursue, Roll round with the year, And never stand still till the Master appear. 148. Hymns Occasioned by the Earthquake, March 8, 1750. London: Printed in the year 1750. i2mo., pp. 12. Six Hymns. 148a. DITTO Ditto. Part II. London: Printed in the year 1750. i2mo., pp. 23. Thirteen hymns. A econd edition of Part I. was printed at London in the same year and with the same title-page as the first edition ; and in 1750 was published Pari I., "The Third Edition," together with Part II.,"" The Second Edition." The number of Hymns in each pari is the same as in the firsl edition. The parts are not paged consecutively. In the same year an edition, miscalled the second 01 Pari I. and the second of Part 11., was printed l>y E. Farley, Bristol. In this edition, on the title-page of l'art I., appear the words : "To which are ( fft ) added an Hymn upon the pouring out of the Seventh Vial, Rev. kvL, xvii., \c, 70 1750.] No. 148. occasioned by the destruction of Lisbon ;" and on the title-page of Part II, " To which are added an Hymn for the English in America, and another for the year 1756." The former hymn is described as "Written in January, 1756." Together pp. 36; but not consecutively paged. Note A. — " I prepared a short ' History of England,' for the use of the children ; and on Friday and Saturday a short ' Roman History,' as an introduction to the Latin Historians." — Journal, Oct. 11, 1750. This entry in the Journal has led Heylin to place "A Short History of England" and "A Short Roman History " in this year. Tyerman also says : " He also wrote, at this time, his ' Short History of England' and his ' Short Roman History.' " That the histories here mentioned were ever printed is extremely doubtful. It was Wesley's practice to mark passages to be read in the books used at Kingswood School. " I went into the school and heard half the children their lessons, and then selected passages of the ' Moral and Sacred Poems.'" — [ournal, Sept. 27, 1750. " I spent most of the day in revising Rennet's 'Antiquities,' and marking what was worth reading in the school." — ib. Sept. 29. " I revised, for the use of the children, Archbishop Potter's ' Grecian Antiquities,' a dry, dull, heavy book." — ib. Oct. 3. "I revised Mr. Lewis's 1 Hebrew Antiquities,' something more entertaining than the other, and abundantly more instructive." — ib. Oct. 4. It is probable that he refers, in the extract given above, to such a preparation of a Roman and an English History. No published "short" History of England is known. It is not mentioned in any list or catalogue, or in the Books of Ringswood School. A Concise History of England, in 4 vols., was published afterwards, the preface to which bears date, "London, Aug. 10, 1775," and the Second Volume, 1776: (see No. 313). The earliest Sliort Roman History known was published in 1773 : (see No. 289). Note B.— In this year was also published a pamphlet entitled, " The Contents of a Folio History of the Moravians or United Brethren, printed in 1749, and privately sold under the title of Acta Fratrum Unitatis in Anglia ; with suitable Remarks. Humbly address'd to the pious of every Protestant Denomination in Europe and America. By a Lover of the Light." (2 Pet. ii. 19.) London: J. Roberts, 1750. [Price 4d.] 121110., pp. 60. Heylin places this under 1751, and says : " The whole of this anonymous pamphlet was not written by John Wesley. I am not aware that it has ever before been attributed to him ; but I think it bears internal evidence of having been prepared under his supervision. The preface, unless I am much mistaken, is his. The postscript is signed 'A Methodist ' ; throughout the pamphlet great prominence is given to the Wesleys and their opinions ; and, as a further corroboration, John Wesley was about this very time writing strong things in his Journals against the Moravians, This pamphlet is now exceedingly scarce." The Acta Fratrum Unitatis in Anglia, 17 4Q, is a thin folio of 156 pages. An octavo edition was also published. The first part of it relates to a petition presented to the House of Commons by Deputies of the Moravian Churches, 71 No. 149. [1751. praying for permission to settle " in His Majesty's Colonies in America." The petition was referred to a Committee ; and the first 58 pages of the folio contain the report of the Committee, together with a copy of the several documents presented by the Petitioners. Some of these are of much historic interest. To this are appended several documents on the Faith, the Liturgy and other matters relating to the Moravian Church. The pamphlet which Heylin attributes to Wesley contains a "Table of Contents" of the "Acta" and a description of other documents included in the folio volume, together with criticisms severe and keen upon them. At the beginning of the pamphlet some of the hymns in the Brethren's Hymn Book are quoted, — quite an unnecessary work for Wesley to do, for the character of these so-called hymns had already been exposed by him. The postscript is an appeal to " those of the Unitas Fratrum who were once Methodists." Tyerman, too, gives an account of this pamphlet and of some circumstances which appeared to him to justify its publication. He thinks " there is little doubt that Wesley was its author." — Life of Wesley, ii. 96- ICO. There is not a particle of evidence that Wesley wrote this pamphlet, or that he had any hand in it whatever. He was extremely particular in dating his papers, and the preface to this pamphlet is dated, " London, Oct. 2, 1750." Wesley was then in Bristol, and had been for some time. This is conclusive proof, if one were needed, that he did not write it. It is more probable that it was written by the Rev. Vincent Perronet, Vicar of Shoreham, by whose publisher it was printed, and with whose tracts it was sometimes bound up. 1751. 149. Thoughts upon Infant-Baptism. Extracted from a late Writer. Bristol : Printed by Felix Farley. 1 75 1. 121110., pp. 21, and false title, 2 pp. Another, 1780; London: Story, 1804; London: Mason, 1837. The Societies in some parts of the country appear to have been much disturbed by persons who condemned Infant-baptism. Wesley wrote this tract in defence of the rite. He observes that it has been "a troublesome dispute almost ever since the Reformation ; " and he confines himself in the tract to a rehearsal of "a few arguments commonly used to vindicate the practice of baptizing children." The tract was taken mainly from The History of Infant Baptism : By W. Wall, Vicar of Shoreham. Anyone having a knowledge of Wall's volumes will be able to estimate the amount of labour required to extract from them a consecutive pamphlet of nineteen pages. Certainly the labour of discovering the source of the pamphlet and tracing the extracts in the original work has proved itself to be not small. "I made an end of visiting the classes, miserably shattered by the sowers of strange doctrines. At one I preached at Tipton Green, where the baptists also have been making havoc of the Hock ; which constrained me in speaking OH those words, 'Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins,' to spend si minutes in controversy, which is more than 1 had done in public for many months (perhaps years) before." —Journal, April 3, I 7 5 I - The Rev. Vincent Perronet had already (1749) written "./ Defence of Infant Baptism (In answer to the Objections ol the late learned Mr. Gale) in a to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley, A.M.. Fellow oi Lincoln College, Oxford. To which is added, an Appendix chiefly designed for the benefit of the unlearned readei ;" London: J. Roberts. [2mo., pp. 68. Bat thi^ w.\> not so truly suited to meet the need ^( " the unie.u ned leader "a^W pamphlet w 72 1751.] Nos. 150-151-152. 150. A Short Hebrew Grammar. London : Printed by W. B. [William Bowyer], and sold by T. Trye, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holbourn; J. Robinson, Ludgate Street; and by George Englefield, in West Street, near the Seven Dials. 1751. 1 21110., pp. n Another edition, printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, and sold at the Foundery, near Upper-Moorfields, 1769, 121110., pp. 23. On Sunday, Feb. 10, 1 75 1 , when walking over London Bridge, Wesley slipped, and sprained his ankle ; but he managed to preach at Snowfields and at Seven Dials ; and attempted to do so at the Foundery, but could not, the sprain growing worse. He was removed to Threadneedle Street, where he "spent the remainder of the week, partly in prayer, reading, and conversation, partly in writing an 'Hebrew Grammar' and 'Lessons for Children.'" Heylin places both under this year ; but there is no record of the printing of the fourth part of the Lessons for Children until the year 1754. 151. A Short French Grammar. London : Printed by W. B. [William Bowyer], and sold by T. Trye, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holbourn ; J. Robinson, Ludgate Street ; and by George Englefield, in West-Street, near the Seven Dials. 1751. 121110., pp. 35. " I began writing a short French Grammar."— -Journal, March 6, 1750. Wesley wrote of the French language thus: "The French is the poorest, meanest language in Europe ; it is no more comparable to the German or Spanish than a bagpipe is to an organ ; and with regard to poetry in particular, considering the incorrigible uncouthness of their measure, and their always writing in rhyme (to say nothing of their vile double rhymes, nay, and frequent false rhymes), it is as impossible to write a fine poem in French as to make fine music on a Jew's harp. "—Journal, Oct. II, 1756. He does not seem to have edited any French books for use in the Kingswood School. 152. A Second Letter to the Author of The Enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists Compar'd. (Kcce iterum Chrispinus. — Juv.) London : Printed by H. Cock in Bloomsbury-Market, and sold at the Foundery, near Upper-Moorfields ; by J. Robinson, in Ludgate Street ; by T. Trye, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn ; by T. James, under the Royal Exchange ; and G. Englefield in West-Street, near the Seven Dials. 1 75 1. 12 mo., pp. xi. 60. This contains a prefatory letter addressed to the " Lord Bishop of Exeter," signed John Wesley, and dated Nov. 27, 1750. The anonymous author of "The Enthusiasm" had affirmed, in the third part of his work, published after Wesley's first letter, that certain statements, charging Wesley with gross misconduct, had been made to the "Bishop of Exeter," in the presence of several witnesses. Wesley, knowing the Bishop to be the author of the anonymous production, addresses a letter to him, and prefixes it to his second answer to the anonymous author. The writer of "The Enthusiasm" had undertaken to prove that the whole conduct of the Methodists was but a 73 No. 153. [1751. counterpart of the most wild fanaticisms of Popery, and to support this charge by quotations from their own writings, compared with quotations from Popish authors. Wesley tracks the course of his opponent all through his assertions step by step with the utmost precision, and with relentless severity exposes his errors, until he closes with, "I had occasion once before to say to an opponent, You know not to show mercy. Yet that gentleman did regard truth and justice. But you regard neither mercy, justice, nor truth. To vilify, to blacken is your one point. I pray God it may not be laid to your charge ! May He shew you mercy though you shew none ! " This is signed John Wesley, but not dated. In the Journal, however, reference is thus made to it, under date, Nov. 19, 175 1, "I began writing a letter to the comparer of the Papists and Methodists. Heavy work such as I should never choose ; but sometimes it must be done. Well might the ancient say, ' God made practical divinity necessary, the devil controversial.' " This throws the publication of the letter into the last month of 1751. The Bishop's publication was apparently put to strange uses. Wesley tells us, "I heard at church, by way of sermon, part of 'Papists and Methodists Compared.' But it did not lessen the congregation at one ; on whom I enforced (what they were somewhat more concerned in), ' What shall it profit a man ' to 'gain the whole world, and lose his own soul.' " — Toumal, Aug. 25, 1751. 153. Serious Thoughts upon the Perseverance of the Saints. London : Printed in the year 1751. i2mo., pp. 24. London: H. Cock, 1751 ; Dublin: S. Powell, 1752; London: 1779; London: G. Story, 1804; Dublin: Napper, 1813. This was published quite anonymously ; it was not signed nor was the printer's name given ; but it was included in Wesley's own edition of his works, and it appears in the catalogues. It is a calm, brief, dispassionate treatment of a solemn subject, concerning which Wesley declares, " I am sensible cither side of this question is attended with great difficulties, such as reason alone could never remove. Therefore to the law and the testimony ; let the living oracles decide." He gives several Scriptural descriptions of persons termed saints, and shows why he believes that persons so described may fall away and perish everlastingly, answering objections as he proceeds. The style is, as usual, clear, concise, direct, and strictly logical. It would be difficult to find elsewhere so much said on this subject in so few words. Note. — During this year volumes ii.-xii. of the Christian Library were published. Volume ii. contains the remainder of the Extract of John Arndts True Christianity, commenced in vol. i., also the first portion of several pieces entitled, Acts and Monuments of the Christian Martyrs. Extracted from Air. John Fox. 'Jo which is prefixed Some Account of his Life. These extracts extend to the close of volume v. They are preceded by an address To the Reader, in which Wesley writes, "After the venerable remains of Ignatius and Polycarp, closed with the artless, yet lively Discourses of Macarius and John Arndl's nervous account of True Christianity, worthy of the earliest ages ; I believe nothing could be more acceptable to the serious reader, than to see this Christianity reduced to practice, I was therefore easily determined to subjoin to these The Acts and Monuments of the Chris/inn Martyrs. line we see that pure and amiable religion evidently set forth before our eyes : assaulted indeed by all the powers of earth and hell, but more than conqueror overall." And he adds, that in abridging this vast work, he had purposely 74 1752.] No. 154. omitted "not only all the secular history, but likewise those Accounts, Writings, and Examinations of the Martyrs, which contained nothing particularly affecting or instructive." The Life of Mr. John Fox which is prefixed, was written by his son. Volume vi. contains A supplement to Mr. Fox's Acts and Monuments. Extracted from Mr. Clark's General Marty rology. It is preceded by Samuel Clark's Address to the Christian Reader. To each volume is appended a full Table of Contents. Vols, vii., viiLj and part of ix., contain abridgements of Meditations and Vows, Divine and Moral, and other writings, By Bishop Hall ; and Extracts from the Works of Robert Bolton, B.D., sometime Fellow of Brasen-Nose College, in Oxford ; preceded by a short account of The Life and Death of Mr. Bolton. In a Preface to the seventh volume, Wesley tells us he thought that after the account of the lives, sufferings, and death of the men "who sealed the antient religion with their blood, nothing would be more agreeable or more profitable to the serious reader than some extracts from the writings of those, who sprung up, as it were, out of their ashes." His desire is to rescue from obscurity, " a few of the most eminent of these : I say, a few, for there is a multitude of them which it would be tedious even to name " ; nor does he attempt " to abridge all the works of these few ; for some of them are immensely voluminous." Referring to the " blemishes of these excellent writers," he says, " Their language is not so smooth and terse, as that of the present age. Many of their expressions are now quite out of date, and some unintelligible to common readers. Add to this that they are exceedingly verbose, and full of circumlocutions and repetitions." These faults Wesley could not brook, and he proceeds to describe his method of correcting them, a method that he applied in all the writing that he prepared for the press. "The most exceptionable phrases are laid aside, the obsolete and unintelligible expressions altered ; abundance of superfluous words are retrenched ; the immeasurably long sentences shortened ; many tedious circumlocutions are dropt and many needless repetitions omitted." Two other errors, observable in the greater part of the Puritan Writers, he proposes to correct. One of these is, they drag in controversy on every occasion, " nay without any occasion or pretence at all " ; the other, " that they generally give a low and imperfect view of sanctification or holiness." The former he finds it easy to remedy " by leaving out all that but glanced upon controversy ; the latter is supplied by the following and preceding tracts." The latter part of vol. ix. and part of vol. x. contain Extracts from the Works of John Brest o)i, D.D., Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty King Charles L. To which is prefixed some account of his life by the Rev. Mr. Hall. The extracts from Preston embrace, The Breast-plate of Faith and Love, with Sibs' address " to the Christian Reader " ; and The New Covenant or the Sainfs Portion. In the latter part of volume x., are Extracts from the Works of Richard Sibs, D.D., together with some account of his life. Vol. xi. and part of xii. are devoted to Extracts from the Works of Tho. Goodwin, Doctor in Divinity ; whose writings alone, Wesley said, "would have sufficed to fill fifty volumes." The remaining portion of vol. xii. is occupied by Extracts from the Works of William Dell ; and Sermons on Several Subjects preached about the year i6jo, by Thomas Manton, D.D., preceded by a brief account of his life. 1752. 154. A Second Letter to the Lord Bishop of Exeter, in Answer to his Lordship's late Letter. By John Wesley, M.A. London : Printed by H. Cock in 75 No. 155. [1752. Bloomsbury-Market ; and sold at the Foundery, near Upper-Moorfields ; by J. Robinson, in Ludgate Street ; by T. Trye, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn ; by T. James, under the Royal-Exchange ; and G. Englefield, in West-Street, near the Seven Dials. 1752. i2mo., pp. 12. Dated at end, Newcastle upon Tyne, May 8, 1 752; and signed John Wesley. Second edition, London: II. Cock, 1752. Wesley's first letter to Bishop Lavington, of Exeter, was prefixed to the Second Letter to the Author of the Enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists compared: (see No. 152). In it Wesley defended himself against certain vile aspersions. This second letter is written in answer to his lordship's reply to the first. It has no permanent value save to show how Wesley's good name was traduced, and how he was able to defend it. 155. Predestination Calmly Considered. By John Wesley, M.A. " That, to the height of this great argument, I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God with man."' — MlLTON. London : Printed by W. B. [William Bowyer] and sold at the Foundery, near Upper-Moorfields ; by T. Trye, at Gray's-Inn-Gate ; and by R. Akenhead, 011 Tyne Bridge, Newcastle. 1752, [wrongly printed, MDDCCLII]. (Price Eightpence.) 121110., pp. S3. Second edition, London: W. B. , 1752 ; Third, London: Cock, 1 755 ; Fourth, Bristol: Pine, 1769; Another, London: W.B., 1772; Fifth, London: Ilawes, 1776 ; Sixth, 17S6 ; Seventh, London: G. Story, 1804 ; Tenth, London : Cordeux, 1818. An edition was afterwards published, to which were added 15 metrical Stanzas entitled "The Horrible Decree." See Xo. 31. This pamphlet was written under peculiar circumstances. At the Conference in Limerick, August 14 and 15, 1752 (the first held in Ireland), the following questions were a^ked and answers given. — " Q. 6. 1 low far do any of you believe the doctrine of absolute predestination ? A. None i. 7. Which of you believe absolute election? A. Three replied: ' We believe there are some persons who are absolutely elected ; but we believe likewise that Christ died for all ; that C/, 1647 : by R. Cudworth, B.D. It is preceded by the Dedication. There follow Extracts from the Works of Nathanael Calverwell, sometime Fellow of Emanuel-College, Cambridge, including The Act of Oblivion, The Child's Return, The Panting Soul, Mount Ebal,and Spiritual Opticks ; and Extracts from the Works of John Owen, D.D., sometime Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge : with a brief account of his life. The Extracts embrace Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers and The Nature, Power, Deceit and Prevalency of the Remainder of Indwelling Sin in Believers. These works are of necessity very considerably abridged, being brought into the compass of 172 duodecimo pages. In vols, xviii. and xix., extracts from Owen's Works are continued. The former volume comprises a dissertation on The Nature and Power of Tempta- tion ; A Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, God and Man, with the preface; also the first part of a treatise entitled Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The second and third parts appear in vol. xix., together with Extracts from the Works of the Rev. John Smith, sometime Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge. The latter follow an Address to the Reader, by John Worthington, dated Cambridge, December 22, 1659 ; and a brief " Postscript," signed John Wesley and dated March 10, 1752. Then follow abridgements of a discourse on The True Method oj Attaining Divine Knowledge ; two short discourses on Superstitions, and on Atheism ; and others on The Immortality of the Soul, and The Existence and Nature of God. These Wesley has pruned with care but with unsparing hand. He has removed objectionable phrases, obsolete and unintelligible expressions, superfluous words, long sentences, tedious circumlocutions and needless repetitions, as he had done in some preceding volumes : see p. 75. 1753. 159. An Extract of the Life and Death of Mr. John Janeway, Fellow of King's College, in Cambridge. By John Wesley, M.A. London : Printed by Henry Cock. 1753. nmo, pp. 35. The above is the earliest mentioned by Osborn and Heylin ; yet it appears in a 1 749 catalogue. Tyerman says ' ' It was also in this [ 1 749] or in a former year, that Wesley published his threepenny tract, entitled, 'An Extract of the Life and Death of Mr. John Janeway,' a young man of remarkable piety, who died at the age of twenty-three, in the year 1657." A tract with precisely the same title as the above, but by James Wheatley, was published in London in 1749. At that time Wheatley was a trusted and faithful Methodist preacher, and it was probably this tract that Wesley mentioned in his catalogue. It is obvious on comparing the two tracts that Wesley's is a slight abridgement of Wheatley's, and probably it was not published until this year. 79 Nos. 160-161-162. [1753. The extracts in both cases are from " Invisibles, Realities, Demonstrated in the Holy Life and Triumphant Death of Mr. John Janeway, Fellow of King s College, in Cambridge. By James Janeway, Minister of the Gospel." Another edition, London: R. Hawes, 1775; Another, "not to be sold, but given away,*' London: Paramore, "at the Foundery,'' 1783. Both these were from Wheatley's, not Wesley's Extract. The pamphlet is included in Wesley's own edition of his Works ; but it is further abridged, and a few sentences are added from Wheatley's. 160. An Extract of the Reverend John Wesley's Journal, from October 27, 1743, to November 1746. London : Printed by H. Cock, in Bloomsbury- Market ; and sold at the Foundery, near Upper- Moorfields ; by J. Robinson, in Ludgate-Street ; by T. Trye, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn; by T. James, under the Royal-Exchange ; and G. Englefield, in W r est-Street, near the Seven Dials. 1753. 121110., pp. 160. [No. vi.] Second edition, London : Flawes, 1779. Contains some interesting correspondence, and illustrates an old Methodist custom of meeting at stated times for " the public reading of the letters." 161. The Advantage of the Members of the Church of England over those of the Church of Rome. Bristol: Printed by E. Farley, in Small-Street. 1753. i2mo., pp. 12. Another, London: 1756. Reprinted in the Preservative Against Unsettled Notions in Religion (No. 191), 1758, and in the collected Works, 1 77 1. The following principles are laid down : "The more the doctrine of any Church agrees with the Scripture, the more readily ought it to he received ; and on the other hand the more the doctrine of any Church differs from the Scripture, the greater cause we have to doubt it . . . That it is a principle of the Church of England that nothing is to be received as an article of faith, which is not read in the Holy Scripture, 01 to be inferred therefrom by just and plain consequence : That the Church of Rome adds, if she does not prefer, to Holy Scripture, tradition or the doctrine of fathers and councils with the deem 5 of Popes. . . . Seeing, therefore, the Church of England contends for the Word of Cod, and the Church of Rome againsl it, it is easy to discern on which side the advantage lies, with regard to the grand principle of Christianity. - ' This is the drift and substance of this little pamphlet ; which, while well proving its point, is not eqral in extent or value to a Roman hismwith a Reply, published three years afterwards, (No. 179). 162. The Complete English Dictionary, Explaining most of those Hard Words, which are found In the- best English Writers. By a Lover of Good English and Common Sense. N.l>. — The Author assures you, he 80 1753.] No. 163. thinks this is the best English Dictionary in the World. London : Printed by W. Strahan ; and sold by J. Robinson, Ludgate Street ; T. Trye, Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn; T. James, Royal Exchange; and G. Englefield, West-Street, Seven Dials. 1753. i2mo. pp. 144— unnumbered in all editions. Although Wesley's name does not appear on the title-page or appended to the preface, there is no doubt as to his authorship. He includes it in the lists of books " published by J. and C. Wesley." Second edition, Bristol: Pine, 1764; Third, London: R. Hawes, 1777 ; Another, miscalled second, London : Printed and sold at the New Chapel, City Road, 1790, no date to preface. The preface, or address, " To the Reader," which is without date, reveals a vein of sarcastic drollery that would scarcely be expected in one engaged in such a work as that which constantly occupied Wesley's mind. He avows, "incredible as it may appear," that this dictionary "is not published to get money, but to assist persons of common sense and no learning, to understand the best English authors, and that with as little expense of either time or money as the nature of the thing would allow;" and, having "so often observed, the only way, according to modern taste, for any author to procure commendation to his book is vehemently to commend it himself," he " in compliance therefore with the taste of the age," adds that "this little dictionary is not only the shortest and the cheapest, but likewise, by many degrees, the most correct which is extant at this day. Many are the mistakes in all the other English dictionaries which I have yet seen. Whereas I can truly say, I know of none in this ; and I conceive the reader will believe me ; for if I had I should not have left it there. Use then this help, till you find a better." A Methodist is defined to be, " One that lives according to the method laid down in the Bible." In the second edition, printed at Bristol, by Wm. Pine, 1764, the above preface is dated Oct., 1753 ; and two sentences are appended in which the author says he has added "some hundreds of words chiefly from Mr. Johnson's Dictionary," which he had "carefully looked over for that purpose." The preface to the second edition is dated Oct. 20, 1763. 163. Directions for Married Persons; describing the Duties common to both, and peculiar to each of them. By William Whateley. Bristol : Reprinted by F. Farley, in Small Street. 1753. 121110. pp. 105, ii. An edition is noted 1760, i2mo., pp. 60; and another, 1768. This appeared in Vol. xxiv. of the Christian Library (No. 131). To it is prefixed a short and characteristic preface, dated London, January 6, 1753, and signed John Wesley, in which he thus commends it : "I have seen nothing on the subject in any, either ancient or modern, tongue, which is in any degree comparable to it. It is so full, so deep, so closely, so strongly wrote, and yet with the most exquisite decency, even where the author touches on points of the most delicate nature that are to be found within the whole compass of divinity." Farley, who printed the Christiaji Library, reprinted the pamphlet as announced above, at the same time and from the same type ; but he did not include Wesley's preface. Whateley, in his address "To the Christian Reader," says, "Marriage hath scarce more that use it, than that accuse it. Nos. 164-165. [1753. Most men enter into this estate, and being entered, complain thereof. They should rather complain of themselves. It is an unjust thing, and a fruit of ignorant pride, to cast the blame of our grievances upon God's ordinances. I had been happy, saith one, had I not been married. Then wast thou foolish both before and since thy marriage. Use it well, it shall add to thine happiness. We make bitter sauce, and cry out that the meat is bitter." In the fourth volume of Sermons on Several Occasions, published 1 760, Wesley includes an abridgement of this pamphlet, under the title of The Duties of Husbands and Wives, prefixing a single paragraph in commendation of it. He says, " I am persuaded, it is not possible for me to write anything so full, so strong, and so clear on this subject, as has been written near an hundred and fifty years ago, by a person of equal sense and piety." He does not include his own former preface ; but he adds two short papers, entitled Directions to Children and Directions to Serz '53> '55' &c- Those of 1749, '55, and '58 are printed from Wesle/s own manuscript copy, and those of 1752 and '53 from notes made by the Rev. Jacob Rowell, who was present. Whatever appears in this first number of the Large Minutes that is not taken from the Minutes published by Powell, Dublin, 1749 (Nos. 135-6), is to be found in these two MS. records, witli the exception ill a single sentence relating to the prevention of improper persons entering the society, which sentence cannot he traced. As many of the entries are taken from 1 753 and none from any subsequent record, the presumption is that the little undated tract was printed in this year. Osborn says: " It IS supposed to have been published in or about 1 75J. ' In the revised edition named above, the date assigned i> 1753 or 1 757. 165. Hymns and Spiritual Songs, [ntended for the Use of Real Christians of all Denominations (Colossians iii. 9-1 1). London: Printed by William Strahan \ and Sold at the.- Foundery in Upper- Moot fields, and in tin' Horse- fair, Bristol. 1753. [Price One Shilling.] 121110., pp. 124, viii. Preface and Index [" INEDX."] No nunc of author, until the eighth edition, 1753.1 No. 165. Second Edition, London : H. Cock, 1754 ; Third, Dublin : S. Powell, 1755 ; Fourth, London : 1756 ; Fifth, Bristol : Farley and Son, 1758 ; Seventh, Bristol: Grabham, 1759; Eighth, Bristol: Pine, 1761 ; in this and subsequent editions appear the words, " By John Wesley, M.A." Ninth, Bristol: Pine, 1760; Another, 1762; Tenth, Bristol: Pine, 1763 ; Tenth, Edinburgh (enlarged), 1763 (nineteen Hymns of C. Wesley; Watts, two; Addison, one; Cennick, one; Ken, one, added, but by whose authority is not known). Twelfth, Bristol : 1765 ; Thirteenth, Bristol : Pine, 1767 ; Fourteenth, Bristol : Pine, 1768, "By John Wesley, M. A. , Late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. " Another, 1770; Fifteenth, Bristol: Pine 1771, "Published by John and Charles Wesley," and so subsequently. Sixteenth, Bristol : Pine, 1772 ; Seven- teenth, Bristol: Pine, 1773; Eighteenth, London: Hawes, n.d. ; Nineteenth, 1775; Twentieth, London : Hawes, 1776 ; Twenty-first, London: Hawes, 1777; Another, 1782; Twenty-second, London: Paramore, 1781 ; Another, Dublin: Whitehouse, 1779; Twenty-third, London : Paramore, 1782; Twenty-fourth, London: Paramore, 1786. This collection, sometimes called Spiritual Hymns, consists entirely of hymns from the three volumes of Hymns and Sacred Poems , 1739, 1740, and 1742 (Nos. 15, 19 and 40) : sixteen from the first, twenty-two from the second, and forty-six from the third, making a total of eighty-four hymns. Twenty-one of the hymns are long, and are divided into two, three, four, or six parts ; if each part were counted as a hymn the total number would be 114. To each hymn a title is prefixed. This was the Hymn Book in general use in the congregations from 1753 to 1780, when the Collection of Hymns for the use of the People called Methodists, kncjwn as "The Large Hymn Book," (No. 348) was compiled ; and it was used in the smaller and poorer Societies long after the larger book was published. It was frequently bound up with the Redemption Hymns (No. 105), which was largely used in the Class-Meetings and private Bands. Many copies have been found with the Society or Band Ticket pasted on the back, or pinned to the fly-leaf. Wesley tells us in the preface to the large Collection that, when he was importuned to prepare a Hymn Book which might be generally used in the congregations, he replied, " You have such a collection already (entitled Hymns and Spiritual Songs), which I extracted several years ago from a variety of Hymn Books." The large number of editions sufficiently attests its popularity whilst it was in use. Note A. — Heylin places in this year Select Hymns for the Use of Christians of all Denominations, (No. 208). But he is entirely mistaken, as will be shown in due time. He is equally in error in ascribing to Wesley ' The Trial of the Spirits loth in Teachers and Hearers : extracted by a Member of the Church of England.' This is by C. Perronet. Note B. — The earliest copy of A Plain Account of Genuine Christianity, that I can find, bears date 1753. It is placed under 1749, for a special reason. See No. 122. Note C. — During this year fourteen volumes (xx.-xxxiii.) of the Christian Library were published. 83 No. 165. * [1753. Vol. xx. contains the remainder of the extracts from the writings of Mr. John Smith, comprising, — A Discourse of Prophecy : with Rules for the better understanding of ' Prophetick Writ ; A Discourse treating of Legal Righteousness and Eva?igelical Righteousness, or the Righteousness of Faith ; The Difference between the Law and the Gospel, and the Old and New Covenant ; The Shortness and Vanity of a Pharisaick Righteousness, or an Account of the False Grounds upon which men are apt to conceit themselves to be Righteous ; The Excellency and Nobleness of True Religion ; and A Christian 's Conflicts and Conquests. These Discourses are divided into chapters as in the original, but each is much abridged. They are followed by a Sermon by Simon Patrick, preached at the Funeral of Mr. Smith. The volume also contains Memorials of Godliness and Christianity, or, Of Making Religion one's Business, and An Appendix applied to the Calling of a Minister, by Herbert Palmer, B.D., Master of Queen's College, Cambridge. Vol. xxi. contains An Extract from the Whole Duty of Man : first printed in the year 1657. To this is prefixed an Address to the Reader, signed J. Wesley, in which he says, " Whoever reads the following Treatise should consider the time wherein it was wrote. Never was there more talk of Faith in Christ, of Justification by Faith, and of the Fruits of the Spirit. And scarce ever was there less practice of plain moral duties, Justice, Mercy and Truth. At such a time it was peculiarly needful to inculcate what was so generally neglected ; and this is well done in the ensuing Tract." Following this is A Collection of Prayers for Families. Wesley had already published this in 1745 : see No. 74, of which this is an exact reprint. Vol. xxii. consists of Directions for Married Persons : Describing the Duties common, to both, and peculiar to each of them: by William Whateley, with a Preface to the Reader, dated London, Jan. 6, 1753, and signed, John Wesley. An account of this is given in No. 163, printed in this year. As both copies were printed from the same type, it is difficult to determine which first ap] Probably the type was set up for the volume, and the separate pamphlet published afterwards ; but it is strange that Wesley's preface, which appears in this volume, was not inserted in the separate publication. The original work was entitled A Bride Bush, or a Wedding Sermon, compendiously describing the duties of Married Persons: London: 1617, 4to. This is followed by Extracts from the Works of Sanderson : to which is prefixed some account of the life of Dr. Sanderson, sometime Bishop of Lincoln. The extracts embrace four Sermons. Following these is A Discourse concerning Comparative Religion : or the True and Solid Grounds of Pure and Peaceable Th which is stated to be a subject very important, though hitherto almost wholly neglected. It is a translation from the Latin : but the name of the author is not given. Vol. xxiii. contains Thoughts on Religion, and other subjects, by Monsieur Pascal, with a Preface giving an account of the author, and an Advertisement, relating to the order and method of the Thoughts. \e\t follows The Great Duty of Self-Resignation to the Divine Will, extracted from a treatise by John Worthington, D.D., witha Preface by bishop Edward Fowler. This subject extends into vol. xxiv., the remaining portion of which contains Extracts from the Works of Mr. Joseph AIL in, to which is prefixed .some account of the Life and Death of the- Author a most interesting and profitable memoir. The comprise An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners, and A Counsel for •I and Family Godliness. The Alarm was subsequently issued in a carefully abridged form, as a separate publication (No. 362). In it is a form for "a soli in 1 1 ( Covenant \\ itli God," which Wesley ] irepared for the use of his Societies, iii the Service which lie instituted and called "the Renewal of the ( Covenant," a service which is observed annually by the Methodists throughout ild. Vol. xxv. contains the remainder of the extracts from Alleine, namely. Two Practical < w< Unci Resolved} and also Ex/i acts from the 1753.] No. 165. Works of Mr. Samuel Shaw, sometime Minister of Long-Whatton, Leicester- shire, with a Short Account of his life. The extract is from Immanuel: or, A Discovery of True Religion, as it imports a Living Principle in the Minds of Men : written about the year 1666 ; and is followed by Communion with God: A Sermon preached before the Peers, in the Abbey-Church at Westminster, October 10, U66, by Seth Ward, then Bishop of Exeter ; and An Exposition of the Church-Catechism, extracted from Bp. Ken. In vol. xxvi. is a series of Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons, chiefly extracted from Mr. Samuel Clark. The series includes an autobiography of Samuel Clark, Philip Melancthon with preface by Richard Baxter, Peter Martyr, John Calvin, Galeacius Caracciolus the Marquis of Vico, Bernard Gilpin, William Whitaker, Philip de Mornay, John Bruen, Richard Blackerby, Henry Atling, Frederick Spanheim, Sir Philip Sidney, Richard Mather, and John Row. These brief memoirs are given, Wesley says, in a preface, "in order to illustrate, by examples, the Rules already laid down." And he further remarks, with a largeness of" charity that well deserves imitation, " Perhaps it may be useful, as well as agreeable, to those who are broke loose from that miserable Bigotry which is too often entailed upon us from our forefathers, to observe how the same Spirit works the same work of grace in men upright of heart, of whatever Denomination. These, how widely soever they differ in opinion, all agree in one Mind, one Temper. How far distant soever they are from each other, with regard to the circumstances of Worship, they all meet in the substance of true Worship, the Faith that worketh by Love." The extracts from the Lives of Eminent Persons are continued in vol. xxvii. They include Joseph Woodward, Nicholas Leverton, Sir Nathanael Barardiston, Samuel Fairclough, Rirhard Hooker, Sir Henry Watton, Dr. Donne, George Herbert, Bp. Bedell, and Abp. Usher. Vol. xxviii. contains The Spirihial Bee : or a Miscellany of Divine Meditations ; Extracts from the Letters of Mr. Samuel Rutherfoord, — rather more than half of the letters originally published are given by Wesley, each having undergone revision ; also The Happy Ascetic : or the Best Exe)'cise, together with Prayers suitable to each Exercise : by Dr. Horneck. This is continued in vol. xxix. , and is there followed by A Letter to a Person of Quality concerning the Lives of the Primitive Christians, by the same author ; and by Extracts from the Works of the Rev. Mr. Hugh Binning, consisting of Five Sermons, with some Account of the life of the author. In this volume are commenced Contemplations Moral and Divine, from the Works of Lord Chief Justice Hale. These extend to vol. xxx. , which contains also part of Vindicict Pietatis, or a Vindication of Godliness, in the greatest Strictness and Spirituality of it. This is from the Works of Richard Allein. In it is the form for the solemn covenanting with God, found also in vol. xxiv., of which, with the exception of a single sentence, it is a verbal reprint, and from which it was doubtless taken. Vol. xxxi. contains the remainder of the Vindication ; An Extract from the Assembly 's Shorter Catechism ; and Primitive Christianity, or the Religion of the Ancient Christians, extracted from the writings of Dr. William Cave, in three parts, each divided into chapters. Although this corresponds with the original in the number of parts, yet it is greatly abridged. It was first published in 1672. Vol. xxxii. contains A Relation of the Holy War. In an early period of his literary career (1743) Wesley exercised his talent for abridgement upon Bunyan's inimitable work, The Pilgrim's Progress, (see No. 46). That effort cannot be considered in any sense a success. With all his skill, he was not able to improve the work of " the immortal Tinker." In dealing with Bunyan's second great work, The Holy War, of which it has been said, " If the Pilgrim's Progress did not exist it would be the best allegory that ever was written " ( Enc. Britt. Art. Bunyan), Wesley has been more sparing of the original 85 No. 166. [1754. than in his former effort. But he has quite failed to produce a more popular book. In fact, as with most artistic works that have been subjected to similar treatment, it has gained nothing in beauty, by what it has lost of originality. Like some other pieces in this large selection, it is given without the name of the author. It occupies little more than a third of the volume. The remainder is devoted to An Extract of the Christian Sacrifice : A Treatise showing the Necessity, End, and Manner of receiving the Holy Communion, together with suitable Prayers and Meditations, by Simon Patrick, late Lord Bishop of Ely. This is another example of careful and minute revision, every sentence even having been thoughtfully weighed, and the work of excision most judiciously done. The four Parts into which the treatise is divided are given, and the twelve Meditations, but not arranged for the months of the year as in the original. Those for the special Feasts of the Church are omitted and half of the Additional Prayers. As a devotional manual, it deserves to be reprinted. The contents of vol. xxxiii. are A Gospel Glass, or a Call from Heaven to Sinners and Saints by Repentance and Reformation to prepare to meet God, in thirty-seven chapters; and An Extract from Mr. Cowley's Essays, in five parts. 1754. 166. An Extract from the Reverend Mr. John Wesley's Journal, from November 25, 1746, to July 20, 1750 [should be 1749, corrected in erratum in No. viii.] London : Printed by H. Cock, in Bloomsbury-Market ; and sold at the Foundery, near Upper-Moorfields ; by J. Robinson, in Ludgate-Street ; and by T.James, under the Royal-Exchange. 1754. i2ino., pp. 139. [No. vii.] The paging is in the utmost confusion. Wesley was now fully engaged in his itinerant evangelistic work, of which this " Extract " is a most interesting record. The following are examples of the entries : — May 9. — " Having not had an hour's sound sleep from the time I lay down till I rose, I was in doubt whether I could preach or not. However, I went to the market-place as usual and found no want of strength till I had fully declared the Redemption that is in Christ Jesus. I had designed afterwards to settle the Society thoroughly; but I was not able to sit up so long. Many advised me not to go out at night, the wind being extremely cold and blustering. But I could in no wise consent to spare myself at such a time as this. I preached on Come unto Me, cVc." " August 12. — In riding to Newcastle I finished the tenth Iliad of Homer." "Friday, September 2. — I preached at Wednesbury in the afternoon, and thence rode to Meridan. Riding long stages the next day we reached St. All ans, and the Koundery on Sunday morning." " 25. — Believing my strength would not allow of preaching live times in the day, I desired John Whitworth to preach at five." This was at Si. Just, but he rode to Morva, to Zennor, to NYwlyn, and to St. Ives, and preached in each place. "(Jet. 1. — I preached at Waywick about one, and then rode quietly on to Bristol. I examined the Society the following week, leaving OUl every careless person, and everyone who wilfully and obstinately refused to meet his brethren weekly. By this means their number was reduced from 900 to about 730." "April 23. — We had several Showers in the afternoon while I was preaching in our garden, and towards tin- conclusion a vehement shower of hail. Bait all kept their ground till I concluded. " "June 4. — Being extremely . 1 could 1 1 « » t speak without difficulty. However, I made shin to preach at nine, a1 two, and al 6 The several numbers of the Journal were not often reprinted separately. 86 1754.] Nos. 167-168. 167- An Answer to all which the Revd. Dr. Gill has Printed on the Final Perseverance of the Saints. By the Revd. Mr. Wesley. London: Printed, and Sold at the Foundery, near Upper-Moorfields ; by T. Try, near Gray's Inn-Gate, Holbourn ; by J. Robinson, in Ludgate-Street, and by T. James, under the Royal- Exchange. 1754. [Price One Penny.] 12010., pp. 12. In 1 75 1 Wesley wrote the Serious Thoughts on the Perseverance of Saints, (No. 153) ; a reply to which was issued in the following year, entitled, The Doctrine of the Saints' Final Perseverance Asserted and Vindicated : in answer to a late pamphlet called Serious Thoughts on that subject : By John Gill, D.D., London : 1752. In that year Wesley wrote Predestination Calmly Considered (No. 155); the latter part of it being a reply to Dr. Gill, who speedily published a folio volume entitled " The Doctrine of Predestination Stated, and Set in the Scripture- Light : in opposition to Mr. Wesley's Predestination Calmly Considered : With a reply to the exceptions of the said writer to The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints." Wesley seems to have deemed the best answer to Dr. Gill was to be found in the poetical tract named above, for he does not in any other way reply to him. And he was probably unwilling to follow his opponent further, who was a very voluminous and, Wesley thought, not conclusive writer ; and, moreover, Wesley had already written many things on the great controversy, and was much engrossed with other important work. This tract of twelve pages consists of thirty-eight stanzas of eight lines each, being the third, the fourth, and part of the fifth hymns (if hymns they are to be called) in the well known Hymns on God's Everlasting Love (No. 32), published in 1741. Osborn suggests the query whether the title indicates that the verses were written, not by Charles, but by John Wesley, who was always called the Rev. Mr. Wesley. It is to be observed, however, that this is only an extract, and not the original publication. 168. Lessons for Children. Part IV. London : Printed by Henry Cock. 1754. 121110., pp. 82. This is the concluding part of the Lessons. It embraces extracts from the books of Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, The Wisdom of Solomon, and Ecclesiasticus. There are thirty-five lessons or chapters, with short explanations of difficult words and of hidden meanings at the foot of the page, together with references to the text. A Second edition of the entire work was published in 1816, by Thomas Cordeux, London ; with the title Lessons for Children and Others, Selected from the Holy Scripture. It was issued also as Lessons from the Holy Scriptures designed for Domestic Use, in the same year. Wesley, in the preface to part I. (see No. 85), tells us that he had endeavoured to select the plainest and most useful portions of Scripture, such as children may the most easily understand, and such as it most concerns them to know. The Lessons in the whole of the four parts are taken exclusively from the Old Testament and the Apocrypha. Note. — In this year eight volumes (xxxiv. — xli.) of the Christian Library were published. Vol. xxxiv. commences with An Extract from Dr. Goodman's Winter Evening Conference, in three parts. It is a series of three imaginary and 37 No. 168. [1754. somewhat formal conversations, in which Sebastian reclaims his friend Philander from "the lightnesses of the age," and both together lead Biophilus, a sceptical person, " to deliberate of what before he despised." The conversations are largely interspersed with reflections on religious subjects. To this is added, An Exposition of the Belief, taken from the Works of Dr. Robert Leighton, sometime Archbishop of Glasgow. In the succeeding volume (xxxv. ) are six Sermons on Several Occasions, also from Abp.- Leighton's w r ritings. They are followed by ten selected sermons, Extracts from the Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow, Late Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. The writings of these two divines in their original form are more condensed in style than those of many already named, yet a keen eye may detect a word or phrase, or part of a sentence, that could be spared without injury to the sense of" the passage. But, though there is comparatively so little of needless repetition, yet on every page, if to only a small degree, Wesley has found occasion for the exercise of his powers of abridgement and correction. Vol. xxxvi. contains Extracts from the Works of the Reverend Mr. John Brown, consisting of one piece only, entitled, Christ the Way, the Truth, and the Life : or a Short Discourse pointing the Way of making Use of Christ for Justification, and more particularly for Sanctification. This, though styled 11 a short discourse," extends to 19 chapters. It is followed by An Extract from a Treatise of Solid Virtue ; Written in French. To this are prefixed an Address to the English Reader by the translator, and a Preface by the Author, Anthoniette Bourignon. The treatise consists of a series of 25 Letters addressed to different persons, but mainly to " My dear child," and chiefly dated from " Holstein, near Gottorp-Castle," in the year 1672-6. The volume contains also An Extract from a Sermon, preached at Cripplegale, by Dr. Samuel Annesley, the subject being " How must we reprove, that we may not partake of other men's sins." Vol. xxxvii. contains The Saints' 1 Everlasting Rest ; or a Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in their enjoyment of God in Glory : An Extract from the Works of Mr. Baxter. It is preceded by a brief Dedication to the Inhabitants of Kidderminster. This is a very considerable abridgement of Baxter's original work. It was republished by Wesley in a separate form in 1776 ; a description of the extract is given in a Note under that date. Vol. xxxviii. contains Devotional Tracts: Translated from the French. They comprise Letters to the Duke of Burgundy from M. De Fenelon, Archbishop of Cam bray ; Letters concerning and from B. Lawrence to the Reverend ; four Conversations with the same ; A Letter to one troubled in Mind, by Mary Henries ; Pious Reflections, in sixteen sections ; and .-/ Mother's Advice to her Daughter, in five sections. These are followed by An Extract from a Prospect of Divine Providence, — a quaint, thoughtful and racy piece of writing, in which a multitude of Scripture and other references are used to illustrate the moral instruction, which is given in a series of Chapters, Sections and Observations ; An Extract from Molino/s Spiritual Guide, much abridged, in two parts, of six and four chapters respectively; and An Extract from two Sermons preached at Cripplegale by Dr. Samuel Annesley, the former on Universal Conscientiousness, and the latter 00 the Visitation of the Sick. Vol. xxxix. contains Extracts from the Sermons of Dr. Henry Moore, five sermons; and Extracts from the Works of steph. Charnock, B.I)., sometime Fellow Of New College, Oxford. The latter are confined to two discourses : — one, "Of the Knowledge of God ;" the other, "Of the Knowledge of God in Christ." Wesley prepared the whole of Charnock's Discourses on the Existence and Attributes of God, for the press, but did nol publish them. The original, a folio volume with Wesley's manuscript, is in the library at the Nt w Kingswood School, Bath. There folio* An Extract from Dr. Calam/s Sermons, three in number; and .■/ Rebuke to Backsliders, ami a Spur for Loiterers, by the author of I'inditi.e PUtatis [Richard AlleineJ. The last is a So 1755.] Nos. 169-170. discourse on Isa. Ixiv. 6, 7, extending through half the volume, although it has undergone a considerable pruning. An Extract from an Inquiry after Happiness, by Richard Lucas, D. D. , in three parts, occupies vol. xl. The original fills two vols. 8vo. ; so that the work of condensation must have been great in order to bring it down to little more than a duodecimo. It extends into vol. xli., which also contains Extracts from the Works of Dr. Reynolds, sometime Bishop of Norwich, consisting of sermons on " The Vanity of the Creature," " The Sinfulness of Sin," " The Life of Christ," and " The Use of Human Learning." 1755. 169. Queries Humbly Proposed to the Right Reverend and Right Honourable Count Zinzendorf. London. Sold by J. Robinson in Ludgate-Street, and T. James under the Royal Exchange. 1755. [Price Sixpence.] 8vo., pp. 32. Another, Dublin: Printed in the year 1755. l2mo., pp. 16. Inserted in the catalogues amongst the books published by J. and C. Wesley; but not otherwise acknowledged. Many severe charges had been laid against the "Brethren" in the public Press. James Hutton, one of their number, inserted in the Lojidon Daily Advei'tiser of Dec. 31, 1754, a letter calling for these charges to be reduced "into the form of Queries at an Examination," that direct answers might be given to them. It was this challenge that immediately led to the publication of these Queries. They contain a terrible indictment, and could not have been written by any man having a spark of Christian good feeling, but under the pressure of a strong conviction of duty or necessity. A letter is prefixed, addressed to Mr. Hutton and dated January 7, 1755. By general consent the pamphlet is attributed to Wesley ; and Hutton himself, in a letter written some years afterwards, refers to such a work as having been written by Wesley : see Memoirs of James Hutton, pp. 301-2. Some account of the pamphlet is given by Tyerman, Life of Wesley, ii. 220-3. Long afterwards Wesley in his Journal notes : "I met an old friend, James Hutton, whom I had not seen for five-and-twenty years. I felt this made no difference ; my heart was quite open ; his seemed to be the same, and we conversed just as we did in 1738, when we met in Fetter Lane." — Dec. 21, 1771. Not a shadow of the imputations contained in this pamphlet rests upon the Moravians of to-day. 170. Catholick Spirit. A Sermon on 2 Kings x. 15. By John Wesley, M.A., Late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxon. London : Printed by H. Cock, in Bloomsbury- Market ; and sold at the Foundery, near Upper-Moor- fields ; by T. Try, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holbourn ; by J. Robinson, in Ludgate-Street, and by T. James, under the Royal-Exchange. 1755. i2mo., pp. 31. Another edition. Bristol: Pine, 1770. Appended is a hymn of seven stanzas of six lines each, entitled Catholic Love, and signed at the end of the seventh stanza C.W. It was now published for the first time. s 9 Nos. 171-172. [1755. The Sermon appears in the third volume of Sermons, 1750 (No. 139), but with the hymn appended becomes a separate publication. It was worthy of wide dissemination for its truly catholic spirit. It clearly defines, illustrates, and urges real catholicity. Watson says : " No man ever set a better example of Christian charity, and nowhere is the excellence and obligation of that temper more forcibly drawn and inculcated than in his most interesting sermon on 'A Catholic Spirit.'" — Life of Wesley, ch. viii. The hymn is the outpouring of a spirit tired of" the conflict of bigotry and the strife of words : — Weary of all this wordy strife, These notions, forms and modes and names, To Thee the Way, the Truth, the Life, Whose love my simple heart inflames, Divinely taught, at last I fly, With Thee and Thine to live and die. 171. Serious Thoughts Occasioned by the late Earth- quake at Lisbon. Tua res agitur paries quum proximus ardet. By John Wesley, M.A. Late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. London : n.d. 8vo., pp. 34. The first edition must have been published in London, as Wesley was there till the end of the year. Both Heylin and Tyerman imply that this was an 8vo. edition, pp. 34. Osborn mentions a second, London, 1 755, but does not describe it. A second was also published in Bristol by E. Farley, 1755, 8vo. , pp. 34; and another second in Newcastle, by John White, l2mo. , pp. 23, but without date. Sixth edition, London : printed in the year 1 756, i2mo., pp. 36. In the sixth edition, Wesley adds a postscript of fourteen pages, giving an account of the earthquake, as supplied by eye-witnesses, and of some other similar occurrences; also of the very uncommon commotion, both in the inland waters and the neighbouring seas, observed in many parts of Holland, Great Britain and Ireland. This awful event, in which 60,000 persons perished, occurred on the first and several following days of November, 1755. In fact, there were " shocks, more or less, in some part or other of the world, every day from Nov. 1 to the 31st of December." Wesley, being, as he tells us, "much importuned thereto," wrote these Serious Thoughts, directed, not as he "designed at first, to the small vulgar, but the great ; to the learned, rich, and honourable Heathen commonly called Christians. "—Journal, Nov. 26, 1755. 172. Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament. By John Wesley, M.A., Late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. London: Printed by William Bowyer. 1755. 4 to., pp. vi., 759, iii. Preface dated, Bristol, ll"t Wells, Jan. 4, 1754. Last page erroneously numbered 765, and wrongly corrected in errata. Portrait, dated 1755. ond edition, 4t<>., London: printed in the year 1757; Third, ted, Bristol: Grabham and Pine, 1760-2, 121110., 1 vols. : Fourth, 4to., Bristol: Pine, 1 76S ; Fifth, 410., London: printed for the author, 17SS ; Fourth (?), 121110., 3 vols., London \ printed and sold at the New 90 1755.] No. 172. Chapel, City Road, &c, 1789-90; Fifth (?), i2mo., 3 vols., London : Paramore, 1795; Fifth, 3 vols. 8vo., Dublin: John Jones, 1805; Eleventh, 8vo. 2 vols., London: Mason, 1831 : (Another example of confusion in numbering the editions). Others not numbered, London, i6mo. , 1790; Another 8vo. 2 vols. 181 3; Another, Dunfermline: 241110., 1818 ; Another, London: Mason, 8vo., 1838; Another, i2mo., 1850; London : Virtue, n.d., 8vo. ; London : n.d., 161110. ; Halifax (with additional notes by author of "Helps for the Pulpit"), 8vo., 1870; London : Mason, New Edition, Text and Notes in one volume, 121110., 1852; Another 1877. This is one of Wesley's principal works. He had for many years, he tells us, a desire of setting down and laying together what occurred to his own mind in reading, thinking, or conversation, which might assist serious persons, who had not the advantage of learning, in understanding the New Testament. He was often deterred from carrying out his design, partly, he says, by a deep sense of his own inability and of his want of learning for such a work, but much more by his want of experience and wisdom, and, we may add, of time. Fie adds that being much out of health, he was induced to begin " because he could do nothing else." He went to Bristol to have the benefit of the Hot Well. He says, in his half-quaint way, — "On Sunday (January 6th, 1754) I began writing Notes on the New Testament ; a work which I should scarce ever have attempted had I not been so ill as not to be able to travel or preach, and yet so well as to be able to read and write." He plied his pen from five o'clock in the morning until nine at night, " except the time of riding, half-an- hour for each meal, and the hour between five and six in the evening," which was always reserved ■ for devotion. Towards the end of February he was joined by his brother ; and they spent several days together in comparing his translation of the Evangelists with the original, and otherwise helping on the work. By the 19th of March, the rough draft being finished, he began transcribing the Notes on the Gospels. In the early part of April he retired to Paddington, giving himself up to writing, and spending only the Sundays at the Foundery. For four months he seems to have been in or near London. Then, "being much out of order," he repairs again to the Hot Well ; but in less than a month he is on his way to Cornwall on a preaching tour, returning to London early in October, and retiring to "a little place near Hackney," where he "was as in a College." He remained in London through the winter (1754-5). In April he is at Bristol again : then starts for a three months' evangelistic journey through the North. From July 6 to Aug. 17 he is in London writing and preaching. Then comes another preaching tour in Cornwall until the end of September, when he returns "weary enough" to Bristol, but "preached till all his complaints were gone." He now had "a little leisure to sit still and finish the Notes." The volume was published at the close of the year. How such a work could be written amidst so much labour and distraction is one of the problems of Wesley's life that remain to be solved. The date of the preface shows that, as was usually his custom, it was written, or the most of it, in anticipation of the work. He says that he first "set down the text in the common English translation," which he judged to be "in general abundantly the best " he had seen ; but, while adhering to it as far as possible, he endeavoured to bring it nearer to the original, never altering for altering's sake, "but there and there only where the sense was made better, stronger, clearer, or more consistent with the context," or the phrase better or nearer the original. The notes he made " as short as possible that the comment may not obscure or swallow up the text ; and as plain as possible in pursuance of the main design. " For the correction of the Greek text, as well as for most of his notes, particularly those on the Apocalypse, and for the analyses of the several books, he is chiefly indebted to the Gnomon Novi Testa/nenti of Bengel, — 9 1 No. 173. [1755. " that great Light of the Christian world." He also laid under tribute the Paraphrase of Dr. Guyse, the Theological Lectures of Dr. Heylin, and the Family Expositor of Dr. Doddridge. Hampson notices the first 4to. edition as " the most elegantly printed book he ever published, and embellished with one of the best of his early prints," of which a curious story is told in ihe Journal, (Nov. 5, 1774). It is an engraving of Williams' portait of Wesley (1742), and shows remarkable fidelity to the original. " I began reading over the Greek Testament and the Notes, with my brother and several others ; carefully comparing the translation with the original, and correcting or enlarging the Notes as we saw occasion. "—Journal, Dec. 12, 1759. This was for the 3rd edition, 1760-2. "I retired to Rainham, to prepare another edition of the New Testament for the Press." — id., Dec. 4, 1787. This may have been for the fifth edition, 4to., 1788; or the so-called fourth edition, 121110., 1789; though more probably for the beautiful, and now rare, pocket edition of the text, with an analysis of the several books and chapters, published in 1790, the last book (excepting the Magazine for the year) that he issued from the press. Jackson says, " Charles, who was an excellent critic, and possessed a fine taste in composition, afforded his brother more assistance in this work than in any other with which John's name was connected. The revisal of the book, some years after it had been printed, was greatly indebted to his piety, taste, and judgment." — Life of C. Wesley, ii. 44. See also H. Moore, L. of T. Wesley, ii., 418-20. 173. An Epistle to the Reverend Mr. John Wesley. By Charles Wesley, Presbyter of the Church of England. London : Printed for J. Robinson, in Ludgate-Street. 1755- 8v0 -> PP- l6 - Another edition, London, reprinted in 1785, i2mo.,pp. 12. Reprinted also in Jackson's Life of Charles Wesley, Vol. II., pp. 545-551. A spirited poem addressed to "My first and last unalienable friend," on " the fears and sorrows of a Imrthen'd heart " concerning The Church whose cause I serve, whose faith approve, Whose altars reverence, and whose name I love. "On Thursday I read my Epistle B second time to a crowded audience, and >y at the watch-night." — Letter to Mrs. C. W., May 31, 1735. " Thc probability is, that he composed it as he travelled OD horseback, from Leeds to London, with the three days' debate in the Conference [on separating from the Church] in his recollection, and all the feelings connected with that debate still vivid and strong. Four thousand copies of the tract were printed and immediately put into circulation.'' — Life of C. //'. ii. Sl-2. This pamphlet must be read in the light of these controversies. At the Conference of this year all the preachers were desired to speak their minds at large on the question, "Whether u e ought to separate from the Church?" For three days whatever could be said for or against was "seriously and calmly considered,' - and in the "general conclusion," they all agreed -" that (whether taw/Mot not) it was in no ways tXptdimt. The severity ol the struggle and many bf Ltfl attendant circumstance- are well portrayed ID Stevens' History of Methodism, Book iv., c. IV.j see also Telfbfd's Life of John Wesley, 305-6. 1755.1 No. 173. Note. — During this year the remaining nine volumes (xlii.-l.) of the Christian Library were issued. Vol. xlii. Extracts from the Works of Dr. Reynolds, begun in the preceding volume, are continued in this. Two sermons are added to those already published, one on The Rich Man's Charge, and the other on Joy in the Lord. Next comes Devotions for Every Day of the Week, and the Great Festivals. No name of author is given. It is a considerable extract from a work familiarly known as Hickes's Reformed Devotions. Originally written by John Austin, a Roman Catholic, and more than once "reformed," i.e., revised and expurgated, it found a permanent place in devotional literature under the above title. It was adapted to the English Church by Mrs. Susannah Hopton, for whose work Dr. George Hickes wrote a preface. Wesley has inserted "The Office" for each day of the week, and under the head of Devotions for the Great Festivals, the Office of our blessed Saviour, the Office of the Holy Ghost, the Office of the Saints, and the Preparatory Office for Death. Under the head of Occasional Devotions are the Office for a Family, two Litanies, and a number of Prayers. Wesley has greatly abridged the original work, reducing it in size to about one fourth. Generally the Psalms written by Austin are given in full in the earlier part, in the latter several are omitted, but there is little or no verbal revision ; a few only of the hymns and of the shorter prayers are given, and the passages of Scripture are not as a rule inserted. " Matins," "Lauds," "Vespers" and "Compline" are changed into "Morning," "Noon," "Afternoon" and "Evening." The Antiphons are omitted. Thus further "reformed," this excellent book is made into a helpful devotional manual, breathing the purest spirit of worship and holy aspiration. But although Wesley detected the value of the work, and prepared it for the benefit of his people, it never came into common use, but remains amidst these volumes of extracts like a buried gem. Vol. xliii. contains Extracts from Dr. Souths Sermons, seven in number ; and An Extract from the Works of Mr. Flavel. The latter is Navigation Spiritualized: or, a New Compass for Seamen, Consisting of Thirty -two Points. To this is prefixed an Epistle Dedicatory, addressed To all Masters, Mariners, and Seamen. In vol. xliv. is a second Extract from Flavel's Works, — his more popular, and in every respect better piece, entitled Husbandry Spiritualized, or The Heavenly Use of Earthly Things, with a preface by Joseph Caryl. Those who have most admired Flavel's writings have been compelled to acknowledge them as cumbrous in their structure and somewhat heavy. Yet there are portions of them which are enlivened by wit and fancy, and by strokes of true eloquence ; and no one can deny their practical and spiritual character. Wesley has striven, with some success, to divest these two pieces of their overladen verbiage. Here they each present a continuous series of similies, rendered monotonous by want of variety, but full to overflowing of good and wholesome teaching. This volume contains also A Discourse on the Causes and Cures of Mental Errors t by the same author. In the Table of Contents, Wesley has given a synopsis of" the discourse. Extracts from two Sermons by Dr. Annesley on "God's Sovereignty, our support in all worldly distractions," and "The Hindrances and Helps to a good memory in Spiritual Things," complete the volume. Vol. xlv. contains six Discourses on Important Subjects, by Henry Scougal, A.M., to which is prefixed A Sermon preached at his Funeral, by G.G., D.D. ; and An Extract from the Country Parson's Advice to his Parishioners, in two parts, I. A Serious Exhortation to a Religious Life ; II. Directions how to live accordingly. These extracts from an anonymous writer, particularly the latter on how to live a godly life, are distinguished by great plainness, clearness and fidelity. They are worthy to take their place amongst the best practical divinity of that age. An Extract from the Works of Archbishop Tillotson follows, consisting of two Sermons, the former, " Of the Ordinary Influences 01 93 No. 173. [1755. the Holy Ghost on the Minds of Christians," and the latter on "Evil-Speaking," preached before the King and Queen at Whitehall, February 25, 1693-4. To this Wesley prefixes the following laconic address to the reader, — " I have the rather inserted the following Extracts, for the sake of two sorts of people : those who are unreasonably prejudiced for, and those who are unreasonably prejudiced against, this great man. By this small specimen it will abundantly appear, to all who will at length give themselves leave to judge impartially, that the Archbishop was as far from being the worst, as from being the best, of the English writers." Vol. xlvi. begins with An Extract from the Works of Mr. E. Young, Fellow of Winchester College, and late Dean of Sannri. The extract consists of eight sermons and is followed by An Extract from Thoughts upon Religions and Philosophical Subjects, by the late Lord Howe. The latter is composed of Devout Meditations, originally intended for the private use of the author, and not published until after his death. His reasons for writing them, he says, were — first, to oblige himself frequently to enter into a serious contemplation of God, and of the most proper means to render himself acceptable to Him ; and next, that by these reflections he might compare his past and present conditions, and make his life "as uniform as possible in all virtue." They present an admirable example of the way in which a man may profitably reflect on the great questions of life and morals. To this, succeed Spiritual Letters, Written in Spanish, by Don Juan D'Avila, — a series of 14 letters rightly termed spiritual, and well calculated to promote spirituality in others. The volume ends with An Extract from Dr. Annesleys Sermons — a single sermon on "The adherent vanity of every condition most effectually abated by serious godliness." Vol. xlvii. contains two pieces: — the first, An Extract from Thoughts on Religion, by Dr. Beveridge. Bishop Beveridge's well known work is divided into two parts — Private Thoughts upon Religion : and Private Thoughts on a Christian Life. They were originally two works. Wesley has inserted only the former part. Of this he has given substantially the whole, after the application of his usual process of revision and abridgement, thereby reducing an octavo volume to 175 duodecimo pages. He has appended a synopsis >>t the Lxtract. The other piece in the volume is The Nature and Necessity of Godly Tear, By A'. A. [Richard Alleine]. This is in the form of a discourse, or sermon, founded on the text, " Happy is the man that feareth always ;*' but, after the method of the author, and indeed the fashion of the time, it is expanded almost into a treatise, as is the case with the other works of the same author already named, and it has undergone a like revision. A synopsis extending over three pages is added. Vol. xlviii. is almost filled with An Extract from the Works of the Reverend John Howe, M..-L, to which is prefixed Some Account of his Life. The Life is extended much beyond the limits assigned to those in the previous volumes. The extract is made from The Living Temple: or, A Designed Improvement of that Notion, That a Good Man is the Temple of God: In two parts. This is very considerably reduced. The philosophical and speculative portions are wholly eliminated, and the extract is confined to the most practical parts. The six chapters forming the first part are preserved, but abridged from 204 octavo pages, as in the most recent edition, to 68 duodecimo. In the ICCOnd part the number of chapters lias n..t been preserved, Wesley's first chapter comprising the first three of Howe's work, but occupying little more than si\ pages, instead of between 50 and 60 as in the original. Wesley's edition therefore cannot be idered an adequate representation of Howe's great work. It is simply an extract of its moral and religious teaching, which however is almost exclusively given in Howe's own words. A synopsis ol the whole is appended. The volume closes with A Treatise on Self Dedication, also I')' Howe 54 1756.] No. 174. Vols. xlix. and 1. contain Extracts from the lives of Sundry Eminent Persons. The following is a list : — The Life of Dr. H. Hammond, by John Fell, D.D., Dean of Christ Church, Oxford ; Memoirs of the Life of Mr. James Eraser, written by himself ; The Lives of Mr. Tho. Tregoss, and Dr. Samuel Wi)iter, to which is added A Short Account of Some Eminent Persons of the Church of Scotland ; The Life of Mr. Tho. Cawton, Sometime Minister of the Gospel at St. Bartholomew's, behind the Royal Exchange, London, and late Preacher to the English Congregation at Rotterdam, in Holland ; The Life of Mr. Philip Henry ; The Life of the late Reverend Mr. George Trosse, Being an Abridgment of his own Narrative, in two parts ; The Life of Mr. Tho. Wilson ; The Life of Mr. John Eliot, The First Preacher of the Gospel to the Lndians in America, by Cotton Mather ; The Life of Mr. Gregory Lopez, Written originally in Spanish. To the last Wesley has appended a few foot-notes. For a further account see Note to the year 1785. At length this work, which from a Bibliographical point of view has great interest, was finished. Wesley seems at first to have designed the work chiefly, if not exclusively, for his preachers. With this end in view he sought the help of the Rev. Dr. Doddridge, whose experience as a Tutor of Nonconformist Ministers was very great and who drew up in reply a long list of books as " a scheme of study for a clergyman." See letter in the Arminian Magazine, i. 419 (No. 333). Wesley's first intention was to print but 100 copies {Works, xii. 156). It was a disappointment to him that the work did not sell, though he cheered himself with the vain hope that a subsequent generation would value it ; but, perhaps, an equal, if not greater, disappointment was the fact that the volumes were so inaccurately printed. Being twitted by an opponent upon the obvious contradictions between portions of the Christian Lib?-ary and his other works, he quotes his opponent, " Mr. W. affirms that the CJi7-istian Library is all agreeable to the word of God," and replies, "I do not : and I am glad I have this public opportunity of explaining myself concerning it. My words are, ' I have made, as I was able, an attempt of this kind. I have endeavoured to extract such a collection of English divinity, as, I believe, is all true, all agreeable to the oracles of God :' (preface, p. 4). I did believe, and I do believe every tract therein to be true, and agreeable to the oracles of God. But I do not roundly affirm this (as Mr. H. asserts), of every sentence contained in the fifty volumes. I could not possibly affirm it for two reasons: (1.) I was obliged to prepare most of those tracts for the press, just as I could snatch time in travelling, not transcribing them ; (none expected it of me ;) but only marking the lines with my pen, and altering or adding a few words here and there, as I had mentioned in the preface. (2.) As it was not in my power to attend the press, that care necessarily devolved on others ; through whose inattention a hundred passages were left in which I had scratched out ; yet not so many as to make up 'forty volumes,' no, nor forty pages. It is probable too, I myself might overlook some sentences which were not suitable to my own principles. It is certain the correctors of the press did this in not a few instances. I shall be much obliged to Mr. H. and his friends if they will point out all those instances ; and I will print them as an index expurgatorms to the work, which will make it doubly valuable." — Remarks on Mr. Hill's Review, see Works, x. 381-2. He cherished the purpose of revising the volumes — " If I live to finish the correction of my own works, I shall then revise the Christian Library." — Letter in Wo?-ks, xii. 295. This was ultimately accomplished and a second edition was issued (1819-26) after his death, under the editorship of the Rev. Thomas Jackson. Wesley's corrected copy is in the Library of the Richmond College, Surrey. 1756. 174. A Letter to the Reverend Mr. Law : Occasioned by some of his late Writings. By John Wesley, M.A., late 95 No. 175. [1756. Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. " Unwearied patience, unalterable meekness, are the only proofs that God is in me of a truth." — Spirit of Prayer. London : Printed in the year 1756. [Price one shilling.] 8vo., pp. 102. Dated, at the beginning, Dec. 15, 1755, and at the end, London, Jan. 6, 1756, and signed John Wesley. The letter was written to expose what Wesley judged to be the extravagances of a false, mystic, so-called philosophy. After paying a well-deserved tribute to Law's abilities, his pure motive, and the great value of some of his earlier writings, particularly the Treatise on Christian Perfection and the Serious Call — works " which must remain as long as England stands, almost unequalled standards of the strength and purity of our language, as well as of sound, practical divinity," — he reminds Law of one of his sayings, " Religion is the most plain, simple thing in the world. It is only, We love him because he first loved us. So far as you add philosophy to religion, just so far you spoil it." He then accuses him of blending philosophy with religion more than any writer in England. Then the letter is occupied with extracts from two of Law's later books, The Spirit of Prayer, and The Spirit of Love, and with Wesley's replies to them. Law had become a mystic through the writings of Behmen. " But Law himself, who has shaken so many intellects, sacrificed his own at last to the reveries and rhapsodies of Jacob Behmen." — Southey, Life of Wesley. The letter has been severely condemned by many writers. Both it and Wesley's motive in writing it are very fairly judged by Canon Overton in his Life of William Law. " It was written, like everything that was written by that great and good man, from the purest motives ; nor is it difficult to see what those motives were. To do reasonable justice to Wesley we must remember that he was an eminently practical man. The question with him would be, Is such teaching likely to do my people practical harm ? And remembering that he had seen what had been the practical effect of the sort of diluted mysticism of the London Moravians upon his people, we can hardly wonder that he concluded that harm would be done. Hence this well-meant, if not very judicious attempt to counteract the evil." Law described it in a private letter as " a juvenile composition of emptiness and pertness, below the character of any man who had been serious in religion but half a month." Canon Overton thinks that, " regarding it purely as an intellectual performance, perhaps Law was not very far wrong." He judges that Wesley had but a very imperfect acquaintance with Behmenism. Law showed his true Christian feeling by refusing to reply, advising a friend, who censured the Methodists in this very matter, to " wish them well in all that is good." The Letter has not been republished entire. An extract is given in the Preservative Against Unsettled Notions in A'cligion, (No. 191). This extract appears also in the Works (1830), ix. 466-509. 175. An Address to the Clergy. By John Wesley, M.A., late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. London: Printed in the year 1756. 8vo., pp. 31. Dated at the end Feb. 6, 1756, and signed J<>hn Wesley. "Let it not be imputed t<> forwardness, vanity or presumption, that one who is of little esteem in the Church, takes upon him thus toaddreSS a body of people, to many ofwhom he owes the highest ie\ cu-nce."' Wesley sat down L<> wiile 1756.] Nos. 176-176a. this on the day of the great Fast, to be noticed hereafter. It is a very serious and searching address to clergymen of all denominations, to consider what manner of men they ought to be, and whether indeed they were such. He enumerates the natural and acquired gifts which he judges a minister ought to have. Amongst the former are a good understanding, some liveliness and readiness of thought. Of the latter, to a competent share of knowledge of his office he should add a knowledge of the Scriptures — "the literal meaning of every word, verse, and chapter, without which there can be no firm foundation on which the spiritual meaning can be built." He further needs an acquaintance with the original tongues, profane history, the sciences, especially logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, and even geometry, "to give clearness of apprehension and the habit of thinking closely and connectedly." To all these must be added the knowledge of the Fathers, "the most authentic commentators on Scripture, chiefly those who wrote before the Council of Nice;" also "knowledge of the world ;" "discernment of spirits, so far as it may be acquired by diligent observation ; common sense ; the courtesy of a gentleman, and a strong and clear voice." But above all these the minister needs the grace of God, which should animate his intentions, his affection, and his practice. A very tender appeal closes the whole. It is an address that any Christian minister may read with profit. Though severe enough to humble him to the dust, it is hopeful enough to encourage him to effort. Tyerman thinks Wesley had a two-fold object in view, — to awaken the zeal of the clergy, and so prevent the necessity for a separation ; and to curb the ambition of his own preachers, by setting a very high standard of excellence before them, of which, in some respects, many fell immeasurably short. But Wesley's letter, written. at the close of the Conference of that year, does not bear out the latter supposition, for he expressly affirms them not to be contemplated ; and besides, he never spoke of them as clergy. Tyerman (ii. 269, 270) gives some rough words from a letter of William Law, and an account of two pamphlets occasioned by the address, one of them being very curious. Wesley's real purpose in writing the pamphlet is suggested in the Life of Charles Wesley, ii. 100. The Address is included in Wesley's own edition of his collected Works. 176. An Extract from the Reverend Mr. John Wesley's Journal, from July 20, 1749, to October 30, 1751. London : Printed in the year 1756. i2mo., pp. 107. [No. viii.] An " Erratum in the title page of the last Journal" is noticed on page opposite to title-page. This number of the Journal contains an extended account of hard labour and much travelling, and of the severe, violent and cruel persecution to which the Methodists in Ireland were subject. It also makes special reference to the Moravians and to Kingswood School. Amongst the most painful records is one concerning " that wonderful self-deceiver and hypocrite, James Wheatley," which was published as a separate tract with the title :— 176a. Extract of the Reverend Mr. John Wesley's Journal, for the Year 1751. i2mo., pp. 4. Half-page title ; no date, or name of publisher. A copy of this is in the Didsbury College Library. There is no record as to the time when it was printed, 97 Nos. 177-178. [1756. This extract, which is now very rarely met with, is taken from the Journal under date July 8, 1 75 1. It is an account of the means adopted by Wesley and his brother with a view to reclaim James Wheatley, who "by his obstinate wickedness had brought a great scandal on the Gospel. And what a curse on his own head !" Charles had been importuned by one of the Society narrowly to inquire into Wheatley's behaviour, which he did, writing down the particulars and reading them over in Wheatley's presence. The latter was compelled to acknowledge their truthfulness in the main. After waiting some time and deeply pondering the matter, Wesley wrote a paper which he and his brother signed and put into Wheatley's hands. In it they declared they could in no wise any longer receive him as a fellow-labourer, unless he gave them clear proof of" his " real and deep repentance." They then waited still longer, but as Wheatley gave no sign of penitence, the final step of separating him from them was taken ; and Wesley appeals to any impartial judge to determine " whether they had shown too much severity : whether, indeed, they had not leaned to the other extreme, and shown too much lenity to so stubborn an offender :" see Works, ii. pp. 236-8. For an account of Wheatley, the first minister expelled from the Methodist Connexion, see Tyerman's Life of Wesley, ii. pp. 121-7. 177. Short Account of the Death of Richard Moore. Printed in the year 1756. i2mo., pp. n. The above is inserted by Osborn, but not mentioned by Heylin. There is no name of printer, or place where printed, given. On the title-page is an imprint of one of Farley's woodcuts (an angel flying through clouds. ) The pamphlet was obviously not written by Wesley, though it may have been edited by him. The preface speaks of the writer as a woman, probably Moore's wife to whom there is a reference at the end. The account is divided into numbered paragraphs, as Wesley's writings generally are ; and the preface and the last two paragraphs, additions to the original account, are quite in Wesley's style. As it is not unlikely that it was edited, and portions of it written by him, it may be numbered amongst his publications, but with an expression of doubt. It is not found in Wesley's edition of his collected Works ; nor is it in the catalogues. It was evidently printed as a warning against " such as preach Christ so as to supersede holiness of heart and life ; for by listening to these Mr. Moore lost his faith for some time and suffered much at last.*' lie was daily visited by "Mr. W. (ah, how fallen since!) and Mr. Larwood." Were these James Wheatley and Samuel Larwood, two of Wesley's preachers who had left him? 178. The Good Soldier. Extracted from a Sermon preached to a Company of Vbluntiers, Raised in Virginia, August T 7> 1 755- London: Printed in the year 1756. 121110., PP. '5- This anonymous bract is ascribed to Wesley, without hesitation, by Osborn and by Heylin. Tyennan says, "The publication was doubtless occasioned by the threatened invasion oi England by the French, at the beginning of the year, when Wesley himself proposed to raise ' for I Ii- Majest] 'a Ben ice ■ body of at least tWO hundred volunteers. I if, ,;/ //', r, ii. 265. But by whom rmon was preached, and by whom the extxacl was made, are points not is catalogued amongst Wesley's publications, it was in all probability extracted by him, though there is hardly a sentence in the whole 1756.] Nos. 179-180. pamphlet that can be confidently attributed to him. It may have been preached by one of the preachers in Virginia from whom he heard early in this year, and to whom he refers in his Journal under March i, 1756. 179. A Roman Catechism, with a Reply thereto. Reprinted in the year 1756. i2mo., pp. 79. There is apparently not a sentence of Wesley's in the whole of this pamphlet ; but strange to say it is copied bodily into his own edition of his collected Works, without a note of any kind ; as is the case also in the 1812 and 1830 editions. But what is more remarkable still, it was reprinted in 1825 in four separate parts, each bearing the title "A Roman Catechism, Faithfully drawn out of the allowed writings of the Church of Rome ; with a Reply thereto : By Rev. John Wesley, A.M., sometime Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Third edition :" London : Published and sold by J. Kershaw, 14, City Road, and 66, Paternoster Row. The original has been traced to a writer in the days of James II. That it must be reckoned amongst Wesley's publications, is plain from the following. It having been suggested that the Methodists had some connection with Popery, and that Wesley had not repudiated it, he refers to several of his writings, and adds : — "Many things to the same purpose occur in the 'Journals' and the 'Appeals to Men of Reason and Religion,' over and above those whole treatises which I have published entirely upon the subject : 'A Word to a Protestant,' ' A Roman Catechism? and 'The Advantage of the Members of the Church of England over the Members of the Church of Rome.'"— -Journal, Dec. 20, 1768. It is also inserted in his catalogues. There is a very curious and unexplained fact in reference to all the publications of this year, with a single exception only, — No. 181. Not one of them has in it the name of the printer. Two have only the words "Printed in the year 1756;" and all the rest "London: printed in the year 1756." This applies also to several important reprints — the fifth edition of Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739 (No. 15), and the third edition of Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742 (No. 40), also the third edition of Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution (No. 59), the third edition of Hymns Occasioned by the Earthquake (No. 148), the sixth edition of Psalms and Hymns (No. 30), and the fourth edition of Hymns and Spiritual Songs (No. 165). 180. A Word to those Freemen of the Establish'd Church who make the Scriptures the one Rule of their Faith and Practice. (Rom. xiv. 22). Printed in the year 1756. i2mo., pp. 15. Osborn inserts this on internal evidence alone ; and, therefore, with some hesitation. Heylin does not mention it. It is not in any edition of the collected Works, nor is it in the catalogues. Yet in all probability it is Wesley's. In the Journal Tor March 3rd of this year is the following entry : — " I found Bristol all in a flame ; voters and non- voters being ready to tear each other in pieces. I had not recovered my voice, so as either to preach or speak to the whole Society. But I desired those members who were freemen to meet me by themselves, whom I mildly and lovingly informed how they ought to act in this hour of temptation. And I believe the far greater part of them received and profited by the advice." It is quite in Wesley's style, and has the same words on the title-page, which distinguish nearly all the publications of this year, — see note No. 179. There is a copy in the Library of the Methodist Book Room, London. 99 Nos. 181-182. [1757. 181. Hymns for the Year 1756, particularly for the Fast Day, February 6. Bristol : Printed by E. Farley at Shakspear's-Head in Small-Street. 1756. i2mo., pp. 24. Second edition, simply " Hymns for the Fast Day." Bristol, Farley, n. d. An Edition not numbered, Dublin, S. Powell, 1756 ; another, " Hymns for the year 1756," Second Edition, Bristol ; Fourth, London, Hawes, 1780. This is the only new publication issued by the Wesleys this year that bore the name of the printer. C. W. was in Bristol in the early part of the year ; J. W. in London. There are seventeen hymns in this tract ; three of them are included in the large Hymn Book, being Nos. 60, 61, and 62, " Righteous God whose vengeful phials," " Stand the omnipotent decree," and " How happy are the little flock." Some of them Jackson thinks are equal " in sublimity and force to any compositions that had ever proceeded from Charles Wesley's pen." The political condition of the country at this time was greatly disturbed from several causes, the most prominent being the very unsettled state of Ireland and America, the attitude of France and her threat of the invasion of England. Much fear was felt by many. A national fast was proclaimed to be held on the 6th of February. Concerning it Wesley says, "The Fast Day was a glorious day ; such as London has scarce seen since the Restoration. Every church in the city was more than full ; and a solemn seriousness sat on every face. Surely God heareth the prayer ; and there will yet be a lengthening of our tranquillity. Even the Jews observed this day with a peculiar solemnity." — Journal, Feb. 6, 1756. " The publication of this admirable tract was not the only service which Mr. Charles Wesley rendered to the cause of religion and of the nation in this season of distress. He also reprinted, with enlargements, the Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution, [No. 59], which he had composed during the rebellion of 1745, as being applicable to the present state of the country, menaced as in the former instance by papal intolerance. At the same time he put to press another edition of his Hymns on the Earthquake of /yjo, [No. 148], with three additions : one, a prayer for the English in America ; another on the destruction of Lisbon ; and a third for 1756." — Life of C. Wesley, ii. 102. 1757. 182. The Doctrine of Original Sin : According to Scripture, Reason, and Experience. By John Wesley. Bristol : Printed by E. Farley in Small Street. 1757. 8vo., pp. 522. One page of errata. Price, bound and lettered, six shillings. Ke-puhlishcd, London : Kershaw, 1825, 121110. This was written in reply to " The Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin proposed to free and candid examination. In three parts. By [Dr.] John Taylor [of Norwich]. The Third edition, with large additions. To which is added a supplement, &c, containing remarks upon two books, viz., The Vindication of the Doctrine of Original Sin, and The Ruin and Recovery oj Mankind, &c :" London: waugh, 1750, pp. 268 and 227. This work was brought undei W< ley's notice some yi He then read it carefully, and partly transcribed il ; and many times afterwards "diligently considered" it. lie waind Long, hoping thai someone of position and competent ability would answei it. Being impressed by the importance of the suDJect and the subtle, dangerous powei ol Dr. Taylor's "smooth, decent" writing, and tOQ 1757.] No. 182. observing the prevalence of what he judged to be erroneous views on the subject, he could wait no longer. " Being now in the very midst of Mr. Taylor's disciples, I enlarged much more than I am accustomed to do on the doctrine of Original Sin ; and determined, if God should give me a few years' life, publicly to answer his [Dr. Taylor's] new gospel." — Journal) April io, 1751. The work is divided into four parts, the first three corresponding with the divisions in Taylor's book ; and, like them, each has a date appended to it. In the first part, dated January 18, 1757, Wesley inquires into the moral state of mankind in all ages ; and then proceeds to account for it, dealing severally with those Scriptures which Taylor had cited in the first part of his book. To the first part of Taylor's book, dated Norwich, November 20, 1735, an answer had already appeared by Dr. Jennings, from which Wesley quotes largely. The second part of Taylor's treatise is dated December 31, 1735. In it are examined the texts cited by the Westminster Assembly of Divines in their Larger Catechism. Wesley pursues the same course as in the first part, considering passage by passage, and quoting Dr. Jennings and Hervey's Theron and Aspasio. This portion is dated Lewisham, January 21. He then deals with the third part of Taylor's work (dated February 5, 1735-6), in which objections and queries are answered, and the connexion of the doctrine of Original Sin with other parts of religion considered. Here, again, Wesley proceeds to examine Taylor's views point by point. This completes the second part of Wesley's work ; it is dated Lewisham, January 25, 1757. Taylor wrote a considerable Supplement to The Scripture Doctrine oj Original Sin, as an answer to Jennings and Watts. It is divided into eight sections. To this Watts replied ; and Taylor followed with a rejoinder of " Remarks ;" both are included in the edition of Taylor's book used by Wesley. They are not dated. Wesley considers the Supplement and Remarks in the third part of his work. It is curious to observe that Wesley, following the example of Taylor, does not append the date to this part. The fourth part of Wesley's book, dated Lewisham, March 23, 1757, is made up of extracts from Watts's Ruin and Recovery, the work attacked by Taylor ; from some scarce tracts by the Rev. Samuel Hebden, of Wrentham, in Suffolk ; and from Boston's Fourfold State of Man. He had purposely refrained from reading Dr. Watts's work until he had written his own answer to Taylor, but when he had read it he was so surprised at the imperfect view given of it by Taylor that "to do justice to that great and good man, as well as to his argument," he felt constrained to select and publish these very copious extracts. He adds, "I have now gone thro', as my leisure would permit, this whole complicated question ;" and avers that were it not on a point of so deep importance he would no more enter the lists with Dr. Taylor than lift his hand against a giant. He then makes a fervent appeal, extending over four pages, to Dr. Taylor, on account of his great abilities and possible widespread useful- ness and the dangerous character of the views held by him, " to review his whole cause and that from the very foundation." This appeal is dated Lewisham, March 24, 1757. In the same spirit he wrote his earnest and very interesting letter to Taylor, from Hartlepool, in 1759, (Journal, July 3), which Jackson includes in his edition of the Works, as though it had been published separately, which is very doubtful. To the appeal he adds one more extract, taken from Boston's Four-fold State of Man, and dated Bristol, August 17, 1757. These extracts, given without note or comment, occupy more than two-fifths of the whole volume. This is judged by some to be Wesley's greatest work ; but it lacks the unity of design, the close concatenated reasoning, and the brilliancy that mark the Appeals. It suffers from its plan, from its too fragmentary character, and from its having been written at intervals, and in contradiction to the views of others, and not as a positive and original treatise on its great subject. Nos. 183-184. [1758. " It has been said that Dr. Taylor always spoke of Mr. Wesley with the highest respect ; and that when he first heard of his intention, he cried out, ' What is that servant of God going to write against me ?' " — Moore's Life of Wesley, ii. 409. The controversy was at no time bitter. The whole of this book was inserted in each edition of the collected Works, with a change in the number of parts from four to seven, the last part of the original work being divided into four. 183. A Sufficient Answer to Letters to the Author of Theron and Aspasio ; in a Letter to the Author. By John Wesley, M.A. Bristol : Printed by E. Farley in Small-Street. 1757. (Price One Penny.) 121110., pp. 12. Dated at the beginning Bristol, November I, 1757 ; but not signed. The writing of this pamphlet was provoked by a work of considerable size (some 500 pages), published anonymously, probably by John Glass or Robert Sandeman, of Sandemanian notoriety, under the pseudonym of Pahrmon. Wesley writes, — " It is not very material who you are. If Mr. Glass is alive, I suppose you are he. If not, you are at least one of his humble admirers." Wesley in strong and bitter words accuses the writer of being "a gross, wilful slanderer," of not knowing what faith is, of self-contradiction, of want of charity, &c. What his object was in penning this caustic tract does not very clearly appear. There is but little defence of Hervey ; and if it was designed to guard against false notions of faith (the chief error of Sandemanian teaching), it is too sarcastic for so serious a purpose. For although, in the three pages devoted to it, Wesley exposes the erroneousness of the views lie attacks, yet it seems hardly to be worthy of him to do it in a manner which found its only justification in the style of the book he was assailing. It may be said that he held strong views of the evils of the teaching of both Glass and Sandeman. " Till now I imagined there had never appeared in the world such a book as the work of Machiavel. But Dr. Mandeville goes far beyond it. Surely Voltaire would hardly have said so much. And even Mr. Sandeman could not have said more."— y -r. e ; -i;- ij : : " _j"r. ::;: ..---. i. J.-. : :: -; r-< .r. 5: ;:.:'? language) Novices in Divinity, heirj - spiritnal pride, were :: — ----: - : - _j: - z:.z v-r.- Z-.-zzzi-.z ::' z'z.zzz ~lzl"-.\ :: :er:~e :* :_r. ier; of the sect called Method! '.:-g. hath our Church :—:. :^r>r. «:^ :_i:se jr.; ._- •• - :-. ''■-..;:. : : -; ". r. z_. :- : ~".~. ---- -J-.z- : ■• :.:r. rr.-.trri ir. i~ r^ •_- iz.z ih-v >; y:_-V ::.z[. _._..: rr.i-.r: ';«= called wolf.' j yet been so proline as to spread their ravenous kind Unu n gh every part of this kingdom.* 7 It will easily he believed that he made -_r -7 .-: r. :.;_! _f. _nf _r. :-i. iz_ I -. :r_-i . uir. : ;:;..-_;.- :j_.- -: • ;.-..- r_ _.-.-. :r:n:: r -_-. t. :>.- :r j -.-_-'.: - z^.z: :_:/; M-:'- •!_--." ; charitableness and untruth; and declares. "If you can prove upon me, John =■.-:-: :■_: li :::.' if -. - - ic-sV" 196 - M.A., Li ford. Bristol: Printed ibham, in - j sold at Room :ear Upper-] 5 _,. [Price Twope: Second editk - This appears as the first sermon in Sermons on Severn! Occasions, vol. iv. -boshed in the following year, and was evidently printed from the -i ve no information as to when, or under what cirenrnstances, this Sermon was written. Probably as there was no sermon professedly on the subject in the three volumes of sermons already published, it was composed in view of the forthcoming volume, to give completeness to the theological views to the sermons. He had already published an elaborate treatise on Original S This sermon, which is not elaborate in any sense, - -: • .;. ;.-. ■__- ::._ . :. : ;'z.-. . ■ r.-.z ^ fcmad from tfac OOBmti ■ .:' before the flood, and their condition now, together with a few inference- a condensation of the argument as " Ca st rated in part i. of the Treatise. 1759.] No? 197-198 197 London : Printed in the year i - - 1 2 mo., pp. 70. [Second Series.] N: rar.e ::' t:::.t: -.-.-.hi: :: -rhv.e: :- river. Another edition, Bristol : W. Pine, 1769. i2mo., pp. 70. This is not, as Jackson describes it, "a fourth edition of the former pamphlet of the same name (No. 96), greatly enlarged, 1 ' bat an entirely new wort, ::r.aalrJ.rr :hry-;hree hymns. -: rmhlshei :":: "Jit ars: :. r . z.-.y • - : _ written at difTerent times, some of them in this year. All bat the first three were written in memory of persons whose names are prefixed. Several of them a:e :: rrra: :r.:e:e-:. ::he:s ::' ma:h leiary. If :;.- firmer are ahas-e ha memory of Sir. Tohn Meribm, a clergyman who was present at the first Conference in 1744 ; of Jartus Hervty, written before the umorbmaie publication of the eleven letters (see 227 ; of Thomas Walsh, A of whom Wesley speaks so often in his letters, and whom he describes is :.—-. 11-1:. ria 1 eve: hze - . ' illma. 1 z.-.z ashvi zzzzzzz :he meamrm ::' _ Kr'::t-.v v.;:d "; _-. he v. ah. 2 laraeiiaiely :ell me a: •■- :hea i: •zzrzszti m ahe Bible, and what it meant in each place," — the man who at the early age of :-■■■ er.:y-elrh: years ram: :a: has ^:: :y e:::essive la a: ars : ::" ha /:. ■■ me rrirher :: my :h:i:e:' ::' .'/ . -I .•/'.- . ^ah:s-e lerers v - iy _:':-.- ■::. :aaasi:r.ea. i:h aaaaly zz. ea:ear:a. :v a::_;.i aeaahs. ::r.s:::a:e ahe ra :s: rerV:: rar: ::" rhe Merr fas: r .-a Ira : ay. ana :":r a han.irel years ar..l n.::e ihese :eshm:raals :: ahe iy:; :::.::::- ::' meli early z re rarer, have area sana 2: are ieahareas ar 1 faaerals :: Meahz-aisas rarraah.a: :he -::!£. "'— S.evear* Jlh'r zy' J-.zz'z :■.::'. .11: ha :rar ::. 198. Hymns oh the Expkctei [hyasios 175* : .mo., pp. 12. Half-are: a: r.r.rae :: zla:e a:.::. . e. •• I Nos. 199-200. [1760. seventeen thousand. But the matter will not be determined by numbers. If the French land, and the Lord of Hosts is with us, they will make more haste back than they came with. I do not know why it is I do not fear them more. I usually am most afraid before the danger. Perhaps the dread and the evil may now come together. However, we shall keep them off by prayer as long as we can. Mr. Galatin just now informs me that yesterday's ' Express ' has thrown the Council into the utmost alarm and hurry. The Colonel could not learn particulars. Even the Lords of the Bedchamber are ignorant of the secret. It is supposed that news is come of the embarkation of the French. At present the wind is against them ; and if God is against them too, what signify all their designs and threatenings." — Life, ii. 162. "No power less than that which defeated the Spanish Armada will rescue England now. You will see my thoughts (but not mine only), in a penny Hymn Book I shall publish against the fast." — Let. July 5, 1759, C. W. to Mrs. C. W., Life, ii. 164. He was greatly excited with fear for the safety of the nation, though he " verily believed God's people will either be delivered from the danger or in it." It was with these feelings that he wrote his twelve-paged tract of eight hymns, as Jackson says, "to assist the devotions of the praying remnant in this crisis, as he had done upon former occasions." One of the hymns is well- known and has been much sung since those days, and with a wider application. It begins, Come, Thou Conqueror of the Nations ; and is the only one of the number that has found a permanent place in the hymnals of the Church. But the cloud passed away, a signal victory was gained by Admiral Hawke on November 20, 1759, and the threatened and feared invasion did not take place. A day of national thanksgiving was appointed, for which another hymn-tract containing fifteen hymns was prepared, by the pen of this ready- writer. The spirit of the whole is shown in one verse : — Thy single arm the victories gave, And shewed Thou art not bound to save By many or by few : Number and strength of hosts is vain ; Weakness itself, if Thou ordain, Shall earth and hell subdue. The second pamphlet was entitled : — 199. Hymns to be used on the THANKSGIVING Day, Nov. 2 9> 1759, AND AFTER IT. 121110., pp. 24. Half-title ; no name or place mentioned ; paging continued from the former, but the fifteen hymns numbered afresh. No title appears to any of the hymns except the eleventh, which is, " The Song of Moses, sung by Great Britain and Ireland, for the victory given them over the French Fleet, Nov. the 20th, 1759." An interesting account of the fears that throbbed in the breasts of Charles Wesley's friends, and the faith that triumphed in his own, may he found in Jackson's Lift of C. \\\slty, ii. 160-7. 1760. 200. Sermons on Severai Occa ions. By John Wesley, M.A. late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford Bristol : Printed by J. Grabham and W, Pine in Wine-Street ; Hi 1760.] No. 201. and sold at the New-Room in the Horse-Fair ; and at the Foundery, near Upper-Moorfields, London. 1760. [Vol. iv.] i2mo., pp. 324. There were two editions, but not so named, issued by Grabham in the same year, one omitting the name of W. Pine from the title-page ; and although almost all the letter-press is the same in both, page for page, yet there are some slight variations, and the head and tail pieces are different. The volumes, of which this is the fourth, were afterwards published together. Fourth edition, London: Paramore, 1787; Fifth, with some additions, London: Whitfield, 1796. This volume contains seven sermons. "All my leisure time, during my stay at Bristol, I employed in finishing the fourth volume of 'Discourses ;' probably the last which I shall publish. "—Journal, Oct. I, 1759. The discourses occupy one-half of the volume. Then follow six tracts. 1. The first is entitled Advice to the people called Methodists, with regard to Dress. It consists of seventeen pages of close and earnest counsel, with strict rules and strong reasons for great plainness in dress. A sermon was afterwards published on the same subject, see No. 397 (vii. 167). Wesley was rigid in keeping, and in requiring others to keep, these rules. In the second and each subsequent edition of the Large Minutes, the preachers are instructed to read in every Society the Thoughts concerning Dress. 2. The second tract is on The Duties of Husbaiids and Wives. It is extracted from Whateley's pamphlet on the same subject, (see No. 163). A single paragraph is prefixed commending the extract. 3 and 4. The third and fourth are short papers entitled, Directions to Children and Directions to So-vants. They were probably written by Wesley. Some of the paragraphs in the last were extracted in part from Gouge on Domestic Duties. 5. The fifth is entitled Thoughts on Christian Perfection, the preface to which is dated Bristol : Oct. 16, 1759. It was afterwards embodied in The Plain Account of Christian Perfection (No. 238). "At the Conference in the year 1759, perceiving some danger that a diversity of sentiments should insensibly steal in among us, we again largely considered this doctrine ; and, soon after, I published Thoughts on Christian Perfection" — Works, xi. 394. Osborn, Heylin, and Tyerman mention this as a separate publication under date 1759, the year in which it was written ; but it is exceedingly doubtful if it was printed previously to its appearing in this volume. The descriptions given of it by these writers agree with its appearance in the volume ; not anyone gives printer's name or place of printing, or seems to have seen a copy. 6. The sixth and last paper in the volume is entitled Christian Instructions extracted from a late Fretich Author. It consists of 336 numbered sentences, each being a Christian apophthegm, or an assertion of a moral principle. It afterwards appeared slightly altered in the collected Works, vol. xxiv. 1773. There the title is changed to Christian Reflections. Osborn so entered it under that date ; but he was afterwards led to believe that it was not published separately. 201. Reasons against a Separation from the Church of England. By John Wesley, A.M. Printed in the year 1758. With Hymns for the Preachers among the Methodists (so called). By Charles Wesley, A.M. No. 202. [1760. London : Printed by W. Strahan, and Sold at the Foundery in Upper-Moorfields. 1760. 121110., pp. 22. The hymns were reprinted by G. J. Stevenson. London : 186S. This tract is, as we have seen, included in the Preservative against Unsettled Notions in Religion, 1758, (No. 191). To this reference is made on the title- page. It now appeared for the fir>t time as a separate tract, but with the following changes. It has been re-edited and a few verbal alterations made. The original portion is signed, John Wesley. After this two paragraphs are added by Charles Wesley and signed by him, in which he joins his testimony to his brother's; and he appends seven hymns " for the lay-preachers; still further to secure this end, to cut off all jealousy and suspicion from our friends, or hope from our enemies of our having any design of ever separating from the Church." The hymns are entitled, Hymns for the use of the Methodist Preachers. Six of them, 38 stanzas in all, are of one metre (6.8s). The seventh is entitled The Preacher's Prayer for the Flock. It is of ten verses. None of them are in the large Hymn Book. Very great interest was created by the publication of this pamphlet. It was a time of grave importance in the history of Methodism. The question of separation was freely discussed. Both the brothers did their utmost to prevent it ; but Charles was the more eager. The circulation of the Reasons with the appended hymns was one means employed by him. lie read them to the Societies ; he freely distributed them, and persuaded others to do likew ise, " I walked to Spitalfields Chapel, still under my burden. I read the Reasons against leaving the Church, enforcing each ; then my hymns ; and then prayed after God. A spirit of unanimity breathed in all, or most of, our hearts. Great confidence I felt, that they will be none otherwise minded than myself; that they are determined to live and die in their calling. I told them my brother and I had agreed that I should warn them after this manner, and reprint his Reasons for each of our children's preservation. I bestowed another hour on the preachers, who seem (for I cannot see their hearts) like-minded." — Letter to his wife in Journal, ii. 229. Writing to Mr. Grimshaw he says, 11 I have read the Reasons to the Society here ; and their hearts are as the heart of one man. Will you not join hand and heart with us in confirming the souls of the disciples?" To which Grimshaw replies, "I will circulate, you may depend upon it, as many as I can of the Reasons against Separation. Send me a hundred of them." Sec an account of the whole movement and of the larger manuscript treatise, from which this is an extract, in Jackson's Life of C. Wesley, vol. ii. 178-197. See also Tyerman's Life of Wesley, ii. 380-9, The subject of Wesley's Churchmanship in his earlier and later years, and of the position of Wesleyan Methodism in regard to the Church of England since the death of Wesley IS clearly set forth in The Churchmanship of Joint h and the Relations of Wesleyan Methodism to the Church of England: By James II. Kigg, D.D., London: Wes. Conf. Office, 1878. 202. The Desideratum \ or, Ele< raicm made Plain and USEFUL. I5y a Lover of Mankind and of Common Sense. London : Printed and sold by W. Flexney, under Cray's Inn Gate, Holbourn : E. Cabe, Avemary- Lanej George Clark, In Little Carter Lane; George Keith, Gracechurch Street; T, Smith, under the Change; and at the Foundery, in Moorfields. 1760. 121110., pp. vii. 72. 1 14 1760.] No. 202. Third edition, London; Fourth edition, London: Hawes, 1778: precisely the same as the First edition ; Another, London : Bailliere, Tindall, and Cox, 1781. The preface is dated Nov. 1, 1759, but not signed. "Wednesday and Thursday I spent in revising and perfecting a treatise on Electricity."— Journal , Oct. 31, 1759. Wesley says, in a characteristic preface, " In the following tract I have endeavoured to comprize the sum of what has been hitherto published on this curious and important subject by Mr. Franklin, Dr. Iloadly, Mr. Wilson, Watson, Lovett, Freke, Martin, Watkins, and in the monthly Magazines. But I am chiefly indebted to Mr. Franklin for the speculative part, and to Mr. Lovett for the practical, though I cannot in everything subscribe to the sentiments either of one or the other." One half of the book is occupied with an account of various experiments in electricity, and with theories (some of them curious ones) of the nature of the newly-discovered power. The other portion gives a number of cases of relief from various ailments effected by the application of electricity. The publication of this book was another endeavour on Wesley's part to alleviate human suffering. He had strong faith in the efficacy of electricity as a curative agent. lie had tried it very extensively at his dispensaries ; and so convinced was he of its utility that he purchased four electrical machines (one of which is still preserved in the Museum at the Wesleyan Mission House), and placed them in different parts of London for the benefit of the thousands who flocked " to try the virtue of this surprising medicine. So part were electrified in Southwark, part at the Foundery, others near St. Paul's, and the rest near the Seven Dials." — Works, ii. 388. " Q- 9- ' Why did you meddle with electricity?' For the same reason as I published the 'Primitive Physic' — to do as much good as I can." — Works, xiii. 354. Notes. — In this year the following were published : — A. — A Concordance to the Holy Scriptures : with the Significations and Applications of the Words contained therein, &c, By John Fisher, Philadelphus. London : Printed for the author, and sold at the Foundery, Upper-Moorfields. 1760. i2mo. Unpaged — 10 sheets. Second edition, London : 1786. This was not a work by Wesley, though issued from the Foundery. It is mentioned as a curiosity, very rarely met with. It is simple and compact in arrangement, and worthy of its place amongst the Foundery duodecimos. Fisher was one of the early preachers. B. — Original Letters between the Rev. Mr. John W t esley and Mr. Richard Thompson, Respecting the Doctrine of Assurance. London : L. Davies. 1760. 8vo. 5 pp. 52. This was not published by Wesley, but with his permission. ll 5 No. 203. [1761. C. — MONTANUS RjEDIVIVUS : OR, MONTANISM REVIVED, IN THE Principles and Discipline of the Methodists (commonly called Swadlers) : Being the substance of a Sermon upon i John iv. i, preached in the Parish Church of Hollymount, in the Diocese of Tuam, in the year 1756. To which are added several letters which passed between Rev. John Wesley and the Author. Also an appendix. By the Rev. Mr. James Clark, a Presbyter of the Diocese of Tuam. Dublin : Saunders. 1760. 8vo., pp. 143. Though this contains two letters by Wesley lie had no hand in its publication. The work is dedicated to the Lord Bishop of Clonfert and Killmacduagh, to whom the author appeals in defence of the Divine, or (which he takes to be the same in effect) the Apostolical Right of Episcopacy, " which,"' he says, '• is none of the least questions controverted between me and Mr. Wesley in the following Letters." The Methodists are described as " a set of enthusiastic Pharisees in practice, but perfect Latitudinarians in principle, who at their setting out laid it down as a principle that orthodoxy, or right and sound belief, was but a slender, if it may be deemed any part at all of religion." He also accuses them of being " quite indifferent as to any form of Church government/' The Letters form the greater part of the volume. There are three lengthy ones by Clark, and two by Wesley, in which he writes more at large than usually. The application of the name Swaddlers to the Methodists of Ireland is explained under No. 133. "I rode to Hollymount, and preached in the churchyard. I then visited my antagonist, Mr. Clark, who was lying extremely ill. "—Journal, June 2, 1758. The correspondence took place in the year 1 756. D. — A Letter to Mr. T. II., alias Philodemas, alias Some- body, alias Stephen Church, alias r. W., dated December 12, 1760, and signed John Wesley, This appeared in the London Magazine for this year, p. 651, It is a curious defence of himself against many unjust and ludicrous aspersions. It is reprinted in the third edition of the Works, xiii. 350 5. 1761. 203. An Ex i i he Rev. Mr. John Wesi i v*s Journ \i , from February 16, 1755, to June [6, [758. Bristol: Printed by William Tine, in Narrow Wine S 1 2 mo., pp. [46. [ No. X. ] Another edition, Bristol: W. Pine, 1 70S, pp. 150. Heylin an the first edition 1761s I have not seen a copy earlier than 1768, MO 1761.] Nos. 204-205. A record of ceaseless labour. Riding, walking, preaching, reading, observing natural and spiritual phenomena, penning reflections on books, on men and public affairs and on matters affecting the struggling Methodist Societies, are the oft-recurring features of this interesting portion of the great autobiography. 204. Hymns for those to whom Christ is All in All. London : Printed in the year 1761. 121110., pp. iv. iv. 144. Another edition, Bristol: Wm, Pine, 1765; Third edition, London: 1768. On the first page described as Select Hymns. But this volume must not be confounded with one published in the same year, entitled Select Hymns with Tunes Annext (No. 205), or with Select Hymns for Christians of all Denominations (No. 208), issued afterwards. The hymns in this volume, 134 in number, are taken from the following books, already noticed : Hymns and Sacred Poems (No. 40), Redemption Hymns (No. 105), Hymns on the Lord's Supper (No. 83), and Moral and Sacred Poems, Vol. 3, (No. 58). There is nothing new in the volume but the "Advertisement" prefixed, which shows the purpose of the compilation in these words: — "The following hymns, it will be easily discerned, are peculiarly designed for the use of those, to whom Jesus Christ is made of God wisdom and righteousness and sanctification, and who enjoy in their hearts the earnest of their compleat and eternal redemption." It was probably intended for private use by the persons referred to in the preface, or for the Classes and Band Meetings. It contains some of the best of the hymns written by the Wesleys. They are entirely without titles ; they are not distributed into sections, or grouped under common heads, as is usually the case ; nor are any tunes suggested. The hymns are simply numbered consecutively ; and the head lines contain only the numbers of the pages. There is an index of first lines, and also about a dozen short foot-notes. There is neither author's nor printer's name. 205. Select Hymns : With Tunes Annext : Designed Chiefly for the use of the People called Methodists. London: Printed in the year 1761. 121110., pp. 139, iv. xii. 104, vi. Second edition, corrected and enlarged, London : Printed in the year 1765, 121110. , pp. iv. 153, v. xii. 112, vii. ; Third, Bristol: Pine, 1770. In all respects the same as the second edition. In the first edition there are 132 hymns, according to the numbering, but actually 133, for the number jy is given to two hymns. They are all selected from previous publications. They are headed on p. 5, " Select Hymns." At the end of the hymns is an " Index" of first lines, followed by twelve pages of instructions in music, commencing with the words, "The Gamut, or Scale of Music," in large type. These twelve pages are printed from engraved plates and are numbered consecutively. The tunes follow. They are 102 in number on 104 pages, also printed from engraved plates. The first of these is numbered 5, showing that probably something is omitted. At the end of the tunes is an index to them on five pages, likewise from engraved plates, followed by one page of type-printed Directions for singing, which the reader is exhorted 117 No. 206. [1761. carefully to observe, in order that "this part of Divine Worship may be the more acceptable to God, as well as the more profitable to himself and others." The directions, seven in number, are in Wesley's most concise and practical style of writing. In the second edition some changes are made. Seventeen hymns are added and one omitted, making the total 149. Twelve tunes are also added, total 114. Instead of the musical instructions beginning with the words "The Gamut or Scale of Music," which appeared in the first edition, a pamphlet of the same extent entitled The Grounds of Vocal Music (No. 207) is inserted. The index to the tunes is engraved afresh, and the Directions for singing are on a separate leaf. In some copies this is placed at the end, in others in the middle of the book. There were probably only three editions of the combined work published. Some copies of the second edition of the " Hymns" have a different title-page, the words "with Tunes annext" being omitted. This may have been with the design of publishing the hymns without the tunes : see No. 208. The " Tunes annext " are entitled : — 206. Sacred Melody: or A Choice Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, with a Short Introduction. 121110., pp. 112, vii. The title-page is an ornamental one, showing musical instruments, two lines of music, and an open music book within a scroll border. This is found in the second and third editions, and was probably in the first also, but as the first four pages of this edition are wanting in all the copies I have seen, I am unable to determine. The title and the subsequent pages including the Index are printed from engraved plates. Neither date, nor name of author, editor or publisher is given. The name of the engraver only (" Bland : Sculp.") appears on the title-page. The tunes do not appear to have been published separately, though the hymns were : see No. 208. In the second and third editions of the Melody, the same engraved plates are used as in the first edition, with the exception of two or three pages, which have been freshly engraved. The pages are differently numbered throughout. The " measure" where given in the first edition, is afterwards omitted ; and a few other small changes are made. In every edition the treble only of the tune is given, and a single verse of a hymn is engraved between the lines. In the first edition the tunes of the same metre are placed together without reference to subject In the second edition the additional hymns of various metres are all placed at the end. The following extract from the Preface will explain the nature of the work : " I want the people called Methodists to sing true, the tunes which are in common use among them. At the same time I want l hem to have in one volume the best hymns which we have printed ; and that in a small and portable volume, and one of an easy price. But 1 have been endeavouring for more than twenty years to procure such a book as this. But in vain : masters of music were above following any di reel ion but their own. And I was determined whoever compiled this should follow my direction ; not mending our tunes, but setting them down, neither better nor worse than they were. At length 1 have prevailed. The following Collection contains all the tunes which are in common use among us. They are pricked true, exactly as I desire all our congregations may sine them ; anil here is prefixed to them a collection of those hymns which are (I think) some of the best we have published. The volume likewise is small -as well as the price. This, therefore, I recommend preferable to all others. John Wesley." 118 1762.] Nos. 207-208-209. 207. The Grounds of Vocal Music. i2mo., pp. 12. Printed from engraved plates. Neither date nor name given. Two editions at least were published. Towards the close are seven "Lessons for exercising the voice." The whole was published separately at a cost of 3d., as appears from the catalogues. It also appears bound up with the second and third editions of No. 205, sometimes with, sometimes without the other twelve pages of musical instructions there named. 208- Select Hymns for the Use of Christians of alt. Denominations. The Fourth Edition, corrected. Bristol: Printed by William Pine. 1773. 12 mo., pp. 153, v. Sixth edition, London : R. Hawes, 1776 ; Seventh, London : Hawes, 1778; Eighth, London : Paramore, 1780 ; Ninth, London : Paramore, 1783; Tenth, London: Paramore, 1787. This is the usual title of the hymn-book just named (205), when published without the tunes. The preface also is omitted. Osborn mentions a fourth edition of Hymns with Times Annext, Bristol : 1 773. But probably it was this volume he was describing, — the first issue of the separate publication, and called the fourth edition as following the third of the combined work. It will be seen that the dates are the same. Heylin gives 1753 as the date of the first edition. In this. he is mistaken : he probably confused it with Hymns and Spiritual Songs intended for the Use of Real Christians of all Denominations, (No. 165), which was first published in that year. He gives 149 hymns, which is not, however, the number in the first edition, but in the later ones only. The hymns in this volume are the same as those of the second edition of Hymns with Tunes Annext. Although this did not appear as a separate publication with this title until the year 1773, it is placed here because of its connexion with the volumes just named. Reference will be made to it under the last date. Note. — Osborn assigns another Tune-book, entitled Sacred Harmony, to this year. It was, however, probably not published until twenty years later : see No. 358. 1762. 209. A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Horne : occasioned by his late Sermon preached before the University of Oxford. London : Printed and sold by W. Flexney, near Gray's- Inn Gate, Holbourn ; by G. Keith, in Gracechurch- Street ; by T. James, under the Royal Exchange, n.d. 8vo., pp. 22. Signed John Wesley. Home's Sermon (on James ii. 24) was preached before the University, June 7, 1761. Wesley says the sermon was preached about 1762. — Works, 1st edit., xvii. 55. 119 Nos. 210-211. [1762. ■' I retired to Lewisham to answer Dr. Home's ingenious ' Sermon on Justification by Works.' O that I might dispute with no man ! But if I must dispute, let it be with men of sense."— Journal, March 5, 1762. The Hutchinsonian Mr., afterwards Bishop, Home, is happily better known by his Commentary on the Book of Psalms than by his sermons. " Here I met with Dr. Home's ' Commentary on the Psalms.' I suppose the best that ever was wrote."— Journal, May 27, 1783. Mr. Home had spoken of " the new lights at the Tabernacle and the Foundery" in connection with "heresies making their periodical revolutions," and of " antinomianism being rampant." Wesley accuses him of not knowing his teaching, and proceeds to give considerable extracts from The Appeals to Men of Reason and Religion (Nos. 63, 64). He then quotes from the Scriptures, and from the Articles and Homilies of the Church of England, to show that his views entirely agreed with them. He further shows in what particulars Mr. Home's teaching on justification by works differed from his own, and from the teachings of the Scriptures and the Church. 210. The Dignity or Human Nature. "Laborant quum ventum ad verum est : etc." — hor. Printed in the year 1762. 121110., pp. 66. No place or printer's name, or name of author given. Another edition, London: Paramore, 1786; Another, Dublin: 1S02. This title is given in sarcasm. The pamphlet opens with the words, " In order to place this point [the dignity of human nature] in the clearest light, to the satisfaction of all impartial men, we have only to inquire, What is the real state, witli regard to know ledge and virtue, wherein mankind have been from the earliest times? And what state are they in at this day?" Then follows a reprint, word for word, of Part I. (87 pages) of the work on Original Sin (No. 182), in which Wesley gives so sad and deplorable an account of the condition of the mental and moral state of mankind, both in past and present times. The pamphlet closes with, " Such (if we can believe our eyes, ears or experience ) is the present Dignity of Human Nature." I cannot determine under what circumstances it was published. 211. Thoughts on the Imputed Righteousness of Christ. By John Wesley, M.A. Dublin : Printed by S. Powell, in Crane-Lane. 1762. 121110., pp. 11. 1 at end, Dublin, April 5, 1762. >nd edition, London : Printed by W. Stiahan, 1762 : London : Story, 1805 ; Another, London: Kershaw, \\a\. This was written to counteract the effect of a tract on '/Vie Imputed Righteousness of Christ, that had recently been circulated in Wesley's name. It was composed of extracts from the ninth and tenth volumes of the Christian Library. " Eight pages of I know not what, which a shameless man has picked out oi that work, tacked together in the manner he thought good, and then published in my name." Letter of Wesley to the Loudon 1 . quoted in Tyerman's Lt v, ii. 470. Wesley declares that he dare not insist upon the expression, "the imputing ould not find it in Scripture, and it had be | He nt ly and so dreadfully abused, and because the 120 1762.1 Nos. 212-213. Antinomians use it at this day to justify the grossest abominations." He points out its evil tendency, and closes with a suitable quotation from Hervey's Therm and Aspasio. 212. A Blow at the Root ; or, Christ stabbed in the House of His Friends. (Luke xxii. 46.) Bristol : Printed by William Pine. 1762. i2mo., pp. n. Second edition, London: W. Strahan, 1762; Third, London, 1780; another Third, York : Ward, 1763 ; Fourth. London : Whitfield, 1798 ; London : Cordeux, 1817. Written against a specious Antinomian teaching of the time, which declared, " That Christ had done, as well as suffered, all : that His righteousness being imputed to us we need none of our own : that seeing there was so much righteousness and holiness in Him there needs no more in us : that to think we have any or to seek to have any, is to renounce Christ : that from the beginning to the end of salvation all is in Christ, nothing in man ; and that those who teach otherwise are legal preachers, and know nothing of the Gospel." "This," Wesley rightly affirms, " is indeed a blow at the root, the root of all holiness. Hereby Christ is stabbed in the house of His Friends, of those who make the largest professions of loving and honouring Him. The whole design of His death — namely, to destroy the works of the devil, being overthrown at a stroke. For wherever this doctrine is cordially received it leaves no place for holiness " (p. 6). There are several references in the Journal, towards the beginning and end of the year, to one or more of these enthusiasts. 213. Cautions and Directions given to the greatest Professors in the Methodist Societies. " Set the false witnesses aside, Yet hold the Truth for ever fast." — Rev. Mr. C. Wesley's Scrip. Hymns. London : Printed in the year 1762. [Price One Penny.] i2ino., pp. 12. The Cautions and Directions are given against the following six perils : — I. Pride. 2. That daughter of Pride, Enthusiasm, 3. Antinomianism. 4. Sins of Omission. 5. Desiring anything but God. 6. Schism. It is a practical homily on the dangers to which Wesley's people were exposed, rendered necessary, he says, because there were persons amongst them — 1. Who believe they shall never die. 2. Who go from house to house to persuade people to believe they are perfect when God hath not persuaded them. 3. "Who believe they have the gift of discerning spirits. 4. That they cannot err. 5. That it is impossible for them to sin and fall; and 6. Because "the Methodist preachers who cannot subscribe the above nostrums are represented as being in the dark, and leading the people in the dark these twenty years. " The tract was incorporated in the Plain Account of Christian Perfectioii, (No. 238). The Journal for this year shows that Wesley was much hampered and troubled by false teachers around and even within his societies — George Bell being one of them — by whom a spirit of fanaticism was engendered. Many of the members declared themselves to be wholly sanctified, whose lives did not accord with their profession. It was a year of great unrest. At the close of it he wrote, " I now stood and looked back on the past year ; a year of uncommon trials and uncommon blessings. ... I have had more care and trouble in six months, than in several years preceding." The three pamphlets just noticed seem to have been called for by this state of things. 121 Nos. 214-215. [1763. 214. Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures. By Charles Wesley, M.A., and Presbyter of the Church of England. In Two Volumes. Bristol : Printed by E. Farley, in Small-Street. 1762. i2mo., PP- 39 2 >43 2 - Vol. I. has 1,160 hymns; Vol. II., 870. Second edition, London : Paramore, vol. i. 1794 ; ii. 1796. Some of the hymns in the first edition are removed, and the numbers reduced to 1,064 an d 817. Some copies appear without the name of place, author, or printer, and without signature to the preface. The author says, " God, having graciously laid His hand upon my body, and disabled me for the principal work of the ministry, has thereby given me an unexpected occasion of writing the following hymns. Many of the thoughts are borrowed from Mr. Henry's Comment, Dr. Gill on the Pentateuch, and Bengelius on the New Testament. Several of the hymns are intended to prove, and several to guard, the doctrine of Christian Perfection. I durst not publish one without the other. In the latter sort I use some severity, not against particular persons, but against Enthusiasts and Antinomians." — Preface. " In more than one instance in the course of these volumes the poet has for the moment superseded the theologian. It is therefore not suprising that, notwithstanding his intense admiration of his brother, John Wesley found it needful to caution some of the Society against being ' hurt by what they might find in these volumes contrary to the doctrine they had long received.' " — Osborn, Meth. Bib. See an extended account of these volumes, and the sentiments here referred to, in Jackson's Life of Charles Wesley, ii. 199-212. 1763. 215. The Life and Death of Mr. Thomas Wai sh. Composed i.\ great Part from the Accounts left by Himself. By James Morgan, a member of the Church of England. (Psalm cxii. 6, Heb. xiii. 7.) " Heaven waits not the last moment," &c. — Night Thoughts. London : Printed by H. Cock, and sold by G. Keith, in Grace- church-Street ; and by W. Wyatt, in High-Holborn ; at the Foundery, near Upper-Moorfields ; E. Englefield, in West-Street, Seven-Dials ; and at the New-Room, in the Horse- 1' air, Bristol. 1762. 1 21110., pp. xvi. 270. Engraved portrait. Preface dated Canterbury, July, 1762. Inserted by Wesley in his edition of his Works, 1771. The following note is prefixed: "I have carefully read the following Account, and believe it to be Strictly true. I think it will need no other recommendation to the children of God. Jan. 20, 1763, John \\ ley. 1 This is all that Wesley contributed to the hook, and his date shows the time of issue. James Morgan, though "a member of the Church of England," was one ^f 11 "755 l " I774« "I knew a young man about twenty )■ who was so thoroughly acquainted with the Bible, thai if he was questioned concerning any Hebrew word in the OKI, or air, rd in the New Testament, he would tell after 1 J J 1763.] Nos. 216-217. a little pause, not only how often the one or the other occurred in the Bible, but also what it meant in every place. His name was Thomas Walsh. Such a master of Biblical knowledge I never saw before, and never expect to see again." — Wesley, Works, vii. 54. Yet he died in the 28th year of his age ! The memoir would be much improved if less weighted with the editor's reflections, and if more of the precious journal, which was in his hands, had been inserted. It might have been one of the most spiritual and exalted memoirs that we possess. It is included, with an appendix, in Jackson's Lives of the Early Methodist Preachers. Charles Wesley wrote three fine hymns on the occasion of Walsh's death. 216. A Letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Gloucester, Occasioned by his Tract on the Office and Operations of the Holy Spirit. By John Wesley, M.A., late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. London, printed : And sold at the Foundery, near Moorfields. 1763. nmo., pp. 114. Dated at end, Nov. 26, 1762, and signed John Wesley. Second edition, Bristol : W. Pine, 1763 ; Dublin, 1763. The Bishop (Warburton) in an octavo volume of 250 pages (afterwards published in two vols., small i2mo.) had accused "the famed Leader of the Methodists, Mr. John Wesley," of " laying claim to almost every apostolic gift, in as full and ample a manner as they were possessed of old ;" and he had also expressed views on the office and work of the Holy Spirit, which Wesley could not but contradict. To these two points Wesley gives full consideration, refuting the former charge mainly by appeals to his writings, and the latter by the Scriptures and authoritative writings of the Church of England, quoting largely from his second letter to Mr. Church, (No. 87). It is a calm and careful piece of writing, and a seemly counterpoise to the jaunty style adopted by the Bishop, who was reproved gently and respectfully by Wesley when he urged his lordship, if he thought it worth while to spend any more words upon him, "to be more serious;" adding, "It cannot injure your lordship's character or your cause." It appears that the Bishop forwarded his manuscript to Wesley before it was printed, with a request that he would notice its errors. " After correcting the false readings, improper glosses and other errors, I returned it." Writing to his brother, he says, " I was a little surprised to find Bishop Warburton so entirely unacquainted with the New Testament ; and notwith- standing all his parade of learning, I believe he is no critic in Greek :" see references in Tyerman's Life of Wesley, ii. 492. Warburton's book called forth many replies. " From Monday 22 to Friday 26, I was employed in answering the Bishop of Gloucester's book. Monday 29 — I retired to transcribe my answer to Bishop Warburton."— -Journal, Nov. 1762. 217. A Sermon Preached before the Society for Reform- ation of Manners, on Sunday, January 30, 1763, at the Chappel. in West-Street, Seven-Dials. By John Wesley, M.A., Late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. London : Printed and sold by William Flexney, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holbourn ; by Geo. Keith, in Grace- 123 Nos. 218-219. [1763. Church-street ; by John Danson, the corner of Gutter- lane, Cheapside; by M. Englefield, at the Bible in West-street, Seven-Dials, and at the Foundery, Upper More-fields. [Price Six-pence.] 8vo., pp. 31. More than once reprinted in i2mo. " I rode to Lewisham, and wrote my sermon to be preached before the Society for Reformation of Manners."— -Journal, Jan. 17, 1763. Towards the close of the previous century a few persons in London, oppressed by the abounding and open ungodliness of the nation, and especially of the metropolis, formed themselves into a "Society for Reformation of Manners." This Society continued in existence about forty years, and by its activities accomplished much good ; but it had died out. In the year 1757 an attempt was successfully made to renew the good work ; and the Society before which Wesley preached was formed. Sixty-five years before he preached this sermon (namely on Feb. 13, 1698) his father, the Rev. Samuel Wesley, M. A., preached before the earlier Society ; and, by a singular coincidence, from the same text. They were both earnest, practical discourses, each having its own marked characteristics. See also Tournal y Feb. 2nd, 1766. 218. A Discourse ox Six ix Believers. By John Wesley, M.A. London : Printed and sold at the Foundery, Upper Moor-fields. 1763. Trice twopence. 121110., pp. 23. [Text, 2 Cor. v. 17.] Second edition, Bristol : W. Fine, n.d. ; Fourth, London : The New- Chapel, City Road, 1 789 ; Fifth, London: Paramore, 1791 . "I retired to Lewisham, and wrote the sermon on 'Sin in Believers, 9 in order to remove a mistake which some were labouring to propagate, that there is no sin in any that are justified."— Journal, March 28, 1763. This sermon appears in Vol. i. of the collected Works (1771), and to the previous sermon, on "The Witness of our own Spirit," the following note is appended : "It may easily be observed, that the preceding discourse describes the experience of those that are strong in faith. But hereby those that are weak in faith may be discouraged ; to prevent which, the following discourse may be of use." It is mentioned by Ileylin, but not by Osborn. 219. Farther Thoughts upon Christian Perfection, London : Printed in the year 1763. 121110., pp. 39. Without name of printer, and without signature : not reprinted separately. In 1759 Wesley wrote on this subject a short tract entitled, Thoughts on Christian Perfection, Ii was included in the fourth volume of Sermons, published the nexl year, (No. 200). Referring to it, he says, " Two or three I published a few Thoughts which then occurred to me concerning Christian Perfection. In most particulars I think now as I did then: in some, [ do not." And! himseli i>> be "still open to further conviction, and willing to he taught of God, by whatever instrument he shall cruise." "Christian Perfection was so prominent a topic in Wesley's teaching that it i> desirable to trace the development of his views on this subject in the various works that he published upon it. <-* I 1763.1 No. 220. The tract entitled, Cautions and Directions given to the greatest Professors in the Methodist Societies (No. 213), is embodied, in a revised and expanded form, in the latter part of this pamphlet ; and the whole, somewhat abridged, is incorporated in the Plain Account of Christian Perfection to be noticed hereafter : see No. 238. The greater part of the present pamphlet is written in the form of question and answer ; and the advices are enforced by a series of Reflections, which are recommended to the reader's "deep and frequent consideration, next to the Holy Scriptures." " The next year, the number of those who believed they were saved from sin, still increasing, I judged it needful to publish chiefly for their use, 'Farther Thoughts on Christian Perfection.'" — Works, xi. 414. He afterwards wrote Brief Thoughts en Christian Perfection, and two letters on the same subject addressed to Dr. Dodd : see Works, xi. 446-454. 220. A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation : or a Compendium of Natural Philosophy. In Two Volumes. Vol. 1. "These are thy glorious works. Parent of good," &c. — Milton. Bristol : Printed by William Pine. 1763. 121110., pp. 286, 256, xxx. Contents and Tables of principal matters, at the end of the second volume. One page of errata appended to each volume. Preface in first volume signed John Wesley, but not dated. For some time he had been gathering materials for this work. So early as Dec. 11, 1758, he wrote, "Most of this week I spent in preparing materials for a ' Survey of the Wisdom of God in Creation ; ' or a full, plain, and correct system of Natural Philosophy." Nothing could be more explicit than his description of the character of the book he had long desired to see, for which he had waited, and which he undertook to write only when others failed to do so. He wanted to provide a Compendium of Natural Philosophy not too diffuse, but comprised within a moderate compass, so as not to require any large expense either of time or money; containing "the heads of whatever was known with regard to the earth or the heavens," and written in the plainest language possible, " particularly free from all the jargon of Mathematics, which is mere heathen Greek to common readers." At the same time he wished " this short, full, plain account of the visible creation, directed to its right end ; not barely to entertain an idle, barren curiosity, but to display the invisible things of God, His power, wisdom, and goodness." The work is divided into text and notes. The former is mainly translated from the Latin of Buddaeus, Professor of Philosophy at Jena ; but he found occasion "to retrench, inlarge or alter every chapter, and almost every section." The notes are taken from many writers. He distinguishes the work as a descriptive one, and not an attempt " to account for things," as undertaking ' ' barely to set down what appears in Nature, not the cause of those appearances. " The book is not to be judged in the light of our present knowledge, but in that of the time in which it was written. It was a most worthy effort to put a knowledge of the ascertained facts of nature within the reach of the great body of the community. The work is well printed, and appears to have been carefully carried through the press. It was afterwards expanded to three, and finally to five volumes, which will be noticed under their dates. That this work and Paradise Lost (No. 222) should be issued in the same year shows both the activity of this tireless worker, and the wide range of his sympathies. Nos. 221-222-223. [1763. "At ten (and so every morning) I met the preachers that were in town, and read over with them the 'Survey of the Wisdom of God in Creation.'" — Journal, Nov. 8, 1764. 221. Minutes of Several Conversations between the Rev. Mr. John and Charles Wesley, and Others. London : Printed in the year 1763. 121110., pp. 30. This is the second edition of the so-called Large Minutes, the first of which appeared in 1753 (see No. 164). It is expanded from 16 to 30 pages, mainly by matters relating to Kingswood School, to the form of Deed for the settlement of the chapels, and to the best methods of establishing and extending the work of Methodism. Many additional advices are given to the preachers, some of which are of great practical value. In this number appear for the first time the words : — " Q. What may we reasonably believe to be God's design in raising up the preachers called Alethodists? A. To reform the nation, and, in particular, the Church : to spread Scriptural holiness over the land." (p. 2). This pamphlet is distinguished by the fact that in it Wesley for the first time published his Indenture, or Model Deed, for the settlement of his chapels, in which Deed he named and determined the doctrinal standards of Methodism, which he declared to be his Notes on the New Testament (No. 172) and the four volumes of Sermons which he had already published (Nos. 88, 107, 139, and 200). 222. An Extract from Milton's Paradise Lost. With Notes. London : Printed by Henry Fenwick. 1763. i8mo., pp. 322. Preface " To the Reader," dated London, January 1, 1763, but not signed. Second edition, 241110., London : 1791. Wesley declares that impartial judges gave the preference to this before all the poems of any age or nation. Put the amount of learning crowded into it put it beyond the comprehension of many. His sympathies were with the multitude, and he laboured to bring " this inimitable work " within the reach of all. This he strove to do by omitting all those lines which he despaired of explaining without the use of "abundance of words," by adding short and easy notes of explanation, and by indicating those passages which he judged to be "peculiarly excellent." Thus he endeavours to make " the main of this excellent poem clear and intelligible to any uneducated person of a tolerable good understanding." He not unfrcquently in his writings quoted from Milton, showing that what lie commended to others was familiar to himself. Brief explanatory notes are appended to each chapter. 223. Hymns for Children. Bristol: Printed by E. Farley, in Small Street. 1 763, 121110., pp. 84. Re-printed, with the addition to the title of the words, " And others of Riper \ 1 . London: 1766; Another, Bristol: 1707 ; Second edition, Bristol: W. Pine, 1768} Third, London: 177S; Fourth, I iondon : Paramore, 1 784, 126 1764.] No. 224. The number of hymns is ioo, but some are divided into parts, making the whole 105. About one-fourth have titles prefixed. The first 30 of the hymns are paraphrases of the Instructions for Children (No. 62). It was afterwards abridged (the number of hymns being reduced to 44), and published with a characteristic preface by John Wesley : see No. 414. This little volume, without preface or name of author, contains some hymns of priceless worth ; some suitable to more than children ; and some that children might find it hard to sing. One, divided into three parts, entitled "Hymns for Girls," would better befit the reflections of seniors than of children. Boys " before, or in their work " are taught to say : — Let heathenish boys In their pastimes rejoice, And be foolishly happy at play ; Overstocked if they are, We have nothing to spare, Not a moment to trifle away. Twenty-four are " for the youngest," the first of these commencing, Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child. This hymn associated with the happy infancy of tens of thousands was first published in Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742, (No. 40). " It would perhaps be difficult to mention any uninspired book that, in the same compass, contains so much evangelical sentiment. The hymns are full of instruction, yet thoroughly devotional in their character. There is nothing puerile in them, either with respect to thought or expression. The language is simple, yet terse, pure/ and strong." — Life of C. Wesley ', ii. 230. Note. — A small tract, published this year, and entitled Jesus altogether Lovely : Illustrated in a Letter to some of the Single Women in the Methodist Society, has by many been attributed to Wesley. Tyerman hesitates, but inclines to the same opinion (ii. 551). It is dated Hoxton, March 10, 1763. On that day Wesley was in Norwich. It was written by Miss Bosanquet, afterwards Mrs. Fletcher, who at the time named lived in Hoxton, and on the 24th of the same month removed to Leytonstone. The character of the tract points to the position which she held in the Methodist Society at Hoxton. It is a parting address to the young women of the Society (of whom she seems to have had charge), on Chastity, Poverty and Obedience. It is worthy of the saintly woman, who wrote it. I have seen it attributed, in an old catalogue, to Mrs. Fletcher. 1764. 224. An Extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Journal, from June 17, 1758, to May 5, 1760. Bristol : Printed by William Pine, in Narrow- Wine-Street. 1764. 12 mo., pp. 106. [No. xi.] Another portion of this most interesting record. It contains graphic accounts of the successful preaching of the Gospel, together with many instances of the revival of religion in different parts of the country, particularly in Everton 127 Nos. 225-226. [1765. under the ministry of the Rev. Mr. Berridge. It also contains an impressive letter to Dr. Taylor, of Norwich, respecting his work on Original Sin, in reply to which Wesley wrote Xo. 182. It does not appear to have been re-published separately. 225. Letters Wrote by Jane Cooper : To which is prefixt Some Account of her Life and Death. London : Printed in the year 1764. nmo. pp. 62. Second edition, Bristol : Tine, 1764, pp. 40, smaller type ; Another, printed in the year 1764, pp. 38; Another, London: 1764; Third, Bristol: Pine, 1770; Third, London: Ilawes, 1778. The Preface, written by Wesley, but not signed or dated, occupies three pages, the Account twelve, the Letters forty-four. The whole seems to have been edited by Wesley. His estimate of the character of this young woman and of her writing was very high. " The sentiments are all just and noble ; the result of a fine natural understanding, cultivated by conversation, thinking, reading, and true Christian experience." Fragments only of her writing remained, but " ' Though they're little, they are golden sands.'" The style is " simple and artless in the highest degree, but likewise clear, lively, proper; every phrase, every word being so well chosen, yea and so well placed, that it is not easy to mend it." Such is the opinion formed by this keen critic of the Letters, " the almost inimitable Letters," of Jane Cooper, — a servant maid ! " I buried the remains of Jane Cooper, a pattern of all holiness, and of the wisdom which is from above, who was snatched hence before she had lived five-and-twenty years."— Journal, Nov. 26, 1762. lie introduces one of her letters and a short account of her death into the Plain Account oj Chris/Ian Perfection (No. 238), designating her " that burning and shining light, Jane Cooper." Years afterwards he speaks of her as "that lovely saint Jane Cooper." Note. — A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley, by a Gentlewoman. London: Sold at the Foundery, in Upper Moorfields ; and at Mrs. Englefield's, at the Bible, in West-Street, near the Seven Dials. 1764. I21V.O., pp. 23. Dat< ■ 8, 1764. Signed M. 15. [Mary Bosanquet]. Inserted by Wesley in his Works, and Catalogues. A statement of circumstances which led to her work in I.aton-Stone (Leytonstone), with interesting particulars of the work itself. For a fuller account of that work, see Moore's Life of Mrs. Mary /-'letclicr, vol. ii., part i. pp. 41-S2. As this was only published, n<>t written or even edited by Wesley, it is inserted on account "I it- interest, but not muni end. 1765. 226. A Treatise on Jnstification : Extracted from Mr. John Goodwin. By John Wesley. With a Preface, wherein all that is material in Letters just published, under the 1765.1 Nos. 227-228. Name of the Rev. Mr. Hervey is answered. Bristol : Printed by William Pine, in Wine-Street. 1765. i2mo., pp. 46, 207, viii. Wesley had long been urged, especially by several of the preachers, to abridge and publish Goodwin's work on Justification. He would have further delayed, having many things on hand, but a tract appeared entitled The Scriptural Doctrine of Imputed Righteousness Defended, by James Hervey. He then felt it incumbent upon him to publish the real Scripture-doctrine. And he did not think he could do it better than he found it done already to his hand in the able and closely reasoned treatise, which with great pains he carefully abridged. This he trusted would " stop the mouths of gainsayers concerning imputed righteousness, and teach them (at least the most candid) to speak as the oracles of God." — Letter in Works, xii. 305. Goodwin's treatise is a close, argumentative, forcible piece of writing. Wesley held it in high esteem, and urged his preachers to distribute it widely, asking them to give it careful and close attention, "for," says he, "it can hardly be understood by a slight and cursory reading. And let whoever has read it declare, whether he (the author) has not proved every article he asserts, not only by plain express Scripture, but by the authority of the most eminent reformers." — Works, x. 349. 227. An Answer to all that is Material in Letters just Published, under the Name of the Reverend Mr. Hervey. By John Wesley. Bristol : Printed by W T illiam Pine, in Wine-Street. 1765. i2mo., pp. 46. Dated at the end, Hoxton Square, Nov. 16, 1764. " I retired to Hoxton to answer what was personal in the letters ascribed to Mr. Hervey."—; Journal, Nov. 12, 1764. This is the preface to the preceding work, altered on the first page only : all the rest seems to have been printed from the same type. It was published separately. Part of the Answer consists of a letter addressed by Wesley to the Rev. James Hervey (see No. 191, §12), containing criticisms on Hervey's Theron and Aspasio, published in 1755. In reply to this letter Hervey wrote eleven letters, but did not live to publish them ; nor did he desire them to be published after his death, as only about half of them had been transcribed for the press. They were, however, published under the title of Eleven Letters from the late Rev. Mr. Hervey , to the Rev. Air. John Wesley ; containing an Answer to that Gentleman's Remarks on ' Theron and A spasio' ; Published from the Author' 's Manuscript, left in the possession of his brother, W. Hervey : With a Preface showing the j-eason of their being now printed : 1 765, 121110., pp. 297. It was in reply to these letters that Wesley re-published his own letter, with additions. See an extended account in Tyerman's Life of Wesley, ii. 526-532. 228. Thoughts on a Single Life. By John Wesley, A.M. London : Printed and sold at the Foundery. 1765. i2mo., pp. 11. Bristol: W. Pine, 1770; London: 1784. In the year 1743 Wesley published a small pamphlet under the title of Thoughts on Marriage and a Single Life (No. 42), the principal sentiments of which are embodied in this tract, Nos. 229-230-231. [1765. " My scraps of time this week I employed in setting down my present thoughts upon a single life, which, indeed, are just the same they have been these thirty years : and the same they must be, unless I give up my Bible." — Journal, Nov. 5, 1764 ; see also Feb. 2 and 6, 1751. The advantages of a single life are carefully and delicately stated in Wesley's terse, brief way. His experience of married life may have added keenness to his convictions. To the " happy few " he gives some very shrewd advice. Tyerman calls it a "queer tract," and names another Jesus A together Lovely: Illustrated in a Letter to some of the Single IVor/ieu of the Methodist Society. He intimates that "it is far from certain that Wesley was its author ; though it is not unlikely the one was connected with the other." But see Note, p. 127. 229. A Short History of Methodism. London : Printed ; and sold at the Foundery. 1765. 121110., pp. 11. Second edition, London, 1765; Also, London, 1774; 1789; 1795. Ileylin and Tyerman assign this pamphlet to 1764; but on what ground does not appear. It is a mere tract, in which Wesley seeks to distinguish between his people and the various parties, whose views he entirely condemned, but who were often confounded with them. " Men lump together under this general name many who have no manner of connexion with each other, and then whatever any of these speaks or does is of course imputed to all." This Short History was written to " prevent persons of a calm and candid disposition from doing this." It was " not designed for a defence of the Methodists (so called) or any part of them," but to be "a bare relation of a series of naked facts, which alone may remove abundance of misunderstandings." See No. 355. 230. The Scripture-Way of Salvation. A Sermon on Ephes. ii. 8. By John Wesley. London : Printed and sold at the Foundery. 1765. 121110., pp. 22. There is said to have been another edition, but I have not seen it. Although this sermon is from the same text as No. 8, Salvatioi by Faith, published in 1738, yet it is quite another sermon. It does not appear in the Four volumes of sermons published previously to this date ; but it is in Y<>1. Hi. of the collected Works, 1 77 1 . It was written to correct the strange and fanatical teaching on the subject of entire sanctification, which Thomas Maxlield and George Bell had diffused through the Methodist Societies. 231. The Christian's Pocket COMPANION: Consisting of lect Texts of the New Testament, with suitable observations in prose and verse, for every day in the War. By John Harms. (Job vxiii. [xxiii.] [2.) Carmarthen; Printed and sold by the Author, at Pembroke \ Mr. Edmonds, at the Coventry-Cross, Holborn ; and at the Foundery, in Moorfields, London. 1765. Small oblong (about 4 inches by 5), pp. vi. 372. Preface dated Pembroke, July 30, 1764, and signed John Wesley. 13° 1765.1 Nos. 232-233-234. Wesley reached Pembroke on Friday, July 27, before he was expected, so he "rested that night." On Sunday the minister invited him to preach in the church, but the Mayor forbade him. The people, being incensed and not to be disappointed, came in crowds to hear him elsewhere in the evening. The minister was probably Mr. Barnes, the author of this book, who was a clergyman at Pembroke. He was already so far friendly to the Methodists that he had written a pamphlet in their defence entitled, Twenty charges against the Methodists, answered by the Word of God ', for their Encouragement, and Conviction of their Enemies. Wesley was very favourably impressed with the Pocket Companion, judging the reflections in it to be " abundantly deeper" than those of the useful Golden Treasury, dealing not only with the first principles of religion, but with the "whole work of God in the soul"; hence his commendatory preface, and the admission of the book among the Foundery publications. 232. Minutes of some Late Conversations, between the Rev. Mr. Wesleys and Others. Bristol : Printed by William Pine, in Narrow-W'ine-Street. 1765. i2mo., pp. 12. Dated on p. 3, after half-title, Manchester, August 20th, 1765. Since the publication of the first Minutes of Conference in 1749 (Nos. 135, 136), two editions of what are called the Large Minutes had been issued (Nos. 164, 221). But up to the present date no Annual Minutes had been published. Very brief notes only of the intervening Conferences are recorded in Wesley's Journal. With the present pamphlet of 12 pages, commenced the series which has been continued to the present time, the volumes gradually expanding as Methodism has increased or its organisation become more complicated. The volume for the current year contains 594 pages. In this little tract the Stations, or appointments of the preachers, occupy about one page and a-half. All is entered in the form of questions and answers ; and the short, sharp sentences declare plainly who prepared the Minutes for the press. There are some very interesting entries in this first issue. It was reprinted verbatim in the 8vo. edition, Vol i., 1812, and afterwards in the Revised Edition, 1862. As the Minutes for several years were sold for one penny each, they became known as "the Penny-Minutes." 233. A Short Greek Grammar. London : Printed by W. B. [William Bowyer.] And Sold at the Foundery, near Upper-Moorfields, and at the New-Room, in the Horse- Fair, Bristol. 1765. i2mo., pp. 80. Without preface, or note, or name. The book was prepared for use at the School in Kingswood. Wesley spent a week in Bristol in the early part of the year, but there is no record of how the time was occupied. He was probably engaged with his publications. He was there again nearly three weeks in the autumn when he spent some time at the school. This Grammar was in all likelihood prepared then. 234. Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament. By John Wesley, M.A., Late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Vol. I. Bristol : Printed by William Pine, in Wine-Street. 1765. 4to., pp. ix. 852. No. 234. [1765. Three volumes, pp. 2613, paged continuously throughout. The paging 17 1 5- 16 is duplicated. In the first volume a portrait, engraved by Bland, from a painting by N. Hone, represents Wesley preaching in the fields. These notes were written in response to many earnest entreaties, which for several years Wesley resisted. To begin such a work when he was entering upon his sixty-third year seemed to him to be a dream. Knowing he could not compose a commentary, his only alternative was to abridge the work of another, if there was "any exposition worth abridging." He selected two — each having its own good qualities — Matthew Henry's Exposition and Poole's Annotations. The former, however, was pervaded with "absolute, irrespective, unconditional predestination ;" all of which he, of course, omitted, and, indeed, nineteen parts out of twenty of the whole work. This he must needs have done if he desired a cheap and portable commentary, for Henry's extended to " six folios, each containing seven or eight hundred pages," and the whole costing six guineas. Besides, of Henry he could write, " it seems to be his aim to say as much as he can, mine to say as little." He changed hard words into easy ones, and long sentences into short, not, however, altering any sentiment that he extracted. He added largely from Poole, whose writing was more to his taste. He says it was his constant method, "after reading the text, first to read and weigh what Mr. Poole observed upon every verse, and afterwards to consult Mr. Henry's exposition of the whole paragraph." His design was " to give the direct literal meaning of every verse, every sentence," and, as far as he was able, " of ever)' word in the oracles of God." The dates of publication are somewhat confusing. Tyerman reprints, from Lloyd's Evening Post for June 5, 1765, the following advertisement: "On Thursday, the 1st of August, will be published, price 6d., Number I. of Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament By John Wesley, M.A., late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Conditions: 1. That this work will be printed in quarto, on a superfine paper. 2. That it will be comprised in about sixty numbers (as near as can be computed), making two handsome volumes. 3. That each number will contain three sheets of letterpress, printed on a new type," &c. The work was to be delivered weekly to the subscribers. From the above statement and from the notation at the foot of the pages, it was obviously intended to bind the whole work in two volumes, the second beginning with the Book of Ezra. But though prepared for two, it was generally (yet not always) bound in three; Vol. II. beginning at Judges xv. and ending with Psalm lxii. The weekly numbers, Or parts, are indicated at the foot Of the pages. There are I IO, generally of twenty-four pages each. If the rate of publication was one number per week, it would occupy two years in its issue. To this the dates given fairly agree. The first, April 25, 1765, is at the end of the preface, written before the body of the work, according to \V< nicy's practice The other, at the end of the work, giving the time ol the Completion of the manuscript, is Dec. 24, 1 766. The later parts of the book would therefore not be issued until far into the year 1767. The title pages in the first and second volumes (but not in the third) were apparently printed from the same type. They all bear the same date. It is probable the division into three volumes was an aftei thought, as the two \olumes were found to be very bulky. "The Notes OH the Old Testament are allowed on all hands to be D and unsatisfactory ; this is owing to a circumstance with which few an aoquaintfd. Mr. Pine, the printer, having set up and printed ofl several sheets in a type much larger than was intended, it was found impossible to get the work within the prescribed limits . >■ fames, without retrenching the note., or cancelling what was already printed, The former measure was unfortunately adapted, and the work fell far short of the expectation of the public. This account I had from the excellent author himselt." I>i. Adam Clarke, Gen, Pre/, to Commentary, '3 2 1766.] Nos. 235-236. There are but one or two references to the work in the Journal : — " May 13 (1765) and the following days, I had leisure to go on with the Notes on the Old Testament." This was written in Ireland, the preface in Edinburgh. Sun., Feb. 23, 1766 — " In the evening I went to Lewisham, and finished the Notes on the Book of Job." The Notes were composed wherever he could put down the ponderous tomes which must have accompanied him in his wide- spread journeys. For a view of his extraordinary labours from the Conference of 1765 to that of 1766, see Smith's Hist, of Met h., Vol. I., Appendix D. The Notes have not been reprinted. " Q. — 26. What shall be done with the remaining copies of the Notes on the Old Testament ? A. — Let them be sold w r eekly at 3d. a number." — Min. Couf 1781. From an inventory of the books in stock in the Methodist Book-room, taken immediately after Wesley's death in 1791, it appears that there were 750 copies of each volume still unsold. 1766. 235. The Lord our Righteousness : A Sermon preached at the Chapel in West-Street, Seven-Dials, on Sunday, Nov. 24, 1765. By John Wesley. London: Printed for the Benefit of the Poor, and sold by J. Fletcher, at the Oxford Theatre, St. Paul's Church-Yard ; G. Keith, at the Bible, Grace-Church- Street ; E. Cabe, Ave-Mary- Lane, and M. Englefield, at the Bible, West-Street, Seven-Dials. 1766. 8vo., pp. 36. Another, Bristol: Pine, 1766, 121110., pp. 23, smaller type ; Fourth, Newcastle, 1766; another, London: 1766; Fourth, London, 1770; another, 1770; Sixth, London, 1789; London: Jones, 1809. The sermon relates to a subject of dispute at the time, the imputation of the Righteousness of Christ. It is divided into two parts ; in the first is considered, What is the Righteousness of Christ ; in the second, When, and in what sense, it is imputed to us. " Sunday, November 24, I preached in London on those words in the lesson for the day, ' The Lord our Righteousness.' I said not one thing which I have not said, at least, fifty times within this twelvemonth. Yet it appeared to many entirely new, who much importuned me to print my sermon, supposing it would stop the mouths of all gainsayers. Alas, for their simplicity ! In spite of all I can print, say, or do, will not those who seek occasion find occasion ? " — Works, xiii. 328. "The controversy respecting Hervey's notions of imputed righteousness had attracted great attention. Wesley was misrepresented, and misunderstood ; and the object of the sermon is to correct the errors in circulation concerning him." — Tyerman's Life of Wesley, ii. 551, which see for particulars respecting this sermon and also the last named, The Scripture- Way of Salvation. (No. 230). It called forth a severe philippic from some unknown writer, in A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley, concerning his inconsistency with himself, occasioned by the publication of his sermon entitled ' The L.ordour Righteousness.'' 236. Some Remarks on a Defence of the Preface to the Edinburgh Edition of Aspasio Vindicated. By i33 Nos. 237-238. [1766. John Wesley. Edinburgh: Printed by Auld and Smellie; Morocco's Close, Lawn-Market. 1766. [mdcclvxi.] i2mo., pp. 24. On page 13, a postscript begins, in which Wesley rebuts an accusation made by Dr. Erskine, against a letter he had written, by inserting the letter in full. It extends beyond three pages, and is dated Edinburgh, April 24, 1765. Following this, two tracts, Remember the Sabbath Day (No. 79), and A Word to a Drunkard (No. 77), are reprinted. Reference has been made to the Eleven Letters published in the name of Mr. Hervey, and to Wesley's reply (No. 227). Matters might have rested where they were, had these letters not been imprudently reprinted in Scotland. " I preached at Dunbar about noon, and in the evening at Edinburgh. My coming was quite seasonable (though unexpected), as those bad letters, published in the name of Mr. Hervey, and reprinted here by Mr. John Erskine, had made a great deal of noise." — Journal, April 23, 1765. Dr. Erskine had taken occasion in the preface to make some severe attacks upon Wesley ; who was defended by James Kershaw "in an honest, amicable, and affectionate reply." Erskine issued a Defence of his " preface," and more violently attacked Wesley, whose reply is severe, but calm and dignified. This is Wesley's reply ; in which he says, "I have neither time nor inclination to write a formal answer to the Reverend Dr. Erskine's tract. My hope of convincing him is lost ; he has drunk in all the spirit of the book he has published. But I owe it to God and His children to say something for myself, when I am attacked in so violent a manner, if haply some may take knowledge, that I also endeavour to ' live honestly and to serve God.' " Not republished in Wesley's edition of his Works ; but it appears in the 1812 edition, where it is dated at the head, Edinburgh, May, 1766. 237. Minutes of some late Conversations between the Reverend Mr. Wesley and Others. 1766. 121110., PP- 23. Half-title dated Leeds, Aug. 12, &c, 1766; and at end, London, August 22, 1766. This is extended to twice the usual size of the ordinary (the "penny") Minutes. It partakes of the character of the first Minutes for 1744-9 (No*. 135, 136). In it Wesley explains at .some length the origin and growth of what was called his " power ;" and many practical questions relating to the people and to the duties of the preachers are considered. It is the second of the Annual Minutes. 238. A Plain Account oi Christian Perfection as believed and taught by the Rev. Mr. John Wesley, from the Year 1725 to the War 1765. Bristol : Printed by William Pine. 1 766. 121110., pp. [62. md edition, Bristol: Pine, 1766, pp. 02; Third, 1770, smaller typej Fourth, London: Hawes, 1777. Title altered to •' as believed, &c, from the year 1725 to the year 1777." Fifth, London : Paramore, 1785; Sixth, London: [ 789 j Seventh, London: Paramore, 1794; Eighth, London: Story, 1801 ; Ninth, 1809; Seventeenth, London: Mason, 1S40. '34 1767.1 No. 239. This tract underwent several revisions and enlargements, one of which appears in Vol. xxiv. of the collected Works, 1773. In every successive edition the date of the most recent revision was specified. The last revision appears to have been made in the year 1777 ; and since that period, this date has been generally continued on the title-page of the several editions, — see Works, xi. 366, Note. But there are only slight verbal differences between the first edition, 1766, and the fourth, 1777. This is the plainest, fullest, and most exact account Wesley has given of his views on Christian Perfection. In it he traces historically, "from the beginning" — the year 1725, when he met with Bp. Taylor's Rule and Exercise of Holy Living and Dying — the steps by which he was "led during a course of many years to embrace the doctrine of Christian Perfection" ; and he gives, in the order of their publication, an account of the several works which he and his brother had written on the subject, including Hymns, and Conversations held at the Conferences. From all these he makes extensive extracts. This volume, therefore, contains a precise and authoritative statement of his views on this sacred question. This causes a special interest to attach to the work. It was written mainly in defence of his teaching. Many false and garbled statements had been made by one and another. lie had been charged with teaching the very contrary of that which it was his joy to proclaim ; and the plainest words he or his brother had written were contradicted or misrepresented by factious persons. He takes the opportunity of clearly expounding while earnestly defending his views ; and he specially aims at showing that he had preserved a consistency in his teaching from the beginning. With the exception of a few sentences, which he here corrects by foot-notes, he held and taught precisely the same doctrines for 40 years. Even the professors, "the greatest professors amongst the Methodists," of the attainment of this high Christian privilege gave occasion to him to be very explicit. Many of them became wild enthusiasts, and called forth the severe rebukes which appear at the end of the book. Note. — A Short Account of the Barbarous Murder Committed on Board the Brig Earl of Sandwich. By P. MacKinlie, G. Gidley, A. Zekerman, and R. St. Quinten, with a particular Account of Richard St. Quinten, taken from his own Mouth in Newgate, the Evening before his Execution. (Rev. xv. 3.) Dublin : Printed : London, reprinted in the year 1766. 121110., pp. 12. Another, London : Hawes, n.d. Osborn (Wes. Bibliography) gives the above under this year, but there is no evidence that it was written by Wesley. The writing is not like his. The preface is dated Dublin, March 6, 1766, at which time Wesley was in London. It is not in the collected Works ; though it appears in some of the later catalogues, and was therefore sold at the Foundry. 1767. 239. A Word to a Smuggler. Bristol: Printed by William Pine. 1767. 121110., pp. 11. Dated at the end, London, Jan. 30, 1767. 135 No. 240. [1767. Another, London: Hawes, 1775; Another, n.d., "This tract not to be sold, but given away." "Q. 30. — How may we put a stop to smuggling? A. I. Speak tenderly and frequently of it in every Society near the coasts. 2. Carefully disperse the 'Word to a Smuggler. 1 3. Expel all who will not leave it off. 4. Silence every local preacher that defends it." — Min. Con/., 1767. This was one of the crying sins of the age. Wesley set himself most resolutely to oppose it, and called every preacher to his help. He denounced it in no measured terms. "A smuggler (and in proportion every seller or buyer of uncustomed goods) is a thief of the first order, a highwayman or pickpocket of the worst sort. Let not anyone of those prate about reason or religion. It is an amazing instance of human folly that every Government in Europe does not drive these vermin into lands not inhabited." — Works, ix. 226. He searched it out wherever it existed amongst his people. Finding it in the Society at St. Ives, he told them plainly, either they must put this abomination away or they would see his face no more. At Sunderland he declared he would no more suffer it than robbing on the highway. A few would not promise to refrain, so he cut them off from the Society. Two years afterwards he found "most of the robbers, commonly called smugglers," had left, but more than twice their number had come in their place. "Extirpate smuggling, buying or selling uncustomed goods, out of every Society. Let none remain with us who will not abstain from every kind and degree of" it." — Works, viii. 308. 240. An Extract of The Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Journal, from May 6, 1760, to Oct. 28, 1762. Bristol: Printed by William Pine. 1767. 121110., pp. 141. [No. xii.] In a short preface, addressed " To the Reader," and dated London, Jan. 31, 1767, he writes, " I am sensible there are many particulars in the ensuing Journal which some serious people will not believe and which others will turn to ridicule. But this I cannot help, unless by concealing those things, which I believe it my bounden duty to declare. I cannot do otherwise while I am persuaded that this was a real Work of God." lie refers to the accounts of a very remarkable work of grace in different parts of the country, and especially to the many testimonies to the attainment of "a full salvation. " At the end he quotes his brother's frequent declaration, "Your day of Pentecost is not fully come. But I doubt not, it will ; and you will then hear of persons sanctified as frequently as you do now of persons justified ;"and he adds, "Any unprejudiced reader may observe that it was now fully come.'' In the earlier part of the pamphlet arc copies of several letters which Wesley wrote to different public journals in defence or explanation iA~ his work. One of them, addressed to the editor of the London C/iron/i!, i, is in reply to Mr. Law, who, in a recent publication entitled A Collection of Letters t had passed some severe strictures on W esley's Latter to Mr. Law [bio. 174), and hi-. Address to llic Clergy (No. 1 75 ). Another was sent to Lloyds Evening /'os/ in reply to a letter that had appeared in that Journal " from a very angry gentleman, who personates a clergyman," and who is " very warm against the people, Vulgarly called Methodists ; " and another to the editor of the same paper, in which he says, " |ust us I had finished the letter published in your last Friday's paper, four tracts came into my hands; one wrote, or procured to be wrote, by Mis. Downes ; one by a clergyman in the County of Durham; the third by a gentleman ol Cambridge; and the fourth l>y a member (1 dignitary) ol the church of Rome. How gladly would I leave all th( mselves, and let them say just what they please ! as my day is far spent, and my taste for controversy is utterly lost and -"He. But this would l 3 ( > 1767.1 Nos. 241-242-243. not be doing justice to the world, who might take silence for a proof of guilt." He answers the salient points in each. A further letter was addressed to the editor of Lloyd's Evening Post ; another to the editor of the London Chronicle ; and yet another to the editor of the Westminster Journal. Finally a long letter was sent to the editor of the London Chronicle in answer to a tract entitled A Caveat against the Methodists. These letters illustrate the nature and measure of the opposition directed through the Press against Wesley and his work, and throw into relief his patient and determined perseverance. 241. Christian Letters. By Mr. Joseph Alleine. London : Printed in the year 1767. i2mo., pp. %%. Preface addressed "To the Reader," dated London, March 7, 1767, and signed John Wesley. Second edition, Bristol : Pine, 1767 ; Third, London : Hawes, 1778 ; Fourth, London : Paramore, 1795. These beautiful spiritual letters are commended to the reader in the brief preface, in which the relative value of Mr. Samuel Rutherford's letters and these is stated. Wesley does not scruple to give the preference to these, because he thinks that " in love Mr. Alleine has the pre-eminence." The letters have an exquisite tenderness and grace. Such heavenly words come only from heavenly souls. Most of them were written in the year 1663, and are addressed in endearing terms to his beloved people, from "the common gaol at Juelchester " (Ivelchester, Ilchester), where he was incarcerated after the passing of the Act of Uniformity. Together with a brief record of his life, they would make a very valuable devotional manual. Wesley did good service to his people in reprinting them and sending them forth with his commendation. If the old Methodists fed on such spiritual meat as this, no wonder they were strong and lusty. 242. The Witness of the Spirit. A Sermon on Romans viii. 16. By John Wesley, M.A. Bristol : Printed by William Pine, in Wine-Street. 1767. i2mo., pp. 16. Dated at end Newry, April 4, 1767. Another Edition, Bristol: W. Pine, 1769. A sermon on the same text is in the first volume of Sermons, published in 1746 (No. 88.) This is quite a different sermon. It appears in the collected Works, 1 77 1, Vol. I, as Discourse IL., on The Witness of the Spirit. It also appears in the 5th edition of the " first four volumes of Sermons " (1796-9). It is in the 5th vol. of Wesley's Works, ed. 1829. It was apparently written as an exposition, and also to meet objections and to guard against fanatical misconceptions of what Wesley believed to be a very important truth, revealed in Scripture, " not once only, not obscurely, not incidentally ; but frequently, and that in express terms ; but solemnly and of set purpose, as denoting one of the peculiar privileges of the children of God." 243. Thoughts on the Sin of Onan. Chiefly extracted from a late Writer. London : Printed in the year 1767. i2mo., pp. 20. Second edition, 1774; Another, Bristol: 1779. 137 Nos. 244-245. [1767. In his desire to do good to the souls and bodies of his fellow-men, Wesley sought suitable advice on this important but delicate subject. He went the length of wading through one volume written by Dr. Tissot, which Wesley describes as a" most fulsome and shocking performance ; " and another, a French tract then lately translated, some parts of which, he says, " most of the London street- walkers would be ashamed to read aloud." He extracted from these, chiefly from the former, what he judged to be useful, adding both delicate advices and burning words of warning. A faulty and imperfect copy of this tract was published in Bristol in 1779, entitled A Word to whom it may Concern. In it is this note, " Much of this Treatise is extracted from Dr. Tissot." 244. Minutes of Some Late Conversations between Rev. Mr. Wesley and Others. London : Printed in the year 1767. i2ino., pp. 8. Dated at beginning August 18, &c. , 1767 ; and at end, August 20, 1767. In this year's Minutes, though brief, will be found some important and practical resolutions relating to the "preaching-houses," the term of ministerial service, the distribution of literature, (" Q. 27. How may the books be spread more ? A. Let every Assistant give them away prudently ; and beg money of the rich to buy books for the poor,") the revival of " the work," the prevention of smuggling and bribery, and the attendance of preachers at the Conference. 245. Hymns for the Use of Families, and on Various Occasions. By Charles Wesley, M.A., late Student of Christ-Church. Bristol : Printed by William Pine. 1767. i2mo., pp. 176. Neither preface nor index. Another, "By Charles Wesley, A.M.,'' London: Hawes, 1776; Another, London: 1825, " second edition " on title-page. There are 166 hymns : all following the 44th are distinguished as Occasional Hymns, to many of which titles are prefixed. Lampe, a friend of the Wesleys, was allowed to use 24 of their hymns, and to publish them with original tunes under the title of Hymns for the Great Festivals (see No. 94). In the Hymns for the Use of Families ; in Hymns of ion (No. 192) ; and in Hymns and Prayers (0 the Trinity, at the end of Hymns on the Trinity (No. 246), — the first twenty-four hymns in each, and the Gra and at Meat (No. 98) are of the same metres as the hymns in Lampe's book ; in the /"'amity Hymns and Hymns on the Trinity they are in the same order, and in the others nearly SO. Prefixed to each hymn in these several hooks, and following the word "To," is the first line of a hymn from Lampe's collection, indicating the particular tune to which the hymn is to he sung. In this way attention was also railed hy the Wesleys to their friend's production. "Mr. Charles W< ley's family Hymn-Book consists to a great extent of hymns which he had written under circumstances ..i peculiar excitement, affecting him as a husband, a father, and the head of a family. Others of them imposed for the use of his pious friends in seasons oi especial anxiety, torrovi and joy. it is not probable that one of them was written with reference to an imaginary case which possibly might occur. They are all the genuine 138 1767.] No. 246 effusions of his heart : a heart eminently tender, sympathetic, generous, and deeply imbued with Christian feeling — not one of the hymns containing a stanza that is either trite or mean. The most common concerns of life are dignified by Christian sentiment, expressed in language of almost unrivalled force and beauty." — Life of C. IV., ii. 236. "Numberless examples might be given of the genius and taste of the Rev. Charles Wesley. But however unfashionable it may appear, I cannot but give the palm to his Family Hymn Book. Such accumulated strength and beauty of expression, in presenting the daily wants, pains, trials, and embarrassments of a family to the God of the families of the whole earth, surely never before was presented to the suffering children of men. We expect a man of real genius to be great where the subject is inspiring ; but to be great in the privacies of common life, to be a true poet (while the man of God equally appears) in those littlenesses, so called, of daily occurrence, shows an elevation and spirituality of mind that has been rarely, if ever, equalled." — Life of Rev. John Wesley, by H. Moore, ii. 371. 246. Hymns on the Trinity. Bristol : Printed by William Pine. 1767. i2mo., pp. 132. Without Preface or Index, or name of writer. A valuable work had been published entitled The Catholic Doctrine of a Trinity proved by above an hundred short and clear arguments, expressed in the terms of Holy Scripture, compared after a manner entirely new, and digested under the four following Titles : 1. The Divinity of Christ ; 2. The Divinity of the Holy Ghost ; 3. The Plurality of Persons ; 4. The Trinity in Unity : with a few reflections, <5rY. : By William Jones, M.A., F.R.S., Rector oj Paston, dfc. This work passed through many editions. A recent one was edited by Rev. John L. F. Russell, M.A. : London, Rivingtons, 1866. In this work a large number of passages of Scripture are arranged in 119 sections of two or three passages each, collected together under the four heads named above. Charles Wesley, following the order given, but interspersing other passages, raised the number of sections to 136. For each of these he composed a hymn expressive of the principal sentiment of the section. These 136 hymns, with the passages of Scripture prefixed and consecutively numbered, form the first part of the book. A second portion is composed of 52 hymns, having a fresh enumeration, and entitled Hymns and Prayers to the Trinity. The first twenty- four are of the same metres as the hymns in Hymns for the Great Festivals (No. 94), and the Tunes in that book are named at the head of these hymns : (see No. 245.) In his Life of Bishop Home, Mr. Jones complains somewhat severely of the use made of his book. He accuses John Wesley of selling the work, "as if it had been an original work, partly copied and partly put into English verse, without asking the consent of, or making a word of acknowledgment in the title or preface to the author." Had Charles Wesley written a preface, or had John edited the volume, reference would doubtless have been made to the work from which the orderly grouping of the passages of Scripture was borrowed. (For full account and for defence of C. W, see Life, ii. 232-4.) It will have been observed, how comparatively careless Charles Wesley was in editing his own hymn-books. "There is not in the English language a volume that, in so small a compass, shows more clearly the Scriptural doctrine on the subject, with its practical importance ; and it has this peculiar advantage, that it proposes the subject, not as a matter of controversy, but of faith and adoration, of prayer, thanksgiving, and praise." — Life of C. W., ii. 235. 139 No.~247. [1768. "In some respects he has excelled his original. He repeatedly asserts the doctrine of our Lord's Divine Sonship, by his omission of which Mr. Jones has much impaired his claim to be considered as teaching the Catholic Doc/rim- o( the Trinity. And he has never lost sight of the experimental and practical bearings of that doctrine. Mr. Jones has an excellent paragraph at the con- clusion of his argument, warning his readers that a sound belief without a holy life will not profit them. But our poet, true to the mission of Methodism, makes experience the connecting link between knowledge and practice, and devotes an entire section of his work to 'Hymns and Prayers to the Trinity,' in which the doctrine is presented in most intimate connection with his own spiritual interests, and those of his reader." — Poetical Works, vii. 204. "Mr. Jones's book on the Trinity is both more clear and more strong than any I ever saw on that subject. If anything is wanting it is the application, lest it should appear to be a mere speculative doctrine, which has no influence on our hearts or lives ; but this is abundantly supplied by my brother's Hymns." — Wesley's Works, xiii. 30. Note. — Extracts from the Letters of Mr. Samuel Rutherford. By the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., sometime Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. i2mo. This is thus given by Jackson in the third edition of Wesley s Works, xiv. 268. He is followed by Osborn and Heylin ; but there is not the least probability that Wesley ever published these letters in a separate volume. 1 [e had inserted them fourteen years before in the Christian Library, vol. xxviii. (No. 131). There is no mention of any such volume in any catalogue from that date to 1825, when they were republished in a small 121110. vol. (London : Kershaw). Jackson would doubtless have this volume before him, the title of which he has copied, altering the name from Rutherfoord, as Wesley wrote it, to Rutherford. He gives neither date of publication, nor number of pages, nor name of publisher. Osborn evidently copied the title from him, and he may have put it under this date as Wesley mentions the Letters in the preface to A Heine's Letters, which were published in this year. There are no words by Wesley in the volume. The letters were extracted from "Joshua RediviVHS : or Three Hundred and Fifty-Two Religious Letters, by the late eminently pious Mr. Samuel Rutherfoord, Professor of Divinity at St. Andrew's. Divided into three parts:" 19th edition, Glasgow : John Bryce, 1 765. 1768. 247. An Extract of the Rev. Mr. John \\'i sley's Journal, from October 29, 1762, to May 25, 1765. Bristol: Printed by William Pine, in Wine Street. 1768. 1 21110., pp. 124. [No. xiii.] Wrongly marked \ii. on title. The special features of this number of the Journal are an account of the separation of George Hell and his party, who had caused Wesley so much trouble and the Societies grievous injury by their wild fanaticism; and of Ond appeal to the clergy, exhorting them to union in the work of Saving souls, but though he wrote to forty Or fifty only three ol ihem replied. Ill addition to the record of sonic ghostly occurrences, it contains a letter of much value on the duty of joining the Society, which might now 140 1768.] Nos. 248-249. appropriately be reprinted and widely circulated ; also an interesting conver- sation between his grandfather, John Wesley, and the then Bishop of Bristol ; and, over and above all, the details of dauntless, unwearied labour during the whole time. 248. The Repentance of Believers. A Sermon on Mark i. 15. By John Wesley, M.A. London : Printed in the year 1768. i2mo., pp. 19. Dated at the end, Londonderry, April 24, 1767. This Sermon was written after he had "employed Monday, Tuesday, and part of Wednesday in speaking severally to the members of the Society" at Londonderry. It is a clear, plain, practical sermon, written with evident care. Pie speaks of " a Repentance and Faith which are necessary at the beginning of the Christian life — a Repentance which is a conviction of our utter sinful- ness, and guiltiness, and helplessness, and which precedes our receiving the Kingdom of God, which is within us. But notwithstanding this, there is also a Repentance and a Faith (taking the words in another sense, a sense not quite the same and yet not entirely different) which are requisite after we have believed the Gospel: yea, and in every subsequent stage of our Christian course." The sermon was designed to show "the mischievousness of that opinion, that we are wholly sanctified when we are justified, and that our hearts are then cleansed from all sin." Wesley had already treated of this subject in his Sermon on The Scriptural IVay of Salvation (No. 230), and in one on Si?i in Believers (No. 218), written "in order to remove a mistake which some were labouring to propagate, — that there is no sin in any that are justified." In the re-awakening of the religious life of the country many extravagances were manifested, which called for much patience and labour in the endeavour to correct them. This sermon was a contribution to the effort. The sermon appeared afterwards in the first volume of the collected Works. 249. A Letter to the Reverend Dr. Rutherforth. By John Wesley, M.A., late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Countess Dowager of Buchan. Bristol : Printed by William Pine, in Wine-Street. 1767, [should be 1768]. i2mo., pp. 23. Dated at beginning, March 24, 1768, and signed John Wesley. This letter was occasioned by the publication in 1763 of Four Charges to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Essex, by T. Rutherforth, D.D., T.Jv.S., Archdeacon, &fc. The first three of the charges are directed against the Methodists, accusing them of ignorance and of despising all learning, and inquiring into their doctrines " concerning inward feelings" and "assurances." Although the charges had been published four or five years before Wesley saw them, he instantly hastened to reply to them when they were brought under his notice. This he does in his usual careful, logical, and precise way, and so as to convince every unbiassed mind that he and his "helpers" had been grievously misrepresented. He then turns round upon the Archdeacon, and inquires if he had "nothing more important wherewith to entertain the stewards of the mysteries of God than the mistakes, if there had been such, of the Methodists, so-called," reading him a very severe lesson on neglecting much more weighty and pressing matters, which he enumerates, and stooping to deal with what was not merely trifling and insignificant, but even mischievous, destructive, and fatal, 141 Nos. 250-251-252. [1768. 250. An Extract of Miss Mary Gilbert's Journal. (Immodicis brevis est Ahtas, et rara Foluptas, dx. — Mart.) Chester: Printed by J. Harvie. 1768. i2mo., pp. 94. Preface " To the Reader ! ' dated Liverpool, April 7th, 1768, and signed John Wesley. Second edition, London: Henry Cock, 176S, pp. 72; London printed : Philadelphia reprinted, 1769; Another, 1772; Third, London : Ilawes, 1779; Fourth, London: Paramore, 1787; Fifth, London: Whitfield, 1799. A Short Account of Miss Mary Gilbert, extending to eight pages, precedes the extract from the Journal. By whom this was written is not stated. It was probably by her father. Wesley says of her reflections, which are very freely interspersed through the Journal, they "are always just, frequently strong and affecting, particularly those on death, or the shortness of life, especially from the mouth of a child. And the language wherein they are expressed, although plain and altogether unstudied, is yet pure and terse in the highest degree — yea, frequently elegant ; such as the most polite either of cur lawyers or divines would not easily alter for the better. Such language I hardly know where to find unless in the almost inimitable Letters of Jane Cooper" (No. 225). And yet this young person died before she had completed her seventeenth year. "While I stayed here (St. Martin's Ash, Chester) I corrected Miss Gilbert's Journal — a masterpiece in its kind. What a prodigy of a child ! Soon ripe and soon gone !"— Journal, April 4, 1768. 251. The Good Steward : A Sermon. By John Wesley, M.A., Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Countess Dowager of Buchan. Newcastle upon Tyne : Printed by J. White and T. Saint. 1768. i2mo., pp. 24. Dated at end, Edinburgh, May 14, 1768. Another, London: Printed in the year 1768; also Leeds: J. Bowling, 1768 ; and Bristol : William Pine, 1768 ; Another, London, 1769. Re-printed in the 4th vol. of the collected Works. This sermon, founded on Luke xvi. 2, was probably preached, as it was obviously written, in Edinburgh. The first edition, therefore, would be that printed in Newcastle, whither Wesley went, passing through " poor, dead Berwick," where he found, however, "a few living souls." lie remained in Newcastle and the neighbourhood for some time. The sermon deals with " the relation which man bears to God,"' as expressed in the word steward. The nature of the Stewardship, its duration, the account to be given of it, and the solemn lessons such considerations afford, are the topics discussed. The subject is viewed in particular reference to the future, Concerning which there are many speculative inquiries, a departure from Wesley's habit But by far the greater part of the sermon is strictly and forcibly practical. 252. An Extra* i from the Rev. Mr, Law's later Works. I Two volumes.] Vol. i. Bristol: Printed by William Pine, in Wine-Street 1768. 121110., pp. 251. Vol. ii., pp, 204. 14a 1768.1 No. 253. These volumes contain Extracts from (i) The Case of Reason , or Natural Religion , fairly and fully stated ', in answer to a book entitled Christianity as Old as the Creation ; (2) Law's Serious Answer to Dr. Trapfis Four Sermons on The Sin, Folly, and Danger of being righteous overmuch (already published : see No. 118); (3) Animadversions upon Dr. Trapp' 's late Reply; (4) Confutation of Bishop Warburton 's projected Defence (as he calls it) of Christianity, in his Divine Legation of Moses ; (5) The Spirit of Prayer, Parts i. and ii. ; (6) The Spirit of Love, Parts i., ii. and iii. ; (7) Mr. Law's Letters ; and (8) Address to the Clergy. There is neither preface nor index. The Extracts are included in vols. vi. and vii. of the collected Works (1772) without any note. That Wesley had a very high regard for some of Mr. Law's earlier writings is well known, and is particularly shown in his republishing the greater portion of his two chief works, A Serious Call to a Holy Life (No. 48), and A Treatise on Christian Perfection (No. 45), to the value of which and his indebtedness to them he bears repeated witness ; and his re-printing two volumes of extracts from Law's later works shows that he likewise thought highly of them. But from the beginning he found occasion to differ largely from some of Law's views. " Meeting now with Mr. Law's Christian Perfection and Serious Call, although I was much offended at many parts of both, yet they convinced me more than ever of the exceeding height and breadth and depth of the Law of God." — Works, i. 99. "I had been eight years at Oxford before I read any of Mr. Law's writings; and when I did, I was so far from making them my creed, that I had objections to almost every page." — Works, viii. 366. And even of the later writings, he is compelled to say to one of his correspondents, " You are more liable to receive hurt from his la'te writings than from any others which I know." — id. xii. 182. Wesley well knew the dangers of Behmenism, which so deeply tinctured Law's writings. " I think the rock on which I had the nearest made shipwreck of the faith was the writings of the Mystics." By publishing these Extracts, Wesley designed to separate the wheat from the chaff. On Wesley's relation to Law, see Rigg's Living Wesley, Part iii. ch. i. 253. An Extract of the Life of the Late Rev. Mr. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians. By John Wesley, M.A. Bristol : Printed by William Pine, in Wine- Street. 1768. i2mo., pp. 274. Second edition, Bristol: Pine, 1771 ; Third, London: Paramore, 1793; Fourth, London : Whitfield, 1800. This is really an autobiography, prepared for publication by Mr. Jonathan Edwards, Minister of Northampton, in New-England. It was first published in this country in Edinburgh, 8vo., 1765. It is mainly in Brainerd's own words taken from his diary, certain portions, in which the editor summarises the account, being placed in brackets. Wesley does not appear to have inserted a single sentence, except the "advertisement," which is prefixed, and possibly one or two of the foot notes. He much prized this memoir, though he found occasion to grieve over some parts, when he read it many years before. " I read the surprising Extract of Mr. Brainerd's Journal. Surely then God hath once more ' given to the Gentiles repentance unto life !' Yet amidst so great matter of joy I could not but grieve at this : that even so good a man as Mr. Brainerd should be ' wise above that which is written,' in condemning what the Scripture nowhere condemns ; in prescribing to God the way wherein He should work," kc— Journal, Dec. 9, 1749. When commending him to one of the members of the Society as a pattern of self-devotion and deadness to *43 No. 254. [1768. the world, he adds, "But how much of his sorrow and pain had been prevented if he had understood the doctrine of Christian perfection ! How many tears did he shed because it was impossible to be freed from sin !" — Works, xii. 268. In the fifth edition of the Large Minutes (1780) it is inquired, " Q. 57. What can be done to revive the work of God where it is destroyed ?" And the answer is: "l, Let every preacher read carefully over the Life of David Brainerd. Let us be followers of him as he was of Christ, in absolute self- devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man. Let us but secure this point, and the woild and the devil must fall under our feet," &c. — Min. Con. i. 579. " Find preachers of David Brainerd's spirit, and nothing can stand before them." — Works, iii. 294. The Memoir is inserted in a slightly abridged form in the collected Works, occupying nearly the whole of vol. xii. The Letters, Reflections, and Observations are in vol. xiii. Wesley there indicates by asterisks those portions of the memoir which he especially commends. 254. Minutes of some Late Conversations between the Rev. Mr. Wesley and Others. Bristol : Printed by William Pine, in Wine-Street. 1768. i2mo., pp. 15. Dated at beginning, Bristol, Tuesday, August 16, &c., 1768. Two questions were seriously considered this year. The first, " Should itinerant preachers follow trades ?" It was concluded that by the succeeding Conference all who had been " concerned therein " could " give up all and attend to the one business." The other question received full attention. It is thus stated, li ln many places the work of God seems to stand still. What can be done to revive and enlarge it?" The answer embraces several highly practical and useful regulations, that even now ought not to be forgotten. Wesley's exclamation is, "O what can we do for more labourers? We can only cry to ' the Lord of the harvest.' " Note. — The Devil of Mascon: or, a True Relation of the Chief Things which an Unclean Spirit did and said at Mascon in Burgundy, in the House of one Mr. Francis Pereaud, Minister of the Reformed Church in the same Town. Translated from the French. The Sixth edition. London : Printed in the year 1768. 121110., pp, 34. It was translated from Pereaud's book by Dr. Peter du Moulin, at the request of Robert Boyle, whose letter to the translator is prefixed, in which he says that the conversation he had with the author at Geneva, where he had opportunity to inquire both into his character and into the meaning of some passages in his hook, overcame all his "settled indisposedness to believe strange things." Du Moulin's reply to Boyle is also inserted. Osborn, in his Outlines of Wesleyan Bibliography \ under this date, gives the . on,- ,,1 Wesley's publications, and appends this note: "Inserted in ind afterwards published in part in Hat Arminian Magatin$. n M not followed by Eieylin ; noi by Smith, Hist, of lies. Met/i., i. appendix n. ; nor by Tyerman. It is very questionable if it should find a plan- here. It was revised and 1 1.) vVi ley, and inserted in the Arminian Maga mm for 178a ; but it l I I 1769.] No. 255. does not appear to have been published by him previously to that date. The edition of 1768 cannot on any ground be attributed to him, even if he allowed its sale at the Book-Room. The whole story is very remarkable. Of those who would not question the veracity of the narrator, few would accept his explanation of the strange things which he records. Wesley's preface to the account, as published in the Magazine, is worthy of reproduction : " With my latest breath will I bear my testimony against giving up to infidels one great proof of the invisible world. I mean that of witchcraft and apparitions, confirmed by the testimony of all ages. I do not think any unprejudiced men can doubt of the truth of the following narrative. The truth of it was in the last century acknowledged by all Europe : against which the unaccountableness of it is no objection to those who are convinced of the littleness of their own knowledge." — Arminian Magazine, 1 782, p. 366. 1769. 255. Advices with Respect to Health. Extracted from a late Author [Dr. Tissot]. Bristol : Printed by W. Pine, in Wine-Street. 1769. i2mo., pp. 218. Third edition, London: Hawes, 1766; Fourth, London: New Chapel, 1789 : These are precisely as the First edition. Fifth, corrected, London : Paramore, 1793, Extracted from Dr. Tissot, added on title-page: Titles of medicines at the end: also Index; Seventh, London: Story, 1801; Eighth, London: Cordeux, 1810, Title-page altered to The Family Physician ; or, Advice with Respect to Health: Including directions for the prevention and enre of acute diseases. Index slightly altered : in all other respects as Fifth edition. It was sometimes sold bound up with the Primitive Physic. The preface, which is Wesley's, is neither dated nor signed. In it he describes Dr. Tissot's book as "one of the most useful books of the kind which has appeared in the present century." He thinks it "speaks a person of strong understanding, extensive knowledge, and deep experience." He praises his humanity, his tender sense of the sufferings of his fellow creatures, and his desire to prevent or lessen them. His descriptions of disease he thinks are truly admirable, and so clearly stated that even common people of tolerable sense may readily distinguish them : his medicines are few, most of them quite simple, and both safe and cheap. He commends the stress laid upon regimen and the avoidance of large quantities of medicine, the repeated cautions against spirituous remedies, the insistence on fresh air, and a fearless exposure of so many vulgar errors. These characteristics were sure to approve themselves to the man who was ever searching for means to alleviate human suffering. But on the other hand, he condemns the frequent recommendation of bleeding; nor does he hesitate to express his disapproval of some of the remedies which were in favour at the time. His reference to medical writings shows how widely he had read upon the subject, and a comparison of the book with Tissot's work indicates with how much care he had prepared this abridgement. He says, "The following pages contain the most useful parts of Dr. Tissot's book : I believe the substance of all that will stand the test of sound reason and experience. I have added little thereto, but have judged it would be of use to retrench a great deal." He adds "(what it would not be so fashionable for a physician to believe, much less to mention), that as God is the sovereign disposer of all things, particularly of life and death, I earnestly advise everyone, together with all the other medicines, to use that medicine of medicines, Prayer''' r 45 Nos. 256-257. [1769. 256. An Extract from the Journal of Elizabeth Harper. London : Printed in the year 1769. 121110., pp. 47. Another edition, same date. The preface " To the Reader ; ' occupies six pages ; it is by Wesley, but not signed. This is the journal of an unlettered woman, who set down in a plain way the feelings of her heart. Wesley taught the doctrine of Christian perfection as contained in the Scriptures and in the practical writings of godly divines, and as exhibited in the lives of many who adorned the doctrine of God their Saviour. He tells us that in order to place in the clearest and fullest light the truth that Christian perfection does not imply a freedom from human mistakes and infirmities, he had " published the following Extract from the artless journal of a plain woman, wrote merely for her own use." It was his painful duty to have to defend his teaching against every kind of objection. In several instances he used the journals of simple folk to rebut error as well as to illustrate the truth. This particular journal was published to show that "giving God all our heart and loving Him with all our heart, and our neighbours as ourselves," which he uses as a definition of Christian perfection, " is well consistent with a thousand infirmities which belong to every soul while in the body." 257. An Extract of Letters by Mrs. L * * *. Bristol : Printed by William Pine, in Wine-Street. 1769. i2mo., pp. in. Brief preface " To the Reader," signed "J. \\\," and the whole inserted in the collected Works. Another, Bristol: W. Pine, 1773 ; London: G. Paramore, 1792 ; Bristol : W. Pine and Son, 1796 ; London : Story, 1S04 ; Dublin : 1808. These letters were written by Mrs. Lefevre, one of the early London Methodists. They were originally published in the year 1757. The editor, apologizing for the inaccuracies which some might find, Stated that they were "not recommended as patterns of polite epistolary correspondence. Their merit," he adds, "is of another kind. It consists neither in the fineness of the language, nor in the elegance of the manner.'' Wesley thinks it does, and says he is not ashamed to recommend them "as patterns ^)i truly polite epistolary coirespondence, expressing the noblest sentiments in the most elegant manner, in the purest, yea, and finest language. Net undoubtedly even the beauty of the language is nothing compared to tin- spirit which breathes throughout. Happy they who both taste hei spirit and are partakers of it." — Preface. John Fletcher's estimate of Mrs. Lefevre and her letters was wry high. He speaks of hei as " a Christian and an eminent Christian, not (,> say one yA' the brightest lights that God has raised since the late revival "i godliness. The reproach Of Christ was her crown of rejoicing, His CTOSS her continual support, Mis followers hex nearesl companions, His example the pattern of her conversation. She lived a saint and died an an^el. bach one of her letters may be a pattern tor Christian correspondents, by the simplicity, edification, and love they breathe in every line. <) when shall I write as she did ! When my heart be as full of God as hen was !" — Loiter to Mrs. (iiynnc, of Shrewsbury, in Works % i. 39, 1 |'» 1770.] Nos. 258-259-260. 258. Minutes of some late Conversations Between the Rev. Mr. Wesley and Others. Leeds : Printed by James Bowling, on the Bridge. 1769. i2mo., pp. 16. Dated, Leeds, Tuesday, Aug. 1, &c, 1769. Matters of special interest in this year's Minutes are : 1. The appointment of Boardman and Pilmoor as the first Missionaries to America, sent by the Methodist Conference in response to the "pressing call" from New York. 2. Arrangements for the more ample provision for the wives of the preachers. 3. An interesting paper read by Wesley to the Conference respecting his fruitless appeal to fifty or sixty of the clergy who believed and preached justification by faith, of whom only three vouchsafed an answer. 4. The adoption of measures for continuing "a firm union" between the travelling preachers in the Connexion, in the event of Wesley's death ; a matter which was brought up again and acted upon in 1773. 1770. 259. A Short Account of the Death of Mary Langson, of Taxall, in Cheshire; who died January the 29th, 1769. (Psalm lxvi. 16, 1 Cor. xv. 55, 56, 57.) Printed in the year 1770. i2mo., pp. 12. One of Charles Wesley's Hymns is appended, " Happy soul, thy days are ended," and a second hymn, " O Thou God of my salvation." Another edition, also printed in the year 1770, not having the passages of Scripture on the title page, or the second hymn appended ; another, printed in the year 1771, (two passages and both hymns) in which the date of the death is erroneously stated on the title-page as January 29, 1771 ; another, Bristol : 1772; London: R. Hawes, 1775 > London: Paramore, 1795. The tract was probably written by Thomas Olivers — one of Wesley's early preachers, and author of the hymn, " The God of Abraham praise," he being in the Cheshire Circuit at the time of Mary Langson's last illness and death, to which mainly the account refers. The second hymn, "O Thou God of my salvation," is also attributed to him on the circumstantial evidence that it first appeared in this tract. It is quite in his style and in one of his favourite metres : see Hymns by Thomas Olivers with Biographical Sketch, by Rev. John Kirk : London, Sedgwick, 1868. The original, revised and slightly abridged by Wesley, was inserted in his collected Works, vol. xiii. 1772. Perhaps that should therefore be regarded as the first edition published by him ; but this must remain uncertain, for there is nothing to show by whom or where the first edition was published. Wesley may have met with the account, or heard of it, and urged its publication when he went on his way "slowly through Staffordshire and Cheshire to Manchester" in March, 1770 : see Journal. For an interesting account of Olivers and a list of his writings, see The Lives of Early Methodist Preachers, by Thomas Jackson, vol. ii., in which a Descriptive and Plaintive Elegy on the Death of the Rev. John Wesley, of eighty-two stanzas, is inserted. 260. The Question, What is an Arminian? Answered. By a Lover of Free Grace. Bristol : Printed by W. Pine. 1770. i2mo., pp. 8. 147 Nos. 261-262. [1770. London: Printed in the year 1770; London: G. Whitfield, 179S ; London: Cordeux, 1817. This little tract was written to explain the meaning of the word Arminian, and 'to point out the difference between Arminianism and Calvinism. The occasion for it is thus stated, " To say, 'This man is an Arminian,' has the same effect on many hearers as to say, 'This is a mad dog.' It puts them into a fright at once; they run away from him with all speed and diligence; and will hardly stop, unless it be to throw a stone at the dreadful, mischievous animal. The more unintelligible the word is, the better it answers the purpose. Those on whom it is fixt, know not what to do; not understanding what it means, they cannot tell what defence to make, or how to clear themselves from the charge And it is not easy to remove the prejudice which others have imbibed, who know no more of it than that it is 'something very bad,' if not l all that is bad."' It shows, as clearly as so few words can, the origin of the use of the term, and the doctrinal difference between those who hold the views it is intended to represent, and those who are distinguished by the term Calvinist. It was w ritten by Wesley to guard himself and his people from imputations that were made by ignorant or malicious persons, who mis-applied this and other terms. 261. The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination Stated and Asserted. By the Reverend Mr. A T . London : Printed in the year 1770. i2mo., pp. 12. Another edition, Bristol: Printed by W. Pine, 1770. In the previous year Toplady had published a pamphlet entitled The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination Stated and Asserted j with a preliminary discourse on the Divine attributes : Translated in great measure from the Latin of Jcrom Zanchius. Of this the above is an abridgement. "An honest and faithful abridgement of Toplady's pretended translation; but the truth is, by divesting the work of Toplady of its cloudy verbiage, the Calvinistic theory was presented in a form enough to horrify every man of reason and religion." — Tyerman. The only words of Wesley in the pamphlet are the first and last paragraphs. At the beginning is this "Advertisement. — It is granted that the ensuing tract is in good measure a translation. Nevertheless, considering the unparalleled modest)- and self-diffidence of the young translator, and the tenderness where- with hi' treats his opponents, it may well pass for an original." The closing words are, "The sum of all is this. One in twenty (suppose) of mankind is elected; nineteen in twenty are reprobated. The elect shall be saved do what they will ; the reprobate shall he damned do what they can. Reader, believe this or be damned. Witness my hand, A T ." This was sure ike reprisals; but Toplady's rejoinder in a Letter to the Rev. Mr. John y, relative to his pretended abridgement ofZanchius on Predestination, is a scurrilous and undignified performat It is one of the many pamphlets which Wesley felt himself called upon to write in opposition to views which he had good reason to believe hampered his work, led astray many of his followers, and were productive ol a wild Antinomianism, than which nothing SO excited his indignation. 262. Some Accouni oi mm. Experience 01 E. J. London: Printed by J. and W.Oliver, in Bartholomew-Close, near West Smithfield, 121110., pp. 1 1 . i.pS 1770.1 Nos. 263-264. Bristol: Printed by William Pine, in Wine-Street, 1770; London: Hawes, n.d. ; London : Hawes, n.d. ; London : Paramore, 1792. A simple, unequivocal testimony to the possibility of attaining and retaining " Christian perfection." In the course of it is this statement : " For these ten years I have enjoyed this haven of rest. It has been to me as a day without a cloud. I never have had a tedious moment, nor a murmuring thought. I have been tempted in all things ; yet nothing obscures my light, or obstructs my way : but still I ' rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing, and in everything give thanks.' " Tyerman suggests that it may be an account of a Mr. Edward Jackson. But it is more likely to be that which Wesley mentions in writing to Miss Bosanquet in this very year, — "The experience of Eliz. Jackson has animated many. It is the very marrow of Christianity ; and if it be diligently spread among our believers, it may be of unspeakable use." — Works, xii. 386. The whole was evidently revised and prepared for the press by Wesley. It is inserted in the collected Works, vol. xiv. 263. A Short Account of Ann Rogers. By John Johnson. London : Printed by J. and W. Oliver, in Bartholomew- Close, near West-Smithfield. 1770. i2mo., pp. 12. Bristol: Printed by William Pine, in Wine-Street, 1770; London: Paramore, 1786 ; London : G. Whitfield, 1798. This is another testimony similar to that of "E. J." (No. 262), communicated to Wesley, and by him published in confirmation of the truth which he taught on the possible attainments of the Christian life. Ann Rogers was a member of the Methodist Society in Dublin ; John Johnson was one of the preachers living there. The former part of the account is a narrative of his visits to her during the last two days of her life, and is dated at the beginning, Saturday, April 8, 1769; the latter part contains extracts from her private diary. Wesley was in Ireland at the time. It is not possible to determine in reference to this pamphlet or the next preceding, which of the two earlier editions was printed first. The order given is probably the right one. 264. Free Thoughts on the Present State of Public Affairs. In a Letter to a Friend. (Periculosce plenum opus alece, &c. — Hor.) London : Printed by J. and W. Oliver, in Bartholomew-Close. 1770. 8vo. pp. 47. Another, same date and publishers, smaller type, l2mo.,pp. 24. This is a patriotic pamphlet, written in response to an urgent request from a friend who desired him freely to express his views on the state of the nation. Excusing himself as being no politician — " politics lie quite out of my province" — he proceeds to set down his " naked thoughts, and that without any art or colouring." Remarking upon the impossibility of the general public knowing with any accuracy the facts of which they form and express their judgment, or the springs of action which give rise to those actions and on which, more than on the bare actions themselves, the characters of the actors depend, he ridicules the idea of every Englishman being a politician, " able to reform the nation, point out every blunder of this and that Minister, tell every step they ought to take, and be the arbiters of all Europe." " I grant," he adds, "every Cobbler, Tinker, Porter and Hackney-Coachman can do this. But I am not so deep-learned : while they are sure of everything, I am sure of nothing, except of that very little which I see with my own eyes, or hear with 149 Nos. 265-266. [1770. my own ears " He defends the King, the M inisters of State, and the Parliament ; and points to hidden causes of the unrest of the nation that lie outside of politics — covetousness, ambition, pride, envy, resentment and other moral delinquencies in the national character, and from these he judges the nation has more to fear than from the faults and errors of its rulers. If Wesley were indeed no politician, he had a clear view of the state of public affairs and good common-sense and high principles of patriotism to guide him in giving the judgments on those affairs, which are contained in these pages. It is inserted in the first edition of the collected Works. In the third edition, it is stated that it was written in the year 1 768 (vol. xi. 14), but Jackson gives no authorities. 265. A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation: or, A Compendium of Natural Philosophy. In three volumes. The Second edition. Vol. i. " These are Thy glorious works, Parent of good," &c. — Milton. Bristol: Printed by William Pine. 1770. i2mo., pp. 286, xxx. 256, 242, x. iv. The first two volumes are a reprint of No. 220, with no other change than the correction of the errata. Vol. iii. is entirely new, and forms an appendix to the several sections of the previous volumes, being a collection of philosophical experiments and observations, each of which is referred to its proper place in those volumes. It appears that when Wesley published his original sketch of Natural Philosophy in 1763 (No. 220), he had no thought or design of ever going any further, or of making any additions to it. But it was so favourably received, far beyond his expectation, that he was encouraged, as he says, in his " leisure hours" (!) to look further into the subject, and to set down from time to time whatever appeared most worthy of observation, and in a second edition to expand the first. But on reflection he judged it would be more useful to the purchasers of the original edition to issue an Appendix to it. The Appendix, however, swelled into a volume, which is so prepared that it may be read either as a separate treatise, or together with the earlier volumes. IIi> wide range of reading is illustrated in the subjects embraced in the volume :— viz., the Structure of the Human Body; Descriptions and Habits of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles and Insects ; the Structure of Plants ; the Nature of Metals, Minerals and Fossils ; together with various phenomena of Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Vapours ; and some account of the Solar System and other branches of Astronomy. The work was afterwards expanded to five volumes : see No. 325. 11 Mr. Wesley's Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation was not intended as a history of the present state of philosophy ; nor as an introduction to the philosophical systems that have prevailed, or do now prevail, though he gives a little sketch of them ; but as a general view of the most useful and remarkable things in natural history, and an illustration, for common use, of the wisdom and goodness of the Creator. Considered in this light, it is well entitled to public approbation ! and the moral reflections it contains are as much distinguished by their justness and elegance, as by their utility. Upon the whole it is the most useful Christian compendium of philosophy in the English language." Life of Wesley by John Whitehead, M.D., ii. 491. 266. A Sermon on the Death of mm. Rev, Mr. George w hi 1 1 1 hi. i>. Preached at the Chapel in Tottenham- < lourt-Road, and at the Tabernacle, near Moorfields, on '50 1770.] No. 266. Sunday, November 18, 1770. By John Wesley, M.A., late Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxon ; and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Countess Dowager of Buchan. (2 Sam. xii. 23.) London: Printed by J. and W. Oliver, in Bartholomew-Close. Sold by G. Keith, in Grace- church-Street ; W. Harris, in St. Paul's Churchyard ; E. Cabe, in Ave-Mary-Lane ; P. Jones, in Tottenham- Court-Road; M. Englefield, in West-Street, Seven-Dials; and at the Foundery. 1770. [Price Sixpence.] 8vo., pp. 32. Reprinted at Dublin, by S. Powell, 1770, in smaller type, pp. 36. Price threepence. Another hymn, " Glory, and thanks, and love," is added to "Servant of God, well done !" which occurs in the first. Text : Numbers xxiii. 10. A hymn, " Servant of God, well done !" is appended. In the Poetical Works it is entitled "An Hymn on the Death of the Rev. Mr. Whitefield." — Vol. vi. p. 316. It was probably prepared for and sung for the first time at the funeral service. At the back of the title-page is printed : "N.B. — This Sermon is entered in the Hall Book of the Company of Stationers." After briefly tracing the principal incidents of Whitefield's life, Wesley sketches his character with the faithfulness of a friend, bears his utmost testimony to the many excellent qualities of this remarkable man, and gathers up the lessons which his useful life affords. He gives prominence not only to his unparalleled zeal and the greatness of his labours, but also to his tenderness to the afflicted and charity to the poor, his deep gratitude to all who were instruments of good to him, and his tender friendship which seemed "the distinguishing part of his character, and which, quick and penetrating as lightning, flew from heart to heart, which gave life to his sermons, his conversation, his letters." He speaks of his modesty, the frankness and openness of his conversation, his courage and intrepidity, his fearlessness of labour and pain, his steadfastness in pursuing whatever he undertook for his Master's sake. He is equally emphatic in his reference to " that torrent of eloquence which frequently bore down all before it ; and that astonishing force of persuasion which the most hardened sinners could not resist ;" and he affectionately refers to the great honour which " it pleased God to put upon his faithful servant, by allowing him to declare his everlasting Gospel in so many various countries, to such numbers of people, and with so great an effect on so many of their precious souls." " Have we read, or heard," he asks, " of any person since the Apostles, who testified the Gospel of the grace of God through so widely extended a space, through so large a part of the habitable world ? Have we read or heard of any person who called so many thousands, so many myriads of sinners to repentance ? Above all, have we read or heard of any who has been a blessed intrument in his hand of bringing so many sinners from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God ?" " I returned to London, and had the melancholy news of Mr. Whitefield's death confirmed by his executors, who desired me to preach his funeral sermon on Sunday, the 18th. In order to write this, I retired to Lewisham on Monday, and on Sunday following went to the chapel in Tottenham-Court-Road. An immense multitude was gathered together from all corners of the town. I was at first afraid that a great part of the congregation would not be able to hear ; but it pleased God so to strengthen my voice, that even those at the door heard distinctly. It was an awful season : all were as still as night : most appeared to be deeply affected ; and an impression was made on many, which one would hope will not speedily be effaced."— Journal, Nov. 18, 1770. Nos. 267-268. [1770. Charles Wesley poured out his sorrow in very fervent and affectionate strains in an Elegy to the memory of his friend : see No. 278. 267. Minutes of some Late Conversations between the Rev. Mr. Wesley and Others. Bristol: Printed by W. Pine. 1770. i2mo., pp. 12. In the Minutes of this Conference the question is asked, — " Q. 28. What can be done to revive the work of God where it is decayed ?'' In the reply is the following. — "6. Take heed to your doctrine. We said in 1744, ' We have leaned too much toward Calvinism.' Wherein?'' To this an extended answer is given (see A/in. Conf. i. 95-6), which was the occasion of a degree of excitement and ill-will, and of the issue of an amount of polemical literature, that are truly astonishing. The discussion extended over a period of six years. It is evident that Wesley judged the Calvinism of that day to be promotive oi Antinomianism ; and he laid stress in the "Minute" on the requirements of the moral law. To argue thus was affirmed by some leading Calvinists, notably the Countess of Huntingdon, and her cousin and chaplain, the Hon. and Rev. Walter Shirley, to favour the doctrine of justification by works. This Wesley utterly repudiated. It has been thought that the Minute which is drawn up in Wesley's usual terse and brief manner, might, as a whole, have been better guarded, and doubtless would have been, had he intended it for popular use and not solely for the benefit of his preachers. But our interest is with the bibliographical aspects of the controversy ; and they are manifold, as will presently be seen. In Appendix " A " to Tegg's edition of Stevens' History of Methodism, vol. ii., 1864, no less than forty-three publications are mentioned as growing out of the "Minute controversy," including Fletcher's "Checks," writings by Toplady, Sir Richard and Rev. Rowland Hill, and others. Dr. Stevens (Hist. A/et/i. bk. v. c. ii.) devotes an entire chapter to "The Controversy," to which readers are referred for an impartial and extended view of " this stormy battle- field." See also Jackson's Life of Charles Wesley, vol. ii., ch. 22. The Rev. John Fletcher resigned the presidency, and Mr. Benson was discharged by its founder, the Countess of Huntingdon, from the Mastership of Trevecca College, in consequence of the attitude assumed by them on the " Minute Controversy." — Life of John Fleteher, pp. 54-8. 268. Minutes of Several Conversation- BETWEEN the Reverend Messieurs John and Charles Wesley and others. London: Printed in the year 1770. 1 2 mo., pp. 60. The Third edition of the so-called Large Minnies. The present number of the Large Minutes is an extension of the previous ones (Nos. 164, 221). The additional matter Consists of regulations made at the intervening annual Conferences. They relate to better methods lor pro- moting the spiritual welfare oi tin- members of the Societies; to the following of trades by the " Helpers," which was to he abandoned ; to the best means lor increasing the personal holiness oi the preachers ; and to tin- definition of the work oi tin- Assistants. Amongsl financial questions, are methods for pro- viding for the wants of the prea< hers and their families, and foi removing the debts that had li.rn incurred. Regulations are introduced respecting th< ..I procedure in the Conferences : ami a deliverance is made on tlie accusation brought against Wesley Ol exerting undue power OVei the preachers and the <5- 1771.] Nos. 269-270. people. The Minute which occasioned the controversy referred to in No. 267 is included. The edition embraces all the general regulations and resolutions of the Conference up to this date, including the important ones made this year. With the other editions it is republished in the revised Minutes, 8vo., 1862. It is a very interesting volume, showing the principles by which the early Methodists were guided in their great evangelistic work. 269. An Extract from Dr. Young's Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. Bristol : Printed by William Pine, in Wine-Street. 1770. i2mo., pp. 241. Second edition (but not so called), London: Paramore, 1794. An unabridged edition of the Night Thoughts, with Wesley's notes, together with a Poem on the Last Day, by Dr. Young, and a Preface by Thomas Jackson, was published by Mason, London, 1840, i8mo., pp. 386; and a "New edition," 241T10., 1863. The preface, signed John Wesley, occupies four pages. Wesley describes his design, in making this "extract," as: — (1) To leave out all the lines that contain childish conceits, that rise into the turgid, the false sublime, or are incurably obscure. (2) To explain words that are obscure to unlearned readers; and (3) To point out the sublimest strokes of poetry, and the most pathetic strokes of nature and passion. Brief explanatory notes are given at the end of each "Night." " In the latter part of this month I took some pains in reading over Dr. Young's ' Night Thoughts,' leaving out the indifferent lines, correcting many of the rest, and explaining the hard words, in order to make that noble work more useful to all, and more intelligible to ordinary readers." — -Journal, Dec, 1768. Jackson, in his preface named above, says, "Mr. Wesley especially recom- mended the book on account of its intrinsic excellence, and beneficial tendency. He published copious extracts of it soon after its first appearance ; and in the year 1770 he reprinted it in an abridged form, with short explanatory notes. These notes are here re-published ; but the poem is given entire. Not a line has been omitted." — p. iv. The Extracts referred to are to be found in volume ii. of Moral and Sacred Poems (No. 58). They are from the first seven Nights of the Complaint (pp. 229-373). There are no notes appended, and the name of the author is not riven. 1771. 270. An Extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Journal, from May 27, 1765, to May 18, 1768. London: Printed by J. and W. Oliver, in Bartholomew-Close. 1 77 1. i2mo., pp. 128. [No. xiv.] Another edition, London: Paramore, 1781. One continuous record of steady, hard work. On preaching in the open-air he makes this reflection, " Surely this is the way to spread religion : to publish it in the face of the sun." — June 20, 1765. The Extract contains a letter by Wesley published in Lloyd's Evening Post. It is in reply to an attack made upon him, in the Christian Magazine, in reference to some expressions in The Character of a Methodist, a publication issued by Wesley in 1742 (see No. 34). " Rusticulus, or Dr. Dodd," gives garbled extracts, and draws unwarranted conclusions from these expressions as to the pretensions of the Methodists. These Wesley in the letter corrects. r 53 Nos. 271-272-273. [1771. 271- A Short Account of John Dillon. Bristol : Printed by W. Pine, in Wine-Street. 1 77 1. i2mo., pp. 12. Another, Bristol : Pine, 1772 ; A Short Account of the Life and Death, &c : London: Hawes, 1777; London: Story, 1805; London: Blanshard, 1817, having the words, "preacher of the Gospel, Written by Himself," added to the title-page. Another simple story of the power of the Divine grace working in the heart of a reprobate, who becomes a happy witness of the full salvation of the Gospel. The whole account, excepting the last sentence, seems to have been written by Dillon himself towards the close of his life. It was probably edited by another hand. It is inserted in Wesley's edition of his works, vol. xxiii. Dillon was one of Wesley's preachers, and laboured in Ireland with much zeal, and amidst many privations. 272. A Letter to the Reverend Mr. Fleury. (Psalm cxx. 7). Dublin : Printed in the year 1 771. i2mo., pp. 16 (?). Dated at the end, Limerick, May 18, 1771 , and signed by John Wesley. I have not seen an original copy of this. Wesley was in Waterford in June, 1769. He had no sooner left than he was attacked from the pulpit of the Cathedral by the Reverend Mr. Fleury. Being there again, and learning that he was to receive like favour, he went to hear ; and he found the preacher to be as good as his word — " You drew the sword, and, in effect, threw away the scabbard. You made a furious attack on a large body of people, of whom you knew just nothing. Blind and bold, you laid about you without fear or wit, without any regard either to truth, justice, or mercy. And thus you entertained, both morning and evening, a large congregation who came to hear ' the words of eternal life.' " Not having leisure himself to wait on his assailant, he sent one of his preachers the next morning, who proposed an interchange of letters. The reply was : " No ; if anything can be said against my sermon, I expect it shall be printed. Let it be done in a public, not a private way." Wesley Says, " 1 did not desire this ; I had much rather it had been done privately. But since you will have it so, I submit." He then proceeds to examine the sermons, replying fully to their grossly inaccurate statements and false conclusions, and he begs his reverend brother, if he further designs to write about the Methodists, first to learn who and what they are. It is a severe and dignified reply, Objections raised against lay-preaching, Wesley answers, M not by anything new, — that is utterly needless ; but barely by repeating the answer which convinced a serious Clergyman man}- years ago." He then inserts the whole of one of his former publications, entitled A Letter to a Clergyman (No. no). 273. A Defence of mi. Minute 01 Conference (1770) Relating to Calvinism. Byjohn Wesley. Printed for private circulation. Dublin: 1771. Dated |uly IO, 1 77 1 . Never republished. *54 1771.] Nos. 274-275. I have not seen a copy of this. It is given on the authority of Heylin in the appendix to Tegg's edition of Stevens' History of Methodism, pp. 777-99, and of Smith's History of Wesley an Methodism, bk. ii. chap. iii. Smith says, " Wesley was in Ireland from March 24th to July 22nd (1771), during which time he appears to have received the circular (Rev. Mr. Shirley's, see No. 267), for he then drew up and printed, at Dublin, under date July 10th, 177 1 , a clear and logical exposition of the ' Minutes ' which had called forth so much opposition. A copy of this printed paper he probably sent to several of his preachers and friends, it would scarcely have been printed but with this object. The one before me has a manuscript note in Mr. Wesley's handwriting at the top of the first page, and is addressed to Miss Bishop, of Bath. In this note he requests her not to 'show it before Conference,' adding, If the Calvinists do not or will not understand me, I understand myself ; and I do not contradict anything I have written these thirty years. Towards the conclusion are the words, ' Poor Mr. Sh.'s triumph will be short.' " Wesley writes of " those eight terrible propositions which conclude the Minutes of our Conference. At the instance of some who were sadly frightened thereby, I have revised them over and over ; I have considered them in every point of view ; and truly, the more I consider them, the more I like them ; the more fully I am convinced, not only that they are true, agreeable both to Scripture and to sound experience, but that they contain truths of the deepest importance, and such as ought to be continually inculcated by those who would be pure from the blood of all men." — Letter in Works, xiii. 21. 274. The Consequence Proved. London : Printed in the year 1 77 1. 121110., pp. 11. Toplady had lately published a pamphlet, an extract from which was issued by Wesley under the title of The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination stated and asserted, by the Rev. Mr. A. T. " (No. 261). It concludes with the words, " The sum of all this is — One in twenty, suppose, of mankind is elected ; nineteen in twenty are reprobated. The elect shall be saved do what they will : the reprobate shall be damned do what they can." It was vehemently objected that no such consequence followed from the doctrine of absolute predestination. Wesley in the present pamphlet says, "I calmly affirm, it is a fair statement of the case : this consequence does naturally and necessarily follow from the doctrine of absolute predestination as here stated and defended." This he proceeds to show in a few syllogistic sentences containing extracts from Toplady's pamphlet. And he closes with the words, " I defy any man living, who asserts the unconditional decree of reprobation or pretention (just the same in effect), to reconcile this with the Scriptural doctrine of a future judgment. I say again, I defy any man on earth to show, how, on this scheme, God can judge the world in righteousness." It called forth a fierce reply entitled, More Work for Mr. John Wesley ; or, A Vindication of the Decrees and Providence of God frotn the defamations of a late printed paper entitled, ' The Consequence Proved.' From this it appears that The Consequence Proved was issued in August, 1771. 275. Minutes of some Late Conversations between the Rev. Mr. Wesley and Others. Bristol : Printed by VV. Pine. 1 77 1. i2mo., pp. 8. Dated Bristol, Tuesday, August 6, 1 77 1. Relates only to the stationing of the preachers and to finance. 155 No. 276. [1771. Joseph Benson was admitted on trial at this Conference, having left the head mastership of Trevecca College, in consequence of his defending the "Minute" of 1770. For the first time America appears in the list of Stations, with the names Richard Boardman, Joseph Pilmoor, Francis Asbury, and Richard Wright, the last two having been appointed at this Conference out of five who were willing to go over and help the brethren who " call aloud for help." The number of members entered for America is 316. Though the printed Minutes for this year are very brief, the Conference is also notable for the step taken by the Calvinistic party, to whom the Minutes of the preceding Conference had given so much umbrage (see No. 267). One portion of these Minutes had led the Calvinists to accuse Wesley of teaching "justification by works." That Wesley held such a doctrine no one familiar with his writings could suppose; but the Minutes on Calvinism were "not sufficiently guarded." Fletcher confesses that " at first they appeared to him to be unguarded if not erroneous." Wesley himself acknowledged the unguarded character of the writing ; and to prevent future misconstruction a Declaration was drawn up which he and the members of the Conference, with one exception, signed. In this document it is affirmed that, the doctrinal points in the Minutes having been misunderstood to favour justification by works, the signatories declare they had no intention to convey such a meaning, and that they abhor the doctrine as a most perilous and abominable one. Wesley did not include this in the printed Minutes of the Conference. It was first published in A Narrative of the principal circumstances relative to the Rev. Mr. Wesley's late Conference, held at Bristol, August g, iyyi : By the Rev. Mr. Shirley : Bath, 1 771 : 8vo. It was afterwards reprinted in A Conversation between Richard Hill Esq., the Rev. Mr. Madan, &V., relative to some doctrinal Minutes, advanced by the Rev. Mr. Wesley and others, t the most useful tracts I ever saw, for those who dc Ire i" be ' Fervent in spirit.' How little do< men's opinions ! What a multitude <>i wrong opinions are embraced by all the members of the Church of Koine ! Yet how highly favoured have many of them I 70 1773.] No. 297. These both appear for the first time in vol. xxiv. of the collected Works, published this year. Together with Instructions for Children, No. 62, also reprinted in vol. xxiv. of the Works, they were afterwards issued together under the title of Instructions for Christians. Many editions were published. One, a beautiful 321110., 14th edition, London : Mason, 1836, is still kept on sale. Instructions for Christians is named frequently in the catalogues ; Christian Reflections and Instructions for Members of Religious Societies do not appear in any, and were probably never printed separately. 297. Select Parts of Mr. Herbert's Sacred Poems. London : Printed by R. Hawes, in Lamb-Street, facing Crispin-Street, near the Market in Spitalfields. 1773. 121110., pp. 32. Neither preface nor signature. The pamphlet contains about one-sixth of The Temple', but on what principle the selection was made does not readily appear. That the poems of "good Mr. Herbert," whom he held to be both "a wise and good man," were pleasing to Wesley is shown by his frequent quotations from them. Osborn is reported to have said, "It is a wonder Mr. Wesley did not abridge the Gospel according to St. John, !f — a remark which one who was so familiar with Wesley's many abridgements, including the Pilgrim , s Progress and Herberfs Sacred Poems, might well be led to make. It does not appear in the catalogues, and was not reprinted. Note A. — Advices with Respect to Health. Extracted from a late Author. 1773. 121110., pp. 30. This is thus given by Osborn, but it presents many difficulties. It is not mentioned in any of the catalogues of the time, or subsequently ; nor is it named in any edition of the Works, or by Heylin, or Tyerman. Nor is it entered in the Inventory of the books on sale at the death of Wesley. The only approach to such a pamphlet that is known is in vol. xxv. of the collected Works, published this year, in which is contained, Advices with Respect to Health (previously published separately — see No. 255), the first thirty pages of which are, in some sense, preliminary — being general advices ; no specific disease is mentioned until after them. It is possible that a few copies of these were printed separately, the numbering of the pages being altered ; or, as is more probable, the same mistake is made with this as with others in the same year, that of entering as separate publications what appeared for the first, or only, time in a volume. Note B. — In this year, nine volumes (xvii.-xxv.) of the collected Works were published. Vol. xvii. contains A Second letter to the Lo7'd Bishop of Exeter in Answer to his lordship's late Letter (No. 154) ; A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Potter (No. 189) ; A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Free (No. 186 — the former of the two letters addressed to Dr. Free in 1758 : the second letter is not included in the collected Works) ; and A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Dowries, occasioned by his late Tract 171 No. 297. [1773. intitled Methodism Examined and Exposed (No. 195). None of these have undergone any change. A Letter to the Reverend Dr. Home, occasioned by his late Sermon preached before the University of Oxford comes next, with the words added "about 1762." Perhaps this is because the original letter had no date either on the title-page or at its close. More than ten pages of quotations from the Appeal are omitted. It is No. 209, and is followed by Some Remarks on a Defence of the Preface to the Edinburgh edition of A spas io vindicated (No. 236). This is omitted from the table of contents at the end of the volume. It is dated at the beginning (but not in the original), Edinburgh, May, 1766. Some slight corrections are made, but there are many errors in the numbering of the paragraphs. A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Ruthcrforth (No. 249) comes next. This is dated differently from the original. It is slightly abridged, and there are a few corrections. Then follows A Narrative of the Work of God at and near Northampton in New-England, Extracted fro m Mr. Edwards's Letter to Dr. Coleman. This was first published by Wesley in 1744 (see No. 54). A few slight omissions are made ; otherwise the original is reproduced without change. The volume also comprises The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God (No. 49), and Thoughts concerning the present Revived of /Religion in New- England (No. 66). Both of these were originally extracted from the writings of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, Minister of Northampton, in New-England. The original extracts have been entirely revised, and consider- ably abridged. Vol. xviii. opens with A Brief Account of a Trial at the Assizes held at Glocester, the 3d of March, 1743, extracted from Mr. Whitefield's Letter (No. 52). In this no change is made in the body of the work ; Wesley's preface is given ; but the hymn entitled A Prayer for His Majesty King George, appended to the original, is omitted. Modern Christianity, Exemplified at Wednesbury and other adjacent places in Staffordshire (No. 72) comes next. The last four pages of this are omitted. They contain Wesley's own account of his treat- ment at Wednesbury. It is given, almost in the same words, in his Journal, Oct. 19-21, 1743. There follow The Case of John Nelson (No. 56, revised and partially abridged) ; A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Baily of Cork, in answer to a letter to the Rev. John Wesley (No. 143, unchanged) ; ami A Letter to the Reverend Doctor Conyers Middleton, occasioned by his late Tree Inquiry (No. 121). This also has undergone n<> alteration. At the end of it is the piece entitled A Plain Account of Genuine Christianity, which was published as a separate pamphlet (see No. 122). The last piece in the volume is .-/ / the Rt verend the Lord Bishop of Gloucester, Occasioned by his tract on the Office and Operations of the Holy Spirit (No. 216). This is inserted entire and without change. Vol. xix. contains A Letter to a Roman Catholic (No. 134), originally published in 1749. It is inserted without alteration; as are also A Roman Catechism : With a Reply thereto, issued in 1756 (No. 179), and the following paper, entitled A Short Method of converting all the Roman Catholics in the Kingdom of Ireland, humbly proposed to the Bishops and Clergy of that Kingdom (No. 156), which is not included in the table of contents. The remainder of the volume is taken up with the following : i. .-/// Extra : rt and Method with the Deists ; Li. ./ Treatise concerning the Godhead of Jesus Christ ; iii. 'J'he Advantage of the Members of the Church of England over those of the Church of Rome ; iv. An Extract of a letter to the Reverend Mr. law, ned by some of his late writings ; \. A Letter to a person lately joined with the people called Quakers t in answer to a letter wrote by him ; \i. A Treatise on Baptism ; vii. A letter to the Reverend Mr. Toogood, of I ned by his dissent from the Church of England fully justified. These form pari 0! A Preservative against Unsettled Notions in Rt N 1. 101), from which tiny are taken without revision or change. Following them is a paper (not from that volume), entitled Thoughts upon infant-Baptism, extracted I late writer. It is No. i.jo, and 1, reprinted without any variation. J 72 1773.] No. 297. Serious thoughts concerning Godfathers and Godmothers closes the volume. It is taken without alteration from the Preservative, as are the first three papers in the following volume. Vol. xx. At the commencement of this volume are the following : The Scriptu?-e Doctrine of Predestination, Election, and Reprobation ; An Extract from a Short View of the difference between the Moravian Brethren (so called) and the Rev. Mr. John and Charles Wesley ; and An Extract from a Dialogue between an Antinomian and his Friend, all taken without variation from No. 191. At the close are the words, "The End of the Preservative." This means the end of the extracts from the Preservative, for in that work there are two other pieces, one of which, A Letter to the Rev. Mr. [Hervey], is not inserted in the collected Works, whilst the other, Reasons against a Separation from the Church of England, is in a subsequent volume. The volume contains besides these the following : A Dialogue between a Predesli- narian and his Friend (No. 24), inserted without change, and Free Grace, a Sermon preached at Bristol. This sermon was preached and published in 1739 (No. 11). Wesley did not include it in any of the collections of his sermons published by him, probably because it was the occasion of the painful separation of Whitefield. In the preface to the original edition he says that nothing but the strongest conviction, not only that what is here advanced is the truth as it is in Jesus, but that he was indispensably obliged to declare this truth to the world, would have induced him openly to oppose the sentiments of those whom he highly esteemed for their work's sake. The preface is not given in this volume. The sermon is inserted as it was at first published, together with the long hymn entitled Universal Redemption. It is followed by Serious considerations concerning the Doctrines of Election and Reprobation, extracted from a late Author (No. 16). It is reproduced with slight verbal alterations only. Se?'ious Considerations on absolute Predestinatio7i (No. 22, unchanged), follows together with Serious Thoughts on the Perseverance of the Saints (No. 153, also unchanged); Predestination calmly considered (No. 155, unaltered, save that one entire section is emitted, being wholly a quotation from another writer) ; The Consequence Proved (No. 274, also unchanged) ; Thoughts on the Imputed Righteousness of Christ (No. 211); A Blow at the Root: or Christ stabbed in the House of his Friends (No. 212) ; and A Sufficient Answer to Letters to the Author of Theron atid Aspasio ; in a letter to the Attthor (No. 183). An Extract of two Discourses on the Conflagration and Renovation of the World, by James Knight, D.D., late vicar of St. Sepulchre, London, is published here for the first time (see No. 293). This completes the volume. Vol. xxi. is a reprint of the work entitled The Doctrine of Original Sin : According to Scripture, Reason, and Experience, published in the year 1757 (No. 182). Only a slight revision of the earlier edition has been made, very few of the sentences being altered, and that but partially : even the dates at which the several sections of the book were written are inserted, as in the original. The latter portion is divided into parts, which is not done in the earlier edition, the many errata of which however are almost all corrected in this. The work requires a carefully prepared synopsis. This edition is reproduced in the third edition of the collected Works, 1829-31. Vol. xxii. contains an exact reprint of No. 264, Free Thoughts on the Present State of Public Affairs, In a Letter to a Friend ; of Thoughts upon Liberty by an Englishman (No. 279), to which is added a single foot-note ; and of Thoughts concerning the Origin of Power (No. 280). These are the earliest of Wesley's political tracts. The first was published in 1770; the last two in 1772. These are followed by Some Remarks on Mr. Hills Review of all the Doctrines taught by John Wesley (No. 283). It is unchanged in any particular ; as is An Extract of Mr. Baxter's Aphorisms of Justification, where however the propositions, 33rd. to the 45th., are wrongly numbered. This was first published in 1745. It is No. 67. Nearly one-half of the volume is occupied with the first part of A Treatise on Justification, Extracted from Mr. *73 No. 297. [1773. John Goodzvin (No. 226). The Preface, " Wherein all that is personal in Letters just published, under the name of the Rev. Mr. Hervey, is answered," is given in full ; but the extract from Goodwin's closely reasoned Treatise is much abridged, one whole chapter being omitted, with portions of several paragraphs. Unnecessary words and phrases have been eliminated, and the whole has been re-edited with care, though it is not accurately printed, one of the chapters is not numbered and another is wrongly numbered, and there are many other errors. Vol. xxiii. commences with the second part of Goodwin's Treatise on Justification, continued from the previous volume. The number of chapters is preserved, but the same number is given to two of them, which with many other instances of the same kind shows the carelessness with which these volumes were printed. This part is abridged and revised similarly to the former. The synopsis of the whole, which appears at the end of Wesley's original work, is entirely omitted. There follows next Reasons against a Separa- tion from the Church of England, first published in the Preservative against Unsettled Notions in Religion (No. 191). It was afterwards expanded by the addition of Charles Wesley's words of approval, and by an appendix of seven Hymns for the use of the Methodist Preachers (see No. 201). The next reprint is The Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice : Extracted from a late author, Dr. Brevint. Wesley issued this in 1745 as a preface to a volume entitled Hymns on the Lord's Supper (No. 83). It has undergone no change. This is followed by An Extract from a Treatise concerning Religious Affections, by the late Rev. Jonathan Edwards, A.M., President of the College of New Jersey, (see No. 294) ; and by Some Remarks on Mr. HUP s Farrago Double-distilled. The former first appeared in this volume, and the latter was published for the first time in this year, (see No. 287). It is inserted without any change. The last piece is A Short Account of John Dillon (No. 271). It is unaltered. Vol. xxiv. begins with A Plain Account of Christian Perfection as ,'. and taught by the Rev. Mr. Joh/i Wesley, From the year 1725 to the year 1773. This was first published in 1 766 (see No. 238). In this volume it has undergone the following changes, — The extract from the Journal of Jane Cooper (No. 225), extending to six pages (92-7), is omitted, also that portion of section No. 25 that follows the answer to question No. 38, (pp. 141-54), in which is a series of reflections, numbered I to 8. This is followed by In- structions for Christians, a re-publication of No. 62, published in 1745, and then entitled Instructions for Children. These Instructions are literally translated from les Principes solides de la religion et de la vie Clin'iienne applique's a V Education des enfant s, by M. Pierre Poiret, a Protestant mystic writer, the editor of Madame Guyon's Works, &c The next two, Christian Reflections, and Instructions for Members of Religious Societies, are both trans- lated from the French (see Nos. 295 and 296). After them appear I'houghis on a Single Life (No. 228, unabridged), and A Letter to a friend concerning Tea (No. 119), which is unaltered. This is followed by The Desideratum: or Electricity made Plain and Useful, Py a LoVi r of Mankind and of Common Sense (No. 202). It is a verbatim copy of the first edition, published in 1760. Vol. xxv. is devoted to Primitive Physic: or An Easy and Natural Method of curing most Diseases. It was originally published in the year 1747 (No. 101), and at the date of the issue of tins volume it had pissed through fourteen editions. Tin- sixteenth was published in the following year. The prefaces, London, June II, 17.17, Bristol, Oct. l6, 1755. and London, Nov. 10, 1760, are given." The whole of the work lias und( I ion. The number of ailments treated 1 1 in< reasi d from 274 as in the thirteenth edition, to 291 ; but the number of remedies is reduced from 939 to 925. A short additional d, dated Aug. 10, 1773. 1 ' under of the volume is occupied with the larger work entitled Advices with respect to Health, Extracted from a lite Author. It is a reprinl of No. J55, without any change whatever, even errors being reproduced, '7-1 1774.] Nos. 298-299-300. 1774. 298. Thoughts upon Slavery. By John Wesley, A.M. London: Printed by R. Hawes, (No. 34) in Lamb-Street, near Spital- Square. 1774. 8vo.,pp. 53. Second edition, London : Hawes, n.d., pp. 28, smaller type; Third, London: Hawes, 1774; Another, Philadelphia, 1774. The evils of slavery are sufficiently appalling to stir a slow pen and to move a cold heart to its denunciation. But Wesley had not a cold heart ; nor did he wield an unready pen. Into these few pages are crowded as thorough a condem- nation of this villainy as could well be put within such limits. To a brief account of the early history particularly of West Indian slavery, begun by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the sixteenth century, is added a description of the countries lying along the African coast for three or four thousand miles, showing the happy, peaceful, and prosperous condition of the industrious, law-abiding inhabitants, before the ravages of slave-hunting and trading began. The origin and the progress of the vile traffic are traced, as far as the space will allow, its horrid barbarity is described, and every attempt at the justification of its unmitigated wickedness is treated with scorn. The brutal cruelties practised in procuring, and transporting the poor creatures, and in their after treatment are fearlessly denounced ; and the perpetrators of them are threatened with condign punishment from the righteous Judge of all. The whole is closed by appeals, exhortations, and entreaties to men, at all risks of loss, to abandon the iniquitous traffic, and to cry for mercy to Him who will not fail to avenge His suffering ones. Wesley was one of the first to denounce the evils of slavery. See an interesting letter on slavery written by Wesley a few days before his death, and a note relating to this tract in the third edition of the Works, xiii. 128; also a letter in The Arminian Magazine, 1787, p. 44. 299. A Sermon, preached at the opening of the New Meeting- House, at Wakefield, on the 28th of April, 1774, by the Rev. John Wesley. Taken down in shorthand, at the time of delivery, by Mr. Williamson, a Teacher of that Art ; and published at the request of many of the hearers. Leeds : Printed and sold by all the booksellers. [Price threepence.] i2mo., pp. 12. The text is I Cor. i. 23, 24. This was not published by Wesley. As the title-page indicates it was taken down in shorthand at the time of delivery ; it has consequently its own special interest as a specimen of what may have been Wesley's method of exte?npore address. The style is very different from that of the written sermons. " On Thursday I opened the new House at Wakefield. What a change is here, since our friend was afraid to let me preach in his house, lest the mob should pull it down ! So I preached in the main street : and then was sown the first seed, which has since borne so plentiful a harvest."— Jourjial, April 28, 1774. 300. Thoughts upon Necessity. By John Wesley, A.M. London : Printed by R. Hawes, (No. 34) Lamb-Street, near Spital-Square. 1774. i2mo., pp. 33. '75 Nos. 301-302. [1774. Dated at the end, Glasgow, May 14th, 1774. Second Edition, London : Hawes, 1775. In a brief address to the reader, which is prefixed, Wesley tells us that he had finished what he had designed to say on this subject, when there fell into his hands an Essay on Liberty and Necessity, published some years before — "a most elaborate piece, touched and retouched with all possible care." This occasioned a considerable enlargement of the Thoughts. Wesley could not, he tells us, believe " the noblest creature in the visible world to be only a fine piece of clockwork." He contends for the freedom of the human will against the old Manichcean and Stoical notions, against the Calvinistic views involved in the teachings of the Westminster Assembly of Divines concerning God's decrees, " whereby, from all eternity, He hath, for His own glory, unchangeably fore-ordained whatsoever comes to pass in time," and against the same views as developed by President Edwards. The last, carried to their logical issues, would, in Wesley's opinion, destroy all morality, in any true sense of the word, making man a mere machine, and leaving no room for judgment on human conduct, or for either its reward or punishment. The theme is thus introduced : — " Is man a free-agent or is he not ? Are his actions free or necessary ? Is he self-determined in acting ; or is he determined by some other being ? Is the principle which determines him to act, in himself or in another ? This is the question which I want to consider. And is it not an important one ? Surely there is not one of greater importance in the whole nature of things." 301. An Extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Journal, from May 14th, 1768, to September 1st, 1770. London: Printed by R. Hawes, (No. 34) in Lamb-Street, near Spital-Square ; and sold at the Foundery, near Moor- fields. 1774. 121110., pp. 112. [No. xv.] Second Edition, London : Hawes, 1775. This extract of the Journal contains a most interesting record of indefatigable labours in travelling, visiting, and preaching in all parts of the country, and for some considerable time in Ireland; also of great diligence in reading in many departments of literature, together with the usual fruitful reflections on books, and men, and events. There is also an entry of a number of Strange occurrences, real or imaginary, such as a "Spiritualist" would exult over, given at seme length, concerning one of which Wesley says, "I proceed to as remarkable a narrative as any that has fallen under my notice. The reader may believe it if he pleases ; or may disbelieve it, without any offence to me. Meantime let him not be offended if I believe it, till I see better reason to the contrary." 302. Minutes of somi late Conversations between the Reverend M r. Wi si i \ and ( )nii rs. Bristol : Printed by W. Pine, in Wine-Street 1774. 121110., pp. 14. . Bristol, Tuesday, August 9th, 1774. To the usual entries are added some practical suggestions, one being " What can hi- done where we have no good leader? A. Let Ihe preacher tly unit the Society ;i^ a class." With a \ iew " t«> lay a foundation for future union,'* a paper, similar to the one presented to the last Conferee -1 by the preaeni 1774.1 Nos. 303-304. 303. An Extract from Dr. Cadogan's Dissertation on the Gout and all Chronic Diseases. 1774. 121T10., pp. 49. So given by Heylin. Osborn also enters it under this date, but evidently, by his precise reference to the Works, with a doubt as to its separate publi- cation. Subsequent inquiry justified this. There is not the slightest proba- bility that Wesley issued it separately. It was prepared for his own edition of his collected Works, which was now in course of publication {vide infra). " I read over Dr. Cadogan's ingenious treatise on Chronical Distempers. It is certainly true that ' very few of them are properly hereditary,' that most of them spring from indolence, or intemperance, or irregular passions. But why should he condemn wine toto genere, which is one of the noblest cordials in nature ? Yet stranger, why should he condemn bread ? Great whims belong to great men."—; Journal, Sep. 9, 1771. " But there is another sort of intem- perance, of which I think Dr. Cadogan does not take the least notice, and yet it is the source of more nervous disorders than even intemperance in food ; I mean, intemperance in sleep; the sleeping longer than nature requires." — Thoughts 011 Nervous Disorders (see Works, xi. 511). 304. The First Part of an Equal Check to Phari- saism and- Antinomianism ; containing i. An Historical Essay on the danger of parting Faith and Works, ii. Salvation by the Covenant of Grace. A Discourse preached in the Parish Church of Madeley, April 18, and May 9, 1773. iii. A Scriptural Essay on the rewardableness of works, according to the Covenant of Grace, iv. An Essay on Truth, or a Rational Vindi- cation of the doctrine of Salvation by Faith. (2 Cor. vi. 7). By the author of the Checks to Antinomianism. The Second Edition. Bristol : Printed by W. Pine, in Wine-Street, 1774. (Price One Shilling and Sixpence.) 12 mo., pp vi. 181. Preface dated, Madeley, May 21, 1774. This must be inserted amongst the many examples of Wesley's skilful use of the pruning-knife. The original work is comprised in 269 pages, 8vo. The following note at the end of the preface reveals his otherwise hidden hand and demands for the book its place amidst the numerous extracts and abridgements in the preparation of which so much of his time and labour was expended. — " N.B. — I have considerably shortened the following tracts ; and marked the most useful of them with a *. — J. W." Note. — In this year the remaining seven volumes (xxvi.-xxxii.) of the collected Works were issued. The first of these, vol. xxvi., commences with An Extract from Dr. Cadogan' 's Dissertation on the Gout, and all chronic Diseases. In a brief "Advertisement " Wesley informs his readers that a "few things in this excellent tract have been censured with some reason;" but that "they are omitted or altered in the following extract." which he therefore recommends " to men of understanding, '77 No. 304. [1774. as the most masterly piece upon the subject, which has yet appeared in the English language." This advertisement is followed by an address " To the Reader,"' in which he dissents from Dr. Cadogan's exaggerated condemnation of all smoked and salted meats, and pickles ; also from the assertion that gout is not "an hereditary distemper," but is the product only of intemperance, indolence or violent passions. For, says he, "I am a living witness to the contrary. Those who know me do not charge me with intemperance in meat or drink. I am not indolent. I never travel much less than five thousand miles in a year, and I bless God I have no violent passions. Yet I have within these thirty years had the gout (of which my father was frequently ill and my mother died) nine or ten times." Neither can he subscribe to the "condemning of wine in general," for Dr. Hoffman shows at large that several sorts "are so far from being unwholesome, that they are some of the most powerful medicines yet known in some very dangerous diseases." And he himself was ordered by Dr. Cheyne, "not the warmest advocate for liquors," to take a small quantity every day, which contributed much to the recovery of his strength. "But," he goes on to say, "it seems we are to make a pretty large allowance for what the Doctor says on this head ; seeing he grants it will do you little or no harm to take 'a plentiful cup now and then.' Enough, enough ! Then it will certainly do you no harm, if instead of drinking that cup in one day (suppose once a week) you divide into seven, and drink one of them every day. I cannot but think if your wine is good in kind, suited to your constitution, ami taken in small quantities, it is full as wholesome as any liquor in the world, except water ; yet the grievous abuse of it which almost universally prevails might easily prejudice a benevolent man against it and make him endeavour to prevent the abuse by forbidding the use of it." He equally condemns Dr. Cadogan's strong "prejudice against so harmless a thing as bread," and what he says "concerning the unwholesomeness of Jlesh throughly roasted or boiled." " But," he adds, "allowing the Doctor is not infallible, allowing him to be mistaken in these and a few other particulars, his general plan is truly excellent. No reasonable man who looks round about him can doubt, but ninety-nine chronical distempers in an hundred are occasioned by one or other of the causes, which he has so judiciously assigned. lie cannot doubt but ninety-nine in a hundred of those distempers which are supposed to be hereditary, are really owing to one of these three causes, intemperance, indolence, or irregular passions." On each of these he makes a few comments, and closes by inquiring for " the cure for either lingering or impetuous passions, that either furiously overturn this house of earth, or sap the foundations of health and life, by sure though slow approaches." Here "the whole materia medica is of no avail." This is "a sickness drugs cannot cure. What can cure it but the peace of God ? No other medicine under heaven. What but that love of God, that sovereign balm for the body as the mind?" Thus he finds opportunity even here for preaching the gospel of peace. It is not a little interesting to observe this man of letters, the head of a great religious movement, finding time to condense a treatise on one oi the evils that afflict a comparatively small number of mankind. It is another instance, added to the many that have already presented themselves, of the breadth of Wesley's sympathies and of his thorough devotion to the best interests, bodily and spiritual, of his fellow men. This is my apology for SO lengthy a notice of this treatise. The work of which Wesley has here presented an abridgement is entitled, A Dissertation on the Gout, and all C onsidered t as proceeding from the same causes ; 1 1' hat those causes are : and a rational and natural method of Cure proposed : Addressed to all Invalids'. By William Cadogan, Fellow of the College ot Physicians: The ninth Edition, London: |. hod ley: 1771, Svo. Wesley's extract is taken from this edition, part of the preface to which, dated Nov. 20, 1 77 1 , is given. Wesley lias adopted his usual method of abbreviation, omitting whatever he thought tO be supeithioiis, 178 1774.1 No. 304. whether paragraph, sentence, or word ; leaving only the plain argument of the writer. This volume also contains A Short English Grammar, an exact re-print of No. 113. One sentence only is added, at the end, "I cannot but subscribe to the remark of a late eminent writer, that in the simplicity of its structure the English far exceeds all modern tongues, and I verily believe all ancient too ; at least all that I have any acquaintance with, Greek and Latin in particular." It is followed by Directions concerning Pronunciation and Gesture, first published in 1749 (No. 125). This is unaltered. The remainder of the volume is occupied with An Extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Journal, from his embarking for Georgia, to his return to London : Number i. first published in 1 739 (No. 13). To this succeeds extract Number ii. extend- ing from February 1, 1737-8, to Wesley's return from Germany (No. 18). These are exact reprints of the original extracts from the Journal. Vol. xxvii. contains Extracts from the Journal, Number iii. from August 12, 1738, to November 1, 1739 (No. 37), and Number iv., November 1, 1739, to September 3, 1741 (No. 53). These are exact reprints, with the sole exception that in Number iv. the hymns entitled The Means of Grace and The bloody issue, which are appended to the original Extracts, are omitted. Vol. xxviii. also contains two numbers of the Extracts of the Journal, v. and vi. , the former extending from September 3rd, 1741, to October 27th, 1743 (No. 120), and the latter (No. 160) from October 27th, 1743, to November 17th, 1746. They are without change. Vol. xxix. contains Extract Number vii., from November 25, 1746, to July 20, 1749, wrongly printed in table of contents, "From November 25, 1756, to July 20, 1751." It is No. 166, which see. From the end of this nearly eight papers are omitted. They begin, " I had now an opportunity of inquiring into the real state of the late transactions at Corke ; an account of which is sub- joined, being the extracts of some papers, which were about this time put into my hands." The pages omitted do not, therefore, relate to Wesley's personal history. Extract Number viii. follows, from July 20, 1751, to October 28, 1754. It is so stated on p. 184, but Number viii. is wholly omitted, the extract given being Number ix., extending from November 2, 1 75 1, to October 28, 1754 (No. 194) — a striking instance of the carelessness with which these volumes are printed. Two long lists of errata occupy a page at the end of this volume. Vol. xxx. This contains two numbers of the Extracts, Nos. 203 and 224. The first extends from February 16, 1755, to June 16, 1758. It is Number x., though here printed ix. The second is called Number x., but is in reality Number xi. It includes from June 17, 1758, to May 5, 1760. They are unabridged. Vol. xxxi. contains Numbers xii. and xiii. (Nos. 240, 247), though called xi. and xii. The first is preceded by Wesley's Address to the Reader, dated London, Jan. 31, 1767. The Extract begins with May 6, 1760, and ends with Oct. 28, 1762. The second begins with Oct. 29, 1762, and extends to May 20, 1765. They are without abridgement. The errata are very numerous. Vol. xxxii., the last volume, completes the Extracts from the Journal up to Sep. 1, 1770. It contains two numbers, xiv. and xv. (Nos. 270 and 301), wrongly numbered xiii. and xiv. They are unchanged. The errors are very numerous. There follows next An Explanation of the Latin Sentences (pp. viii). All the Latin quotations in the several volumes are given, with an English translation beneath each one. These are followed by a compact Index to each volume in order (pp. xxii). It will be seen that although this collection of Wesley's prose Works contains nearly all the original works he had published, it also embraces several volumes, about a third of the whole, of extracts he had made from the writings of others. All the school books, both Latin and English, the Grammars and the Dictionary, the Notes on the Old and New Testament, the Minutes of the Conference, the Large Minutes, with two exceptions only, and the Survey, and 179 No. 305. [1775. other pieces, are all omitted. It cannot, therefore, be called a complete collection of Wesley's Works. It is greatly to be regretted that Wesley had not the opportunity of correcting for the Press, whilst the work was being printed. The mistakes are very numerous. To every volume is appended a list of errata larger or smaller. A second collection of his Works, in 17 vols., 8vo. (of which the last two are bound together, vol. xvii. of 107 pages containing only indexes, though having a separate title-page), was published in the years 1809- 1S13, under the editor- ship of the Rev. Joseph Benson ; and a third in fourteen volumes in the years 1829-1831. This was compiled by the Rev. Thomas Jackson, who had excep- tional opportunities for producing a correct edition. It is beautifully and accurately printed. 1775. 305. A Calm Address to our American Colonies. By John Wesley, M.A. " Ne, pueri, ne tanta animis," &c — Virgil. Bristol : Printed by Bonner and Middleton, in Castle-Green. 1775. i2mo., pp. 24. Other editions, London: Hawes, n.d. ; Bristol: W. Pine, 1775, "A new edition corrected and enlarged," pp. 16 and 8. In this edition a Preface "to the Reader'' and Si Calm Address to American us, by a Native of America, are added, and the twelve sections of the earlier editions are extended to fourteen, the seventh being enlarged and divided into three. Stevenson says the first edition of this pamphlet was published in four pages 4to.,and that it was sold for a penny. — (MS. Note). An agitation amongst the American colonists had thrown the nation into great excitement. The "grand question" debated was, " Has the English Parliament power to tax the American colonies?" Dr. Johnson had written a pamphlet entitled Taxation no Tyranny : An Anszver to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress. Wesley tells us that the reading of this pamphlet had entirely changed his views ; and that as soon as he had r< more light himself he judged it his duty to impart it to others. He therefore extracted the chief arguments, and added an application "to those whom it most concerns." And lie says, " I was well aware of the treatment this would bring upon myself; but let it be, so I may in any degree serve my king and country." — Preface to the so-called new edition. "I made some additions to the Calm Address to our American Colonics. Need anyone ask from w hat motive this was wrote? Let him look round: England is in aflame) a flame of malice and rage against the King and almost all that are in authority under him. I labour to put out this name. Ought not every true patriot to do the same ? If hireling writers on either side judge of me by thenis Ives, that I cannot help."— Journal, Nov. 1 1, 1775. " About a year and an half ago, being exceedingly pained at what I heard continually, I wrote a little tract entitled 'A Calm Address to OUT American Colonies.' But the ports being just then shut up by the Americans I could not send it abroad as 1 designed. However, it was not lost ; within a few months, tifty, or perhaps an hundred thousand copies, in newspapers and otherwise, were dispersed throughoul Great Britain and Ireland.' — A Calm Address to the Inhabitants of Englan "Such, indeed, was the temper of the Americans, that ■ friend to the Methodists got possession of all the copies of the Calm Address which were sent to NV\s Y"ik, and destroyed them, foreseeing the imminent dai I.Sq 1775.] Nos. 306-307. which the preachers would be exposed if a pamphlet so unpopular in its doctrines should get abroad. But the part which Wesley had taken could not be kept secret ; the Methodists in consequence became objects of suspicion, and the personal safety of the preachers was often endangered." — Southey's Life of Wesley, ch. xxxvii. , which see for extended notice of Wesley's political writings. "Another fact which Dr. Clarke told me he received from Mr. Wesley was this : that when he published his Calm Address to the American Colonies, exhorting them to submission, he sent a private letter to Lord North, then at the head of the Government in England, pressing upon him the necessity of moderate counsels, assuring his Lordship, from what he knew of the Americans, that if matters were driven to an extremity, and war actually began, the Americans would assuredly gain their independence, and Great Britain lose some of her most valued colonies. The advice which Mr. Wesley voluntarily tendered was not taken, and the results of which he gave warning all ensued." —Jackson's Recollections of My Ozun Life and Times, p. 246. The letter is given in Smith's History of Methodism, vol. I, appendix E. This pamphlet called forth a number of publications of various kinds. Amongst them were the following : A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley occasioned by his ' Calm Address to the American Colonies? signed " Ameri- canus." To this Wesley appended a reply in the enlarged edition : — A Calm Address to Americanns, by a Native of America. A second publication was called, A Cool Reply to a Calm Address, Lately published by Mr. John Wesley : By T.S. Toplady wrote his unworthy piece entitled, An Old Fox Tarrd and Feathered : By An Hanoverian. Mr. Fletcher entered the lists in defence of his friend, and published a pamphlet of 130 pages having the title, A Vindication of the Rev. Mr. Wesley 's Calm Address to our American Colonies, in some letters to Mr. Caleb Evans. This was followed by a rejoinder of 103 pages by Evans ; to which Fletcher replied in American Patriotism further confronted with Reason, Scripture, and the Constitution. For an extended account of the controversy which this address occasioned see Stevens' History of Methodism, Bk. v., ch. v.; Tyerman, iii. 185-201; Smith's History of Methodism, Bk. ii. , ch. iii. 306. A Sermon on ist John v. 7. By John Wesley, M.A. Dublin : printed by William Kidd, for William White- stone, Bookseller and Stationer, No. $3, Skinner Row. 1775. 8vo., pp. 31. Another, London : R. Hawes, 1776, i2mo, pp. 23 ; Another, London, Paramore, 1782 ; also 1784. On both the latter are the words, " This sermon is not to be sold, but given away." Both entitled On the Trinity ; inserted in Sermons on Several Occasions, vol. v. (No. 397). In the first two editions appears an "Advertisement," dated Cork, May 8, 1775, prefixed to the sermon. In this Wesley tells us that he had been desired to preach on the text ; that on the previous day he had done so, and was pressed to w T rite down and print the sermon if possible before leaving Cork. He says : " I have wrote it this morning ; but I must beg the reader to make allowance for the disadvantages I am under ; as I have not here any books to consult, nor indeed any time to consult them." 307. Minutes of some late Conversations between the Reverend Mr. Wesley and Others. Leeds : Printed by J. Bowling. 1775. i2mo., pp. 12. 181 Nos. 308-309. [1775. Dated August I, 1775. The following curious provision for supplying the places of deceased Trustees occurs : — " Q. 20. Are not many of the Trustees for the preaching-houses dead ? And are not others out of the Society ? A. Let the remaining Trustees for each House meet as soon as possible, and indorse their deed thus (having affixt to it three new stamps :) We the remaining Trustees for the Methodist preaching- House in have this day, according to the power lodged in us by this Deed, chosen and named to be Trustees for the preaching-House afore- said, in the room of . Witness : A. B., <5rY." The classes which contain above thirty members are ordered to be divided. The names of eighty-one preachers are given, who "signed the agreement to adhere to each other, and to the old Methodist doctrine and discipline " (see Nos. 291, 302). The following words are appended : " N.B. We all deny that there is, or can be, any merit (properly speaking) in man." 308. The Important Question : A Sermon Preached in Taunton, Somersetshire, on Monday, Sep. 12 [should be 11], 1775. By John Wesley, M.A. Published at the request of many of the Hearers, for the Benefit of a Public Charity. London : Printed by J. Moore and Co. 1775. i2mo, pp. 23. Dated at end, Bristol, Sep. 30, 1775, when probably it was written out for the press. Text, Matthew xvi. 26. Another, London: R. Ilawes, 1776, pp. 23; another, 1785, " not to be sold but given azvay.^ Monday, Sep. II : " I preached again in the new meeting at Taunton, to such a congregation as I suppose was never there before. I was desired to preach on the same text as at Wellington, and it was attended with the same blessing." — Journal. The entry for the previous day was, " Sunday, 10. I came to Wellington [Somerset] in an acceptable time, for Mr. Jesse was ill in bed ; so that if I had not come, there could have been no service, either morning or evening. The church was moderately fdled in the morning. In the afternoon it was crowded in every corner, and a solemn awe fell on the whole congregation, while I pressed that important question, ' What is a man profited, il he should gain the whole world, and lose his own soul V " For an interesting incident connected with this sermon see Methodist J/\ Dorset-Street, Crispin-Street, Spitalfields, [Price Six pence]. 8vo., pp. 33. Dated at the end, Nov. 7, 1775- Evidently therefore written before delivery. Text, 2 Samuel >cxiv. 17. Anoth< 1, I lOndon, 1 784 | V w 1 Edition, [813 1S2 1776.] No. 310. " I was desired to preach in Bethnal-Green Church a charity sermon for the widows and orphans of the soldiers that were killed in America. Knowing how many would seek occasion of offence, I wrote down my sermon." — Journal, Nov. 12, 1 775. In this sermon, as in many of his writings at this time, Wesley, in strong terms, denounces the sinfulness of the nation, in the calamities of which he sees the righteous judgment of God. In the third edition of the collected Works it is entitled National Sins and Miseries ; but whether by the editor or by Wesley does not appear. 1776. 310. Some Observations on Liberty : Occasioned by a late Tract. By John Wesley, M.A. Edinburgh : Printed in the year 1776. i2mo., pp. 36. Another, London : Printed by R. Hawes, and sold at the Foundry, in Moorfields, and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses in Town and Country, 1776 : i2mo., pp. 36. The Edinburgh edition is probably the first, as Wesley wrote the tract when on his long journey, and he went through Edinburgh before returning to London ; and further the nine errata of the Edinburgh edition are corrected in the London one. The tract which " occasioned " the issue of this pamphlet was written by Dr. Price, a Unitarian minister. It was entitled Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles of Government, and the Justice and Policy oj the War with America. Wesley contends that the liberty desired is not mere liberty but independence. " They claim to be independent of England ; no longer to own the English supremacy." Against this claim Wesley argues with his usual keenness and ability. Dr. Price's tract was highly estimated. It is said to have been considered the ablest work in exposition of the injurious policy pursued by England towards America that had hitherto appeared. In approbation of it the London Common Council presented the author with the freedom of the city in a golden box. " I began an answer to that dangerous Tract, Dr. Price's ' Observations upon Liberty ; ' which, if practised, would overturn all government, and bring in universal anarchy."— Journal, April 4, 1776. In travelling through the country Wesley tells us he diligently made two inquiries — the first concerning the increase or decrease of the people ; the second concerning the increase or decrease of trade. In the former there had been "a very large and swift increase ; " the latter had "amazingly increased." His reflection is, "Such is the fruit of the entire civil and religious liberty which all England now enjoys. "—Journal, May I, 1776. "In his Observations on Liberty addressed to Dr. Price, in answer to a pamphlet of the Doctor's, which did its share of mischief in its day, he (Wesley) contradicted on his own sure observation the Doctor's absurd assertion, that the population of the country had greatly decreased ; he commented upon the encouragement which was held out to the Americans in that pamphlet, and upon the accusations which were there advanced, that the British Government had secured to the Canadians the enjoyment of their own laws and their own religion, for the purpose of bringing up from thence an army of French Papists— for Dr. Price had not been ashamed to bring this charge against his country ! In opposition to the Doctor's position, that'liberty is more or less complete, according as the people have more or less share in the government, he contended, and appealed to history for the fact, that the 183 Nos. 311-312. [1776. greater share the people have in the government, the less liberty, either civil or religious, does the nation in general enjoy. 'Accordingly,' said he, ' there is most liberty of all, civil and religious, under a limited monarchy, there is usually less under an aristocracy, and least of all under a democracy.' " — Southey's Life of Wesley, chap, xxvii. 311. A Seasonable Address to the More Serious Tart of the Inhabitants of Great Britain, respecting the unhappy contest between us and our american Brethren: With an Occasional Word Interspersed to those of a Different Complexion. By a Lover of Peace (Luke xix.41, Phil. iv. 5). Bristol: Printed and Sold by W. Pine. 1776. And sold by all the Booksellers in Town and Country. Price 2d., or 12s. per hund. to those who give them away. i2mo., pp. 18. Second edition, Bristol: Pine, 1776, pp. 24. An earnest and importunate address chiefly to the more serious, but also to the frivolous part of the nation, on the horrors of the fratricidal war in which the nation was engaged. Wesley strongly declaims against war as a means of settling this or any dispute ; and he dwells at some length on the grievous suffering which must ensue from it. "A matter is in dispute relative to the mode of taxation. So these countrymen, children of the same parents, are to murder each other with all possible haste, to prove who is in the right. Now what an argument is this ! What a method of proof ! What an amazing way of deciding controversies ! Now who that seriously considers this awful contest, can help lamenting the astonishing want of wisdom in our brethren to decide the matter without bloodshed ! What, are there no wise men amongst us? None that are able to judge between brethren ? But brother goeth to war against brother ; and that in the very sight of the heathen. Surely, this is a sore evil amongst us ! Oh ! how are the mighty fallen. How is wisdom perished from the wise. What a flood of folly and madness has broke in upon us !" The causes of the war he finds in the conduct of the Government, but especially in the sinfulness, "the universal impiety," of the people, to whom he addresses fervent words of exhortation to repentance, that so the judgment I, as he regards the horrors of the war to be, may be averted, and mercy may Ik- showed to an evil nation. It is as the voice of one of the old prophets denouncing his people's wickedness, and threatening Divine punishments, unless, by timely contrition and the breaking olf of the evil, punishment be escaped, and proffered mercy be accepted. The pamphlet was written some months before its publication, unavoidable circumstances delaying its issue: and, "as things in genera] wore a worse ,;|)l ol six pages was added to the second edition, raising the total to 24 pp. 312. Mini 11 U i\:i CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE Rev. Mi:. Wesley am. others. London: Printed by R. Eiawes, (No. 40), the corner of Dorset-Street, Crispin- Street, Spitalfields. 177''. 1 2 mo., pp. 12. !, London. Tuesday, Augu it 6, 1 770. iX.j 1776.] No. 313. Statements having been made that some of the preachers were " utterly unqualified for the work, and that others did it negligently," they were " examined at large," and, as the result, one was excluded for inefficiency and two for misbehaviour. We learn that "Joseph Bradford travels with Mr. Wesley ; John Atlay keeps his accounts ; Thomas Olivers corrects the press." Regulations were made with a view to prevent (i) sluts from spoiling the houses ; (2) the people from crowding into the preachers' homes, as into coffee- houses ; and (3) the spread of Calvinism, "the grand hindrance of the work of God," which men "swallow greedily because it is so pleasing to flesh and blood, the doctrine of final perseverance in particular." 313. A Concise History of England. From the Earliest Times to the Death of George II. By John Wesley, A.M. In Four Volumes. Vol. 1. London : Printed by Robert Hawes, the corner of Dorset-Street, Crispin- Street, Spitalnelds, and sold at the Foundry, Moorfields. n.d. i2mo., pp. ix. 335, 359, 348, 292, and Index 42. Fourth Volume, only, dated 1776. Preface dated London, Aug. 10, 1775. The principles on which Wesley compiled his History of England are sufficiently explained in the preface. He objects to the histories already written that they relate wholly unimportant incidents — " For instance : it no more concerns us to know nine parts in ten of what is contained in Rapin's History, than to know that on such a day 'a bird dropped a feather on one of the Pyrenrean Mountains ' " — or they are too concise ; or the historians lack judgment, or are biassed by partiality ; or the histories suffer from a further defect, " there is nothing about God in them." These faults he tries to remedy. He makes use principally of Goldsmith, Rapin, and Smollett, "only with various corrections and additions." And "ten thousand dull passages are omitted ; which could be inserted for no other purpose than to enlarge the volume, and consequently the price ; to oblige the bookseller rather than the reader." He declares his wish to be "to habituate the readers of English History to see God pervading the moral as well as the natural world ; to see Him in all civil events, as well as in all the phenomena of nature." " Let there be at least one History of England, which uniformly acknowledges this ; let there be one Christian History of what is still called (tho' by a strong figure) a Christian country." It is a clear, concise record; and as full as the limits of four duodecimo volumes permitted. "At all my vacant hours in this and the following w^eek I endeavoured to finish ' The Concise History of England.' I am sensible it must give offence, as in many parts I am quite singular ; particularly with regard to those greatly injured characters, Richard III. and Alary Queen of Scots. But I must speak as I think ; although still waiting for, and willing to receive, better information."— -Journal, Jan. 27, 1776. A personal friend of Wesley's thus writes : — "In historical compositions Mr. Wesley did not excel. His habit of generalising, and reducing to a few heads, every subject of which he treated, and the too great confidence he had in the authority of his own assertions, when he himself was convinced, in some degree indisposed him to enter into that detail of evidence from facts, so highly necessary to establish a general principle in history and biography. His works, therefore, of this kind have not the same merit as his other compositions." — John Whitehead, M.D., Life of Wesley, ii. 490. An anecdote relating to this book, which is at least curious, rests on the authority of Mr. Thomas Olivers. It is to the effect that, finding he had made 185 Nos. 314-315. [1776. a profit of about ^"200 by the publication, Wesley gave it away in about a week. This is one part of Olivers' answer to Rowland Hill's scandalous assertion that Wesley '"had an eye to profit :" (see Rod for a Revi/er, p. 20). 314. An Extract of the Life of Madam Guion. By John Wesley, M.A. London : Printed by R. Hawes, and sold at the Foundry, in Moorfields, and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses in Town and Country. 1776. i2mo., pp. 230. Frefacc dated London, Nov. 9th, 1 776, and signed John Wesley. Madame Guyon's Memoirs, of which this is an extract, were written wholly by herself. Wesley, in his preface, very highly extols them, but though he judged them to contain abundance of uncommonly excellent things, there were, in his view, several utterly false and unscriptural. He endeavours to separate one from the other. " Such another Life," he says, "as that of the celebrated Madam Guion, I doubt whether the world ever saw. I am sure I never did." He believed her to be not only a good woman, but good in an eminent degree; deeply devoted to God, and often favoured with uncommon communications of His Spirit ; but he thought her far from infallible, and all the more because she held herself to be incapable of being deceived. Her chief error lay in trusting to inward impressions, to inspirations as she called them, and in neglecting the plain guidance of the Word of God. In addition to a careful weeding out of what Wesley judged unscriptural, he placed notes at the foot of the page wherever it was necessary to contradict her opinion or condemn her practice. In these notes the reader is guarded against the errors which are common to most of the mystic writers : yet the Life is worthy of the high praise which Wesley accords it. It is the record of the most resolute struggles of a fervent soul intent upon attaining at all costs a perfect absorption in the will of God, and of the acutest sufferings of mind and body in so doing. " There are many excellent things in Madam Guion's Works ; and there are many that are exceedingly dangerous. The more so because the good things make way for the bad ones. And it is not easy, unless for those of much experience, to dis- tinguish the one from the other." — Letter to Miss Ritchie in Works, xiii. 41. 315. An Account of the Extraordinary Deliverence of Thomas Cross, one of the Bristol-Gazette Newsmen : who was overset in a small boat, crossing the New Passage, on the River Severn, on Sunday, Nov. 6, 1774, in company with seven other persons, who were all drowned. London: printed by R. Hawes, and sold at the Foundry, in Moorfields, and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching Houses in Town and Country. 1776. [Price one penny. | 1 21110., pp. 12. The account wis written by Thomas Cross himself. It appears t" have been edited by another, mosl likely Wesley, by whom also the " Advertisement " .1 may have been written. It is named in the catalogues. It was published at the earnest request <>f many persons, as >( a caution to ,,• who does nol understand managing a boat, not to meddle with anything belonging t» it "it the water." So rai it comes within the so t86 1777.1 No. 316. Wesley's benevolent work ; but it cannot be said there is no doubt as to its having been prepared by him. His usual, though not invariable, plan of num- bering the paragraphs is not observed. Note. — The Saints' EverlastinCx Rest; or, a Treatise on the Blessed State of the Saints in their Enjoyment of God in Glory. Extracted from the Works of Mr. Baxter. London : printed by R. Hawes, and sold at the Foundry, in Moorfields, and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching Houses in Town and Country. 1776. 121110., pp. 442. Another, 1780 (Osborn and Heylin), 121110., pp. 335 ; another, London : Whitfield, 1798. Other editions have always been on sale at the Methodist Book-Room. This book is a very interesting example of Wesley's method of bringing large works within the reach of ordinary readers. The Saints' Rest in its original form, is divided into four parts, containing forty-six chapters, and occupies 328 pages of double columns, folio ; many of the pages being heavily laden with notes and long Latin extracts in smaller type. Wesley reduced the text to less than a fourth of its original size, omitting the whole of part ii., in which is a considerable digression from the subject of the work, also all the marginal notes and the extracts. The remaining thirty-six chapters are compressed to twenty-eight, and a table of contents is added. To anyone who is wishful to understand how Wesley prepared his many handy Extracts of great books, and brought them within moderate dimensions without sacrificing any of their essential teaching, a better exercise could scarcely be suggested than the comparing this edition of the Saints'' Rest with the original. It is only by some such examination that any correct idea can be formed of the extreme care, the patience and labour, which he expended upon the volumes. Although this is mentioned here, being now for the first time issued in a separate form, yet it had been published twenty-two years before in the Christian Library, vol. xxxvii. (see p. 88). The only difference between the two is that in the earlier edition the table of contents is at the end, in the latter at the beginning. As it had been previously printed in another form, it is not numbered. 1777. 316. A Calm Address to the Inhabitants of England. By John Wesley. London : Printed by J. Fry and Co., and sold at the Foundry, near Upper-Moorfields. 1777. i2mo., pp. 23. Second edition, London : Hawes, 1777. The reasons which led to the writing of this tract are thus stated : — " Hearing there was some disturbance at Bristol, occasioned by men whose tongues were set on fire against the Government, I went down in the diligence, and on Tuesday evening strongly enforced those solemn words, ' Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to speak evil of no man.' I believe God applied His word, and convinced many that they had been out of their way. Finding the repeated attempts to set fire to the city had occasioned a general consternation, on Wednesday I opened and applied those words to a 187 No. 317. [1777. crowded audience, ' Is there any evil in the city, and the Lord hath not done it?' On Thursday, I wrote ' A Calm Address to the Inhabitants of England.' May God bless this, as He did the former, to the quenching of that evil fire which is still among as."— -Journal, Feb. 6, 1 777. The character of the pamphlet may be gathered from this extract. Wesley traces the course of recent events in America, and the rise of the rebellion there ; contrasts the perfect liberty, civil and religious, enjoyed in this country with the absence of it there ; and exhorts the people, and especially the religious portion, whether of the Church of England, Dissenters, or Methodists, to prize highly their privileges, and not to speak evil of dignities. 317- A Sermon on Numbers xxiii. 23. Preached, Monday, April 2i, 1777, on Laying the Foundation of the New Chappel, near the City Road, London. By John Wesley. London : Printed by J. Fry and Co., and sold at the Foundry, near Upper-Moorfields. 1777. i2mo., pp. 47. Another, in smaller type. London: printed by R. Hawes. 1777. i2mo., pp. 24. The words of the text, "What hath God wrought," are memorable to Methodists. Since their use on this interesting occasion, they have often been quoted as an acknowledgment of the divine interposition in the establishment and extension of Methodism, both at home and abroad. In the sermon Wesley tells us that Bishop Gibson, of Gloucester, denied that there had been any extraordinary work wrought in England ; and that Bengelius had placed the grand revival of religion in 1S36, because, though "all the prophecies would incline him to place it a century sooner/' yet he did not " know of any remarkable work of God wrought upon earth between the year 1730 and 1740." In the sermon Methodism is regarded as such a work ; ami is considered fust in its rise and progress, and secondly in its nature. The sermon is interesting from the circumstances under which it was preached, as well as from its own character. "Monday, 2, [21, this error is repeated in the subsequent editions of the Journal] was the day appointed lor laying the foundation of the new chapel. The rain befriended us much by keeping away thousands who purposed to be there. But there were still such multitudes that it was with great difficulty I got through them to lay the first stone. Upon this was a plate of brass (covered with another stone), on which was engraved, 'This was laid by Mr. John Wesley on April I, 1777.' Probably this will be seen no more by any human eye ; but will remain there till the earth and the works thereof are burned up." — -Journal. Tlu- error in the date noted above, and in the date said to be engraved on the brass plate— April 1 are both corrected in Benson's edition of Wesley's Works (1S09), ami in Stevenson's History of City- Road Chapel (p. I April 21, the date on which tin- foundation-Stone was laid and the sermon preached, and the date which would appear on the stone. It is strange that ill in the third edition of the Works (iSjot has repeated these errors. "Although Mr. Wesley's intention seems to have been to defend his own m and Societies rather than to give offence to any, yet that sermon was made the source ol a fierce controversy. It had not long been in print when the Rev. Rowland Hill, in defending Independency, published a furious attack on Mr. Wesley under the title of ImpOSturt Detected. To this Thomas Olivers replied in a powerful and caustic pamphlet ol si\ty-four pages, entitled .-/ AW for (i Reviler. Mr. Wesley also wrote and published An Answer to Mr. md Hill's Tract" (No. 320). Stevenson's History of City Road Chapel t ■ r88 1777.1 Nos. 318-319-320. 318. An Extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Journal, from Sep. 2, 1770, to Sep. 12, 1773. London: Printed by R. Hawes, and sold at the Foundry, in Moorfields, and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses in Town and Country. 1777. i2mo., pp. 119. [No. xvi.] Another section of the story of this tireless evangelist's labours. It records the death of Whitefield, for whom Wesley thrice preached a funeral sermon, wishing "in every place to show all possible respect to the memory of that great and good man;" also a remarkable revival of the work of God in Wardale and Everton. It also contains Wesley's definition of the powers, the limited powers of the leaders, a definition rendered necessary by the state of the Society in Dublin. 319. Thoughts upon God's Sovereignty. By John Wesley, A.M. London : Printed by J. Fry and Co., and sold at the Foundry, near Upper-Moorfields. 1777. i2mo., pp. 11. Third edition, London : Hawes, 1777 ; Fourth edition, London : Cordeux, 1817. A brief tract, covering only eight pages of loosely printed matter. Wesley distinguishes between the two-fold character in which God reveals Himself — as a Creator and as a Governor. The purpose of the tract is shown in one sentence, " He will punish no man for doing anything which he could not possibly avoid, neither for omitting anything which he could not possibly do." Keeping this distinction in view, we shall " give God the full glory of His sovereign Grace, without impeaching His inviolable Justice." It was designed as a further defence against Calvinism. "On Saturday I wrote 'Thoughts upon God's Sovereignty.' To a cool man, I think the whole matter will appear to rest on a single point : As a Creator he could not but act on His own sovereign will ; but as a Governor he acts, not as a mere Sovereign, but according to justice and mercy."— Journal, June 14, 1777. 320. An Answer to Mr. Rowland Hill's Tract entitled " Imposture Detected." By John W r esley, A.M. (Cant. viii. 6 ; Jude v. 9.) London : printed by R. Hawes, and sold at the Foundry in Moorfields ; and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses, in Town and Country. 1777. (Price one penny.) i2mo., pp. 12. Dated at end, London, June 28, 1777. Another, London: printed by J. Fry and Co. 1777. Three editions were published this year. The pamphlet of forty pages 8vo. to which this is an answer is entitled, Imposture Detected, and the Deed Vindicated, in a letter to a friend : Contain- ing some gentle strictures on the false and libellous harangue lately delivered by Mr. John Wesley, upon his laying the first stone of his nezv Dissenting Meeting- House near the City Road: By Rowland Hill, M.A. It bears date Wotton Underedge, May 15, 1777. A second edition is dated in the postscript Aug. 19, 1777 : and announces that speedily will be published A Full Refutation of Mr. John Wesley's pretended ' Answer ' to the pamphlet entitled ' Imposture Detected. ' l8t; Nos. 321-322-323 [1777. " Thur. 26. — I read the truly wonderful performance of Mr. Rowland Hill. I stood amazed ! Compared to him, Mr. Toplady himself is a very civil, fair- spoken gentleman. Friday, 27. — I wrote an answer to it, 'not rendering railing for railing' (I have not so learnt Christ), but 'speaking the truth in love." "' — ■ Journal, June, 1777. Wesley rightly complains that in the tract published by Mr. Hill there are several assertions which are not true, and that the whole pamphlet is written in an unchristian and ungentlemanly manner ; he justifies the one complaint and illustrates the other. Thomas Olivers, who wrote a reply entitled A Rod for the Reviler, told Mr. Hill that he might be mistaken for the chief of Billingsgate on account of his manner of attacking Wesley; and so anyone would think who cared to read Hill's unworthy words. 321. Minutes of some late Conferences between the Rev. Mr. Wesleys and Others. Bristol : printed by William Pine. 1777. i2mo., pp. 10. Very brief notes beyond the usual business. The Conference began on Tuesday, August 5, and ended on Friday, "as it had begun, in much love. But there was one jarring string ; John Hilton told us he must withdraw from our Connexion, because he saw the Methodists were a fallen people. Some would have reasoned with him, but it was lost labour ; so we let him go in peace."— Journal, August 8, 1777. As the report had spread far and wide that the Methodist work was now decreasing, Wesley in the Conference particularly inquired into the matter. The uniform answer, he says, was, " If we must 'know them by their fruits,' there is no decay in the work of God among the people in general. The Societies are not dead to God : they arc as much alive as they have been for many years. And we look on this report as a mere device of Satan, to make our hands hang down." — ib. 322. Proposals for printing by sup.scription the Arminian Magazine : consisting of extracts and original treatises on Universal Redemption. 11 I drew up proposals for the Arminian Magazine" — Journal, Aug. 14, 1777. See copy of the proposals in Tyerman's Life of Wesley, vol. iii. pp. 2S1-2. 323. A Short Account OF THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH Hindmarsh, who died Sept. 6th, 1777, in the twenty- first Year of her Age. London : printed by 1\. Ilauvs, and sold at the Foundry, in Moorfields, and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses, in Town and Country. 1777. 1 2 mo., pp. 12. Third edition, London : Ilnwes, 177S ; Leeds: James Bowling, 177S. This is another of the many examples of conversion, and of triumphant Christian death, which Wesley published. It seems probable that Miss Hindmarsh was a daughter of James Hindmarsh, one ot Wesley's preachers, who was stationed in London at this time, The account may bav< 1777.1 Nos. 324-325. written by Mr. Bailey, one of the masters of Kingswood School, who very diligently visited her during the illness, in consequence of which she had gone to Kingswood, where Mr. Hindmarsh was once stationed, and where she died. 324. A Sermon Preached November 23, 1777, in Lewisham Church, before the Humane Society. By John Wesley, M.A. London : Printed by J. Fry and Co., and sold at the Foundery, Upper-Moorfields. 1777. [Price Two- pence.] i2mo., pp. 24. Text, Matthew xxv. 34. Dated at end, Nov. 21, 1777, probably the day on which Wesley finished writing it. Entitled, in old catalogues, Sermon before the Society for the Recovery of drowned Persons. After making some reflections on good works in general, Wesley speaks at large of the special work done by this Society, and closes with a brief application. He appears to have written with ease, and with freedom from all restraint. He quotes six lines from Virgil in Latin, also from Herbert and other poets. He writes thus, " I preached in Lewisham Church for the benefit of the Humane Society, instituted for the sake of those who seem to be drowned, strangled, or killed by any sudden stroke. It is a glorious design, in consequence of which many have been recovered, that must otherwise have inevitably perished/' — Journal, Nov. 2^, 1777. 325. A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation : or a Compendium of Natural Philosophy. In Five Volumes. The third edition, enlarged. By John Wesley, A.M. "These are Thy glorious works," &c. — Milton. London : Printed by J. Fry and Co., in Queen-Street, and sold at the Foundry, Upper-Moorfields, and by the Booksellers in Town and Country. 1777. 12010., pp. 369, 335, 3 6 9, 343, 33 1 - Additional preface, dated March 25, 1775. 4th edition, London : Paramore, 1784 ; "A new edition, revised and corrected," 1809, 5 vols., London: Maxwell e\; Wilson; 6th edition, Dublin : 1810, 4 vols. ; "A new edition, revised, corrected-, and adapted to the present state of science," by Robert Mudie, was published in three volumes in "The Family Library series:" London, Tegg, 1835. The first edition of this work in two vols, was published in 1763 (No. 220) ; the second in three vols, in 1770 (No. 265). The preparation of this enlarged edition must have involved much labour to one so engrossed as Wesley was. He tells us in the preface that he had finished the additions which he designed to make before seeing Dr. Goldsmith's History of the Earth and Animated Nature, the reading of which made him almost repent of having written any- thing on the subject, as the work had been done by one having both more time and more knowledge. The third volume of the second edition consisted of notes on the several topics treated in the other volumes. These are now, with additional matter, incorporated in the work itself, and they occupy the first three volumes and a part of the fourth. The remaining portion of the fourth volume contains an abridgement of The Contemplation of Nature, by M. Bonnet, of Geneva. The 191 No. 326. [1778. fifth volume comprises extracts from Duten's Enquiry into the Origin of the Discoveries Attributed to the Moderns ; an Appendix on the Human Under- standing written chiefly on the plan of Dr. Brown, late Bishop of Cork ; and a Conclusion mainly in the words of the Lord Chief Justice Hale. A brief note on p. 170 is dated London, Nov. 26, 1777. The Introduction and Con- elusion are evidently Wesley's composition. " I will beg you, with all possible diligence, to procure subscriptions for the Philosophy. Spare no pains. It will be the most complete thing of its kind of any in the English tongue. But it is well if I procure as many subscribers as will pay the expense of the edition." — Circular letter to the Assistants, in ITorks, xii. 449. Note. — A Plain Account of Christian Perfection, as believed and taught by the Rev. Mr. John Wesley, from the year 1725 to the year 1777. The Fourth Edition. London : Printed by R. Hawes, and sold at the Foundry in Moorfields, and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching- Houses in Town and Country. 1777. i2mo. Although this is called the fourth edition, an edition had been published since the third, and different from it, in vol. xxiv. of the collected Works, 1773 : see p. 174. fifth edition, London: Paramore, 1785 ; 6th, London: Printed and sold at the New Chapel, 1 789 ; 8th, London : Story, 1801 ; 9th, London: John Jones, 1809; 17th, London: Mason, 1840. This is not, in any sense, an additional work, nor is there anything to distinguish it from the first edition, 1766 (No. 238), except a few verbal alterations. It is the last of several revisions, and the title, as above, is used in all subsequent editions. 1778. 326- A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Maxfield, Occa- SIONED BY A LATE PUBLICATION. By John Wesley, M.A. London : Printed by J. Pry and Co., Queen Street; and sold at the Foundery, near Upper-Moor- fields, and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses in town and country. 1778. [Price One Penny.] 121110., pp. ... Dated at end, February 14, 1 7 7 S . Signed John Wesley. This was a year of trouble. "Never in hi- life," says Tyerman, "was Wesley the subjeel of more infamous press-persecution than in 177S." Many of these publications were of the foulest and filthiest description, and deserved only the rilcnt contempt that Wesley gave them. Maxfield's publication differed wholly from these; yet it contained several erroneous statements and grievous mis- representation , and \\ed<\ felt himself driven publicly to correct them. It must have been a painful sense of duty that compelled him to write as he did lo one OVei whom lie had both rejoiced and wept. Maxlicld was his first lay- preacher. 01 him he could say, "Did yon not eat of my bread and I my house?" He had been Wesley's helper at the foundry, rejoicing to serve him as a BOn in the < rOSpel. Hut fie had come under the inllueiice ol nun who [02 1778.] Nos. 327-328-329. wrought great mischief amongst the London Methodists, and who infilled false views into his mind. Wesley bore long and patiently with him, remonstrating, warning, intreating him, but all to no purpose. For more than fifteen years he was, as Wesley twice wrote, the head and fountain of the evil that afflicted the London Society. That Society he finally divided, drawing away numbers with him to a rival church which he established near Moorfields. Yet, not- withstanding his unparalleled ingratitude, Wesley visited him in his last illness, prayed with him, and even preached for him in his chapel. Tyerman has given an extended account of Maxfield's conduct and of Wesley's treatment of him (ii. 431-441). See also Wesley's Journal for the year 1763. It is in the light of these facts that Wesley's Letter must be read. It is a clear and firm reply, yet written in a calm and even tender tone to a once honoured, but now faith- less friend. 327- A Serious Address to the People of England, with REGARD TO THE STATE OF THE NATION. By John Wesley, A.M. London : Printed by R. Hawes, and sold at the Foundery, in Moorfields ; and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses in town and country. 1778. i2ino., pp. 28. It is addressed to "-Friends and Countrymen/' and is dated at the end, London, Feb. 20, 1778. A postscript occupies four pages. The purpose for which this pamphlet was written is thus stated in the Journal, Feb. 17 : — "I wrote 'A Serious Address to the Inhabitants of England,' with regard to the present state of the nation — so strangely misrepresented both by ignorant and designing men — to remove, if possible, the apprehensions which have been so diligently spread, as if it were on the brink of ruin." In pointing out the real, prosperous condition of the country he makes large use of a paper, written with the same intent, by the Dean of Gloucester ; and he begs the people to be afraid of nothing but of the judgment of God. 328. A Compassionate Address to the Inhabitants of Ireland. By John Wesley, M.A. Belfast : Printed by James Magee, at the Bible and Crown in Bridge-street. 1778. i2mo., pp. n. Written on Saturday, May 9, and dated at the beginning, Limerick, May 10, 1778. "I wrote a 'Compassionate Address to the Inhabitants of Ireland,' through which, as well as through England, the mock patriots had laboured to spread the alarm, as though we were on the very brink of destruction." — Journal. He endeavours to rally the hearts of his "poor neighbours that they may not be frightened to death." He compares the armies of America and France with that of England to the great advantage of the latter. 329. A Call to Backsliders. A Sermon on Psalm 77 : v. 7, 8. By John Wesley, M.A. Dublin : Printed in the year 1778. i2mo., pp. 23. Dated at the end, Sligo, May 20, 1778. T 93 Nos. 330-331. [1778. Second edition, London: R. Hawes, 177S ; 4th edition, London Hawes, 1778 ; Reprinted in Sermons on Various Occasions, vol. vii: 1788, but without the date. It is difficult to determine why Wesley should at this time write a special sermon on this subject. He preached in Sligo on the 19th, and wrote, "Will God revive His work even in this sink of wickedness, and after so many deadly stumbling-blocks?'' But he found, on inquiry, that there had been for some time a real revival of religion there, and that the congregations had increased and the Society nearly doubled. Possibly his attention had been called to the subject by his meeting on the 17th with "one eminent backslider, who had drunk in iniquity like water, who was utterly broken in pieces, and resolved to cut oft" the right hand at once, and to be altogether a Christian."— -Journal. It was written to encourage penitent backsliders not to cast away hope. It is a careful examination of those passages of Holy Scripture which such persons are apt to w rest to their grievous discouragement. 330. A Brief Narrative of the Revival of Relic.ion in Virginia. In a Letter to a Friend. (Psalm cxi. 2.) London : Printed by R. Hawes, and sold at the Foundery in Moorfields ; and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching- Houses in Town and Country. 1778. [Price Three- pence.] i2mo., pp. 35. Third edition, London: 1786; 4th, 1779. The chief portion of this narrative consists of a long letter addressed to Mr. Thomas Rankin, then one of the preachers in America, by the Rev. Devereux Jarratt, a clergyman of the English Church in Virginia, and giving an account of a very remarkable revival of religion in that part of the country. This bears date Sept. IO, 1776. The other part of the narrative is a further account by Mr. Rankin of his visit to Mr. Jarratt. It is addressed to Mr. Wesl dated June 24, 1 7 7 S . It begins, "You have the narrative of the Rev, Mr. Jarratt : I send this as a supplement to it." Dr. Bangs, who found Mr. Jarratfs account "inserted in Mi. Aslmry's Journal, 1 ' and republished it therefrom, speaks of Mr. Jarratt as "a minister of the English Church, who participated largely in that revival, and contributed by his labours to its advancement, by favouring the Methodist preachers, and administering the ordinances to such as desired them." — Hist. Mctli. Efts. Ck. i. 90. 331. Some Account of the late Work of Coo in North Ami km \. in a Sermon on Ezekiel i. [6. By John Wesley, MA. London: Printed by K. Hawes, and sold at the Foundery in Moorfields; and at the Rev. Mr. W'csky's Preaching-Houses, in Town and Country. 1778. [ Price Two pence ] 1 2 mo., pp. 23. lid edition, London : Hawes, 177s : 4th, London : Hawes, 177S; London : < '>. Story, 1788. I of the text are, " The appearance was, as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel." Wesley tells us his purpose was to deal with a few well knoWn the late transactions in America*" Starting with the yeai 194 1778.] Nos. 332-332a. l 736, "when it pleased God to begin a work of grace in the newly-planted colony of Georgia," he traces that work for some time, until its arrest by the increase of wealth in the country, leading to pride, luxury, and other evils. This is one wheel ; the other is the desire for independency, which he thinks is over-ruled "by the justice and mercy of God, first to punish those crying sins, and afterwards to heal them." Each "wheel" is first considered by itself, and then in its relation to the other ; and the discourse closes with a promise of the time of blessing when the one wheel shall have counteracted the other. " Thus we have observed each of these wheels apart : On the one hand, trade, wealth, pride, luxury, sloth and wantonness spreading far and wide, through the American provinces. On the other the spirit of independency, diffusing itself from North to South. Let us now observe how each of these wheels relates to and answers the other : How the wise and gracious Providence of God uses one to check the course of the other, and even employs (if so strong an expression may be allowed) Satan to cast out Satan." However correct the thesis may be, the interpretation of the Scripture that is quoted is exceedingly fanciful, and not in harmony with Wesley's usual method. It is less a sermon than a record of events. In the preface to an edition of Wesley's sermons, published in 2 vols, 1825, edited by T. Jackson, it is said that this sermon was re-printed with a few alter- ations about 20 years after it first appeared. The alterations are retained in the edition named. But in the 3rd edition of Wesley's Works, also edited by Jackson, it is restored to its original form. The alterations were confined to the last paragraph, and were left presumably by Wesley in IMS. The sermon is not in the second edition of the Works. 332. Minutes of some Late Conversations between the Rev. Mr. Wesley and Others. Leeds : Printed by James Bowling. 1778. i2mo., pp. n. Dated, Leeds, Tuesday, August 4, &c, 1778. The following entries appear. — " Q. 19. Is it not advisable for us to visit all the jails we can ? A. By all means. There cannot be a greater charity. . . . Q. 23. Why do so many of our preachers fall into nervous disorders? A. Because they do not sufficiently observe Dr. Cadogan's rules, to avoid indolence and intemperance. They do indeed use exercise. But many of them do not use enough : not near so much as they did before they were preachers. And sometimes they sit still a whole day. This can never consist with health. They are not intemperate in the vulgar sense : they are neither drunkards nor gluttons. But they take more food than nature requires ; particularly in the evening. Q. 24. What advice do you give to those that are nervous? A. Advice is made for them that will take it. But who are they? One in ten, or twenty? Then I advise: — I. Touch no dram, tea, tobacco, or snuff. 2. Eat very light, if any, supper. 3. Breakfast on nettle, or orange-peel tea. 4. Lie down before ten ; — rise before six. 5. Every day use as much exercise as you can bear ; — or, 6. Murder yourself by inches." 332a. Minutes of the Conference. Dublin : i2mo., pp. 6. There is no title-page, or title of any kind ; but only the date, Dublin, Tuesday, July 7, 1778, on the upper half of the first page. This pamphlet is interesting as being the first printed Minutes of the Irish Conference. It was not generally known until recently that the Dublin Minutes for this year had been printed. The first mentioned by Osborn is for 195 No. 333. [1778. the year 1783. A new edition of Minutes of the Methodist Conferences in /re/and (then for the first time published in a collected form) was printed in Dublin in 1864. It was "prepared under the direction of the Conference of 1863, by a committee to whom that duty was assigned." In it a short extract only is given from the English Minutes of the numbers in the Irish Societies ; and the following note is inserted, " It is strange that the English Minutes for this year do not, as usual, give the Stations of the Preachers in Ireland. The reason of this omission cannot now be ascertained." The explanation is that the Irish Minutes for this year had been separately published. This seems to have escaped all observation, for on page 21 of the volume just quoted it is said, " The earliest Minutes of which any printed copies now remain are those of the following year [1783] which were published by Mr. Wesley, and from that date the publication has been continued with one exception [1791] to the present time." There is a copy of the Minutes for 1778 in one of two small volumes of Minutes, formerly in the possession of the late Rev. Samuel Bradburn, now in the Library of the Wesleyan College, Richmond. One subject of great moment was discussed :— " Our little Conference began, at which about twenty Preachers were present. We heard one of our friends at large upon the duty of leaving the Church ; but after a full discussion of the point, we all remained firm in our judgement — that it is our duty not to leave the Church, wherein God hath blessed us, and does bless us still." — Journal, July 7, 8, 1778. "This summer [1778] Mr. Wesley held a Conference at Dublin. The Rev. Edward Smyth (who sometime before had been expelled from a Church in the North of Ireland, for preaching the truth) was now in connexion with the Methodists. He revived the controversy respecting the Church of England, and laboured, with all his might and with manifest uprightness of mind, to persuade Mr. Wesley and the brethren to separate from it. The debate ended by the Conference agreeing to the following propositions, which were afterwards adopted by the English Conference, and published in the [Irish] Minutes. Q. Is it not our duty to separate from the Church, considering the wickedness both of the clergy and of the people? A. We conceive not. 1. Because both the priests and the people were full as wicked in the Jewish Church, and \vt G< d never commanded the holy Israelites to separate from them. 2. Neither did our Lord command Ilis disciples to separate from them, lie rather commanded the contrary. 3. Hence it is clear, that could not be the meaning of St. Paul's words, ' Come out from among them, and be ye separate.' "—A Chronological History of the People called Methodists ^ by William Myles, p. 141, 4th edition. This is nearly a verbatim extract from the Minutes. Myles at this time was a preacher in Ireland, and in all probability was present at the Conference of this year. 333. The Arminian Magazine. Consisting of Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal Redemption. Vol. I. For the year 1778. London: printed by J. Fry & Co. in Queen Street ; and sold at the rounder)-, near Upper- Mm. , 1 ii, ' li \- tOO short ! some magazines are almost as long again \ there are not ,0 many lines in a page by ten 01 twelve, as in the 1779.] Nos. 335-336. Spiritual Magazine.' I answer by confessing the charge. It is undeniably true that it does not contain so many lines, either in prose or verse, as the Spiritual Magazine. And ' Tonson, who is himself a wit, Weighs writers' merits by the sheet.' So do thousands besides ; but I do not write for these. I write for those who judge of books, not by the quantity but by the quality of them : who ask not how long, but how good they are ? I spare both my readers' time and my own by couching my sense in as few words as I can, &c." 1779. 335. An Extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Journal, from September 13TH, 1773, to January 2nd, 1776. London : Printed by R. Hawes, and sold at the New Chapel in the City Road, and at the Rev. Mr. W r esley's Preaching Houses in Town and Country. 1779. 121110., pp. 82. [No. xvii.] This extract contains two letters published by Wesley, one in Lloyd's Evening Post respecting his motives in writing the Calm Address to the American Colonies ; the other in reply to Mr. Caleb Evans in the Gazetteer ; also an account of a very serious (and, as it seemed to his friends, probably fatal) illness, which he suffered in 1775, but from which he recovered in a very surprising manner ; and further an account of his incarceration in the Tolbooth, Edinburgh, on a false charge. The case was tried and the prosecutor fined a thousand pounds. It forms another portion of the record of Wesley's extraordinary labours, not a whit less interesting than any of the preceding portions. 336. Popery Calmly Considered. By John Wesley, A.M. London : Printed by R. Hawes, and sold at the New- Chapel, City-Road, and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching Houses in Town and Country. 1779. 121110., pp. 25. The same in larger type, Dublin : Printed by W. and H. Whitestone, No. 29, Capel Street, 1779, pp. 35; Second edition, 1779, pp. 24; Third, 1779; Another, Edinburgh : 1779, pp. 26. The brief preface, "To the Reader," explains the nature of this pamphlet : " In the following tract I propose, first, to lay down and examine the chief doctrines of the Church of Rome ; secondly, to show the natural tendency of a few of those doctrines, and that with all the plainness and all the calmness I can." In four sections, he treats of the Church and the Rule of Faith ; of Repentance and Obedience ; of Worship ; and of the Sacraments. These are followed by "a few considerations of a more general nature." Tyerman affirms this to be one of the most timely and valuable productions of Wesley's pen. Charles Wesley says he was told that some of the bitterest Calvinists were reconciled to his brother by the tract on Popery. — Arm. Mag., 1789. The occasion of the writing of this pamphlet was probably his receiving information of the spread of Popery (see No. 339). 199 Nos. 337-338. [1779. 337. Minutes of some Late Conversations, &c, at London. Tuesday, August 3d, 1779. Printed by R. Hawes, (No. 40), the Corner of Dorset-Street, Spitalfields. 1779. 121110., pp. 11. A decrease in the numbers of the Society in twenty out of the sixty-one circuits led to the inquiry — '*Q« U- How can we account for the decrease in so many circuits this year? A. It may be owing partly to want ;>f preaching abroad, and of trying new places ; partly to prejudice against the King, and speaking evil of dignities; but chiefly to the increase of worldly-mindedness and conformity to the world. Q. 12. How can we stop this evil-speaking? A. Suffer none of those that speak evil of those in authority, or that prophesy evil to the nation, to preach with us. Let every assistant take care of this." 338. The Armini an Magazine: For the year 1779. Consisting of Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal Redemption. Volume II. London : Printed by Frys, Couchman, and Collier, and sold at the New Chapel, near Upper-Moorfields, and by the Booksellers in Town and Country. Svo., pp. viii. 664, vii. Eleven portraits. The original, or prepared, articles by Wesley are the following : — 1. The Preface. An address " to the Reader," dated January I, 1 779. It is a defence of the Magazine. 2. An Appeal to the Ciospcl for the true Doctrine of Divine Predestination. By John Plaifere, B.I). Concluded from the previous volume. 3. Cod's Love to Mankind^ Manifested by disproving his Absolute Deuce for their Damnation. By Mr. Samuel Hoard. Concluded. 4. The Life of Bishop Bedell. Concluded. 5. The Scripture Doctrine Concerning Predestination, Election, and Reprobation. Extracted from a late author. This is a reprint of a pamphlet published by Wesley in 1741 (No. 27). 6. Thoughts on Salvation by Faith. 7. A Treatise concerning Election and Reprobation : Extracted from a late author. To which the following paragraph is prefixed : — " To the Reader. It is impossible that the Predestinarians should, upon their own principle, have any occasion to blame me for the subsequent pages, since, if every action be the result of an irresistible fate (which it must be, or else their doctrine cannot stand), then an irresistible necessity rendered it impossible lor me to do otherwise than I have done." S. . /;/ A, count of Mrs. Sarah Ryan. Written by herself, but evidently edited by Wesley. 9. The Life of Dr. Donne. Signed J. W. 10. Predestination Cal/uly Considered. A reprint of his own pamphlet published with the same title ill 1 752 (No. 155). 11. The Life and Death of Archbishop I 'slier. Published in a sermon at his funeral in the Abbey of Westminster, April 17. [656. B3 Dr. Bernard. 12. .-/// Extract from the Minutes of a Conference^ held at London, in vst, //7y him : 1. Address to the Reader: dated- Jan. 1, 1; 204 1780.] No. 347. In it he defends the character of the Magazine, and intimates that he has large stores of original and other writings already prepared for future issues. Referring to the chief object he had in view in commencing the Journal, he says, " In the last two years I have published some of the best tracts which I ever met with upon the Arminian controversy, such as I am fully persuaded never were and never will be answered." 2. An Exposition of the ninth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans. Extracted from John Goodwin. This is a carefully prepared extract from Goodwin's well-known work, first published in 1653. It is abridged in Wesley's characteristic way. 3. The Life of Armelle Nicholas. The Life of Armelle was originally written in French by an intimate female friend, and published in two vols., 121110, An extract was published in English, by S. Farley, Bristol, 1772, under the title of Life of Ar?nelle Nicholas , commonly called the Good Armelle ; a poor maid-servant in Erance, who could not read a letter in a book, and yet a noble and happy servant of the King of Kings. Wesley's is an extract from this translation. 4. Fate and Destiny, inconsistent with Christianity : Ln eight Conferences between Epenetus and Eutychus. Extracted from Mr. Edward Bird, by John Wesley, M.A. 5. The Life of Gregory Lopez. This is a further revision of the Life or Lopez prepared by Wesley, and first published by him in the fiftieth volume of the Christian Library (see Note, p. 95). One chapter is entirely omitted, apparently by accident. 6. A Thought on Necessity. 7. An Extract from the Minutes of a Conference, held at Bristol in August, 1780, between Rev. Joint and Charles Wesley and others. 8. An Exposition of the Seventh Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans. Extracted from a late author. 9. Thoughts upon Taste. To these must be added the Accounts of Thomas Lee, Alexander Mather, John Haime, and Thomas Mitchell. They were written at Wesley's request by the men themselves ; but they bear marks of his careful revision. At the end of Mr. Mather's Account is the following, " I earnestly desire that all our preachers should seriously consider ihe preceding Account. And let them not be content never to speak against the Great Salvation, either in public or private ; and never to discourage either by word or deed any that think they have attained it. No : but prudently encourage them to hold fast whereunto they have attained. And strongly and explicitly exhort all believers to go on to perfection ; yea, to expect full salvation from sin every moment, by mere grace, through simple faith." Dated City Road, London, Jan. 5, 1780, and signed John Wesley. Two of the Accounts were published separately — John Haime's (No. 379) in 1785, with an account of his death by Mr. Story ; and Thomas Mitchell's in 1781 (No. 350). _ Seventeen original letters by Wesley, many of them of great interest, are inserted. There are also short hymns by Charles Wesley, and some probably by Wesley himself. 347. Hymns Written in the Time of the Tumults, June, 1780. Bristol: Printed in the year 1780. 121110., pp. 19. No name of author or publisher. Thirteen hymns of various metres ; to three only are distinctive titles prefixed. No. 7 is headed, Upon notice sent one 205 No. 348. [1780. that his house was marked. This is supposed to have been Charles Wesley's own house. No. 12, For the Magistrates ; and No. 13, Thanksgiving. The " Tumults" referred to were the Gordon Anti-Papal Riots. The third hymn was written on the memorable 8th of June, and six days after was enclosed by the author in a letter to his wife, with a brief extract from Virgil prefixed. In the letter, he says : " The roaring of the waves is ceased ; but the agitation continues. If God had not rebuked the madness of the people at the very crisis, London had now been no more. No wonder your mother was terrified, when I was proscribed as a popish priest — for I never signed the petition, or ranked among the patriots." — C. IVesleys /onr/ial, ii. 281. For an interesting account of the circumstances amidst which these hymns were written, and which they so vividly portray, see Life of Charles Wesley, ii. 318-26. 348. A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists. London : Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry. 1780. [Price Three Shillings, sewed.] i2mo., pp. 504, xvi. Preface dated London, Oct. 20, 1779, signed John Wesley. Second edition, London, 1781 ; Third edition, corrected, London, 1782 ; Fourth, London : Paramore, 1784; Fifth, London, 1786; Sixth, London, 1788; Seventh, London, 1791. In these editions were five hundred and twenty-five hymns; one by Herbert, seven by Dr. Watts, one by S. Wesley, sen., one by S. Wesley, jun., two by Dr. Henry More, twenty-seven by John Wesley, and four hundred and eighty- six by Charles Wesley. The Index was revised in the second edition, and Hymn No. 441 was slightly altered ; after which the text remained unchanged during Wesley's life, up to and including the seventh edition. The Methodists from an early period had been richly supplied with hymn- books for use in their various meetings. "It may be doubted," says Wesley, "whether any religious community in the world had a greater variety of them.'' But they were very numerous, and the poor people could not afford to purchase them all. A wide-spread desire at length prevailed forsuch a book as could be generally used in all the congregations in Great Britain and Ireland, one " not too large, that it may be cheap and portable, and not too small, that it may contain a sufficient variety of hymns for all ordinary occasions." Some selections from the various books had already been made, notably Psalms and Hymns (No, 30), Ilynnis and Spiritual Songs (No. 165), which was more used than any other in the public services, and also Select Hymns with Tunes annex: \ . 205). Put not one of these quite met the common want ; and Wesley was at length persuaded to prepare this Collection, which he did with much care and labour. He says of it : — "It is not so large as to be either Cumbersome or expensive: and it i-> large enough to contain such a variety oi hymns as will not soon be worn threadbare. It is large enough to contain all the important truths of our most holy religion, whether speculative or practical ; yea, to illustrate them all, and to prove them both by Scripture ami reason: and this in a regular order. The hymns are not carelessly jumbled together, but carefully ranged under proper heads, according to the experience of real Christ- ians. DO that this book is in effect a little body of experimental and practical divinity." Preface. \ other work published by Wi abject to so many vicissitudes as 'lection of Hymns, No sooner had Wi I away than alterations began to be made by the manager of the publishing house, (i. Whitfield. The 206 1781.] No. 349. eighth edition, 1793, the first published after Wesley's death, was changed in several particulars. The alterations were continued in "a new edition," 1796. In another "new edition" in 1797, the changes were very great. Twenty-four hymns of Wesley's selection were omitted and sixty-five others inserted, two of them being hymns which Wesley himself had designated "doggerel double distill'd." Many other alterations were made. These changes were continued in another "new edition," 1797 ; in another, 1797, slightly altered ; and in another with all the previous faults, 1798." By this time the book was found to be so faulty that at the Conference of 1799 a committee was appointed " to reduce it to its primitive simplicity as published in the second edition." This was done " to some extent, by the Committee then appointed, and has been still further attempted by succeeding Editors, though not with entire success." — Osborn. The third edition was really the book as it finally left Wesley's hands. To that it has never been precisely restored. A new edition, with very slight emendations, appeared in 1800 ; another, 1801 ; another, 1803, in which the task of reducing it to "its primitive simplicity" really began. Many changes were made. In 1804 the 16th edition was issued with further changes ; the 18th, 1805 ; the 20th, 1808 ; another 20th, 1808; 21st, 1808 ; 22nd, 1809 ; new edition, 1809 ; 23rd, 1810; another, 1811; 24th, 1812 ; stereotyped edition, 1812 ; another, 1813 ; new edition, 1814 ; one not numbered, 1816 ; another, 181 7, Index to the verses introduced ; another, 1819; another, 1820; another, 1821 ; also " a corrected edition," 1 82 1 ; stereotyped, 1824 (with portrait, engraved by Fry) ; corrected edition, 1826. In the year 1831 further changes were made, and a " Supplement " was added. Several unauthorised supplements had previously appeared, and some may have been used in the country chapels. The last-named edition was published in many sizes, and continued in use in all the congregations and Societies until the year 1875. Osborn says of it," There is no doubt that the book is on the whole improved for the purposes of general usefulness by such variations from Wesley's text as are now permitted, and which principally consist in additions ; the total number of hymns, exclusive of the Additional Hymns and Supplement, being now five hundred and thirty-nine." — Meth. Bib. Many unauthorized editions of the entire work also were published in different parts of the country, and at different dates previously to 1875, when the original book underwent revision and was published with "A New Supplement." At the same time a fresh copyright was obtained. On the cover of theArminian Magazine for September, 1779, there appeared the following " Proposals for printing (by subscription) a Collection of Hymns For the use of the people called Methodists. Intended to be used in all their congregations. Conditions : I. This Collection will contain about five hundred hymns, and upwards. of four hundred pages. II. It is now ready for the press, and will be printed with all expedition. III. The price is three shillings ; half to be paid at the time of subscribing ; the other half at the delivery of the book, sewed. IV. Booksellers only, subscribing for six copies, shall have a seventh gratis." 1781. 349. A Letter to the Printer of the "Public Advertiser," Occasioned by the late Act passed in Favour of Popery. To which is added a Defence of it, in two letters to the Editors of the Freeman s Journal, Dublin. By John Wesley, M.A. London : Printed by J. 207 No. 350. [1781. Paramore, at the Foundry, Moorfields ; and sold at the New Chapel, in the City-Road ; and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses in Town and Country. 1781. 1 2 mo., pp. 22. This consists of (1) "A letter addressed to the printer of the Public Advertiser' 1 ' (see No. 339). (2) An address ' ; To the Reader," relating to remarks made on this letter in the Freeman's Journal by " Father O'Leary, a Capuchin-Friar, in Dublin," and to other publications by him. This is dated London, Dec. 29, 1780. (3) Two letters to the editors of the Freeman's Journal, dated respectively Manchester, March 23, 1 780, and Chester, March 31, 1780, and both signed, John Wesley. Wesley's first letter raised many adversaries ; but O'Leary was the most conspicuous and the most violent. lie wrote a series of six letters to the Freeman's Journal on Wesley's letter to the Public Advertiser ; Wesley writing two in reply. O'Leary subsequently published his letters with the title Mr. O'Leary s Remarks on the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Letters in Defence of the Protestant Associations in England, to which are prefixed Mr. Wesley's Letters: Dublin, 1780. In the Address to the Reader, mentioned above, Wesley asserts that he had not written "in defence of the Association," and charges O'Leary not only with this mis-statement, but with inserting a spurious letter [signed J. W.] and with omitting both those addressed by him to the Freeman's Journal. He therefore republishes them in this pamphlet together with his original letter to the Advertiser. O'Leary, in a second edition (Dublin, 1781 ), changed the title, but did not insert Wesley's letters or withdraw the spurious one. The whole oi Wesley's pamphlets named above appeared in the Arminian Magazine, May, June, and July, 1 781. '• Wesley had exposed the errors of the Romanists in some controversial writings, perspicuously and forcibly. One of those writings gave the Catholics an advantage, because it defended [or was supposed to defend] the Protestant Association of 1780; and the events which speedily followed were turned against him. But upon the great points in dispute' he was clear and cogent ; and the temper of this, as of his other controversial tracts, was such, that some years afterwards, when a common friend invited him to meet his antagonist, Rather O'Leary, it was gratifying to both parties to meet upon terms of courtesy and mutual good will." — Southey, Life of Wesley, ch. xxx. 350. A Short Account of the Lifi of Mr. Thomas Mitchell. London: Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry, Moorfields. 1781. 121110., pp. 24. This account, written by Mitchell himself probably at Wesley's request, as was the case in many similar instances, is a simple narrative of the earlier years, conversion, labours, and bitter persecutions Of this good and zealous man. In his early life lie was a BOldiet ; but on his discharge he became One of Wesley's rg, and continued so from i;.}S to 17s.}. Wesle] a]. pears to have revised the occounl for the Arminian Magazine (1780), and again more carefully for this issue which is slightly longer than the former, extending to irs beyond it. Dr. Priestley, hearing Mitchell preach on one occasion, said, " This man must do good for he aims at nothing else." In the Minutes of Conference for 1 7 s 5 , in answer io the question, "who have died this u the simple reply, " Thomas Mitchell, an old soldiei ol [esus Christ." 208 1781.] No. 351. 351. The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland. [Two volumes.] Vol. I. London : Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry, Upper Moorfields. 1781. i2mo., pp. vi. 373, 423- Preface, dated Bristol, March 4, 1780. Second edition, London : Paramore, 1793, two vols.; Third, London: Whitfield, 1802; Fourth, London: Cordeux, 1813; Another, Manchester, 1840 ; Another, 1859, edited by the Rev. R. Sinclair Brooke, with a Biographical Preface by Charles Kingsley, "who considered that the reader, in spite of the defects of the book, would learn more from it of what was pure, sacred and eternal, than from any book since Spenser's Faerie Queene." — Chambers's Ency., Art., Henry Brooke. This is an abridgement of The Fool of Quality ; or, the History of Henry ; Earl of Moreland. In Four Volumes. By Mr. Brooke: London, Johnston, Second edition, 1767-70. It was intended originally to publish in four vols., but " the matter grew so upon the writer " that he was obliged to occupy a fifth. Wesley retrenched " at least one-third of what was published in those five volumes, more to the satisfaction of the bookseller than of the judicious reader," omitting a number of uninteresting dialogues, most of the trifling and ludicrous incidents, the remarks upon the feudal government, and "great part of the mystic divinity, as it is more philosophical than Scriptural." He describes the book as " the most excellent in its kind of any he had seen either in English or any other language," its greatest excellence being that it " perpetually aims at inspiring and increasing every right affection, at the instilling gratitude to God, and benevolence to man." "I would recommend very few novels to young persons for fear they should be too desirous of more. Mr. Brooke wrote one more (besides the ' Earl of Moreland'), ' The History of the Human Heart.' I think it well worth reading; though it is not equal to his former production. The want of novels may be supplied by well-chosen histories." — Wesley, let. to Miss Bishop, in Works, xiii. 137. The Fool of Quality was written by Mr. Councillor Henry Brooke, whose nephew, Mr. Henry Brooke, artist, was 'a devoted Methodist in Dublin, a personal friend and correspondent of Wesley and Fletcher. He has some- times been mistaken for the author. Jackson appears to have made this error — ■ see Index to Wesley's Works. Wesley does not mention the author's name either on the title-page or in the preface ; and he has been held to have committed an act of piracy in publishing the work without acknowledgement. But that he prepared the work with the full concurrence of the author is shown by the following extract from a letter addressed to Wesley by Mr. Henry Brooke, and inserted in the Arminian Magazine, 1 787, pp. 160, 161. "My uncle is deeply sensible of your very kind offer, and most cordially embraces it. He desires me to express the warmth of his gratitude in the strongest terms, and says he most cheerfully yields the volumes you mention to your superior judgment, to prune, erase and alter as you please. He only wishes they could have had your eye before they appeared in public. But it is not yet too late. A second edition will appear with great advantage when they have undergone so kind a revisal. But he is apprehensive your time is so precious, that it may be too great an intrusion upon it, unless made a work of leisure and opportunity. Yet as you have proferred it, he will not give up the privilege, but hope leisure may be found for so friendly and generous a work," 209 Nos. 352-353. [1781. 352. An Extract from a Reply to the Observations of Lieut. Gen. Sir William Howe, on a Pamphlet i mttled, Letters to a Nobleman. London: Printed by J. Paramore, Foundry, Upper-Moorfields ; and sold at the Rev. Air. Wesley's New Chapel, in the City Road; and at all his Preaching-Houses in Town and Country. 1781. i2mo. pp., 104. The Reply from which this Extract was taken was written by the author of Letters to a Nobleman, presumably Mr. Galloway. In his Observations on the Letters, Sir William defends himself, and, assuming Mr. Galloway to be the author of the letters, takes occasion to cast serious reflections upon him. The Reply is anonymous, as were the Letters. An Appendix (p. 91) contains a letter to Sir William defending Mr. Galloway, signed " The Author" (of the Reply) and dated November 10, 1780; also a letter from Samuel Kirk to Sir William and his reply ; and a letter from the " Committee of Congress" to the President. These relate to the war. Appended to the whole on two unnumbered pages is a letter " From the Rev. Mr. Wesley to a Friend, concerning a passage in a Monthly Review,'''' re-published in Works, xiii. 349, 350. In this Wesley criticises the comments of the Review on Sir William's vindication in which it is stated that " Mr. Galloway's book is here answered paragraph by paragraph." To this and other assertions Wesley replies, affirming that not "any one paragraph of Mr. Galloway's book" has been answered in a satisfactory manner, and further defending Mr. Galloway's character. The letter is dated, City Road, Jan. 25, 1781, and signed John We. ley. On page 82 of the Extract, the author of the Reply acquits the General from the charge of mercenary motives in procrastinating the war. A foot-note says, " The editor of this extract cannot. He fears the enjoying of his immense appointment was one motive of his delays." It is uncertain if the other notes, chiefly references, are by Wesley. 353. An Extract of a Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount H * * e on his Naval Conduct in the American War. London : Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry, Moorfields ; and sold at the Rev. Mr, Wesley's New Chapel, in the City Road, and at all his Preaching-Houses in Town and Country. 1781. 121110., pp. 27. ad edition, London : Paramore, 17S1, precisely as the first. The letter, of which this is an extract, is signed, ''The Friend of your Country." It was evidently mitten by a person having full knowledge oi the circumstances of the war, OI that part of the country where it was carried on, and of the sentiments of the American people respecting it. It contains r heavy indictmenl ol Lord Howe. The writer charges him with an indolence and inactivity that could not he justified. He declares that Lord Howe neglected both parts of his high commission, neither seeking to settle amicably in dispute betwi G Britain and her Colonies, as he was | to do, and for the success of which there were good grounds of hope ; nor attempting with his greatly superior force any naval expedition, not even blocking the ports, which the writer affirms could easily have been done with 210 1781.] Nos. 354-355. one sixth part of the means at Lord Howe's command. The Letter is very ably written : and though motives are fearlessly exposed, it is entirely free from rancour. Very little is said by any of Wesley's biographers concerning his publications on the war. The great event of his ordination of ministers for the American Churches seems to have drawn all attention to itself. 354. Minutes of some Late Conversations between the Rev. Mr. John Wesley and Others. Leeds : Printed by James Bowling. 1781. i2mo., pp. 11. Dated Leeds, Tuesday, August 7, &c, 1781. ' ' About 70 preachers were present, all expressly invited by Wesley (Journal, Aug. 7, 1781). Nine candidates were received on trial ; fourteen probationers were admitted to membership ; two preachers desisted from travelling ; two had died since the preceding session ; one hundred and seventy-eight received appointments, including Wesley and Fletcher, the name of the latter appearing for the first time on the roll, probably for the reason that Wesley was now hoping to secure the Madeley Vicar as his successor in the event of his own death." — Stevens, Hist. Meth. bk v. ch. x. The question of erecting a school for preachers' children in Vorkshire was considered and the brefhren were instructed to think of a place and a master, and to send Mr. Wesley word. " Q. 25. Have not our preachers printed anything without my consent and correction ? A. Several of them have (not at all to the honour of the Methodists) both in verse and prose. This has : 1. Brought a great reproach ; 2. Much hindered the spreading of more profitable books. Therefore we all agree, 3. That no preacher print or reprint anything for the time to come, till it is corrected by Mr. W. ; and, 4. That the profits thereof shall go into the common stock." 355. A Concise Ecclesiastical History, from the Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the present Century. In Four Volumes. Vol. I. London : Printed by J. Paramore at the Foundry, Moorfields; and sold at the New Chapel in the City-Road ; and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses in Town and Country. 1781. 121x10., PP- 347, 3 l6 > 33 2 , 35 8 - The first volume contains Preface and Introduction, and the fourth an Index to the whole, pp. 76. We are informed in the Preface that the author for many years had been earnestly importuned to compile and publish an ecclesiastical history. For this, however, he had not time. "Abridging," he says, " I might possibly have found time for ; but I knew no History of the Church worth abridging, till a few years since, a worthy man presented me with one, published thirty or forty years ago, by Dr. John Lawrence Mosheim, Chancellor of the University of Gottingen. This I read at leisure with the greatest attention, and it partly answered my expectations. Much of what was wanting in Mr. Echard, his vast learning and unwearied industry supplied. And he is not a dull writer. Much of his History is as 211 No. 356. [1781. lively as the nature of the subject will bear. But what is all this to the English reader? Dr. Mosheim writes in Latin." A translation by Dr. A. Machine "performed some years since in an accurate manner, with the addition of many notes," cost thirty shillings. Neither of these perfectly met Wesley's wish. He objected that nine parts in ten relating to heresies were neither instructive nor entertaining, that the views given of the internal state of the Church were unsatisfactory, and that the style was verbose. He accuses both author and translator with not rendering justice either to the transactions which they relate, or to the characters of many truly good men. The entire work is reduced to the compass of less than four volumes of duodecimo. It is therefore, necessarily, a mere sketch ; but as far as it goes, it is clear and adequate. Each century is dealt with separately, and in two parts, the External and the Internal History. The whole is divided into four books, embracing four remarkable periods ; the first, from the rise of the Church to the time of Constantine the Great ; the second to the reign of Charlemagne ; the third to the time of Luther ; and the fourth to the Eighteenth Century. The history of the fourth period is written at greater length. Each book is divided into chapters, and each chapter into numbered paragraphs. A good index is added. A Short History of the People called Methodists is appended, extending to 113 pages. It is mostly extracted from Wesley's Journals, as they appear in the collected Works, to the volumes and pages of which references are made in foot-notes. It is written in the first person, and is dated at the end, London, November 16, 1781, but not signed. It is not the same as A Short History of Methodism, already named : see No. 229. Wesley's name does not appear on the title-page, or at the end of the preface. 356. The Arminian Magazine for the Year 1781. Consist- ing of Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal Redemption. Volume IV. London : Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry, Moorfields ; and sold at the New Chapel, City-Road, and by all the Booksellers in Town and Country. 8vo., pp. 680, viii. The following are the original or extracted articles : — 1. The Preface is signed London, January 1, 17S1. Speaking of his hope that the magazine may maintain its character, Wesley says, " There i-^ no danger that I should write myself out, that I should ever exhaust my stock of materials, as I have still by me a large number of compositions both in verse and prose, the greatest part of which never yet saw the light, nor probably ever would have done had they not been brought OUt of obscurity by the present publication. Add to this that I have had for many years, and have at this day, a greater number of pious correspondents, than any person in England, or perhaps in Europe." IK- proposes to make a few changes in the contents ; and confesses thai many of the portraits are not such as he desired. In this opinion many persons will agree with him. Hut lie promises, u I will have better or none at all.'* 2. Of Predestination ; translated from Sebastian Castei/ie, in air. between Lewis and Frederic. To this Wesley prefixes an "Advertisement," in which he Bays that amongst the numberless Treatises written in this and the preceding age on the subject of Predestination he had not seen any that showed good sense and good humour than Castellio's Dialogues : but though published above two hundred years before, they had not yet appeared in lish. 21 2 1781.] No. 357. 3. Original, Sermons by the Rev. John Wesley, ALA., are commenced in this volume. The following appear: (i.) I Timothy vi. 9; (ii.) 1 John v. 20, dated at end London, Dec. 22, 1780 ; (iii.) 1 John v. 21, dated London, Jan. 5, 1 78 1 ; (iv.) 1 John v. 8, dated Jan. 20, 1781 ; (v.) Galatians iv. 18, dated Haverford West, May 6, 17S1 ; (vi.) I Corinthians xiv. 20, dated Langham- Row, July 6, 1 78 1. 4. An Extract from a Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation, being a carefully executed series of extracts from his own work, published in five volumes, 1777 (No. 325). 5. Thoughts on the power of Music. Dated Inverness, June 9, 1779. 6. Some Account of Air. Richard Whatcoat. 7. Thoughts upon Baron Montesquieu'' s Spirit of Laws. 8. Thoughts upon Jacob Behmen, dated Dec. 22, 1780. 9. A Scheme of Self-Examination, used by the first Methodists in Oxford. 10. A Plain Accoitnt of Kingswood School, near Bristol. 11. A11 Extract from the " Minutes of a Conference held in August, 1781, between Rev. Mr. John Wesley and others." 12. A Short Account of the Death of Elizabeth Marsh and two others. Signed J. W. 13. Letters. — To a friend concerning a passage in the Monthly Review, dated City Road, Jan. 25, 1781. In a postscript Wesley complains that he had been frequently attacked by the Monthly Review, but did not answer, because they were not on even ground. "But that difficulty is now over. Whatever they object in their Monthly Review, I can answer in ray Monthly Magazine." To on the preaching and gathering congregations by the Methodists, dated April 10, 1 761. To the printer of the Public Advertiser. Three letters on Popery already published as a pamphlet (No. 349). To the Rev. Mr. F . In this he writes, " I have entirely lost my taste for controversy. I have lost my readiness in disputing, and I take this to be a providential discharge from it." Dated St. Ives, Sept. 15, 1762. This volume contains also many extracts and accounts with prefaces and annotations ; anonymous hymns and poetical pieces ; and a number of letters addressed to Wesley, concerning which he says, "I am persuaded the preceding Magazines contain such a collection of letters as never appeared before in the English tongue ; I mean for depth of genuine Christian experience ; but I conceive none of them exceed, and not many of them equal, the following." 357- The Protestant Association. Written in the midst of the Tumults, June, 1780. London: Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry, Moorfields ; and sold at Mr. Atlay's, in the City Road. 1781. i2mo., pp. 34. In the year 1780 as we have seen (Nos. 339, 342, 349), a Bill for the relief of Roman Catholic subjects from various humiliating and oppressive disabilities gave rise to a violent anti-papal agitation. A " Protestant Association " was formed, the leading object of which was to obtain the repeal of the obnoxious Acts, which were alleged to be dangerous to the Protestant religion. Of this Association, Lord George Gordon was the president. Neither of the Wesleys belonged to it. A petition for the repeal of the Acts was signed by 100,000 persons. Immense excitement was aroused ; many grievous excesses were committed by the mob and much property destroyed. The " Gordon Riots" are matters of history. Under the title of The Protestant Association Charles Wesley wrote this stinging satirical poem, in four cantos, ridiculing alike the foolish malice of the mob and the careless weakness of the magistracy. To it are added an Address 213 No. 358. [1781. to the City ; Advice to the City ; and a Second Address to the City, all written in the same vein. It is a smart and skilful performance. Though "written in the midst of the tumults, June, 1780," it was not published till the following year. It appears to have been neither reprinted, nor inserted in the catalogues. 358. Sacred Harmony : or a choice Collection of Psalms and Hymns. Set to Music in two and three parts, for the Voice, Harpsichord and Organ, n.d., 8vo., pp. vi. 349. "Praise Him in His holiness," &c, set to music on ornamental title-page, (similar to Sacred Melody, No. 206). Index to tunes, at the beginning, occupying five pages ; to the hymns, at the end, five pages. The book is printed entirely from engraved plates. On page 349 (but not in all copies) are the words, "T. Bennett, Sculp., Holborn Hill," but whether he is the person referred to in Wesley's most characteristic preface to the Select Hymns with Tunes Anncxt (No. 205), we have no means of knowing. There are 120 tunes (107 of them taken from Sacred Melody, No. 206), and 128 hymns. A verse of a hymn is interlined with each tune, other verses following ; in a few cases additional hymns are given. The hymns are numbered but not the tunes, the names of which are given but not the metres. The price of the volume in sheets was 5s., bound 7s. 6d.,and"a few copies bound and gilt in a very elegant manner, 9s." The same work with slight alterations was afterwards published in a cheaper form and rather smaller size, having the same title, but with a different title- page. Two editions of the cheaper book were issued. On the title-page o( one edition are the words, " Trice 4s. bound in calf. Sold by G. Whitfield, City-Road, London; and at the Methodist Preaching- Houses in Town and Country," pp. 157, ii. In the other edition the title-page is printed apparently from the same plate, but it has only the words, " Price two shillings and sixpence," without name of publisher, pp. 157, iv. both editions are without date. As Whitfield became Book-Steward in 1789, one of these, and probably the other, was not issued until after that date. These editions differ from the larger work also in the following particulars: — only one verse of a hymn is given with each tune ; the order of the tunes is slightly altered ; four of the tunes that are in the larger hook are omitted, and six new ones are added, making the total number of tunes in the smaller hooks 122. The tunes are not numbered. At the end of the tunes arc the words, "G: Maund Sculpt." Subsequently the same book was published with the title, Sacral Harmony : A Set 0/' Tunes collected by the late Reverend John Wesley, M.A., for the use of the Congregations in his Connexion : An edition carefully revised and corrected by his nephew, Charles Wesley, Esq., Organist to His Majesty. London: J. Mason, long 8vo. pp. xvi. 152. The preface is dated, London, {, [521. long time the date of the publication of the Harmony was uncertain, if indeed it can now be confidently fixed. Osborn entered it under 1761 ; Heylin under 1770, hut without assigning any reason, or giving any particulars. He names " an edition 354 pp. [2mo., 1781," as above. It contains Olivers' hymn, " The God oi Abraham praise," which some think was not written till 1772 [*he most careful inquiry has led to the belief that it was not published until 1781. The late Mr. Dobson, for many years a diligent collector of Methodist literature, and especially Oi Methodist hymns and tunes, alter prolonged research assigned it to this date. This opinion was shared l>y the -'< 1 1782.] Nos. 359-360-361. late Mr. William Sugden, of the Westminster Training College, who gave much time to the inquiry; and Mr. C. D. Hardcastle, who, with Mr. Sugden, wrote an article in the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine for April, 1866, on the psalmody of early Methodism, gives the same date. It was announced, apparently for the first time, on the cover of the Arminian Magazine for 1781. 1782. 359. A New Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, &c. By Thomas Taylor (John v. 39, 2 Tim. iii. 15). York: Printed by A. Ward, for R. Spence, Bookseller, &c. 1782. [Price four shillings and six-pence.] Thick square, small i2mo., pp. viii. 700. To this Wesley wrote the following preface : — " Mr. Cruden's Concordance is undoubtedly the best which hath yet been published in the English tongue, but abundance of people, who want a Concordance, cannot go to the price of it. I am in hopes this small, cheap, and portable one may answer the same intention. I therefore recommend it to all lovers of the Bible. — John Wesley. Scarborough, May 21, 1782." The Concordance is compiled from Cruden's third edition, the mistakes of which are corrected, and the whole reduced to a fourth the size and a sixth the price. Thomas Taylor, one of Wesley's preachers, was stationed in York in 1780 and 1 781, and so came into contact with Mr. Spence, the Methodist bookseller of that city. 360. An Estimate of the Manners of the Present Times. London : Printed in the year 1782. i2mo., pp. 23. Second edition, in smaller type, pp. 12. A pamphlet having this same title had been published some time before. In it the author affirmed that sloth and luxury were the chief characteristics of English manners. To this description Wesley objects, for, though allowing that neither of these evils "ever abounded in England as they do at this day," yet they are not the universal, the constant, or the peculiar qualities of English society. He affirms an almost universal ungodliness to be the great national characteristic, — "a total ignorance of God, a total contempt of Him." This leads to many evils, of which he names the neglect of worship, perjury, and "the stupid, senseless, shameless ungodliness of taking the name of God in vain." The tract closes with earnest words of entreaty, warning, and fervent appeal. Wesley had better opportunities of knowing the state of public morals than perhaps any other man then living ; and, rightly or wrongly, he here, and in many other instances, writes of English society as though he were under the influence of a painful discouragement, or a depressing pessimism. 361. An Extract from John Nelson's Journal. Being an Account of God's Dealing with him from his Youth to the Forty-Second Year of his Age. 215 Nos. 362-363. [1782. Written by himself. (2 Cor. i. 3, 4.) "Lord, Thou hast led the blind by a way that he knew not." London : Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundery, Upper Moor- fields. And sold at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's New Chapel, in the City Road, and at all his Preaching-Houses in Town and Country. 1782. nmo., pp. 144. Nelson published his journal in 1767, sm. 8vo., Bristol : E. Farley and Co. An edition was also printed by T. Saint, in Newcastle, 1770. The one printed by Paramore in 1782 is Wesley's careful revision. No considerable change is made ; the title-page and preface are altered, and there are occasional verbal corrections in the body of the work. Otherwise the story remains entirely in the writer's own words. It is a simple, artless, unaffected record of the devoted, heroic, whole-hearted service, and great suffering of this brave soldier of Jesus Christ — the man of whom Southey said he had " as high a spirit and as brave a heart as ever Englishman was blessed with." "Amid thousands of spectators, a procession nearly half a mile long, sobbing and singing, bore the remains of the heroic John Nelson through the town of Leeds, and along the highway to lay him to rest in his native village of Birstall, the place of his first ministrations and greatest triumphs." — Stevens' Hist. Met A. } bk. v., ch. iv. 362. An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners. By Joseph Alleine. This book is not to be sold, but given away. London : Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundery, Moorfields. 1782. i2ino., pp. 107. Another edition, London: Paramore, 1783; Another, London: Paramore, 1785. In all respects the same as the first edition. This is a skilfully prepared extract, embracing almost the whole of Allcinc's invaluable little work, with Richard Baxter's prefatory " Epistle to the Unconverted Reader," and the shorter one by Alleine, as in the 1688 edition. The first six chapters, edited according to Wesley's method, are given. The " Soliloquy for an Unregenerate Sinner," the seventh chapter containing " Motives to Conversion," and the " Conclusion " are omitted. The Alarm had already appeared in the Christian Library, vol. xxiv. (No. 131), but without the same abridgement and thorough revision that it has here undergone. The two prefatory epistles only were omitted. " No book in the English tongue (the Bible excepted) can equal it lor the number that hath been dispersed ; for there have been 20,000 of them sold under the title of the 'Call ; or, Alarm to the Unconverted,' in Svo. or 121110. ; and 50,000 of the same book have been sold under the title of the ' Sure Guide to I leaven,' 30,000 of which were al one impression." — Aeeount of the I Ministers, (ii. 577), quoted in liohn's edition of Southey 's Life ef Wesley, p. 495- 363. A Call to the Unconverted. By Richard Baxter. This book it imt to he soldi but given away. London : Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundery, Moorfields. 17S2. 1 21110., pp. 7'). Another, London: Paramore, 1 7S3 ; Another, 1 7S5, apparently printed from the same type. 216 1782.] No. 363. The Call appears in its completeness in the second volume of Baxter's Works, fol. 1707, where it is entitled, A Call to the Unconverted to turn and live, and accept of mercy while mercy may be had, as ever they would find mercy in the day of their extrejnity. To it are added some forms of prayer. The Introduction, signed Richard Baxter, and dated December the 10th, 1657, together with the extended preface addressed "to all unsanctified persons that shall read this book, especially my hearers in the Parish of Kidderminster," and the forms of prayer, are all omitted from Wesley's edition. The Call is based on Ezek. xxxiii. II. Wesley abridged it with the same minute care that he bestowed on so many other works. Note. — In 1782 Wesley and Coke instituted a "Society for the Distribution of Religious Tracts among the Poor." The "plan" of the Society was appended to the Arminian Magazine for November, 1784 • and was reprinted in the JFesleyan Methodist Magazine for 1847, p. 269. A "List of Books already printed" was attached to the "plan." It contains thirty titles, many of them being sermons or Words, written by Wesley, and for the most part previously published. The list is appended below. It is the first Methodist tract catalogue. On these tracts were printed the words, This book is not to be sold, but given away. 1. A Serious Call to a Holy Life. — No. 48. 2. A Heine's Alarm. — No. 362. 3. Baxter's Call.— No. 363. 4. The Nature and Design of Christianity. — No. 17. 5. A Sermon on Awake, Thou that Steepest. — No. 33. 6. The Important Question. — No. 308. 7. The Heavenly Footman. — By Fletcher. 8. The Great Assize.— No. 185. 9. The Good Steward.— No. 251. 10. Sermon on the Trinity. — No. 306. 11. The New Birth.— -No. 88. 12. The Way to the Kingdom. — No. 88. 13. The Almost Christian. — No. 28. 14. On Original Sin. — No. 196. 15. On Salvation by Faith. — No. 8. 16. The Spirit of Prayer. — No. 252. 17. Instructions for Children. — No. 62. 18. Token for Children. — No. 124. 19. A Hymn to the God of Abraham. — By Olivers. 20. A Woi'd to a Freeholder. — No. 104. 21. Word to a Smuggler. — No. 239. 22. Word to a Soldier. — No. 44. 23. Word to a Sailor. — No. 44. 24. Word to a Swearer. — No. 78. 25. Word to a Sabbath-breaker. — No. 79. 26. Word to a Drunkard. — No. TJ. 27. Word to a Prostitute.— No. 80. 28. Word to a Condemned Malefactor. — No. 81. 29. John Janeway 's Life. — No. 159. 30. A Collection of Hymns, id. It will be seen that Nos. 362 and 363 appear in this list. Two others should be noted :— No. 16, The Spirit of Prayer. It was printed by R. Hawes, London: Dorset Square, Spitalfields, n.d. pp. 24. It is an exact reprint of 217 Nos. 364-365. [1782. the same tract as it appeared in An Extract of Mr. Law's Later Works, 2 vols. 1768 (No. 252). The other is No. 30, A Collection of Hymns, id. This may have been the same as A Small Collection of Hymns selected from various authors : London : Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry, Moorfields, 1781, i2mo., pp. 36. By whom this collection was made cannot be determined. 364. Minutes of some Late Conversations between the Rev. Mr. J. Wesley and Others. London : Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry, Moorfields. 1782. i2mo., pp. 15. Dated London, Tuesday, August 6, 1782. The special matters that occupied attention at this Conference were the case of the Birstal Preaching- House ; the observance of the Sabbath-day, and the enforcement of several neglected rules, relating to the attendance of strangers at the Society-Meetings ; the office and duty of a Helper ; and behaviour in public worship. The following also appears: — " Q. 34. Should we insist on that rule, Sing no hymns of your own composing ? A. Undoubtedly ; and let those who will not promise this be excluded at the next Conference." Several of these matters are recorded in Addenda to the Minutes. 365. The Arminian Magazine for the Year 1782. Con- sisting of Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal Redemption. Volume V. London : Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundery, Moorfields ; and sold at the New Chapel, City Road, and by all the Booksellers in Town and Country. 8vo., pp. 680, viii. In this volume arc the following original or extracted pieces : — 1. French Mercy, Exemplified in the case of Monsieur Isaac Lefevre. 2. Remarks upon Mr. Locke's essay on Human Understanding. 3. Some Thoughts upon an Important Question, — On hearing Ministers who oppose the truth. 4. Some Account of Sarah Peters. 5. On the Origin of the Soul. To this the following is prefixed, "I was many years in doubt concerning this question, finding nothing satisfactory wrote upon it. But I am thoroughly satisfied with the following account, which I think will satisfy- any candid enquirer." "I read and abridged an old treatise on 'The Origin of the Soul.' I never before saw anything on the subject so satisfactory. I think he proves to a demonstration that God has enabled man, as all other creatures, to propagate his whole species, consisting of soul and body." •— Journal, Nov. 7, 1770. Wesley directed his attention closely to this subject, for "many necessary points in divinity" depended upon it. In addition to the passages quoted above, see Works t m. 153-5, and the extracts on /he tru, Original of the Sou/ in the Arminian Magazine for 1783 N . ;r- M - 6. How far is it the Duty of a Christian Minister to preach poh. 7. .-/ disavowal of persecuting Papists, 8. ./ pecimen of the Divinity and Philosophy of the highly illuminated lie hin en. o, . //,- an ■>■> r to Mi . Dodd, 10. Remarks on the Count de Buffon's Natural Hist 1 1. Thoughts on the charactof and writing! of Mr. /'/ ioi . 218 1782.] Nos. 366-367-368. 12. Sermons, (vii. ) on Rom. viii. 19-22, entitled Free Thoughts on the B>ute Creation, and dated November 30, 1781 ; (viii.) Ephesians v. 16, dated London, January 20th, 1782; (ix.) Gen. iii. 19; dated Bristol, March 13, 1782 ; (x.) Gen. i. 31 ; (xi.) Rom. v. 15 ; dated Birmingham, July 9, 1782 ; (xii.) Mark ix. 48, dated Newport, Isle of Wight, Oct. 10, 1782; also A Discourse on Romans viii. 2Q, 30, delivered several years before at Londonderry, and printed at the request of several of the clergy ; but inserted here as it was little known in England : dated Armagh, June 5, 1773 (No. 290). 13. Extract from Castellio's Dialogues on Election and Free Will, concluded. 14. An Account of the Passions, or Natural Affections : extracted from Dr. Watts. 1 5. Serious Considerations concerning the Doctrines of Election and Repro- bation : extracted from Dr. Watts. Already published (see No. 16), but much condensed. 16. An Extract from the Journal of Mr. G C : preceded by an address " to the Reader," dated Macclesfield, April I, 1782. In it Wesley writes, "I do not remember to have met with a more remarkable account than is contained in the following Journal." He has selected " only the most material parts." 17. A true Relation of the chief things which an evil Spirit did and said at Mascon, in Burgundy : condensed from a pamphlet entitled The Devil of Mascon, mentioned in Note, p. 144. 18. Extract from the Minutes of a Conference, 1782. 366. Hymns for the National Fast, Feb. 8, 1782. London: Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundery, Moorfields : and sold at the New Chapel in the City Road ; and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses in Town and Country. i2mo., pp. 24. Fifteen Hymns of various metres. Hymn iv. headed "Habakkuki."; Hymn vi. "Mai. iv. i."; Hymns xiv. and xv. "For Peace." Osborn says: "These are the same with those published on a similar occasion in 1756" (No. 181.) — Meth. Bib. p. 213. It is not easy to account for this mistake. 367. Hymns for the Nation in 1782. Half title. i2mo., pp. 12. [Part I. but not so numbered.] Nine hymns in all. Hymn i., entitled " After the Defeat at the Chesapeak ;" ii., " For the loyal Americans ;" iii., "Amos viii. 2 ;" v., " For His Majesty King George ;" vii., "For Concord;" viii., "A Prayer for the Congress;" ix., "Thy Kingdom come." There were at least two editions of this published. 368. Hymns for the Nation in 1782. Part II., half-title. T2mo., pp. II. Eight hymns, numbered onwards from the last Part : not so the paging. 219 No. 369. [1783. Hymn xii., entitled " For the Conversion of the French ;" xiii., " For Her Majesty ;" xiv., " For the Royal Family ;" xv., " Thanksgiving for the success of the Gospel in America ;" the rest are without titles. The second Fart was probably not re-printed separately ; but after the first edition the two were published together without any distinction of parts. The full title-page was : — Hymns for the Nation, in 1782. London : Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundery, Moorfields ; and sold at the New Chapel in the City Road ; and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching- Houses in Town and Country, n.d., i2mo. , pp. 24. Another edition, London : Paramore, 1781 (obviously a mistake). The same as the former one, page for page, except in the distribution of the last hymn. Hymn No. xvi. is wrongly printed xxvi. Another with the same title and by the same printer, n.d., pp. 36, contains twenty-five hymns ; six being taken from No. 367, omitting Hymns 2, 3, and 8 ; six from No. 368, omitting 3 and 7 ; and thirteen from No. 366, omitting 4 and 5. There are no new titles to any of the hymns. And yet another was published, having the same title and by the same printer, n.d., pp. 47, containing 32 hymns. This is divided into two parts: Part I. comprising all the hymns (17) in Nos. 367 and 368 ; and Part II. the hymns (15) in No. 366. All in the same order. It is impossible now to explain this curious intermingling of these publications. It may indicate the great demand for the hymns. 1783. 369. An Extract from the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Journal. From January 1, 1776, to August 8, 1779. London: Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry, Moorfields; and sold at the New Chapel, City-Road; and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses in Town and Country. 1783. i2mo., pp. 120. [No. xviii.] Second edition, London: Paramore, 1788. Another portion of this remarkable record. There is no abatement of the labour of this servant of God and of man. lie travels as much as ever, reading many hours a day while doing so. lie preaches as frequently, both " in the house and abroad." I lis Societies are as carefully watched as formerly, and he has hut slightly lessened his literary work. Referring several years before to his literary labours, he makes the following reflections, — " I was musing on what I heard a good man say long since, — ' Once in seven years I burn all my sermons ; lor it is a shame it I cannot write b ins now than I could ago.' Whatever others can do, I null) cannot I cannot write a better sermon on tin- Good Steward (No. 251) than I did seven ' ; I cannot write abetter on the 'o : (No. 1^5) than I did twenty years ago ! I cannot write a better on the Money than I did mar thirty years ago. Nay, I Know not thai 1 can w lite a better on the Circumcision of the Heart than 1 did five and forty years Perhaps, indeed, I ma)- have read five or six hundred books more than I had linn, and ma)- know a little more Kistory, oi Natural Philosophy, than 1 did : hut I am not sensible thai this lias made any essential addition to my knowledge in Divinity. Fort} yeai I new and preached every Christian doctrine which I preach now." journal, Sep. i, 1778. 220 1783.] ffos. 369a-370-371-372. 369a. The Case of the Birstal House. Folio circular, pp. 4. Dated Jan. 3, 1783, signed John Wesley. Reprinted in the Arminian Magazine ; 1788, vol. xi. p. 148, &c., also in Works, 3rd ed., xiii. 241-4, with date at end, " London, Reprinted, January 12, 1788," signed John Wesley. This relates to the legal settlement of a preaching-house in Birstal, the original deed of which, executed at an early period of the Methodist history, gave the trustees the power, "not only of placing but of displacing the preachers at their pleasure ;" contrarily to the " Methodist Plan" or Model- Deed, which lodged that power in the hands of the Conference. For particulars of the painful controversy, which gave occasion for the writing of the above circular, see Wesley's Works, iv. 259, 260, xii. 136-8, xiii. 99 : also Tyerman's Life oj Wesley, iii. 373-3 8 3- 370. Minutes of some Late Conversations between the Rev. Mr. Wesley and Others. Dublin, Tuesday, April 29, 1783. i2mo., pp. 8. In the reprint of the Irish Minutes, published in Dublin, at the Religious and General Book Co., 72, Grafton Street, in 1864, the Minutes for 1783 occupy only two pages, and the following note is appended, — " It is singular that the numbers in Society are omitted from these first published Minutes. They are given in the English Minutes." The reprint of these Minutes is a very interesting volume to all who care to inquire into the early history of Methodism in Ireland. See No. 332. 371. Minutes of some Late Conversations between the Rev. Mr. J. Wesley and Others. Bristol : Printed by W. Pine, in Wine-Street. 1783. 121110., pp. 12. Dated Bristol, Tuesday, July 29, 1783. Contains regulations for the improvement of Kingswood School, which had fallen much below its original condition. Many of the faults are mentioned and the inquiry is made, " How may these evils be remedied, and the school reduced to its original plan ? It must be mended or ended, for no school is better than the present school." One objection was "They (the children) ought never to play ; but they do every day, yea, even in school." Preachers were not to beg for new chapels outside their circuits. Dr. Coke was appointed to visit the Societies throughout England in order to settle the preaching-houses on "the Conference plan," i.e. the Indenture or Model Deed, which Wesley had revised in 1780. 372. The Arminian Magazine for the Year 1783. Con- sisting of Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal Redemption. Volume VI. London : Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry, Moorfields ; and sold at the New Chapel, City-Road, and by all the Booksellers in Town and Country. 8vo., pp. 688, viii. 221 No. 373. [1784. The following are by Wesley: — 1. Original Sermons (xiii.) on Hebrews i. 14; (xiv. ) Ephesians vi. 12, dated January 7, 1783 ; (xv.) 2 Thessalonians ii. 7 ; (xvi.) Isaiah ix. 1 1 [xi. 9], dated "Dublin, April 22, 1783; (xvii.) Joshua xxiv. 15, dated Nottingham, May 26, 1783 ; (xviii.) Proverbs xxii. 6, dated London, July 12, 1783. 2. Extract from The Second Spira. A Narrative of the death of the Hon. Fr. N /, Son to the late . But see Dr. Clarke's Wesley Family, i. 122- 126. 3. An Extract from a book entitled Free Thoughts on the Brute-Creation, by John Hildrop, D.D. A short preface. 4. A Letter, dated March 30, 1782, inserted as a preface to An Answer to Mr. Motion's Treatise on Polygamy and Marriage, in a series of letters to the Rev. Mr. Wesley, by Joseph Benson. 5. Extracts from Mr. Bryant's Analysis of Ancient Mythology. 6. An Extract from the Depositions of William Floyd, &c. , in the Court of A'ing's Bench. To it Wesley has appended original remarks. 7. An Extract from Mr. Baxter's Certainty of the World of Spirits fully evinced by unquestionable Histories of Apparitions and Witchcraft, &c. 8. Some Account of the late Dr. Dodd. 9. A Thought on the manner of Educating Children, signed J.W. 10. Thoughts on the Writings of Baron Swedenborg, dated Wakefield, May 9, 1782. 11. An Extract from the Minutes of a Conference held at Bristol, in July, 17S3, between the Rev. Mr. John Wesley and others. 12. Letters to various persons. A marked feature of this volume is the number of extracts from several works, some of them continued, others concluded from the preceding volume. They are, An Extract from the Journal of Mr. G. C. ; An Extract from the Survey of the Wisdom of God, in the Creation : Extracts from Locke on Human Understanding, with Short Remarks ; An Account of the Passions, Extracted from Dr. Watts. 1784. 373. The Doctrine of Original Sin. Extracted from a Late Author. London : Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry, Moorfields ; and sold at the New Chapel, City-Road ; and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching- Houses in Town and Country. 1784. 121110., pp. 40. Another, London : Story, n.d. This is reprinted verbatim from Wesley's larger work, entitled The Doctrine of Original Sin : according to Scripture, Reason and Experience, puplished in 1757 (No. 1S2). It is taken from the close of that work (pp. 463-522), and is entirely an extract from Boston's Fourfold State of Man. There is not a single note 01 additional remark Even the introductory sentence is omitted, in which Wesli as his reason for appending this extract to his larger work, "the unspeakable importance of thoroughly understanding this grand foundation of all revealed religion." Boston divides this section of hi « rk into three parts, iii which he aims, lii^t, to prove the doctrine of the entirely corrupted condition of man ; secondly, to represent this corruption in its several parts; and thirdly, to show how man's nature came to he corrupt. The last part occupies only a single paragraph. A practical application of the docti ine i^ appended, 222 1784.] Nos. 374-375-376. Peculiar spellings are corrected, and the inordinate use of capitals and italics which marks the earlier work is wholly set aside. Wesley's purpose in omitting his name from the title-page may have been, as in other cases, to avoid prejudice. He certainly was not ashamed either of his views or his works. 374. Minutes of some Late Conversations between the Rev. Thomas Coke, LL.D., and Others. Dublin : Printed in the year 1784. 121110., pp. 8. Headed on third page, Minutes, &c, Dublin, Tuesday, July 6, 1784. " Q. 14. What shall we do with those who wilfully and repeatedly neglect to meet their class? A. 1. Let the Assistant or one of his helpers personally visit them, wherever it is practicable, and explain to them the consequence if they continue to neglect, viz., expulsion. 2. If they do not amend, let the Assistant exclude them in the Society, informing it, that they are laid aside for a breach of our Rules of Discipline, and not for immoral conduct." " Q. 16. What further can be done to stop the excessive use of tobacco in snuff, or by smoaking or chewing the same ? A. Let every preacher engage with an audible voice, in the presence of God, and his brethren, that he will not snuff, smoak or chew tobacco." A similar pledge was to be given by every preacher that he would "to the utmost of his power preach every morning, where he could have a congregation, and as far as practicable at 5 o'clock." The Deed Poll, which it was proposed to enrol "for the specification and establishment of the Conference of the people called Methodists," was approved; and an anonymous appeal designed to prevent its adoption was condemned. 375. Minutes of some Late Conversations between the Rev. Mr. Wesley and Others. Leeds : Printed by J. Bowling in Boar Lane. 1784. i2mo., pp. 12. Dated Leeds, Tuesday, July 27, &c, 1784. The preachers' probation was extended to four years : no preacher who denied Original Sin was to be allowed to preach : no one to make, or attend a wake, or feast. " Q. 22. Is the making candles for our own use, without paying duty for them, contrary to law ? A. Certainly it is. It is a species of smuggling, not to be practised by any honest man." 376. The Sunday Service of the Methodists in the United States of America. With other Occasional Services. 1784. 121110., pp. 320. Preface dated Bristol, Sept. 9, 1784, and signed John Wesley. Fourth edition, London : 1790. Wesley's estimate of the English Liturgy is given in a single sentence in the preface : "I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, Scriptural, rational piety than the Common-Prayer of the Church of England." Although he says " little alteration " is made in this edition of it, yet the difference between The Sunday Service and The Book of Common Prayer is considerable. Of the 32 parts into which the "Contents" of the latter are divided 19 are omitted 223 No. 377. [1784. entirely. In the Morning and Evening prayer the following changes are made : — The Exhortation is abridged ; the Absolution gives place to a collect ; the Venite, Benedicite, Benedictus, Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis, and also the Prayer for the Royal Family are omitted, and the repetition of the Lord's Prayer. The Prayer for all sorts and conditions of men and the Thanksgiving are inserted before the Prayer of St. Chrysostom. The Prayers and Thanksgivings upon several occasions, the Creed of St. Athanasius ; the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels for Saints' and Holy Days (except Christmas, Good Friday, and Ascension Day) are omitted. The Order of the Administra- tion of the Lord's Supper; the Ministration of Baptism ; the Communion of the Sick, the Matrimony and Burial Services are more or less changed. The Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests and Deacons are considerably abridged and are respectively changed into The Form and Manner of making Deacons, Elders, and Superintendents. The thirty-nine Articles of Religion are reduced to twenty-five. Many psalms are left out and many parts of others, "as being highly improper for the mouths of a Christian congregation," and throughout verbal changes are made. The book was prepared for the use of the Societies in America, and in the preface is recommended to them. No entry of any appointments of Ministers to America appears in the Minutes of Conference after 1775, until this year. The great national struggle had intervened. The appointment for 1784 is " America, — Thomas Coke, Rich. Whatcoat, Thomas Vasey." It was while they were waiting at Bristol to embark, that the preface to The Sunday Service was signed and dated there. " Dr. Coke, Mr. Whatcoat and Mr. Vasey came down from London, in order to embark for America. . . . Being now clear in my own mind, I took a step which I had long weighed in my mind, and appointed Mr. Whatcoat and Mr. Vasey to go and serve the desolate sheep in America. . . . I added to them three more, which I verily believe will be much to the glory of God." —Journal, Aug. 31, Sept. 1, 2, 1784. In a letter written by Wesley, Sep. 10, 1784, and appended to the Minutes of the following year, he remarks, " I have prepared a Liturgy little differing from that of the Church of England (I think the best constituted church in the world) which I advise all the travelling-preachers to use on the Lord's Lay in all the congregations, reading the Litany only on Wednesdays and Fridays, and praying extempore on all other days. I also advise the Elders to administer the Supper of the Lord on every Lord's Day." 377. The Arminian Magazine for the year [784. Consisting of Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal Redemp- tion. Volume vii. London: Printed by J. Patau at the Foundry, Moorfields ; and sold at the NVw Chapel, City-Road, and by all the Booksellers in Town and untry. 8 VO., pp. iv., 676, vii. The following are Original papers by Wesley, or extracts made and revised l>y him : — 1. Vhr Pro/arc, dated London, January 1, [784. 2. Original Sermons, (xix.) On 1 (
    e joint Superintendent! over the brethren in North America : as also Richard \\ hatcoal and Thorn** Vasey, toad as Elder* among them by baptizing and administer- ing the Lord's Supper." A note is added, "If anyone is minded to dispute 226 1785.] Nos. 382-383. concerning Diocesan Episcopacy, he may dispute. But I have better work." Wesley's procedure is calmly discussed from a Church point of view by Canon Overton in John Wesley, pp. 195-208 : see also Moore's Life of Wesley, ii. 317-347 ; Southey, id. ch. xxvii. A Declaration is appended to the Minutes to the effect " that Mr. Wesley was desired at the last Bristol Conference, without a dissentient voice, to draw up a deed which should give a legal specification of the phrase 'The Conference of the people called Methodists,' that the mode of doing it was left to his judgment and discretion ;" and that the substance and design of the Deed which he had " accordingly executed and enrolled," had the approval of the signatories whose names (69 in number) are given. For particulars of this important document called the Deed of Declaration and sometimes the Deed Poll, see The Constitution and Polity of Wesleyan Methodis??i, by the Rev. H. W. Williams, D.D., pp. 14-19, and Appendix No. i. 382. A Sermon Preached on Occasion of the Death of the Rev. Mr. John Fletcher, Vicar of Madeley, Shropshire. By John Wesley, M.A. London: Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry. 1785. [Price Six- pence.] 8vo., pp. 32. Address "To the Reader" prefixed, dated London, Nov. 9, 1785, and signed John Wesley. The Sermon dated at the end Norwich, Oct. 24, 1785. An epitaph is added. Another edition, London : Paramore, 1786. Fletcher died on the 14th of August, and Wesley preached a funeral sermon on Sunday, November 6th ; but he did not write it at the time, being checked by a consciousness of his inability "to describe in a worthy manner such a person as Mr. Fletcher," judging " only an Apelles was proper to paint an Alexander." Submitting however to importunity, he hastily put together these materials, intending when he had more leisure to prepare a fuller narrative. This he did in the following year. The sermon is almost wholly composed of an account of Mr. Fletcher's life and labours, the chief part being in the words of Mrs. Fletcher. Wesley's estimate of this good man is very striking. He says : " Many exemplary men have I known, holy in heart and life, within fourscore years. But one equal to him I have not known ; one so inwardly and outwardly devoted to God. So unblamable a character in every respect I have not found either in Europe or America. Nor do I expect to find another such, on this side of eternity." * 383. The Arminian Magazine for the Year 1785. Con- sisting chiefly of Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal Redemption. Volume VIII. London ; Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry, Moorfields : and sold at the New Chapel, City-Road, and by all the Booksellers in Town and Country. 8vo., pp. 668, viii. vi. 227 No. 384. [1785. The following are original articles or edited extracts : — i. Sermons (xxv.) on i Cor. xiii. I, 2, 3, dated London, October 15, 1784 ; (xxvi.) Heb. vi. 1, dated Tunbridge Wells, Dec. 6, 1784; (xxvii.) Hebrews xiii. 17, dated Bristol, March 18, 1785 ; (xxviii.) John i. 47 ; (xxix.) Phil. ii. 12, 13 : (\\\. 1 Rev. xxi. 5. 2. An Extract from Dr. Whitby ' s Discourses o>i the Five Points. This is continued through each month of this and the four following years. 3. Of the Eore-knowledge of God. Extracted from a late Author. 4. An Extract front a Sermon on God is Loty. "The following is the most remarkable discourse I ever saw upon the subject ; and gives a full answer to one of the capital objections frequently made against Christianity. J.W." The sermon is by President Edwards. 5. An Extract from a Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem : At Easter, A.D. 1797. By Henry Maundrell, M.A. 6. Some J\emarks on Article X. of Mr. M'aty's A T ew Review, for December, 1754. Dated City-Road, Jan. 11, 1785, and signed John Wesley. 7. An Account of the Drummer of Tedworth. Signed J.W. 8. Thoughts upon some Late Occurrences. Dated, Plymouth Dock, March 3, 1785, and signed John Wesley. The Thoughts relate to the Deed of Declaration. 9. A Strange Account. Dated, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, May 31, 1784, and signed J.W. 10. A Question concerning Dew on Coach-glasses. 11. A Thought upon Marriage, (Matt. vi. 22). Dated, Lisburn, June II, 1785, and signed J.W. 12. An Extract from the Minutes of a Conference held in London, July, 1755, between the Rev. John Wesley and others. 13. Thoughts upon Dissipation. Dated Hilton Park, March 26, 17S3, signed J.W. The volume contains several other extracts and one original letter by Wesley; also an interesting Account of the Sunday-Charity Schools, lately begun in various parts of England. This is dated Gloucester, June 5. 1 7S4, and signed R. Raikes. At the end of the volume are six pages of errata occurring in the first eight volumes, and attributed by Wesley to his "absence from the press." 384 Prayers for Condemned Malei \< roRS. (Psalm lxxix. t2. [11].) London: Printed 1>\ J. Paramore, at the Foundry, Upper Moorfields. 1 7S5. 121110., pp. 12. A poetical trad containing ten hymns of various metres, by Charles Wesley this last publication). On page 8 begins a reprint of the tract entitled A Word ■ndemned Malefactor, by John Wesle) (No. Bl). Tin- first three hymns an- the Church's intercession, For the sad sons oi w I * Cut oti by man, to death consign'd. Tin- four following ones are headed To be used by the Malefactors ; and the last tin > for their use, and arc headed, Just before their being led out tit ion. They an- tender, pleading words, showing how fully the writer i into the circumstances ol those who were "justly by man condemned to die," and hovi he pitied, mourned, and hoped for them, providing not only words for the chun li to offer in prayer on theu In-half, bu1 words oi confession, ol entreat)', and of humble faith i"i themselves. They form an appropriate memorial "I the greal work done by the early Methodists in the prisons "i our land. Charles We Ny lefl several othei similar hymns in manuscript for the same class oi persons; ee Poetical Works % vol. viii. pp. 347 J53* 1785.] No. 385. Southey, however, says " that ' the Wesleys do not appear to have repeated their visits after their early exclusion from the prisons, and that the early Methodists generally abandoned such good works.' The intimation is utterly false ; the Methodist writings of the times abound in records of such labours ; the Conference of 1778, some months before the death of Silas Told, formally recognised it as a duty of the preachers to visit the prisons ; Wesley preached at Newgate when above eighty years old, while nearly half a hundred men under the sentence of death (such was the hanging of that day) wept around him. Charles Wesley visited Newgate and other prisons, and his last publication was a pamphlet of poetical Prayers for Malefactors, which he said had been answered 'on nineteen malefactors, who all died penitent ' at one time." — Stevens' History of Methodism, Bk. v. , ch. iv. note. The entry in Charles Wesley's Journal is, "These prayers were answered, Thursday, April 28, 1785, on nineteen malefactors, who all died penitent. ' Not unto me, O Lord, not unto me !'" — Vol. ii. p. 465. 385. A Pocket Hymn-Book for the Use of Christians of all Denominations. London : Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry ; and sold at the New Chapel, City- Road. 1785. Small i2mo., pp. 208, viii. Preface, To The Reader, dated London, October 1, 1784, and signed John Wesley. We learn from the preface that although the large Hymn Book (No. 348) contained more hymns than was at first intended, yet many, in no way inferior to them, were excluded, and several were not inserted from fear that "they would not be understood by a common congregation." As a strong desire was expressed for their publication, and as many of the preachers wished a small pocket Hymn Book to be provided for use in the Societies, this most beautiful little volume was prepared. It contains 200 hymns, and is divided into parts and sections similar to those of the larger book, from which thirty-nine of the hymns are taken. Each of the hymns has a tune assigned to it, and many have titles prefixed. Only one edition was issued. Olivers' hymn, "The God of Abraham praise," appears for the first time in any Wesleyan hymn book in this volume. For a very interesting account of this hymn see Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology, p. 1 149. Another book of similar title (No. 396) was published two years afterwards, the circumstances connected with the preparation of which gave it considerable notoriety. Note. — The Life of Gregory Lopez, Written Originally in Spanish. The above is given by Osborn, Meth. Bib., under date 1785. But it had been already published twice by Wesley, in the first instance, in 1755, in the Christian Library, Vol. L. (No. 131), and again, more carefully edited, in the Arminian Magazine for 1780. Several years afterwards it was published separately, as appears from the catalogues for 1829- 1850, but it is not in the catalogues between 1789 and 181 5. In an inventory of the books on sale at the time of Wesley's death (1791 ) no mention is made of it. It is therefore probable that the copy from which the above title was taken was one of later date. Osborn was afterwards led to think that Wesley did not publish this 229 Nos. 386-387. [1786. separately. Heylin gives, under 1784, " The Life of Gregory Lopez, written originally in Spanish, abridged by John Wesley. 63pp., iSmo. No date [from Arminian Magazine, 1780.]" But there is no indication that Heylin had seen a separate issue of so early a date. The original work was entitled, The Holy Life, Pilgrimage and Blessed Death of Gregory Lopez, a Spanish Hermit in the West Indies. It was translated by Abraham Woodhead, 1675 > Second edition, London : 1686. Wesley's estimate of Lopez was very high. " For many years I despaired of finding any inhabitant of Great Britain that could stand in any degree of comparison with Gregory Lopez or Monsieur De Renty. But let any impartial person judge if Mr. Fletcher was at all inferior to them." — Life of Fletcher. 1786. 386. An Extract from the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Journal. From August 9, 1779, to August 26, 1782. London : Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry, Upper Moorfields. And sold at the New Chapel, City- Road, and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching Houses in Town and Country. 1786. 12010., pp. 92. [No. xix.] Dated at the end, Newington, January 19, 1786. Another, London : Whitfield, 1797. There seems to be no decline either of interest or vigour in Wesley's great work. Fie is able to preach "to thousands upon thousands at Bradforth" in the north, and to " two or three and twenty thousand " at Gwcnnap in Cornwall ; his observations of nature and of public events are as minute, and his reading and labour apparently as great as they had been for nearly 50 years, though the records in the Journal are somewhat briefer. The following OCCUTS : "l-'ri., 28 (June, 1 782) I entered into my eightieth year ; but, blessed be God, my time ts not ladour&nd sorrow ; I find no more pain or bodily infirmities than at five-and-twenty. This I still impute — 1. To the powei ol God, fitting me for what He calls me to ; 2. To my still travelling four or five thousand miles a year ; 3. To my sleeping, night or day, whenever I want it : 4. To up- rising at a set hour ; and 5. To my constant preaching, particularly in the morning." 387- Mint 1 1 '-1 0M1 L.AT1 CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN nil- Rev. Thomas Coke, LL.D., am> Others, Dublin: Printed in the year [786, 1 2mo., pp. 8. [leaded Minutes, &c, Dublin, Friday, July 7, 1786. The Conference suggested an alteration should l>e made in the "General [the Model Deed] foi the settlement of the "preaching-houses." This ion was adopted l>> the English Conference which u.i^ held in the latter pari "i the same month. The change was substantially made in the form of Deed, as published in the sixth edition of the Large Minutes: see A/in. Con/., 8vo. ' one, restored to its original form. This was soon afterwards (178S) altered to The Sunday Service of the Methodists with other Occasional Services , and is so continued at the present time. It is generally called ll'< dry's Abridgement. It must be distinguished from The Book of Public /'ravers and Services for the use of the People called Methodists, first published in 1 883. 391. The Arminian Magazine for the year 1786. Consisting chiefly oi Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal Redemption. Volume IX. London: Printed b) J. Paramore, at the Foundry, Moorfields ; and sold at the New Chapel, City-Road, and b) all the Booksellers in Town and Country. 8vo., pp. 688, viii. 2 3 2 1787.] No. 392. i. Original Sermons, (xxxi.) on Ephesians iv. 1-6, dated Bristol, Sept. 28, 1785 ; (xxxii.) Luke xii. 7, dated Bristol, March 3, 1786 ; (xxxiii.) 1 Cor. xii. 25, dated Newcastle-under-Lyne, March 30, 1786 ; (xxxiv. ) James iv. 4, dated Wakefield, May 1, 1786; (xxxv.) Matt. xxv. 36, dated Aberdeen, May 23, 1786 ; (xxxvi.) Psalm xc. 2, dated Epworth, June 28, 1786. 2. An Extract from a Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation. See No. 325. 3. An Extract from Three Dialogues. By a late author. 4. On the Church : in a letter to the Rev. , dated Plymouth Dock, Aug. l 9> J 7^5 > an( i signed John Wesley. 5. Thoughts on Nervous Disorders : particularly that which is tisually termed lowness of spirits. Dated Mel vill- House, May 20, 1784. 6. God's Eyes are over all the earth. Signed John Wesley. 7. A remarhable Providence. Signed J. W. 8. Thoughts on Creation ; extracted from a late author. 9. An Ext7-act from the Life of Mr. Thomas Firmin. To this is prefixed the note : — " I was exceedingly struck at reading the following Life ; having long settled it in my mind that the entertaining wrong notions concerning the Trinity was inconsistent with real piety. But I cannot argue against matter of fact. I dare not deny that Mr. Firmin was a pious man, although his notions of the Trinity were quite erroneous. J. W." 10. French Liberty : or, an Account of the Prison of Bicetre in France. The following precedes the extract, " Some years ago a book fell into my hands which I had never heard of before : ' A Series of Letters by Oliver Mac Allester, Esq.,' a gentleman who resided several years at Paris, and who gives an account, p. 169 & seq., which one would wish every Englishman to be acquainted with. J. Wesley." 11. Some Thoughts on an Expression of St. Paul, in the First Epistle to the Thessalonians, chap. v. ver. 23. Dated Congleton, March 31, 1 786. 12. An Extract from the Minutes of a Conference held in Bristol, July 25, &c, 1786, between the Rev. Messrs. Wesley and others ; containing a paper entitled, Of Separation from the Church, dated Camelford, August 30, 1785, and signed John Wesley, and another dated Bristol, July 22, 1786. There are many Extracts in this and the other volumes that are undoubtedly Wesley's, some of which must have cost him considerable labour ; but in several instances it is impossible to determine with certainty the authorship, or the works from which the abridgements were made. The following are continued from the previous volume : — Whitby's Discourses on the Five Points : and MaundreWs Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem. 1787. 392. Conjectures Concerning the Nature of Future Happiness. Translated from the French of Mons. Bonnet, of Geneva. Dublin : Printed by B. Dugdale, No. 150, Capel-Street. 1787. [Price Twopence.] 12010., pp. 24. Another edition, London: Paramore, 1790; Another, London: Paramore, 1791 ; Another, 1792 ; a new edition, with preface on title- page, London : Stephens, 1827. The following appears on the back of the title-page: "To the Reader. Dublin, April 7, 1787. I am happy in communicating to men of sense in this kingdom, and at a very low price, one of the most sensible tracts I ever read. John Wesley," Nos 393-394-395. [1787. Most readers will probably endorse Wesley's judgment of this thoughtful pamphlet, though some of the views are highly speculative. It is divided into nine sections. There are several footnotes by Wesley corrective of some of the sentiments expressed. On the date named above Wesley preached twice at least, in all likelihood three times. At the communion after one of the services there were between seven and eight hundred communicants. After the evening service he held a lovefeast " which I suppose might have continued till midnight, if all had spoken that were ready to speak." He probably translated the tract at his lodgings "at Arthur Keene's, about half a mile out of town, a pleasant, healthy spot, where were peace and love, and plenty of all things."— Journal. 393. Minutes of some Late Conversations between the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., and others. Dublin : Printed by B. Dugdale, No. 150, Capel-Street. 1787. 1 2 mo., pp. 8. Headed, Minutes, &c, Dublin, July 6th, 1787. To prevent dispute "about a trifle," instructions were given on the sounds of the five English vowels. To preserve the freedom of debate it was determined that if anyone divulged anything of importance mentioned in the Conference he should be put back upon trial for four years, if in full connexion ; if on trial, he should be suspended for a year. Wesley added a long list of advices to the preachers, and closed by promising to print the Text of the New Testament (his own revised version) alone. This was done in 1 790 (see No. 411). 394. Mini iks OF SOME LATE CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN THE Rev. J. Wesley and Others. London: Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundry, Upper-Moornelds. 1787. i2mo., pp. 20. Dated at the beginning, Manchester, July 31, 1787. Only one Conference had hitherto been held in Manchester, in 1 765. The ordinary questions and answers occupy nearly the whole of the Minutes. The numbers in the Societies are as follow : — Europe 62,087 United States 25,347 British Dominions 2,890 Under the Dutch Government 62 Total 90,386 U Q, 23. Are there any directions to be given concerning singing? A. Let no anthems be introduced into oui chapels 01 preaching-houses tot the time to come, because they cannot properly be (.died joint Worship." 395. Tiii'. Akmimw Magazine for the year 1 7 s 7 Consisting chiefly ol Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal mption. Volume X. London: Printed by J. -•.,1 1787.] No. 396. Paramore, at the Foundry, Moorfields ; and sold at the New Chapel, City-Road, and by all the Booksellers in Town and Country. 8vo., pp. 672, viii. 1. Original Sermons, (xxxvii.) 1 Cor. x. 13, dated London, October 7, 1786; (xxxviii.) 1 Peter iii. 3, 4, dated North Green, December 30th, 1786; (xxxix. ) Luke xxii. 19, dated Oxon, Feb. 19, 1732. It is preceded by this note, — " The following discourse was written above five and" fifty years ago, for the use of my pupils at Oxford. I have added very little, but retrenched much ; as I then used more words than I do now. But I thank God, I have not yet seen cause to alter my sentiments in any point which is therein delivered. J. W." (xl.) I Cor. xii. 31 ; (xli.) Romans xv. 2, dated Castlebar, May 22, 1787 ; (xlii. ) Ecclesiastes vii. 10, dated Dublin, June 27, 1787. 2. An Account of Mr. Silas Told, written by himself. The account of Silas Told, written by himself, was published in 1785. It is here revised and considerably abridged by Wesley, who published a fuller account in 1790, to be noticed hereafter (No. 406). The account is continued through this and the following volume. 3. An Extract from a discourse concerning the mercy of God in preserving us from evil angels. Written by Lord Chief Justice Hale, at Cambridge, March 26, 1 66 1, upon occasion of a trial of certain witches. 4. Thoughts upon Methodism. Dated London, August 4, 1786. 5. Thoughts on the ^Misery of Man. Extracted from a late author. 6. An Extract from Goof's Revenge against Adultery and Murder. In an Address to the Reader, Wesley expresses a wish that the author, T. W. Reynolds, had given the real names of the offenders, "and that he had been less verbose. The former defect," he says, " is now incurable ; but the latter I have attempted to remedy, by retrenching generally half, sometimes two- thirds, or even three-fourths of the narrative." Dated Feb. 3, 1787, and signed J. W. This may be taken as a sample of the amount of work done by Wesley in making the many extracts, large and small, contained in this and the other volumes of the Magazine, and generally headed From a Late Author. 7. Superstition and Religion, By a Late Author. A note is appended signed J. W. 8. An Extract from the Minutes of a Conference held at Manchester, July ji, £rV., 17S7, between the Rev. J. Wesley and others. The following Extracts are continued : from Dr. Whitby's Discourses on the Five Points ; from Maundrell's Journeys i)i the East ; from a Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation ; and from Three Dialogues between Sophronius and Callistus. The Magazine now describes a large number of very strange occurrences, real or imaginary. 396. A Pocket Hymn Book, for the Use of Christians of all Denominations. London : Printed by J. Paramore, at the Foundery ; and sold at the New Chappel, City-Road. 1787. 241110., pp. 240, xi. Preface containing seven numbered sections is dated Highbury Place, Nov. 15, 1786. Contains 250 hymns ; divided into sections and sub-sections, numbered and entitled precisely as in the large Hymn-book (No. 348). To each hymn a tune is assigned. Titles prefixed only in two or three instances. Second edition. London : 1788 ; 3rd, London : 1789 ; 4th, London, 1790J 6th, London, 1791 ; 7th, London, 1791 ; 9th, London, 1793 ; iotht London, 1794; nth, London, 1794; 13th, London, 1798; 14th, ^35 No. 397. [1788. 1799; 17th, London, 1809; a 4th, London: Paramore, 1793; 12th, Dublin, 1801 ; 18th, Dublin, 1810 ; others Doncaster, 1805, 1806. One 1806 has Spence's name on title-page, as agent for York. In some editions preliminary hymns are inserted. In 1 78 1, a Wesleyan bookseller in York (Robert Spence) published A Collection of Hymns from various Authors: Designed for general use. It contained 172 hymns, 137 of which were taken without permission or acknow- ledgment from the works of the Wesleys. It was afterwards revised and enlarged, and published in small 24 mo. with the title, A Pocket Hymn Book, Designed as a Constant Companion for the Pious : Collected from various Authors. This book, although it contained many objectionable hymns, had been largely introduced into the Wesleyan Societies, when Wesley published his Pocket Hymn Book, in 1785 (No. 385). lie was then advised at the Conference to reprint the York Book. This he did, making the following changes. He expunged 37 of the hymns, " because 14 appeared very flat and dull ; 14 mere prose tagged with rhyme, and 9 more to be grievous doggerel." He also added a considerable number of what he judged the best hymns he and his brother had ever published, and he arranged the whole in proper order. The above is the book so prepared. Wesley bitterly complained of the introduction of so many improper hymns into his Societies. Note. — On the cover of the Arminian Magazine for November, 1787, appears the following advertisement, relating to the above-mentioned work: "London, Nov. 1, 1787. This day is published, Price is. (the same size as the York Hymn Book) A Pocki:t Hymn Book, for the use of Christians of all Denominations. London : Printed by J. Paramore, and sold at the New Chapel, City Road. Also A Small Pocket Hymn Book for fin us< of Children. Price 6d." (In January 1788 the price is 3d.) There is considerable uncertainty respecting this smaller book. No collector appears to have met with it. Osbom does not name it. lleylin prints the advertisement, but adds, " I have not seen a copy." Smith names it, but gives no particulars, indicating thereby that he had not seen it. In the very carefully prepared list of hymn-books published by the Wesleys, compiled by Mr. C. D. Hardcastle and inserted in the KeighUy I'isitor, August, 1861, the following entry is made : " 1788—^ Smalt Pocket Hymn Hook for the use of Children. This we have not seen." The advertisement named above may have been intended to announce another edition of Hymns for Children (No. 223) or, as is more- probable, the smaller book having the same title, issued in 1700, the publication of which may have been delayed until the preface was written which specially distinguishes that volume. 1788. 397. Sermons on Several < N casions. liy John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford. [Four Volumes.] Vol. v. Printed and sold at the New Chapel, City- Road, and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching Houses in Town and ( Country, i 788. 1 zmo., pp. 252, 322, 315, 2U1. 1788.] Nos. 398-399. Preface dated London, Jan. I, 1788. On the cover of the Magazine appeared the following : — " London, Jan. 1, 1788. This day is published, price 10s., a New Edition of Four Volumes of Sermons, by the Rev. J. Wesley, M.A. There are also in the press, and will shortly be published in Four Volumes, price 10s., all the Sermons in the Ten Volumes of the Arminian Magazine, with alterations and additions by the author." For the first edition of the former four, see Nos. 88, 107, 139, 200. The second four are those named above. They contain fifty-six sermons, fourteen in each volume. Only forty-two of these sermons had been published in the Magazine up to this date, but several others afterwards appeared. Wesley was induced to republish these sermons by hearing that a clergyman was about to do so ; but although revised by him, they were very incorrectly printed. The sermons, written during a course of years without any order or connexion, are here arranged methodically. Those placed first "are intended to throw light on some important Christian doctrines ; afterwards those which more directly relate to some branch of Christian practice ; and all in such an order that one may illustrate and confirm the other." — Preface : see also H. Moore, L. of J. Wesley, ii. 405-6. These volumes contain the sermons distinguished as the Second Series in recent editions. A ninth volume was added after Wesley's death ; but the most complete editions are those which have appeared since 1829. 398. Minutes of some Late Conversations between the Rev. Thomas Coke, LL.D., and Others. Dublin : Printed by B. Dugdale, 150, Capel Street. 1788. i2mo., pp. 10. Headed, Dublin, July 8, 1788. As some "gross sinners" had sprung up in the Society and had been expelled, a day of fasting and humiliation was appointed, " to deprecate the judgments deserved through these and other evils, and to pray the God of all grace to carry on the great revival He has begun." Strict regulations were instituted to prevent illicit distilling ; and sundry financial arrangements were made. 399. Minutes of some Late Conversations between the Rev. J. Wesley and Others. London : Printed in the year 1788. 121110., pp. 27. Dated at the beginning, London, Tuesday, July 29, 1788. In the answer to the question, "Who have died this year?" appears the name of " Mr. Charles Wesley," and the brief record is added, "who after spending four-score years with much sorrow and pain quietly retired into Abraham's bosom. He had no disease ; but after a gradual decay of some months ' The weary wheels of life stood still at last.' His least praise was his talent for poetry ; although Dr. Watts did not scruple to say that ' that single poem Wrestling Jacob was worth all the verses he himself had written.'" " Q. 21. — What further directions maybe given concerning the Prayers of the Church of England ? A. The Assistants shall have a discretionary power to read the Prayer Book in the Preaching-Houses on Sunday mornings, where they think it expedient, if the generality of the Society acquiesce with it, on 2 37 No. 400, [1788. condition that Divine service never be performed in the Church-hours on the Sundays, when the Sacrament is administered in the Parish Church where the Preaching-House is situated, and the people be strenuously exhorted to attend the Sacrament in the Parish Church on those Sundays. Q. 23. — Many of our Preachers have been obliged to go from the house of one friend to another for all their meals, to the great loss of their time, and to the injury of the work of God. What can be done to prevent this evil in the future ? A. Let every circuit provide a sufficient allowance for the Preachers, that they may in general eat their meals at their own lodgings." "The Conference Plan," or Model-Deed for the legal settlement of the "Preaching-Houses" is inserted. It is substantially the same as the one included in the Large Minutes (No. 343). The death of Charles Wesley and the enrolment of the Deed of Declaration (see No. 381) required however slight alterations to be made in it. It is the fourth revision of the original Deed (see Large Minutes, No. 221), and the last made in Wesley's life-time. It is repeated in the sixth edition of the Large Minutes (No. 404) published in 1789, and in the revised Minutes of Conference, vol. i., pp. 606-9. Precise instructions are given to the "Assistants" to guide them in obtaining and enrolling the Deeds. Five missionaries were appointed to the West Indies. A brief address to the Societies in England and Wales is appended, in which attention is called to the reasonableness of each circuit providing for the preachers and their families "food and raiment for those who give up all their time and strength and labour." It is signed by Wesley, and dated London, Aug. 2, 1788. 400. The Arminian Magazine, for the year 1788. Consisting chiefly of Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal Redemption. Volume xi. London : Printed and sold at the New Chapel, City-Road, and by all the Booksellers in Town and Country. 8vo.. pp. 672, vii. Original articles and abridgements : — 1. Sermons (xliii.) on Lev. xix. 17, dated Manchester, July 28, 17S7 ; (xliv.) Matt. xvL 3, dated St Hellier's, Isle of Jersey, Aug. 27, 1787 ; (xlv.) Psalm viii. 3, 4, dated Manchester, July 23, 1787 ; (xlvi.) 1 Samuel ii. 17, dated Bristol, Oct. 7, 1787; (xlvii.) 2 Cor. i. 12, dated Bristol, April 8, 178S; (xlviii.) Heb. xi. 6, dated Stockport, April 9, 1788. 2. An Extract from a Treatise called the Refined Courtier. Preceded by this note : "To the Reader. I read this tract above fifty years ago, and took an extract from it. Put I have now made a larger extract j which I recommend to all those that are lovers of common sense. |. \\ '." 3. An Extract from a Volume entitled a Review of Dr. Priestley V Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity." 4. The. surest anil safest way of Thriving. Extracted bom a late author (Mr. Thomas Gouge). 5. Thoughts on Genius. Dated Lambeth, Nov. S, 1787. 6. Remarks on the Swiftness of Time. Extracted from a late author. 7. The Case of Birstal House. Recommended to the serious consideration of ■/<■ called Methodists. Dated London, reprinted Jan. 12, 1788, Signed [ohn Wesley. Al first issued as a folio circular in 1783, sec No. 369A. After its appearance in the Magazine it was reprinted as a pamphlet. S. On the Folly of mis-spending Time. Extracted from a late author. 9. An Answer to an Important Question. Date. I Armagh, June is, 17N7. Signed J. w. This is a lettei in reply to the question, Why do the clergy to r< ceive a i tance from the wethodisl preachers? 1789] Nos. 401-402. io. Thoughts upon Dress. Signed J. W. 11. Thoughts on the consecration of Churches and Burial-Grounds. Dated Dumfries, May 14, 1788, and signed J. W. 12. An Extract from the Minutes of a Conference held in London, July 29, &*c. s 1 J 88, between the Rev. J. Wesley ond others. A great part of the Magazine is made up of extended extracts from the following: — Dr. Whitby's Discourses on the Five Points ; An Account of Mr. Silas Told ; A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation ; and God's Revenge against Murder and Adultery ; all continued from volume x. 1789. 401. An Extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Journal, from September 4, 1782, to June 28, 1786. London: Printed and sold at the New Chapel in the City Road ; and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses in Town and Country. 1789. i2mo., pp. 134. [No. xx.] Dated at the end, London, Jan. 20, 1789. Three lines of errata. Another edition, " London : Printed for the Author, and sold at the New-Chapel," &c, 1789. Errata corrected, but p. 115 printed 215. The record of nearly four years of the same steady round of uninterrupted labour ; wondrous in a man of Wesley's years — perhaps in any man. During part of the time he suffered from severe illness, but it little impaired his work. Being now clear in his mind, he says, he took a step which he had long weighed, and appointed Mr. Whatcoat, Mr. Vasey, and others to act as elders, Dr. Coke and Francis Asbury as superintendents in America (see No. 381). The superintendents were afterwards called Bishops, but not by Wesley. " How can you, how dare you, suffer yourself to be called Bishop ? I shudder, I start at the very thought ! Men may call me a knave, or a fool, a rascal, a scoundrel, and I am content : But they shall never by my consent call me Bishop!" — Let. to Francis Asbury dated Sep. 20, 1788, in Works, xiii. 58. 402. Minutes of some late Conversations between the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., and Others. Dublin : Printed by B. Dugdale, 150, Capel-street. 1789. i2mo., pp. 12. Headed, Minutes, &>c, Dublin, July 3d, 1789. Earnest words against coveteousness are introduced : — " These money-lovers are the pest of every Christian Society. They have been the main cause of destroying every revival of religion. They will destroy us, if we do not put them away, &c." A report having " run through Ireland " that the Methodists were going to separate from the Church it was replied, "Nothing can be more false." Wesley "thinks it needful to observe further, that the Methodists never will separate from the Church till God calls him hence." A brief address to the Society was appended, similar to the one addressed to the English Societies in the previous year. It was dated Dublin, July 3, 1 789, and signed John Wesley. "I had much satisfaction in this Conference; in which, conversing with between forty and fifty travelling preachers, I found such a body of men as I hardly believed could have been found together in Ireland ; men of so sound 2 39 Nos. 403-403a. [1789. experience, so deep piety, and so strong understanding. I am convinced they are no way inferior to the English Conference, except it be in number." — Journal, July 9, 1 789. This was Wesley's last visit to Ireland. He spent three months there in active work, during this stay, though at the Conference he had entered his eighty-sixth year. 403. Minutes of some late Conversations between the Rev. Mr. Wesley and Others. Leeds : Printed in the year 1789. i2mo., pp. 21. Dated, Leeds, Tuesday, July 28, 1789. The following regulation appears : " No books are to be published without Mr. Wesley's sanction ; and those which are approved of by him shall be printed in his press in London, and sold by his book-keeper." As it had been affirmed that many of the preachers disapproved of " the plan for settling the preaching-houses," one hundred and fifteen of them signed a declaration affirming their entire approval of it. A list of subscriptions by the preachers towards the new Preaching- House at Dewsbury is inserted ; the amount was ^206 6s. "Tuesday. — The Conference began: about a hundred preachers were present, and never was our Master more eminently present with us. The case of separation from the Church was largely considered, and we were all unanimous against it. We considered the case- of Dewsbury House, which the self-elected trustees have robbed us of. The point they contended for was this — that they should have a right of rejecting any preachers they disapproved of. But this we saw would destroy itinerancy. So they choose J. A for a preacher, who adopted W. E for his curate. Nothing remained but to build another Preaching-House, toward which we subscribed two hundred and six pounds on the spot."— Journal, July 28, 1 789. See No. 403a. 403 \. The Case of Dewsbury House. 4to. circular of one page. Dated Bristol, Sept. 11, 1789, and signed John Wesley. This was a similar case to that of the Pirstal House, see No. 369a. Wesley says, " When about fifty years ago, one and another young men offered to serve me as sons in the Gospel, it was on these terms, ' That they would labour where I appointed', otherwise we should have stood in each other's way. Here began itinerant preaching with us." As the number ^( the preachers increased, the work of stationing them became more and more difficult, and Wesley's desire, often expressed, was to transfer this work to one 01 more iA' the preachers themselves ; but none were then willing to accept it. The preaching-houses were vested in Trustees, whose duty it was to see that only those persons preached in them who were senl by Wesley. He goes onto say that "a new preaching-house had been built at Dewsbury, which the Trustees sei/ed, and though they had promised to the contrary, positively refused to settle ii on the Methodist plan ; requiring that they should have a power oi refusing any preacher whom tney disliked." The alternative before hill) was "either to sue lor this I louse, or to build another.'' He preferred the latl being the most friendly," and he issued this circular in which lie appeals to all his people, for the love "I their " old and well nigh worn "nt servant, and for the love oi antient Methodism, which ii Itinerancy i^ interrupted will speedily come to nothing," and as " perhaps the last labour oi love" ne might have occasion to re imend to them, to exert themselves to the utmosi to provide thi ry hinds. Himself and Hi I subscribed fifty pounds, 240 1789.1 Nos. 404-405. 404. Minutes of Several Conversations between the Rev. Mr. Wesley and Others, from the Year 1744 to the Year 1789. London : Printed for the Author, and sold at the New Chapel, City Road, and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses in Town and Country. 1789. i2mo., pp. 51. The sixth edition of the Large Minutes and the last published during the author's life. Several editions were issued after his death, but since 1835 it has not been reprinted separately. This edition is substantially the same as the fifth, pub. 1780 (No. 344). Slight verbal and other alterations are made. The principal are : I. In the answer to question 51, on "the method of receiving a new helper."' 2. Regulations on matrimonal engagements. 3. The extension of the term of probation to four years. 4. The omission of question 59 and its answer, on measures for securing " the future union of the Methodists," because rendered unnecessary by the Deed of Declaration, which had been executed in the interval. The same Deed, as we have seen, made a change necessary in the Model Deed for settling the preaching-houses. " In 1797 this important document was revised and published as a 'Collection of Rules, or Code of Laws.' But on the title-page there is a typographical error, arising from the inverting of two figures, the date being given as 1779." — Advt. in Miu. Methr Con., 8vo. 1862. In the Constitution and Polity of Wesleyan Methodism by Rev. H. W. Williams, D.D., (London, Wes. Meth. Book-Room, 1882), this document is reprinted and the changes which have been made in it by recent legislation are to a large extent indicated : see Appendix ii. p. 268. It is there called, ' The Form of Discipline.' 405- The Arminian Magazine, for the year 1789. Consisting chiefly of Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal Redemption. Volume XII. London : Printed for the Author : and sold at the New Chapel, City-Road, Moorfields, and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching- Houses in Town and Country. 8vo., pp. 672, vii. Contains the following original papers and abridged extracts : — 1. Sermons, (xlix.) on Isaiah v. 4, dated Witney, October 17, 1787 ; (1.) Matthew xix. 24, dated Rochdale, April 22, 1788; (li.) Psalm viii. 4, dated Bradforth, May 2, 1788; (lii.) Heb. xi. I, dated Yarm, June II, 1788; (liii.) Jeremiah xxiii. 24, dated Portsmouth, August 12, 1788; (liv.) Luke xvi. 31, dated Birmingham, March 25, 1788. The first two are in the second four volumes of sermons published in 1788 (No. 397). 2. Thoughts on Separation from the Church. Dated Bristol, Sept. 20, 1788 ; signed J. W. 3. Thoughts upon a late Phenomenon, dated Nottingham, July 13, 1788. The phenomenon is thus described by Wesley — " This I say again is an utterly new phenomenon ! I never saw, heard, or read of anything like it. The Methodists will not separate from the Church, though continually reproached for doing it. Although it would free them from abundance of inconveniences, and make their path much smoother and easier : although many of their friends earnestly advise and their enemies provoke them to it, the clergy in particular, most of whom, far from thanking them for continuing in the Church, use all the means in their power, fair and unfair, to drive them out 241 No. 406. [1790. of it. One circumstance more is quite peculiar to the people called Methodists: that is, the terms upon which any one may be admitted into their Society. They do not impose, in order to their admission, any opinions whatever. Let them hold Particular or General Redemption, Absolute or Conditional Decrees: let them be Churchmen or Dissenters, Presbyterians or Independents, it is no obstacle. Let them chuse one mode of worship or another, it is no bar to their admission. The Presbyterian may be a Presbyterian still : the Independent or Anabaptist use his own mode of worship. So may the Quaker : and none will contend with him about it. They think and let think." 4. An Extract from a Course of Sermons upon Death, Judgment, Heaven and HelL By a Late Author. 5. An Extract from the Rev. Air. Easterbrook^s Account of George Lukins. 6. A clear and concise demonstration of the Divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures. 7. The sufferings of Thecla, which happened about the year 67 : Translated from a Greek Fragment. The preface, signed J. W., ends with the words : " I neither affirm nor deny the truth of the following relation ; but that it is ancient, I cannot doubt." 8. The Origin of Image Worship among Christians. 9. On the Alanners of the Times. 10. An Extract from the Minutes of a Conference, held in Leeds, July 2S, <5rV., 1789, between the Rev. J. Wesley and others. 11. The following is inserted: — "To the Reader. My brother has left several manuscript volumes of short hymns upon various passages of Scripture: particularly on the four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. Many of these are no ways inferior to those that have been already published. A specimen of them I purpose to publish in the ensuing Magazines. The whole will probably see the light in some future period. J. W." Several are included in this volume. Also several extended Extracts from different writers, of which the following are concluded : An Extract from Dr. Whitby s Discourses on the Five Points; The Surest and Safest way of Thriving ; and 'The Refined Com tier. These are continued, — A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation : and Dr. Priestley's Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity. 1790. 406. THE Life of Mr. SlLAS TOLD. Containing many instances of the interposition of Divine Providence in his favour, when at sea; and in his sufferings abroad. Together with an account of the conversion of several male- factors, through his instrumentality. Written by Him- self. (Psalm cvii. 23, 24.) London: Paramore. 1790. I 21110., pp, 1 1 ;,. ie dated City-Road, Nov. 13, 1789, and signed John Wesley. (In the the date is given Nov. 8. Ti nor, as on that day Wesley ri in London). Second Edition, corrected. London : Printed by Sammells and Ritchie: Sold by Whitfield, &c, [790; Third, London: Whitfield, [796 ; an unabridged Edition was published by W. Cowdroy, Salford ; [807, with a curious Froi 242 1790.] Nos. 407-408. This is Wesley's abridged and revised edition of An Account of the Life and Dealings of God with Silas Told, late preacher of the Gospel ; wherein is set forth the wonderful display of Divine Providence towards him when at sea ; his various sufferings abroad ; together with many instances of the grace of God, in the conversion of several malefactors under sentence of death, who were greatly blessed under his ministry : Written by Himself, (Psal. cvii. 23, 24; Dan. xii. 3). London : Printed and sold by Gilbert and Plummer, (No. 13) Cree-Church- Lane, Leadenhall-Street, and by T. Scollick, Bookseller, City-Road, 1785, i2mo., pp. 174. Preface dated July 27, 1786, and signed Samuel Smith. " I buried what was mortal of Silas Told. For many years he attended the malefactors in Newgate, without fee or reward ; and I suppose no man for this hundred years has been so successful in that melancholy office. God had given him peculiar talents for it, and he had amazing success therein. The greatest part of those whom he attended died in peace, and many of them in triumph of faith."— -Journal, Dec. 20, 1778. 407. A Sermon, preached at Leeds, July 29th, 1789, before the Methodist Preachers (assembled in Conference) and a large body of the people in connection with them ; and now published at the request of many of the hearers. By James Hamilton, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. (Acts ii. 17, 18.) London : Printed for the author, and to be had at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses in Town and Country. 1790. 8vo., pp. 20. Dated at the end, Dunbar, January I, 1790. Text, Jeremiah vii. 4. A hymn by Charles Wesley, " Father of boundless grace," is appended. This sermon, preached by a layman before the Conference, is preceded by this address, "To the Reader. The following Discourse will recommend itself to all impartial persons. It contains deep and weighty truths, particularly needful to be considered at this time, especially by the people called Methodists, that they may fully understand, and thankfully improve the invaluable privileges which they enjoy. John Wesley. London, City-Road, Feb. 28th, 1790." 408. A Short Account of the Life and Death of Jane Newland, of Dublin, who departed this Life, October 22, 1789. London : Printed in the year 1790. i2mo., pp. 12. This is a brief account of the conversion and zealous career of a Christian woman who in health and in sickness showed a dauntless, charitable, and devout spirit, and who was a witness of the "full salvation," which Wesley proclaimed. The account seems to have been written by someone who was familiar with its subject, and afterwards revised by Wesley. 243 Nos. 409-410-411. [1790. 409. Minutes of some Late Conversations between the Rev. Thomas Coke, LL.U., and Others. Dublin : Printed by B. Dugdale, No. 150, Capel-Street. 1790. i2mo., pp. 10. Headed, " Minutes of Some late Conversations, &c." Dublin, Friday, July 2, 1790. The number of members reported in the Society was 14,106; at the beginning of the decade it was 6,109 ; the number of preachers had increased from 34 to 67. No Mimites were published in Ireland in the following year, 1791. This volume is inserted as a continuation of the Irish Minutes to Wesley's death. 410. Minutes of some Late Conversations between the Rev. Mr. Wesley and Others. Bristol : Printed in the year M.DCC.LXC. [1790.] i2mo., pp. 28. Dated Bristol, Tuesday, July 27, 1790. A Committee "for the management of our affairs in the West Indies," was appointed ; also a Building Committee for Great Britain and one for Ireland. " Addenda taken out of former Minutes " are appended. No preacher was to be allowed to preach " three times the same day to the same congregation," or tl oftener than twice on a week-day, or oftener than three times on the Lord's- day ;" or to leave the Conference before its close, "without consent publicly obtained in the Conference." "These were Mr. Wesley's last directions in Conference." — MS. Note, signed S. Bradbum. This was the last Conference that Wesley attended. "Mr. Wesley appeared very feeble ; his eyesight had failed so much that he could not see to give out the hymns ; yet his voice was strong, his spirit remarkably lively, and the powers of his mind and his love towards his fellow-creatures were as bright and as ardent as ever." — C. Atmore, in Meth Mag. 1 845, p. 123. 411. The New Testament, with an Analysis of the several Books and Chapters. By the Rev. J. Wesley, M.A. London : Printed and sold at the New Chapel, City- Road ; and at the Rev. J. Wesley's Preaching-Houses in Town and Country. 1790. [6mo., pp. 424. It has not been reprinted. At the close of the Minutes of the Conference held in Dublin, July 6, 17S7, after numerous interesting advices, Wesley adds, ** I will prinl the text of the \ 1 k ht all me." This may be regarded as Wesley's lasl important publication. It is a worthy finish i" his great endeavour to supply the besl literature he could t<> the British public, and at the lowesl cost, and so by this means, as by others, "to spread Scriptural holim a through the land." The book contains his te\ ised translation, which, he informs the reader, is brought as near as possible to the original. This is not a mere reprint ol a previous edition : the text ol the last collected edition has been again thoroughly revised, and although "the alterations are 24 1 1790.] No. 412. few and seemingly small," the very minuteness of them, undetected except by careful comparison, shows how patiently he strove to make the work perfect. "The analysis of each Book and Epistle is prefixt to it." The analyses are taken from Explanatory Notes on the New Testament (No. 172), excepting that of the Book of the Revelation, which is new. "The short _ view" of the contents which is appended to the last-named in the previous editions is omitted, together with the Index of Words. " Though the old division of chapters is retained, for the more easy finding of any text : yet the whole is likewise divided, according to the sense, into distinct sections : a little circumstance which makes many passages more intelligible to the reader." — Preface. " The text is a new translation, and is remarkable as having anticipated many of the improved readings of later critics — not a few of Dean Trench's happiest suggestions for a revision of the text were anticipated by Wesley."— Heylin's edition of Stevens' Hist, of Meth. p. 766. 412. The Arminian Magazine. For the year 1790. Consisting chiefly of Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal Redemption. Volume XIII. London : Printed for the Author, and sold at the New Chapel, City-Road, Moor- fields ; and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses in Town and Country. 8vo., pp. iv. 672, iv. The following are original, as far as can be made out : — 1. Preface, To the Reader. Dated, Taunton, August 12, 1789, signed J.W. 2. Sermons. (Iv.) on 2 Cor. v. 7, dated London, Dec. 30, 1788 ; (lvi.) Mark xii. 33, [32], dated, Dublin, April 9, 1789; (lvii.) Heb. v. 4, dated, Cork, May 4, 1789 ; strangely omitted from Jackson's two volumes of Sermons, (London : Kershaw, 1825), which it was presumed, contained "all the Sermons that have ever been published in Mr. Wesley's name, either by himself, or by those persons who had access to his papers after his decease." It is known as the " Korah Sermon." (lviii.) Jer. viii. 22, dated, Dublin, July 2, 1789 ; (lix). 2 Cor. v. 16, dated, Plymouth Dock, Aug. 15, 1789; (lx.) Matt. vi. 22, 23, dated, Bristol, Sep. 25, 1789. 3. The Case of Dews bury House : recommended to the consideration of the People called Methodists. Signed John Wesley. See No. 403a. 4. Farther Thoughts on Separation from the Church. Dated London, Dec. II, 1789 ; signed John Wesley. 5. Thoughts on Memory. Dated Yarmouth, Oct. 21, 1789 ; signed J. W. 6. A Word to Whom it may Concern. Relates to Mr. Atlay and the Dewsbury House. It is dated London, City-Road, Feb. 25, 1790. 7. An Extract from the Minutes of a Conference held in Bristol, July 27, &c. , 1 7 go, between the Rev. J. Wesley and others. 8. Thoughts on a Late Publication, An Account of the Pelew Islands. Dated Peckham, Dec. 30, 1789: signed J. W. 9. Thoughts on Suicide. Dated Liverpool, April 8, 1 790 ; signed J. W. 10. The following extended Extracts are concluded in this volume — A Review of Dr. Priestley's Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity ; The Two Covenants of God with Mankind, by Thomas Taylor, A.M. ; and A Course of Sermons upon Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell, by a late Author. Several smaller ones are inserted. The Extract from a Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation is continued. 245 Nos. 413-414-415. [1791. 413. The Rules of the Strangers' Friend Society in Bristol. These are dated Bristol, March 12, 1790, and signed John Wesley. This I give on the authority of Myles. See Chronological History of the People called Methodists, 4th ed. p. 180. I have not seen a copy ; and I have no further particulars of the publication. The Rules themselves are inserted by Myles : and of the origin and growth of the Society Tyerman gives some interesting particulars in his Life of Wesley, iii. 252-4. " Sunday was a comfortable day. In the morning I met the Strangers' Friend Society, instituted wholly for the relief, not of our Society, but of poor, sick, friendless Strangers. I do not know that I ever heard or read of such an institution till within a few years ago. So this also is one of the fruits of Methodism."— Journal, Mar. 14, 1790. The reference here is to the Bristol Society. It was founded in the year 1786 ; a similar Society had been established in London two years previously. 414. Hymns for Children. London : Printed and sold at the New Chapel, City-Road. 1790. i6mo., pp. 34. Contains forty-four hymns— a judicious selection made by Wesley, in his extreme a;j;e, from his brother's book entitled, Hymns for Children and Others of Riper Years (No. 223). More than half are taken from the section, Hymns for the Youngest, and amongst these are some of Charles Wesley's sweetest The following preface, dated March 27th, 1790, is from Wesley' " There are two ways of writing or speaking to children : the one is, to let ourselves down to them ; the other, to lift them up to us. Dr. Watts has wrote in the former way, and has succeeded admirably well, speaking to children as children, and leaving them as he found them. The following hymns are written on the other plan: they contain strong and manly sense; yet expressed in such plain and easy language as even children may understand. But when they do understand them, they will be children no longer, only in years and in Stature." The original work (No. 223) was subsequently published with this preface. I have not seen a reprint of the smaller book. 1791 415. .v. Extra* i of the Rev. Mr. John W'i ley's Journal, from June 29, 1786, to Oct. 24, 1790. London: Printed by J. Param th-Green, Worship-Street; and sold by G. Whitfield, New Chapel, City-Road; and at the Methodist Preaching-Houses in Town and Count))-. [791. 1 -mho., pp. 206. [ No. xxi. ] Another, London : Param This is the last number of the Extracts from the mosl extraordinary journal ngelistic labour evei published. In it occurs this statement, " Monday, [une 28, liii^ daj 1 entei into my eighty-eighth year. F01 above I found none ol the infirmities of old age ; my eyes did not 1791.1 No. 416. wax dim, neither was my natural strength abated. But last August I found almost a sudden change, my eyes were so dim that no glasses would help me. My strength likewise now quite forsook me, and probably will not return in this world. But I feel no pain from head to foot, only it seems nature is exhausted, and, humanly speaking, will sink more and more, ' Till the weary springs of life stand still at last.'" At the end is the following nota bene — " There are unavoidable chasms in this Journal, owing to some parts being mislaid : and it is probable that many of the proper names of persons and places are not properly spelt ; as the whole of the manuscript was so ill written as to be scarcely legible." " Wesley's Journals are the most entertaining productions of his pen. They are the history of the man and his cause. . . . Besides their historical value, they are replete with curious incidents, criticisms of books, theological and philosophical speculations, and references to contemporary men and events. For more than half a century they keep us not only weekly, but almost daily in the company of the great man, in his travels, his studies, and his public labours." — Stevens' History of Methodism, Book vi. chap. 5. In reading these Journals it must be borne in mind that they are but " extracts " from the original manuscript ; and there is reason to suppose that they are but "a very modest selection " (see Smith's Hist. Wes. Metk., bk. iii. ch. 4). 416. Minutes of Several Conversations between the Preachers Late in Connection with the Rev. Mr. Wesley. Manchester: Printed by T. Harper, Smithy- Door. 1 791. i2mo., pp. 28. Dated Manchester, Tuesday, 26th of July, 1791, and signed at the end William Thompson, President ; Thomas Coke, Secretary. Another edition, London : Paramore, 1791. The Conference assembled as usual, but with one sole exception — Wesley was no longer at its head. The change in the description of the Minutes is observable. There had been amongst the preachers a fear that on the death of Wesley the Deed of Declaration would give the Conference (as there defined) a power over the rest of the preachers. This fear had found expression, and of it Wesley was not uninformed. Accordingly in the year 1785, a year after the Deed was enrolled, Wesley wrote a letter addressed to the Conference, and entrusted it to the care of his travelling companion, Joseph Bradford, with instructions to read it at the first meeting after Wesley's death. It bears date, Chester, April 7th, 1785. In it Wesley begs the members of "the Conference" not to assume any superiority over the rest, but to let all things go on just as when he was with them. After the letter was read, a resolution was adopted that "all the preachers in full connexion shall enjoy every privilege that the members of the Conference enjoy." It is added, pathetically, " It may be expected that the Conference make some observations on the death of Mr. Wesley ; but they find themselves utterly inadequate to express their ideas and feelings on this awful and affecting event. Their souls do truly mourn for their great loss ; and they trust they shall give the most substantial proofs of their veneration for the memory of their most esteemed father and friend, by endeavouring with great humility and diffidence to follow and imitate him in doctrine, discipline, and life." In the Minutes appears the following: — " Q. 8. What regulations are necessary for the preservation of our whole economy as the Rev. Mr, Wesley left it ? A. Let the three Kingdoms be divided into Districts : England into 247 No. 417. [1791. nineteen; Scotland into two; and Ireland into six."' The "Assistant" of each Circuit had authority in any critical case, to summon the preachers of his District, who should select their own chairman : and their decision was to be final until the next Conference. No preacher was to be stationed in any Circuit for more than two years successively, " unless God has been pleased to use him as the instrument of a remarkable revival/' The total number of members of the Methodist Societies in Europe and America reported to the Conference was 136,662. 417. The Arminian Magazine, for the Year i 791. Con- sisting chiefly of Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal Redemption. Volume XIV. London: Printed for the Editor ; and sold at the New Chapel, City-Road, Moorfields ; and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching- Houses in Town and Country. 8vo., pp. 652, iv. 1. Sermons (lxi.) on Luke xii. 20, dated Balam, Feb. 19, 1790; (lxii.) Matt; xxii. 12, dated Madeley, March 26, 1790; (lxiii.) Psalm lxxiii. 20. This sermon, as were all the others, was divided into two parts, appearing in successive months. The former part was printed before Wesley's last illness ; and the latter part was being printed on the day when his body lay in the chapel in City-Road, (lxiv.) Ileb. xi. I, which is dated London, Jan. 17, 1791, was the last sermon Wesley wrote. There were sixty-four sermons by Wesley published in the Magazine to this date. They were numbered consecutively ; but with one exception are without titles, contrarily to his custom. All hut two, 46 and 50, appear in the four volumes published in 17SS : see No. 397. In addition to the above are the following extended Extracts: — 2. An Essay on tlic Liberty of Moral Agents. Extracted from a late author. Preceded by an earnest recommendation, elated May 3, 1790, and signed John Wesley. 3. An Extraet from an Aeeount of the Pelew J stands, in the Pacific Ocean. By Captain Henry Wilson. An address " To the Reader" precedes, dated, City- Road, Jan. 8, 1790, and signed John Wesley. " I looked over the finest picture of atheistical religion that 1 ever saw. in the account that Captain Wilson gives <■>( Thule, King of Pelew. Hut how Utterly needless is the knowledge of Cod (consequently how idle a book is the Bible,) if a man be all-accomplished, that has no more knowledge ^( God than ahorse, and no more of His grace than a sparrow." -Journal^ Jan. 10, 1789. Wesley died March 2nd of this year, hut he seems to have provided several articles for the later months. At length his busy pen was laid aside. The Magazine was still issued alter Wesley's death with the same title until the year I79cS, when it was changed to the Methodist Magazine. In iSjj the title was further changed to the Wesley an Methodist Magazine. It continued to he published in octavo and with the same general character to the end of 1&93> when a Considerable alteration in size and other respects was made. The title is still retained. ADDITIONAL NOTES. 68. A Short View of the Difference between the Moravian Brethren, lately in England and the Reverend Mr. John and Charles Wesley. From trustworthy information which I have received, I am of opinion that the former part of this tract was published in the year 1741. The title was the same except that the word " Now" occupied the place of " Lately." 83. Hymns on the Lord's Supper. " In 1856 when suggestions were made for a union between the Wesleyan Methodists and the Church, the Rev. W. Gresley republished this in a tract of 30 pp. to show that Wesley's views on the subject were identical with the teachings of the Church." — Heylin. In 1871 a volume was published entitled The Eucharistic Manuals of John and Charles Wesley, Reprinted from the Original Editions of 1748-57-94, edited, with an Introduction, by W. E. Dutton, (London : Bull, Simmons and Co., 1871. i2mo., pp. xxviii. 257). It contained A Companion for the Altar (No. 36) ; Hymns on the Lord's Supper, with the preface concerning The Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice, extracted from Dr. Brevint— a reprint of the 4th edition of No. 83. The object of the publication of these Manuals was to attempt to prove that Wesley ' held High Church doctrine on the Sacrament. Similar opinions are promulgated in John Wesley and Modem Methodism, by Frederick Hockin, M.A., (London: Rivington, 1887, post 8vo. , pp. 218); also in The Churchman 's Life of Wesley, by R. Denny Urlin, Barrister, F.S.A., (in the Home Library Series, London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1880, post 8vo., pp. vii. 352). But see The Churchmanship of John Wesley, and the Relations of Wesleyan Methodism to the Church of England, by James H. Rigg, D.D., (London: Wes. Con. Office, post8vo. pp. vii. 120). 99. Hymns for Children. Whilst these pages have been passing through the press a copy of this pamphlet has come into my hands. It is an anonymous i2mo. tract of 12 pages, but without title-page, date, or even printer's name. The title, as above, is on the upper part of the first page. It consists of five hymns for children taken from Hymns and Sacred Poems (No. 40), together with one by Dr. Watts, commencing ' Thee we adore, eternal Name,' and entitled Life and 249 ADDITIONAL NOTES. Eternity. It was slightly altered by Wesley and appeared in No. 7. Next comes a Hymn for Sunday — 'The Lord of Sabbath, let us praise,' by S. Wesley, jun. It is found in the 3rd volume of No. 58. These are followed by 'Jesu, the all-restoring Word,' and 'An Evening Hymn,' both from Hymns and Sacred Poems {No. 19); by An Exhortation for a Child; Directions for a Child ; A Morning and an Evening Prayer for a Child ; also Graces before and after Meat. I am compelled to think that this tract was not compiled by Wesley. At the close of the evening prayer is the following, for use "At lying down in bed": — I lay me down, hoping to sleep, I pray to God my soul to keep ; But if" I die before I wake, I pray to God my soul to take. I think it highly improbable that Wesley would have put these words into the lips of a child " at lying down." Nor are others of the hymns in my judgment, in harmony with Wesley's style, especially when addressing a child. 147. Hymns for New Year's Day, 1751. Bristol: Printed by Felix Farley. [Price One Penny.] i2mo., pp. n. A copy of this has just come into my possession. It is precisely the same as the others named in the text. 172. Notes upon the New Testament. It appears from the following extract that this work subsequently underwent revision by other hands than the author's. " I was called to conduct through the press an edition of Mr. Wesley's revised translation of the New Testament, with his Explanatory Notes, of which I endeavoured to furnish a pure and correct text, which could only be done by a careful collation of various editions, and by availing myself of the author's manuscript corrections, contained in a copy which he left in his own library. This edition was comprised in two volumes octavo." — Recollectio)is of my own Life and Times t by Thomas Jackson (London Wes. Conf. Office, 1873), p. 237. The two volumes were issued as the nth edition, "with the last corrections of the author," London : ii, 1831. 205. Select Hymns with Tunes Annext. I think it highly probable that the " twelve pages of instructions in music," mentioned on page 117, and commencing with the words, "The Gamut or fi le of Music," v/ere prepared by the author of Hamunda Sacra : or t A ■ Collation of Psalm and Hymn Puncs, c>V., Collected from the most celebrated Masters, and mad I the principal churches and chapels in London ; particularly at the Foundling, Pock and Aft | pitals, with an introduction to Psalmody and several nciv tunes never before published, by Mi. Thomas Butts, (London: K. & C Dibly, booksellers in the Poultry, near the Mansion House, pp. 220, ii.). "The [ntroduction to Psalmody" ■ uiir features in common with the pages referred to above 2 and in the preface to No, 205 Wi (ley directs attention to the Harmonia ding "beyond all d omparison anything of the kind which has appeared in Etagland before." I have seen three different books by Butti 150 ADDITIONAL NOTES. bearing this title ; in all of them are many of Wesley's hymns, one of them containing few others. It is probably to this last one in particular, that Wesley refers in the quotation just given. Almost all the tunes in Wesley's book are taken from Butts. 214. Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures. In the Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, published 1870, these Short Hymns occupy vols. ix. x. xi. xii. and half of xiii. The editor says of them, " They were evidently favourites with the Author, as he spent many of the later years of his life in revising and enlarging them, especially those on the New Testament." Referring to the second edition (above p. 122), he describes it as "somewhat abridged," and adds, " but in the present reprint nothing is omitted, while the Author's manuscripts have supplied more than a hundred additional hymns — several of them not properly entitled ' Short Hymns ' — of the value of which it would be difficult to speak too highly," — vol. ix. pp. viii. x. They were further revised by John Wesley, as the following extract from his Journal indicates : — "Wednesday 10, and the following days, I corrected my brother's posthumous poems : being short psalms (some few excepted) on the four gospels, and the Acts of the Apostles. They make five volumes in quarto, containing eighteen or nineteen hundred pages. They were finished April 25, 1765. The revisal finished, April 24, 1774. A second revisal finished, Jan. 26, 1777. A third revisal finished, Feb. 20, 1780. A fourth revisal finished. A fifth revisal finished. A sixth revisal finished. A seventh revisal finished. The last revisal finished, May 1787. Many of these are little, if any, inferior to his former poems, having the same justness of thought, with the same beauty of expression ; yea the same keenness of wit, on proper occasions, as bright and piercing as ever."— Journal, Dec. 10, 262. Some Account of the Experience of E. J. It has been suggested that the subject and author of this pamphlet was Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson, of Bristol ; or that the pamphlet is an abridgement of a brief memoir witten of her by Miss Ritchie. But neither of these suppositions is correct. Mrs. Johnson died in Bristol in 1798, and Miss Ritchie's memoir was not written until 1799. The title of it is An Account of Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson, well-known in the City of Bristol for more than half a century, for her eminent Piety and Benevolence : To which is added an Extract from her Diary, (Bristol: W. Pine and Son, n.d., i2mo., pp. 86). The preface is dated Bristol, Feb. 27, 1799. There is a marked difference between the style of Mrs. Johnson's writing and that of " E. J." The opinion expressed in the text is doubtless the correct one. 281. Prayers for Children. As a beautiful and interesting evidence of Wesley's regard for children, the following may be quoted: — "At Bolton he had, in his congregation, five hundred and fifty children, all scholars in the Methodist Sunday-School ; and 25* COLLECTED WORKS. it was either now, or soon after, that he preached to them a sermon, from Psalm xxxiv. n, in which he engaged to use no word of more than two syllables, and literally fulfilled his pledge." This was in 1786, when he was in the 83rd year of his age ; see Journal, April 16. " Old as he was [he had now nearly completed his 87th year] Wesley set out next morning [from Darlington] at half-past three o'clock, for Newcastle, where he preached, in the evening, from Isaiah lvii. 1, 2. The following night (Friday) he preached again his remarkable sermon to the children of the Sunday-school, taking as his text Psalm xxxiv. 1 1 ; the sermon being literally composed and delivered in words of not more than two syllables." — Tyerman's Life of Wesley, iii. 472, 607. Unfortunately the sermon has not been preserved. COLLECTED WORKS. The following editions of Wesley's collected Works have been noticed : — 1. The first edition compiled by Wesley himself and published in thirty-two duodecimo volumes in the years 177 1-4. These volumes are fully described in the notes, see pp. 156, 162, 171, 177. 2. The second edition prepared by direction of the Conference of 1808 by the Rev. Joseph Benson, and published in 17 vols. 8vo. (see p. 180) in the years 1809-13. "This edition," Osborn says, "though in many respects better than the former, is still faulty both in respect to contents and arrangement. It contains much that Wesley neither wrote nor published, while some of his undoubted publications appear to have escaped the notice of the editors." — Meth. Bib, p. 59. 3. The third edition in fourteen volumes octavo. This was compiled by the Rev. Thomas Jackson, and published in the years 1829-31. It was followed by the Explanatory Notes on the New Testament in two volumes octavo, uniform with the other volumes. This edition is far more correct and complete than either of the others, Jackson having the advantage of access to Wesley's own corrected copy of the first edition. The work is admirably printed. Its progress through the press was watched with the utmost attention. A smaller edition of this in fifteen volumes duodecimo, with a Life of Wesley by the Rev. John Beecham, I ). 1). , was issued by the Methodist Book- Room in 1856, the fifteenth volume being the Notes on the New Testament. The works have been frequently reprinted in these two sizes. A collection of the Wesley poetical writings has been published in thirteen volumes post octavo, bearing the title, Tin; POETICAL W< >rks OF John AND Ch \ki BS Wl SI i.v • Reprinted from the Originals, with the last corrections of the Authors. Together with the Poems of Charles Wesl »re published. Collected and arranged byG. Osborn, 1). I). London: Wesleyan Methodist Conference Office, 1872. A few particulars respecting these volumes may be added. The following extract from the Advertisement in the first volume explains the principle upon which this reprint is based and gives some account oi its contents. " The poetical publications of John and Charles Wesley originally appeared at various intervals during a space of fifty-two or three years. The total number of them, as far as at present ascertained is lilly sr\en ; oi which, seven bore the names oi the two brothers, seven of John Wesley only, eight of Charles Wesley only ; while the remaining thirty-live were anonymous, though -'5- COLLECTED WORKS. some were afterwards owned, and all are capable of being certainly identified. They admit of a further classification in regard to their respective contents. (i.) Four are entirely extracted from other authors. (2.) Six are partly original and partly selected. (3. ) Nine are mostly selected from previous publications of their own, with a few from other authors intermixed. While (4. ) thirty-eight are strictly and exclusively original. This fourth and largest class constitutes the basis of the present edition, along with three volumes of the second class which it has been deemed advisable to reprint entire, because in the majority of instances the selected poems have been altered and adapted by the editors for a purpose of their own, and according to their own taste. The third class, like the first, it is obviously unnecessary to include. With these reprints, there will be published in successive volumes a large number of poems left by Mr. Charles Wesley in MSS., and carefully revised for publication, but which for some reason or reasons unknown were not published by him ; together with such single poems, whether in print already or in manuscript, as may not before have been collected : the whole forming as complete a collection as circumstances will permit of the poetry of these wonderful and blessed men." — pp. xiii. xiv. It will be observed that the number of publications named above does not correspond with the number mentioned in the text of this work. It is to be regretted that an entire list of the poetical works known is not given in the volumes ; and that the several reprints are not inserted in their chronological order. Nor is it less to be regretted that so able and diligent a student of these writings as Dr. Qsborn was so sparing in his annotations on them. 53 SUMMARY The following were not, in my opinion, either edited or published by Wesley, Nos. 94, 99, 299 ; but see pp. 47, 49, 249, 175. There is also much uncertainty respecting the editorship of Nos. 106, 144, 177, 178, 180, 190, 259, 271, 288, 292, 315; nor can it be determined what part Wesley took in the editing or publishing of Nos. 231, 359, 374, 3S7, 39S ; but there is an obvious propriety in inserting them. Of the prose writings the following are by Charles Wesley, Nos. 23, 33, 141, and, perhaps, 144. All the rest are by John Wesley. On the combined authorship of many of the poetical works see pp. 22, 253-4. The total number of publications recorded in the preceding pages is 423, including those referred to in the duplicated sections. Of these, as stated above, three have been wrongly attributed to the Wesleys, and sixteen arc of doubtful authorship. Of the works to be assigned with confidence to the Wesleys, 326 are Prose, (the 50 volumes of the Christian Library and the 14 volumes of \hc Anninian Magazine being in each case counted but as one work), 61 are Verse and 14 arc Musical, a total of 391. The whole may be classified as follows : — 233 are original Works by John Wesley : IOO ,, extracted or edited by him : 8 ,, Works for which he wrote a preface or notes only : 20 ,, original Works by Charles Wesley : 30 ,, Works in which the brothers shared, or of which it cannot be decided whether they were prepared by John or by Charles. 2 54 INDEXES INDEX TO TITLES. (The Numbers in this Index refer to the Sections.) Abstrac t of Life and Death of Thomas Haliburton IO Absolut e Predestination, Serious Considerations on 22 Account of Conduct of War in Middle Colonies . 340 5) jj Genuine Christianity 122 ') jj Kingswood School 127 JJ jj The People called Methodists J26 JJ jj Trial at Gloucester 52 J J j j Work of God in America 33 1 JJ jj Cross, Thomas 3i5 5) jj Dillon, John . 271 5) jj E.J. . 262 JJ jj Fletcher, Rev. John 389 JJ jj Gilbert, Alice 292 JJ j Haime, John . 379 JJ jj Hindmarsh, Elizabeth 3 2 3 JJ jj Hitchens, Samuel 89 JJ jj Hitchens, Thomas T02 JJ jj Hogg, Thomas 144 JJ jj Johnson, Ann . 284 JJ jj Langson, Mary- 259 JJ jj Lee, Matthew 158 JJ jj Mitchell, Thomas 35° JJ jj Mooney, Nicolas 288 JJ jj Moore, Richard 177 JJ jj Newland, Jane 408 JJ jj Othen, Nathanael 188 JJ jj Richardson, Mrs. Hannah 23 JJ jj Rogers, Ann . 263 Address to Inhabitants of England, A Calm 316 jj to Inhabitants of Ireland, A Compassionate 328 jj to Inhabitants of Ireland, A Short *33 jj to People of England on State of Nation, A Short 327 jj to American Colonies, A Calm . 305 jj to the Clergy .... 175 jj to Inhabitants of Great Britain, l \ Seasonable 3i J 25« INDEX Advantage of Church of England over Church of Rome Advice to an Englishman . ,, to the People called Methodists ,, to a Soldier ,, to Saints and Sinners, A Word of „ to a Young Clergyman Advices with respect to Health Affairs, Free Thoughts on Present State of Public Alarm to Unconverted Sinners, Alleine's Alleine's Alarm to Unconverted Sinners „ Christian Letters Almost Christian, A Sermon on the Altar, A Companion for the America, Account of Work of God in „ Sunday Service for United States of American Colonies, A Calm Address to „ Rebellion, Reflections on ,, War, Extract of Letter to Lord H * * e on his Conduct in . Answer to Dr. Gill ,, to Dr. Trapp's Sermons . „ to Hervey's Letters ,, to Hill's Imposture Detected ,, to Letter in Bath Journal . ,, to Letters to Author of Theron and Aspasi „ to Mr. Church ,, to Objections to Arminian Magazine Antient Christians, Manners of the Antinomian and Friend, Dialogue between „ ,, ,, „ A Second Aphorisms of Justification (Baxter) Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion „ ,, ,, ,, A Farther, Part i „ ,, ,, ,, A Farther, Part ii Arminian Magazine — See Magazine. „ ,, Proposals for Arminian, What is an ? Ascension Day, Hymns for io Vindicated, Remarks on Defence of Preface to Assize, A Sermon on the Great Association, The Protestant Awake thou that Sleepest, A Sermon on, (C. W.) . Backsliders, A Call to — a Sermon Baily, Letter to Mr. Band Societies, Rules of 329 57 INDEX 259 Baptism, Thoughts upon Infant . Barnes, Two Treatises by Dr. Bath Journal, Answer to Letter in Baxter's Aphorisms, Extract of ,, Call to Unconverted Believers, A Sermon on Repentance of Birstal House, Case of Bishop of London, Letter to Blow at the Root, A Brainerd, David, Extract of Life of Brethren, Hymns Composed for the Use of the Bristol, Rules of Strangers' Friend Society in 149 14 132 67 3 6 3 248 369A 103 212 253 137 4i3 Cadogan on Gout . Call to a Holy Life, Serious, (Law) ,, ,, Unconverted Sinners (Baxter) Calm Address to Inhabitants of England Calvinism, Defence of Minute on, (1770) Case of Birstal House ,, ,, Dewsbury House . „ „ John Nelson „ ,, People of Custrin Catechism, Roman, with Reply Catholic Spirit, A Sermon on Cause and Cure of Earthquakes . Cautions and Directions to Professors Character of a Methodist . Check, Extract from Fletcher's Equal Children, Hymns for ,, Instructions for . „ Lessons for, Part i. „ Part ii. „ Part hi. „ Part iv. ,, Prayers for Token for Imitation of (a Kempis) ,, „ „ Extract of ,, is All in All, Hymns for those to whom Christian Letters, (Alleine) ,, Library . ,, Perfection, A Sermon on ,, „ Farther Thoughts on „ „ Practical Treatise on (Law) ,, „ Plain Account of „ Prudence, A Treatise on, (Norris) Christ 99, 2 23 3°3 48 363 316 2 73 369A 403A 56 190 179 170 141 213 34 3°4 > 4i4 62 85 100 in 168 281 124 3 26 204 241 1 3 1 29 219 45 238 2 260 INDEX Christian Reflections ..... 295 Christians, etc.,. Select Hymns for Use of . . 208 „ ,, Manners of the Antient . . .123 ,, „ A Pocket Hymn Book for the Use of 385, 396 Christian's Pattern, The ..... 3 „ „ Extract of the ,, Pocket Companion Christianity Exemplified at Wedncsbury . ,, A Plain Account of Genuine ,, Nature and Design of Church, Mr., Answer to . ,, ,, Second Letter to ,, of England, Advantage of Members of . ,, Reasons against Separation from the City Road Chapel, A Sermon on laying Foundation Stone of Clergy, Address to the . Clergyman, Letter to a ,, Advice to a Young Collection of Prayers for Every Day in the Week ,, , ,, ,, for Families „ Hymns (1742) ,, „ Hymns for People called Methodists (1780 „ „ Moral and Sacred Poems „ ,, Psalms and Hymns (1737) . (i73 8 ) • m » j> >> ( I 74 I ) • ,, „ ,, ,, for Lord's Day . „ „ ,, ,, (Sacred Harmony) „ „ Receits for the Poor ,, ,, Tunes Sung at the Foundery Colonies, Address to the American ,, Account of War in the Middle . Commandments, Exposition of (Hopkins) Companion, The Christian's Pocket „ for the Altar Compendium of Logick .... Concordance (Taylor) Conference, or Conversations — sec Minutes. Conflagration and Renovation of the World, Extract of 1 discourses on .... Conjectures on Future Happiness (Bonnet) Consequence Proved, The Considerations on Election and Reprobation ,, on Predestination . Cooper, Jane, Letters by .... Covenant, Directions for Renewing ('ij » _ >j » >> ( I 7 8 7) „ for Children (1790) ) (1761; Book 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 105 106 *37 138 i47 148, 148A 165 192 197 198 199 204 205 208 214 223 245 246 285 347 348 357 366 367, 368 's Day 378 384 385 396 414 Imposture Detected (Rowland Hill), Answer to Imputed Righteousness, Thoughts on Infant Baptism, Thoughts upon Instructiones Pueriles Instructions for Children . „ for Religious Societies 320 211 149 117 62 296 266 INDEX Intercession, Hymns of Invasion, Hymns on the Expected Ireland, Address to Inhabitants of ,, Short Method of Converting the Catholics of „ Compassionate Address to Inhabitants of 192 198 133 156 328 Janeway, John, Extract of Life of Johnson, Ann, Account of Jones, Robert, Elegy on Death of Journal, Answer to Church's Remarks on Wesley's ,, Extract from Mary Gilbert's „ John Nelson's .... ,, Extract of Wesley's, part i. 13 ; ii. 18 ; iii. 37 ; iv 53; v. 120; vi. 160; vii. 166; viii. 176; ix 194; x. 203 ; xi. 224; xii. 240; xiii. 247; xiv 270; xv. 301; xvi. 318; xvii. 335; xviii. 369; xix. 386 ; xx. 401 ; xxi. 415 ; relating to Affidavit, 20; Wheatley, 176A. Justification, Baxter's Aphorisms on ,, Treatise on (Goodwin) J 59 284 39 65 250 361 67 226 Kempis, T. a, de Christo Imitando Kingswood School, Short Account of 114 127 Langson, Mary, Account of ... Latin Books : Caii Sallustii Crispi Bell. etc. 128; Cornelii Nepotis, etc. 129; Desiderii Erasmi, etc. 146; Excerpta ex Ovidio, etc. 130 ; Historian, etc. 116; Instructiones Pueriles, 117; Mathurini Colloquia Seleeta, 115; Phaedri KabuLx, 145 ; Thomas a Kempis, 1 14. Latin Grammar, A Short . Law, Mr., Extract from Works of ,, ,, Letter to Lee, Matthew, Account of Leeds, A Sermon preached at (Dr. Hamilton) L * * * [Lefevre] Mrs., Kxtract of Letters of Lessons for Children, Part i. „ Part ii. ,, ,, Tart iii. Part iv. Letter in Unlit Journal t Answer to a ,, to Author of Craftsman 259 I 12 252 174 153 407 257 85 100 11 1 168 132 75 INDEX 267 Letter to Author of Enthusiasm of Methodists, etc. 140 Second 152 ,, Author of Theron and Aspasio 183 „ ,, Bp. of Exeter 154 „ „ Bp. of Gloucester 216 „ „ Bp. of London . 103 „ „ a Clergyman . no „ „ Dr. Conyers Middleton . 121 „ „ Dr. Free 186 „ ,, Dr. Free (Second) 187 „ „ Dr. Rutherforth . 249 ,, „ a Friend on Tea II 9 ,, ,, a Gentleman 184 „ „ Mr. Baily 143 „ „ Mr. Downes 195 „ „ Mr. Fleury 272 „ „ Mr. Home 209 „ ,, Mr. Law 174 „ „ Mr. Maxfield 326 „ „ Mr. Potter 189 „ „ Mr. Whittingham 342 ,, „ Public Advertiser . 3 39> 349 ,, „ a Quaker 108 „ „ a Roman Catholic 134 Letters, Christian (Alleine) 241 „ by Jane Cooper 225 „ Answer to Hervey's 227 „ to a Nobleman, Extract from E .eply to ' Sir W.' Howe on 352 Liberty, Observations on . 310 „ Thoughts upon 279 Library, A Christian I3 1 Life of God in Soul of Man (Scougall) 5 1 Life, Thoughts on a Single 228 Life of Brainerd, David, Extract of 253 „ „ Guion, Madame, Extract of 3 J 4 „ „ de Renty, Monsieur, Extract of 21 ,, ,, Mitchell, Thomas, Short Account of 35° „ „ Told, Silas, „ „ „ 406 Life and Death of Fletcher, Rev. John, Short Account f 339 5) 33 J , ,, Gilbert, Alice, „ „ „ 292 33 33 > , „ Haliburton, Thomas, Abstract of 10 33 33 > , „ ,, „ Extract of 10 3) 33 > , „ Janeway, John, „ „ • 159 3J 33 ) , ,, Lee, Matthew, Some Account of • 158 33 33 ) , „ Mooney, Nicholas, Some Account of . 288 33 33 3 , „ Newland, Jane , Short Account of 408 268 INDEX Life and Death of Othen, Nathanael, Short Account of ,, „ „ ,, Walsh, Thomas, Lisbon, Thoughts on Earthquake at Logic, Compendium of Lord's Day, Collection of Psalms and Hymns for „ Supper, Hymns on the Magazine, Answer to Objections to Arminian „ Proposals for ,, The Arminian, Vol. i. (1778) 333 ; Vol. ii. (1779) 338; Vol. iii. (1780) 346; Vol. iv. (1781) 356 Vol. v. (1782) 365 ; Vol. vi. (1783) 372 ; Vol. vii (1784) 377 ; Vol. viii. (1785) 383 ; Vol. ix. (1786) 391 ; Vol. x. (1787) 395 : Vol. xi. (1788) 400 Vol. xii. (1789) 405 ; Vol. xiii. (1790) 412 ; Vol xiv. (179O 4i7- Malefactor, A Word to a Condemned Malefactors, Prayers for (Hymns) Manners of Antient Christians ,, of the Present Times, Estimate of Marks of a Work of the Spirit, The Distinguishing Marriage and a Single Life, Thoughts on Married Persons, Directions for . Mathurini Colloquia Selecta Maxfield, Thomas, Letter to Melody, Sacred, (Tunes) .... Method of Converting Roman Catholics in Ireland, A Short Methodism, A Short History of Methodist, Character of a ,, Principles of a ,, Principles of a, Farther Explained A Word to a (Welsh) . Methodists, Advice to .... ,, Collection of Hymns for Use of ,, and Papists Compared, Letter to Author of Enthusiasm of ,, and Papists Compared, Letter to Author of Enthusiasm of, Second. ,, Plain Account of People called ,, Sunday Service of . . 376, Middlcton, Dr. Conyers, Letter to Milton's Paradise Lost, Extract from Minute of 1770, Defence of Minutes of Conference, (1749), 135, 136 ; (17^5), 232 (1766), 237; (1767), 244; (1768), 254; (1769) 2 5 8 ; 077°), 267; (i770» 2 75; 0772), 282; INDEX 269 (1773), 291 ; (1774), 3° 2 5 ( J 775)> 3°7 I (1776), 312; (1777), 321; (1778), 332; (i779), 337; (1780), 343; (1781), 354; (1782), 364; (1783), 371; (1784), 375; (1785), 38i; (1786), 388; (1787), 394 ; (1788), 399 ; (1789), 403 ; (*79°)> 410; (1791), 416. Minutes, The Large, 1st edition, 164; 2nd ed., 221 ; 3rd ed., 268 ; 4th ed., 285 ; 5th ed., 344 ; 6th ed., 404. Minutes, Irish, (1778), 33 2 A ; (1783), 37°; (1784), 374; (1785), 380 ; (1786), 387 ; (1787), 393 \ (1788), 398; (1789), 402 ; (179°)) 409- Mitchell, Thomas, Account of Modern Christianity at Wednesbury Mooney, Nicolas, Account of Moore, Richard, Account of Moral and Sacred Poems, A Collection of Moravians and J. &. C. Wesley, Difference between Moreland, Henry, Earl of ... Music, Grounds of Vocal Musical Works : — : Hymns for the Great Festivals (Lampe's Tunes) Sacred Harmony . Sacred Melody . Tunes sung at the Foundery, Collection of 35o 72 288 177 58 68 35i 207 94 358 206 33 Narrative of Revival in Virginia . ,, of Work of God at Northampton (Edwards) Nation, Hymns for the (1782) „ Serious Address on the State of . National Fast, Hymns for the (1782) „ Sins and Miseries, A Sermon on Nativity, Hymns for the . Natural Philosophy — see Survey Nature and Design of Christianity (Law) . „ Design, and Rules of United Societies Necessity, Thoughts upon Nelson, John, Case of „ ,, Extract of Journal of Nepotis, Cornelii, Excellentium Imperatorum Vitas New England, Thoughts on Revival in New Testament, Notes on ,, ,, Text of . New Year's Day, Hymns for Newland, Jane, Account of Nicodemus, or a Treatise on the Fear of Man Night Thoughts, Extract of Young's • 33o 54 367, 3 6 % • 327 . 366 • 309 84 17 43 300 • 56 361 129 66 172 411 147 408 12 269 270 INDEX Norris, on Christian Prudence. Extract of Northampton, Narrative of Work of God at Notes on New Testament „ „ Old 2 54 172 234 Observations on Liberty . Old Testament, Notes on Onan, Thoughts on Sin of Origin of Power, Thoughts on Original Sin, Doctrine of „ ,, „ Extract of „ „ Sermon on Othen, Nathanael, Account of Ovidio, etc., Excerpta ex Paradise Lost, Extract from Pattern, The Christian's (a Kempis) Perfection, Christian, Plain Account of ,, „ Sermon on . „ „ Treatise on (Law) ,, ,, Farther Thoughts upon Perseverance, Answer to Dr. Gill on Final „ of Saints, Serious Thoughts on Petition and Thanksgiving, Hymns of Phaedri Fabula; .... Pharisaism and Antinomianism, First Part of Check to (Fletcher) Physick, Primitive Pilgrim's Progress, The Plain Account of Christian Perfection Pocket Companion, The Christian's (Barnes) Poems, 1 lerbert's .... „ Hymns and Sacred (1747) M (1749) Poetry and Poetical Works. — See Hymns, &c Tour. Collection of Receits for Use of the Popery Calmly Considered Potter, Mr., Letter to Power, Thoughts concerning the Origin of Prayer for ever)' Day in the Week, forms of Prayers for Children ,, ,, Condemned Malefactors (Hymns) ,, ,, Families Predestinarian and Friend, Dialogue between Predestination Calmly Considered INDEX 271 Predestination, Doctrine of, Stated and Asserted by A — T — 261 „ Election and Reprobation, Doctrine of . 27 „ Serious Considerations on Absolute . 22 ,, Sermon on .... 290 Preface to Aspasio Vindicated, Remarks on Defence of . 236 Preparation for Death in Several Hymns . . . 285 Present Times, An Estimate of the Manners of . . 360 Preservative Against Unsettled Notions in Religion . 191 Primitive Physick . . . . .101 Principles of a Methodist . . . -35 „ „ „ Farther Explained . . 87 Professors, Cautions and Directions to the Greatest . 213 Pronunciation and Gesture, Directions for . . 125 Proposals for Arminian Magazine . . . .322 Protestant, A Word to a . . . . . 82 ,, Association, The . . . -357 Provisions, Thoughts on Scarcity of 286 Prudence, Christian ..... 2 Psalms and Hymns, A Collection of, (Charlestown, 1737). 6 „ • „ „ (London, 1738) . 7 Public Advertiser, Letter to the Printer of the . 339, 349 Quaker, Letter to a Queries proposed to Count Zinzendorf Question, The, What is an Arminian ? Answered ,, The Important, A Sermon on . 108 169 260 308 Reasons against Separation from the Church . . 201 Rebellion, Reflections on the American . . .341 Receits, A Collection of . . . . .69 Redemption, Hymns for Those that Seek, etc. . .105 Reflections, Christian ..... 295 „ on American Rebellion . . .341 ,, on Conduct of Human Life (Norris) . . 25 Reformation of Manners, Sermon preached before the Society for . . . . .217 Religion in Virginia, Narrative of Revival of . . 330 ,, Preservative against Unsettled Notions in . 191 „ in New England, Thoughts on Revival of . 66 Religious Affections, Extract from Treatise on (Edwards) . 294 ,, Societies, Instructions for Members of . . 296 Remarks on Defence of Preface to Aspasio Vindicated . 236 ,, on Hill's Farrago . . . .287 „ „ ,, Review of Wesley's Doctrines . . 283 Renty, M. de, Extract of Life of . . . .21 272 INDEX Repentance of Believers, A Sermon on Reply to Sir W. Howe on Letters to A Nobleman, Extract Resurrection, Hymns for our Lord's Revival of Religion in New England, Thoughts on „ „ in Virginia, Narrative of Richardson, Mrs. H., Account of . Righteous Overmuch, Answer to Trapp's Sermons on bein Righteousness, The Lord our, Sermon on ,, of Christ, Thoughts on the Imputed Rogers, Ann, Account of . Roman Catechism, A ,, Catholic, Letter to a ,, Catholics, Short Method of Converting ,, History, A Short .... Rome, Advantage of Church of England over Church of Root, A Blow at the . . Rules of the Band Societies „ „ Strangers' Friend Society in Bristol ,, „ United Societies .... Rutherforth, Dr., Letter to 248 35 2 90 66 33° 23 118 2 35 21 1 263 179 134 156 289 161 212 57 4i3 43 249 Sabbath Breaker, A Word to a Sacred Harmony (Tunes) .... „ Melody (Tunes) .... Sacrament, a Hymn at the St. Matthew's, Bethnal-Green, Sermon preached at Saints and Sinners, A Word to „ Serious Thoughts on Perseverance of Sallustii, Caii, Bellum .... Salvation by Faith, A Sermon on . ,, Faith and Good Works, The Doctrine of, from the Homilies „ The Scripture Way of, A Sermon on Scarcity of Provisions, Thoughts on Scougall, Henry, Life of God in the Soul of Man Scriptural Christianity, A Sermon on Separation from the Church of England, Reasons against Serious Call to a Holy Life (Law) Sermon on Trouble and Rest of Good Men, 5 ; Salvation by Faith, 8 ; I ree ( riace, 1 1 ; The Almost Christian, 28; Christian Perfection, 29; Awake thou that Sleepest, <('. W.), 33 ; Scriptural Christianity, 55; Catholic Spirit, 170; The Good Soldier, 178 j The Coat Assize, 185 \ Original sin. i<)f> ; Reformation of Manners, 217; sin in lull. wis, 218 ; The Scripture-Way of Salvation, 79 358 206 61 3°9 86 J 53 128 8 9 286 5< 55 201 48 INDEX 273 230 ; The Lord our Righteousness, 235 ; The Witness of the Spirit, 242 ; The Repentance of Believers, 248; The Good Steward, 251; The Death of Whitefield, 266; Romans viii. 29, 30, (on Predestination), 290; 1 Cor. i. 23, 24, (Preached at Wakefield), 299 ; 1 John v. 7, (on the Trinity), 306 ; The Important Question, 308 ; National Sin and Miseries, 309 ; Numbers xxiii. 23, (Preached at Opening of City Road Chapel), 317 ; Matthew xxv. 34, (Preached before the Humane Society), 324 ; A Call to Backsliders, 329 j Death of Fletcher, 382. Sermon on Jeremiah vii. 4, by Dr. Hamilton Sermons on Several Occasions, Vol. i. „ „ „ „ Vol. ii. „ „ „ „ Vol. hi. „ „ „ „ Vol. iv. „ „ „ „ Vols. v. vi. „ Answer to Dr. Trapp's . Service, Sunday, for* H. M. Dominions „ „ for United States . Silas Told, Life of . Sin, The Doctrine of Original „ in Believers, A Discourse on . „ Sermon on Original Single Life, Thoughts on . Sinners, Alarm to Unconverted (Alleine) Slavery, Thoughts upon Smuggler, A Word to a Societies, Rules of the Band ,, Rules of the United Society, Rules of Strangers' Friend „ for Reformation of Manners, Sermon before Soldier, A Word to a „ The Good, Extract from a Sermon on Spirit, Marks of the Work of the . „ Witness of the, A Sermon on Strangers' Friend Society, Rules of Steward, The Good, A Sermon on Street Walker, A Word to a Sunday Service for H.M. Dominions ,, „ for United States . Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creat Swearer, A Word to a, (" Swear not at all on (2 vols.) (3 vols.) (5 vols.) 407 88 107 139 200 397 118 39° 376 406 182 218 196 228 362 298 2 39 57 43 4i3 217 44 178 49 242 413 251 80 39° 376 220 265 325 78 2 7 4 INDEX ■\uthor of Tea, Letter to a Friend on Testament, New, with Analysis „ New, Notes on Old, „ . „ Old and New, Concordance to Thanksgiving-Day, Hymns for The Consequence Proved . Theron and Aspasio, Answer to Letters to Thoughts on a Single Life . „ on Earthquake at Lisbon ,, on Godfathers and Godmothers „ on God's Sovereignty ,, on Imputed Righteousness of Christ ,, on Infant Baptism ,, on Liberty „ on Marriage and a Single Life „ on Necessity ,, on Origin of Power ,, on Perseverance of the Saints ,, on Revival in New England ,, on Scarcity of Provisions ,, on Sin of Onan . ,, on Slavery ,, on State of Public Affairs ,, Farther, on Christian Perfection Token for Children Told, Life of Silas Trapp, Dr., Answer to Sermons of Treatise on Christian Perfection (Law) „ on Christian Prudence (Norris) ,, on Fear of Man (Franck) ,, on Justification (Goodwin) Treatises, Two (Barnes) Trial at Gloucester, Account of Trinity, A Sermon on the . ,, Hymns to the ,, I [ymns on the Tune Hooks : 1 1\ inns with Tunes Annext Grounds of Vocal Music Sacred I [armony Sacred Melody . Tunes Sun- at the Founder)', Collection Trouble and Rest of Good Men, A Sermon on ,, I [ymns for Timi „ and Per ecution, 1 [ymns for Times i >J Tumults, Hymns Written in the Tune of the of INDEX 275 Unconverted, A Call to the (Baxter) . . . 363 United States, Sunday Service for . . . -376 Unsettled Notions in Religion, A Preservative against . 191 View of Differences between the Moravians and J. and C. Wesley, A Short . . . .68 Virginia, Narrative of Revival in . . . -33° Wakefield, Sermon preached at, taken down in Shorthand Walsh, Thomas, Life and Death of (Morgan) War in the Middle Colonies, Account of Conduct of Watchnight, Hymns for the Wednesbury, Modern Christianity exemplified at Wesley, J., Epistle to, by C. W. . „ Collected Works of Whitefield, Rev. G., Epistle to (C.W.) Elegy on „ Sermon on Death of . Whit-Sunday, Hymns for . Whittingham, Letter to Mr. J. Witness of the Spirit, A Sermon on Word of Advice to Saints and Sinners „ to a Condemned Malefactor ,, to a Drunkard ,, to an Englishman „ to a Freeholder ,, to Freemen of Established Church „ to a Methodist (Welsh) „ to a Protestant ,, to a Sabbath-breaker ,, to a Smuggler ,, to a Soldier ,, to a Street- Walker . „ to a Swearer Work of God at Northampton, Narrative of, (Edwards) ,, ,, in North America, Some Account of „ of the Spirit of God, Marks of Works, The Collected, of John Wesley — see Wesley 299 215 34o 97 72 i73 276 277 278 266 92 342 242 86 81 77 76 104 180 109 82 79 239 44 80 78 54 33i 49 Young's Night Thoughts, Extract of 269 Zinzendorf, Queries Proposed to . Zinzendorf's Discourses, Extract of 169 5° INDEX TO THE NOTES. The figures refer to the pages. A T , 148, 155- Abridgement of Prayer-Book, Wesley's, 232. Account, A Strange, 228. Account of the Ejected Ministers, 216. Acta Fratrum Unitatis in Anglia, 7i- Action and Utterance, Rules for, 59. Acts and Monuments, Fox's, 74. Acts of the Apostles, Hymns on, 25 1 . Adams, Rev. Thomas, 201. Address to American Colonics, A Vindication of Wesley's, 181. Address to the City, (London), 214; to the Inhabitants of England, 180, 188. Adultery and Murder, God's Revenge against, 235, 239. Advice to an Englishman, 163 ; to a Sailor. 27 ; to Electors of Bristol, 102. .Kmilius Probus de Viris Illustribus, 61. Affairs, Free Thoughts on present state of Public, 1 73- Aleppo to Jerusalem, A Journey from, 228, 233. Allan Library, viii, 203. Alleine, Joseph, ^&r»», 217; author oi ( lovenanl Sen ice, 84 ; I < it rrs of, 140 ; Life of, 84. Alleine, Richard, Works of, \ 94, 204. Altar, Companion for tin-, 44. Ambrose, Isaac, 1-ilf and Works of, 78. America, Societies in, 223, 226; Wesley's Letter on ordaining Ministi is for, 226. American Patriotii m, 181 •. War, Account ol Rise and Pro gres^ dI the, 201. An.. 11. .Mm . A ( Aim Addn 180 ; Letter by, 1S1. Amsterdam, 231. Ancient Mythology, Bryant on, 222. Angels, Discourse on Preservation by, 235. Annesley, Dr. S., Sermons by, SS, 93, 94- Answer to Mr. Rowland HilFsTract, 188. Anthems, Wesley's Objection to, 234. Antinomian and Friend, Dialogue between, 108, 173. Antinomianism, Antidotes to, 37,53; Fletcher's Second Cheek to, 161 ; Picture of, 198. Aphorismsof Justification, by Baxter, 173- Apocrypha, 45. Appeal from the Protestant Associa- tion, 201 ; to Men of Reason and Religion, 120, 164; A Farther ditto, 164. Armelle, Nicholas, 205. Arminius, File and Works iif, 197. Arndt's True Christianity, 63, 74. Asbury, Francis, 150, [94, 226, 239. Aspasio Vindicated, Remarks on I defence of Preface to, 172. Assurance, Letters on, 1 15. Athena- Oxoniciiscs, IO. Atlay, John, 1S5. 245. Atmore, Charles, 2 1 1. Austin's I tevotion Bailey, Mi.. 101. bail)-, Rev, Mi., 172. band Meetings, 1 17. band Societies, 27 baptism, Treati w on, 107, 172. baptism, Thoughts '-n Inlanl, 172. Barclay, Robert, Wi itings of, 53. Bards of Epworth % 25. I Ai nardiston, Sir \., Life of, 85. I Ai nes, Ri \ . Mi. . [31. b.n row, Isaac, w 1 tings of, 88. INDEX 277 Bath Journal, 63. Baxter's Aphorisms of Justification, 173 ; Certainty of World of Spirits, 222. Beard, Thomas, III. Bedell, Bp., Life of, 85, 198, 200. Beecham, Rev. John, D.D., 252. Behmen, Jacob, 213 ; Divinity and Philosophy of, 218. Bell, George, 121, 130, 140. Bengel's Gnomon Novi Testamenti, 91. Bennet, John, MS. Minutes by, 65. Benson, Rev. Joseph, 156, 160,222, 252. Berridge, Rev. Mr., 36, 128. Bertius, Rev. Peter, 197. Beveridge, Bp., Writings of, 94. Bibliography, Osborn's Outlines of, viii ; see also Osborn. Bicetre, Prison of, 233. Binning. Hugh, Writings of, 85. Bird's Fate and Destiny, 22, 205. Birstal Preaching House, The Case of, 218, 238. Bishop, Miss, of Bath, 155, 209. Bishops, American, 239. Bisveal, 50. Blackerby, Life of, 85. Blackwell, Mr., 62. Blow at the Root, A, 173. Boardman, Richard, 147, 156. Bodleian MSS., 10. Bohler, Peter, 38. Bolton, Robert, Life and Works of, 75. Bonnet on the Contemplation of Nature, 191. Book of Common Prayer, 223. Book-Room, Library of, viii., 99. Bosanquet, Miss, 149, 164. Boston's Fourfold State of Man, 222. Bourignon's Treatise of Solid Virtue, 88. Bradburn, Samuel, 196, 244. Bradford, Joseph, 185, 247. ,, Publisher, Philadelphia, 25. Brainerd, David, Life, Letters, &c, of, 144, 163. Brandt's History of the Reformation, 197. Brevint's Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice, 44, 174, 249. Bride Bush, A Wedding Sermon, 84. Brooke, Mr Councillor Henry, 209. Brooke, Mr. Henry, 209. Brooke, Rev. R. Sinclair, 209. Brown, John, Writings of, 88. Bruen, John, Life of, 85. Bryant's Ancient Mythology, 222, 225. Buddteus, Latin work of, 125. Buffon's Natural History, 218. Bunyan's Holy War, &c, 85. Burnet, Bp., 30. Butts, Mr. Thomas, 250; Collec- tion of Psalm and Hymn- Tunes, ib. Cadogan on Gout, 178, 195. Calamy, Dr., Sermons by, 88. Calverwell, N., 79. Calvin, 22 ; Life of, 85. Calvinism, Minute on (1770), 152, . }#> I 5 6 - Calvinistic Methodists, 14. Calvinists, 156. Camelford, 231. Carleton, Bp., 198. Castellio, and Servetus, Account of, 198. Castellio, Sebastian/ Dialogues of, 212, 219. Cataret, Lady Elizabeth, 44. Catechism, Roman, 80. Catholic Disabilities Act, 201. Catholic Love, Hymn on, 89. Cawton, Mr. T., 95. Cave, Dr. W., 85. Chandler's History of Persecution, 198. Character of a Methodist, 153. Charlemagne, 212. Charnock's Works, 88. Cheyne, Dr., On Preservation of Health, 50. Child, Directions for a, 250; Exhor- tation for, ib ; Morning and Evening Prayer for, ib. Children, On educating, 222; a small Pocket Hymn-book for, 236 ; Hymns for, 236 ; Instructions for, 42, 56, 127, 171, 174, 217 ; Token for, 217. Christian Library, 41, 62,63, 65, 74, 75,78,79,81,83,87,88,93, 94,95,109,156,187,204,205, 216, 229, 254. Christian Minister preaching politics, On a, 218 ; Magazine, 153 ; Reflections, 113, 171, 174; Instructions, 1 13 ; Prudence, Norris on, 10, 162; Festivals observed by the Wesleys, 47 ; 278 INDEX Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice, The, 249. Christian Perfection, Doctrine of, 25, 135, 146, 201 ; Hymns on, 122 ; Law's, 16, 27, 29, 56, 82, 143, 157 ; Plain Account of, 17,20,23, 113, 121, 125, 128, 135, 174, 192 ; Brief Thoughts on, 125 ; Thoughts on, 1 1 3, 1 24 ; Trapp's writings against, 56. Christianity, Nature and Design of, 217 ; As old as the Creation, 162 ; A Plain Account of Genuine, 83, 172. Christians, Instructions for, 174. Church, Rev. Mr. Thomas, 35, 36, 45. 165. Church, On the, 233 ; Difficulties with regard to the, 200 ; On leaving the, 201 ; Advices concerning the, 201 ; On Separation from, 92, 108, 1 14, 173, 174, 196, 231, 233, 241, 245 ; Wesley's relation to the, 114, 249; Advantage of Church of England over Church of Rome, 172. Churches, Thoughts on consecration of, 239. Churchmanship of John Wesley, by Dr. Rigg, 114. City- Road Chapel, Stevenson's I [istory of, 188. Clark, Mr. James, Author of Montanus Rediirivus t 116. Clark's Martyrology, 75. Clark, Samuel, Autobiography of, 85 ; Lives of Eminent Persons by, ib. Clarke, Rev. Mr., 201. Clarke, Dr. Adam, 1S1 ; Commen- tary of, 132; // esley Family i 222. Clemens Romanus, 13; Epistle to Corinthians by, 63. Clergy, Qualifications of, 97 ; Address to, 163. Clergyman, Letter to a, 154, 165. ( llive, Sir Ed , Knt., 1 ( lonfert and Killmacduagh, Bp. of, 116. ( !ode ol I «aws, Methodist, 241 . Coke, Rev. Dr., 221, 224, 225, 226, 247. ( Coleman, Dr., I i. Thomas, [98. Godfathers and Godmothers, Serious Thoughts on, 173. Goa"s eyes over all the earth . Goldsmith's History <>i England, iS^ ; 1 [istory <>f Animated Nature, [91. Goodman's, Dr., Winter Evening , 87. ( loodu in, I >i. Thomas, Worl ,, John, on Justification, 173 ; on Rom. i\. , 205. ( rolden Treasury, 131. Gordon Anti-Papal Riots, 206. Gospel Glass, A, 86 ; Magazine, 197 ; Ministers, Thoughts on, 225. Gdttingen, University of, 211. Grace, Remarkable work of, 136. Graces before and after meat, 138, 250. Grammars prepared for Kingswood School, 61. Grammar, A Short English, included in collected Works, 179. Grantham's Dialogue between a Presbyterian and a Baptist, 18. Gresley, Rev. W. , 249. Gurney, Joseph, 18. Guyon, Madame, 174. Gwennap, 50. G wynne, Sarah, 66. Haime, John, 205. Hale, Lord Chief Justice, S5, 192, 235- . f Ilaliburton, Thomas, Memoirs of, 13. 163. Hall, Pp., Meditations of, 75. ,, Rev. S. Romilly, viii. Halle, University of, 14. Hamilton, Dr. Janus, 243. Hammond, Dr., Life of, 95- Hampson, Rev. (., Life oi Wesley by, 77- Hanoverian, An Old Fox 'land and Feathered by, l8l. Hardcastle, Mr. C. D.,38, 108,236. llarmonia Saera, 250. Harper, Elizabeth, Journal of, 164. 1 [arris, Rev, 1 [owell, 158. Health, Advices with respect to, 171, 174. Henries, Mary. 88. Henry, Matthew, Commentary of, 122, 132. ,, Philip, Life of, 95. I [erbert, ( reorge, 85, 206. I [ernnschmid, John 1 ).. 10;. . , Rev. J aim . [08, ill, 1 20, 171: I., tta to, 173- I [eylin's List of the Wesley Writings, viii., 11. [8, 21, 3a, 34, .|\ 40, 70, 83, 90, oS, 105, M.;, in'. 1 10. 130, [40, [44, ii'", ii'i. 169, 171 77- [87, 214, -•1- 249- Heylin, Dr., Theological Lectures I [ickes's Refi ■> med I devotions, 93. INDEX Hildrop, Dr. John, 222. Hill, Sir Richard and Rev. Rowland, 152 ; Review of Wesley's doctrines, 161, 166, 173 ; Farrago •, 174. Hindmarsh, James, 190. Historical Society, The Wesley, v., 6 5- History of Methodism, Smith's and Stevens' — see Methodism. History of the Human Heart, by Henry Brooke, 209. Hitchens, Samuel, Account of, 163. ,, Thomas, 46, 163. Hoard, Mr. Samuel, 198, 200. Hockin, Frederick, 249. Hoffman, Dr., 178. Holy Spirit, Bp. of Gloucester on, 172. Homilies, Extract from the, 10, 13, 162 ; of Macarius, 63. Hooke's Roman History, 168. Hooker, Richard, Life of, 85. Hoole, Rev. Mr. Nathaniel, 11. Hopkins, Bp. , 109. • Home, Bp., 120, 139, 172. Horneck, Dr., 85. "Horrible Decree, The", 22, 76. Howe, John, Life and Works of, 94. ,, Lord, On Religious and Philosophical Subjects, 94. Huntingdon, Countess of, 14, 33, 152 ; Connexion of, 14. Husbands and Wives, The Duties of, 157. Hutton, James, 65 ; Memoirs of, 89. Hymnology, Julian's, 48, 109, 229. Hymn, — After the Defeat at Chesa- peak, 219 ; An Act of Devo- tion, 35 ; An Evening, 250 ; A Prayer for the Congress, 219; A Prayer for those who are convinced of Sin, 26 ; Catholic Love, 67 ; " Christ the Lord is risen to-day," 46; "Come let us anew our journey pursue," 49; "Father of boundless grace," 243 ; For a person called to bear his Testimony, 28, 66 ; For Ascension Day, 46 ; For Concord, 219 ; For Her Majesty, 220 ; For His Majesty King George, 30, 41, 172, 219; ForPeace, 219; For the Conversion of the French, 220; For the Royal Family, 220 ; For the Watch night, 70; "Gentle Jesus, muck and mild," 25 ; " God of boundless pity, spare," 105 ; " Happy soul, thy days are ended," 147, 164 ; "Jesu lover of my soul, ' 17 ; " Jesu the all-restoring Word," 250 ; Life and Eternity, 249 ; " Lo ! He comes with clouds descending," 108 ; " O Thou God of my salvation," 147 ; On the death of Rev. Mr. Whitefield, 151 ; Primitive Christianity, 28; "Regard, Thou righteous God and true, "41; " Servant of God, well done," 151 ; Thanks- giving for success of the Gospel in America, 220 ; The bloody issue, 179 ; "Thee we adore, eternal Name," 249 ; " The God of Abraham praise," 147, 214, 217, 229 ; The just shall live by faith, 17 ; " The Lord of Sabbath let us praise," 250 ; The Means of Grace, 179; The Preacher's Prayer for the Flock, 114; The Promise of Sanctifica- tion, 20 ; The Whole Armour of God, 23, 165 ; Thy King- dom come, 219 ; Universal Redemption, 14 ; Wrestling Jacob, 25, 237. Hymn-book for children, A Small, 236 ; The Large, 46, 47, 83, 229 ; The Methodist, by Stevenson, 66; The Morning, 225 ; The York, 236 ; Pre- pared for the Poor, 26 ; A Pocket, 236. Hymns, First of C.W.'s published, 15 : first printed anonymously, 22 ; for Children, 25, 160, 236, 246 ; for Christian Friends, 66 ; for the English in America, 71 ; for Families, 138, 139; for the Fast Day, 100 ; for the Festivals, 49, 52, 138, 139 ; for Girls, 127 ; for the Lord's Day, 232 ; for the Lord's Supper, 44, 48, 117, 174, 249 ; for the Nativity, 44 ; for New Year's Day, 70 ; for the Preachers, 114; for Times of Trouble 282 INDEX and Persecution, 30, 48, 49, 99, 100 ; for Whit- Sunday, 47 ; for the Youngest, 246 ; A Collection of, 66, 206, 217, 218; S pence's, 236; and Sacred Poems, 20, 23, 24, 26, 48, 52, 65, 66, 99, 117, 127, 249, 250; and Spiritual Songs, 83, 99, 119, 206; of Intercession, 108, 138 ; on the Earthquake, 68, 99 ; on God's Everlasting Love, 87 ; on the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, 242, 251 ; on the Trinity, 47, 138, 139 ; Funeral, 48 ; Moravian, 65 ; Nativity, 70 ; Psalms and, 99, 206 ; Redemption, 83, 117; Select, 117, 206, 214 ; Amos viii. 2., Ilabakkuk i., Mai. iv. i, 219; Rev. xvi., xvii. , 70 ; Revisions of, 251. Hymn-tracts on the Christian Festivals, 47, 48, 49. Ignatius, 13, 63. Ilchester, 137. Image- Worship, 242. Imposure Detected, by Rowland Hill, 188, 189 ; Wesley's Answer to, 189. Imputed Righteousness, Doctrine of, 120, 129, 133. Indenture, or Model-Deed, 126; when first published, 157. Infant Baptism, 72; Wall's Hist, of, ib. Instructions for Children, 42, 56, 127, 171, 174, 217 ; for Christians, 171 ; for Membersof Religious ties, 171, 174. Instruction .35. Ireland, Wesley's Last Visit to, 240. Jackson, Mr. Edward, 149. ,, Elizabeth, 149. ,, Rev, Thomas, 100, 252 ; . : Othen, N.. 163 : Row. John . v 5 : Sidney, Sir Philip. S5 : Spanheim, F. . S5 : Usher, 85, 200 ; Walsh, Thomas, 163 ; Watton, Sir Henry, S5; Whitaker, John, S5 ; Wood- ward, Joseph, S5. Lichfield and Coventry, Bp. of, 35. Life of God in the Soul of Man, 162. Limerick, First Irish Conference held in, 76. Lisbon, Serious Thoughts on Earth- quake at, 163. Liturgy. The. 223. 22 . Letters by Wesley in, 132, 136, 137, 153. 199- Locke s Essay on Human L nder- standing, 21S, 222, 225. . [66. Logic, Sanderson's Method of using. 6S. . Aldrich's Artis, 68. London, Bp. of. 35, 165. ,, . Letters by Wesley in. 120. 136, 137 ; Daily Advertiser, 89; Magazine, The, 41, 116. Lopez. Greg \ -.5. 229, 230. Lovefeasts, The rirst held in London, 57. Love. Mr.. 44. . Dr.. Wri lings of, S9. Lukins. George. Account of, 242. Luther on Creed, 30, 212. Macarius, Homilies of, 63, Machine. Dr., 212. Madan. 10S ; on Polygamy and Marriage. 222. Magazine, The Arminian. 145. 102, 175. 190, 199, 207, 20S, 209, 215. 217. 21S. 221. 220. 230. 237. 24S. 254: The Methodist, 1S2, 244. 24S : The Spiritual, 199 : The Wesleyan Methodist. 215, 217. 24S. Magnesians. St. Ignatius' Epistle to, 6$. Man. The Whole Duty of, 84. Manchester. 234. Manners of the Times, On the. 242. Manners of the Ancient Christians, 162. Manton, Dr., Sermons by, 75. 78. Marriage. A Thought upon, 22S. Marsh, Mrs. Elizabeth, 213. Mascon, The Devil ot, 144, 219. Mather. Alexander. 205 ; Cotton, 95 ; Richard, S5, Maund G. Sculpt., 214. Maundrell, Henry. 22S. 233. 235. Maxneld, Thomas, 193 ; Fanatical teaching of, 130. 284 INDEX Melancthon, Life of, 85. Memory, Thoughts on, 245. Meriton, Mr. John, 32, in. Methodism, Attack on, 41 ; early difficulties of, 57 ; early history of, in Ireland, 221 ; " examined and exposed " by Downes, no, 172; Constitu- tion and Polity of, 227, 241 ; Relation to Church of England, 249; Short History of, 165, 212; Smith's History of, viii., 133, 144, 155, 181, 197, 247 ; Stevens' History of, viii., 63, 108, in, 152, 155, 169, 181, 198, 211, 216, 225, 229, 245, 247 ; thoughts upon, 235. Methodist, defined, 81 ; Book- Room, Library of, viii., 99 ; Character of a, 153, 165; Church, Standard doctrinal writings of, 53, 126 ; Epis- copal Church of America, 19, 194; Preachers, Lives of early. 123, 147; Principles of a, 165; Word to a (Welsh), 54 ; Work, Defence of, 36. Methodists, Advice to, 157, 165 ; Cautioned, 121 ; Caveat against, 137; Charges against answered, 1 31 ; Chronological History of, 169, 196, 246 ; Ec< roomy of, 60 ; Enthusiasm of, 165 ; Oxford, 213 ; Plain Account of, 164 ; Public Prayers and Services of, 232 ; Short 1 listory of, 212 ; Treatment of, 36, 40, 97 ; Who are the true, 40; Welsh, 54- Middleton, Rev. Dr. Conyers, 58, 63, 172. Minrhin-I lampion, 31. " Ministerial Methodism," 41. Minute on Calvinism, 152, 155, 156, l6l. Minutes, Annual, 131, 144, 160, 179, 200, 205,208, 21 ;. 219, 222, 224, 225, 2 235, -■ 1 5 ; I doctrinal I )isciplinarj , 65, "»S : rinted, 64 \ h [96 | Lai e, 10. 17, 65, [57, Mss. oi 1 1 »ctavo editions, 65 ; w hj Called " the I . 1 ;i : Revised, u 5> 7^> l S5> Io 9, 203, 238; ot 1744, 33; of 1745, 39; of 1749, 27. Miscellany of Divine Meditations, 85. Misery of Man, Thoughts on, 235. Mitchell, Thomas, 205. Model-Deed, The, 126, 157, 221, 230, 238, 241 ; called "the Conference-Plan, 23S ; and the General Deed, 230. Molinos' Spiritual Guide, 88. Montanus Rcdivivus, 116. Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, 213. Monthly Review ^ 210, 213. Moore, Dr. Henry, Sermons of, 88. ,, Rev. Henry, Smith's Life of, 62 ; Life of Wesley — see Wesley, Life of. M 001 fields, 51. Moral Agents, On the Liberty of, 248. Moravian Church, 16, 31. Moravians, 16, 97; Difference between the Wesley s and, 3S, 173, 249; Doctrines of, 16; History of, 71; Hymns of, 65 ; Strictures on teaching of, 51 ; Wesley's relations with, 31. More, Dr. Henry, 206. Morgan, Rev. James, 163. Morley, Dr. ( reorge, 38. Mornay, Philip de, Life of, 85. Mosheim, Dr. J. L., an. Motives to Conversion, Baxter, a 16. Murder and Adultery, God's Revenge against, 239. Music. Thoughts on power of, 213. Myles' Chronological History of Meth., 169, 196, 246. Mystic I >i\ ines, The, 15. Narrative of Conference of 1 77 1 , Shirley's, 156. Nation, Moral State of, 36. Necessity, Thoughl on, 205. Nelson, John, The Case of, 1 72. N ., Mr., 201. NerVOUS Disorders, Thoughts On, \ ( w ( bvenant, The, by John Preston, 75. New Tei 1 of, 1 74. ,, K( \ iew , Mr. M .. Testament, Notes on, see Testament. ,, Vbrk, 1 17. INDEX 285 Nicodemns ; or The Fear of Man, 162. North, Lord, Letter to, 181. Norris, Mr., 162. Old Methodist Tunes, 24. O'Leary, Father, 208. Olivers, Thomas, 147,164,185,188. Origin of the Soul, 218. Original Sin, Dr. Taylor on, 100 ; Doctrine of, 101, 173, 222, 223. Osborn's Bibliography, viii., 9, 12, 25, 26, 43, 48, 49, 65, 68, 79, 82, 87, 90, 98, 99, 105, 113, 116, 119, 122, 124, 135, 140, 144, 169, 170, 171, 177, 187, 207, 214, 219, 229, 236, 252. Othen, Nathanael, 163. Overton, Canon, Life of W. Law, 29 ; Life of John Wesley, 227. Owen, Dr. John, Work and Life of, 79- Oxford, Bodleian MSS., 10; Univer- sity of, 12, 104. Palmer, Herbert, Works of, 84. Papists, A Disavowal of persecuting the, 218. Paradise Lost, 125. Pascal's Thoughts on Religion, 84. Passions, The, 219, 222. Patrick, Bp., Extracts of, 86, 198; Sermon by, 84. Pelew Islands, Account of the, 245, 248. Pennington, John, II. Pereaud, Mr. Francis, 144. Perronet, Mr. C, 60, 83. ,, Rev. Vincent, Vicar of Shoreham, 67. Perseverance of Saints, Dr. Gill on the, 77 ; Serious Thoughts on, 173. Peters, Sarah, Account of, 218. Phenomenon, Thoughts on a late, 241. Philippians, St. Polycarp's Epistle to the, 63. Philodemas alias etc., Letter to, 1 16. Philosophical Necessity, Dr. Priestley on, 238, 242, 245. Philosophy, A System of, 156, 192. Piers, Mr., 32. Pictas Oxoniensis, 161. Pious Communicant, by S. Wesley, sen., 107. Pilgrim's Progress, 162, 171. Pilmoor, Joseph, 147, 156. Plaifere on Predestination, 198, 200. Pocket Companion, The Christian's, 130. Poem on the Last Day, Dr. Young's, 153. Poems, A Collection of Moral and Sacred, 25, 153. Poetical Works — see Wesley, J. and C. , Poetical Works of. Poll-Deed, The, 223, 227, 238, 241, 247. Poiret, M., Translations from, 35, 174- Polycarp, Remains of, 13 ; Address of, to the Philippians, 63 ; Martyrdom of, ib; St. Ignatius' Epistle to, 6^. Polygamy and Marriage, Madan on, 222. Poole's Annotations, 132. Popery, Antidote against, 103 ; Exposed and J. Wesley Vindi- cated, by Philalethes, 203. Portraiture of Methodism, Crowther's, 33. Potter, Rev. Mr., A Letter to, 171. Power, Thoughts on Origin of, 173- Prayer, An Old Man's, 162. Prayers, Collection of Forms of, 9, 10, 163 ; For Condemned Malefactors, 42 ; For Fami- lies, 84,^ 163. Preacher's Assistant, The, 11. Preachers, Lives of Early Methodist, 147. Preaching Christ, On, 200. Predestinarian and Friend, Dialogue between, 173. Predestination, 212 ; Toplady on, 148, 155 ; Calmly considered, 173, 200 ; Considerations on, 173 ; Sermon on, 168 ; Scrip- ture Doctrine of, 173, 200. Prelectiones Pueriles, 56. Preservative against Unsettled Notions in Religion, 19, 38, 39> 53> 78,96, 108, 114, 119, 172, 174. _ Press, Wesley's, in London, 240. Preston, Life and Works of Dr. John 75- Price, Dr., Observations on Civil Liberty by, 183. Priestley, Dr., 238, 242, 245. Primitive Physick, 174. 286 INDEX Principes solides dc la religion, etc. , 174. Prior, Thoughts on Character and Writings of, 218. Pronunciation and Gesture, Direc- tions for, 179. Prostitute, A Word to a, 42. Protestant Association, 201 , 203, 208. Providence, A remarkable, 233. Psalmody, Introduction to, 250. Psalm civ. Paraphrased, 198. Psalms and Hymns, A Collection of, (1737), 10; (1741), 206; for the Lord's Day, 232. Public Advertiser, The, 202, 213. Public Prayers, etc., Book of, 232. Puritan Writers, Remarks on, 75. Quaker, Letter to a, 107, 172. (Question, Answer to an Important, 238. Raikes, Mr. Robert, 228. Rankin, Mr. Thomas, 194. Rapin's Hist, of England, 185. Rawlinson's Continuation of Wood's Athena Oxonienscs, 10. Redemption, General, 242 ; Hymns, Wesley's estimate of, 52. Reflections on the Conduct of Human Life, 162. Refined Courtier, The, 238, 242. Religious Affections, Treatise on, 174. ,, Tract Society, The, 1 70. Renty, M.de, 163, 230. Revelation, Book of the, 245. Review of Wesley's Doctrines, by Hill, 161, 166, 173. Revival in New England, Thoughts on, 172. Reynolds, Works of Dr., 89, 93. Mr. T. W.,235. Richardson, Mrs. Hannah, 164. Richmond College Library, 168, 196. Rigg, Dr., on Wesley's relation to William Law, 143; to Church of England, 1 14, 2.10. .I i-.t,< m Imputed, 173- Ritchie, M si- Rod for a Revilcr, by T. Olivers, [88, 100. Rogers, Ann, 164. Roman < atechism, 1 7 1 ; Catholic, Letter to a, 172 ; Catholics, Short Method of Converting, 172 ; History, A Short, 71 ; do., by N. Hook, 168. Romans, Goodwin's Exposition of Epistle to the, 205 ; St. Ignatius' Epistle to the, 63. Rouse, Francis, 79. Row, John, Life of, 85. Rules of Band Societies, 27 ; of the United Societies, 165 ; Changes in, iy. ;> Rusticulus, or Dr. Dodd," 153. Rutherford, Samuel, Letters of, 137, 140. Rutherforth, Dr., Charges to the Clergy by, 141 ; Letter to, 172.' Ryan, Mrs. Sarah, 200. Sacrament and Sacrifice, The Christ- ian, by Brevint, 44, 174, 249. Sacrifice, The Christian, by Bp. Patrick, 86. Sacred Harmony, 214. Sacred Melody, 214. Saints' Everlasting Rest, Baxter's, 187. Salvation by Faith, Thoughts on, 200. Sandemanians, 102. Sanderson, Bp., Works of, 84. Savannah, 17. Scougall, Rev. Henry, 30; Discourses by, 93. Bp.,30. Scripture, Divine Inspiration of, 242. Self-Examination, A Scheme of, 213; Questions for, by Wesley. 9, Serious Call, Law's, 27, 29, 56, 217. Sermon before the Society tor the Recovery of Drowned Persons, 191 ; by Dr. Hamil- ton, 243 ; Awake thou that sleepest, 217 ; Caution against false Pro] .licts, 67 ; Christ- ian Perfection, 2] ; Death iA Whitefield, 157 ; I H False Prophets, 104 ; family Religion, 16OJ Free . 1 i, 22, 1 ;• ; : ( '>od is Love, 228 ; The 1 Steward, 157,220; National Sins a rid M ise r ies, 1 83 ; Obedience to Parent ( Original Sin, 217 : Reform- ation of Manners, 157 ; The Almost ( luistian, 20, 217 ; The Lord our Righteousness, 53. 1 57 ; Predestination, 168 ; INDEX 287 Repentance of Believers, 157 ; Sin in Believers, 141, 157 ; The Circumcision of the Heart, 220 ; Salvation by Faith, 130, 217 ; The Great Assize, 157, 217, 220; The Important Question, 217; The New Birth, 217; The Scripture-Way of Salvation, 133. Hi, 157; The Trinity, 181,217 ; The Use of Money, 220 ; The Way to the King- dom, 217 ; The Witness of the Spirit, A Second, 137, 157 ; The Korah, 245 ; Wandering Thoughts, 157. Sermons on Death, Judgment, etc., 242, 245 ; on Several Occa- sions, by Wesley, no, 157, 168, 181 ; Proposals for print- ing the First Series, 40, 46 ; the Second Series, 237 ; Jackson's edition of, in 2 vols., 195, 245 ; Original in Magazine, 213, 219, 222, 224, 228, 233, 235, 238, 241, 245, 248; Separately re-*printed, 67. Service in Church-hours, 231. Shaw, Samuel, Life and Writings of, 85. Sheridan's Lectures on Elocution, 60. Shirley, Rev. Walter, 152, 155, 156. Sibs, Richard, Life and Writings of, 75- Sidney, Sir Philip, Life of, 85. Silas Told, 229. 235. Singing, Directions for, 117. Single Life, Thoughts on a, 174. Smollett's Hist, of England, 185. Smith, Rev. John, Works of, 79, 84 ; Hist, of Methodism — see Methodism. Smuggling, Efforts to prevent, 136. Smyrna, Epistle to the Church of, 63. Smyth, Rev. Edward, 196. Societies in Europe and America, 248. Society, Methodist, First Ticket of, 10 ; Rules of, 165 ; for Reformation of Manners, 124; for Distribution of Religious Tracts among the poor, 217. Soldier, Advice to a, 163. Soliloquy for an Unregenerate Sinner, by Baxter, 216. Sophronius and Callistus, Dialogues between, 235. Soul, The Origin of the, 218. Southey's Life of Wesley — See Wesley, Life of. South's Sermons, 93. Spangenberg, 38, 66. Spanheim, Frederick, Life of, 85. Spence, Mr., of York, 215, 236. Spira, The Second, 2.2.2.. Spirit of God, Marks of the Work of the, 172. ,, of Prayer, The, 96, 217. St. Bartholomew's Day, 32. St. Just, Revival at, 225. St. "Mary's, Oxford, 20, 32. Staffordshire, Riots in, 40. Stanhope's Translation of Thomas a Kempis, 10. Stevens' History of Methodism, — see Methodism. Stevinson, Mr. G. J., 48, 114, 180, 188. Stonehouse, Rev. Mr., 158. Study, A Method of, 60. Sugden, Mr. William, 215. Suicide, Thoughts on, 245. Sunday Charity Schools, 228 ; Service, The, 21, 224, 225, 232. Superstition and Religion, 235. Supplement to Large Hymn-Book, 34- Sure Guide to Heaven, 216. Survey of Wisdom of God in the Creation, 179, 213, 222, 224, 233> 239, 242, 245. Swaddlers, Title given to Methodists in Ireland, 64, 116. Swedenborg, Thoughts on the Writings of, 222. Swindells, Mr., 54. Taste, Thoughts upon, 205. Taxation no Tyranny, by Dr. Johnson, 180. Taylor, Dr., of Norwich, 100, 102, 128. Taylor, Jeremy, Works of, 79, 135. ,, Mr. Thomas, 215. ,, ,, ,, A.M , 245. Tea, 111 effects of, 57 ; Letter on, 174. Tedworth, The Drummer of, 228. Telford's Life of Wesley— see Wesley. The Temple, by Herbert, 171. Testament, Notes on New, 156, 157, 179, 245, 252; Part of the Doctrinal Standards of 288 INDEX Methodism, 53 ; Text of, 234, 244 ; Notes on Old, 156; Why so meagre, 132; few sold, 133, 179. T. II., Letter to, by Wesley, 116. Thecla, Sufferings of, 242. Theron and Aspasio, 121, 129; Letter to Author of, 173. Thessalonians, Thoughts on an Expression in, 233. The Spiritual Bee, 85. Thompson, R., Letters between Wesley and, 115. Thompson, William, 247. Thoughts on Marriage and Celibacy, 26 ; on late Occurrences, 228 ; on Nervous Disorders, 177 ; on an Important (Ques- tion, 218 ; on Religion, by Beveridge, 94 ; on Revival in New England, 172 ; on the Brute Creation, 222. Three Dialogues, Extract from, 233, . . 2 35- Thriving, Surest way of, 238, 242. Tilenus, The Examination of, 197. Tillolson, Abp., Works of, 93; Wesley's Preface to, 94. Time, On the folly of mis-spending, 238 ; On the swiftness of, 238. . Dr., 138, 145. Token for Children, 217. Toplady, Mr. A., 148, 152, 181, 190. Towgood, A Letter to Mr., on Dissent, 107, 172. Trallians, St. Ignatius' Epistle to the, 63. Trapp, Dr., Sermons by, 162. , Mr. Thomas, Life of, 95. Trench, Dean, 245. Trevecca College, 156. Trial of Spirits, The, byC. Perronet, 83 ; wrongly ascribed to Wesley, ib. Trinity, Hymns and Prayers to the, 139 ; Doctrine of, ib. Trosse, Mr. G., Life of, 95. True Christianity, Arndt's, 63, 74. Trust- Deeds, Sermons referred to in, 53i 157. 1 Ippointmenl of New, [82. T.S., A Cool Reply to a Calm by, 1 Si. Tune-Pook, The In .1 Methodist, H> Tunes, Collection of, - 14. Tyerman's Life of Wesley — see Wesley, Life of. Unhappy Woman, Word to an, 42. Universal Redemption, Hymn on, 14. Unsettled Notions in Religion, Pre- servative against — see Pre- servative. Urlin, R. Denny, 249. Usher, Abp., Life of, 85, 200. Vasey, Mr. Thomas, 224, 239. Verheyen, Dr. Philip, 225. Vial, Hymn on the Seventh, 70. Vindication of Godliness, Alleine's, 204. Voice, Lessons for exercising the, 119. Walker, Rev. Mr., 200, 201. Walsall, 40. Walsh, Thomas, in ; Life of, 122, 163; Learning of, 123. Warburton, Bp., 123 ; Divine Legation of Moses by, 143, 162. Ward, Bp., Sermon by, 85. Water ford, 1 54. Walton. Sir Henry, Life of, 85. Watts' Bibliotkeca Britanniea, 1 1 ; Dr. Isaac, 13, 237. Wedgwood, Julia, Life of Wesley by, 67. Weekly History, (Whitefield), 17, 22, 29. Wednesbury, 40, 43, 57; Modem Christianity at, 43, 172. Welsh. A Word to a Methodist, translated into, 54. Wesley Family, by Dr. Clarke, 222. Wesley, Charles, printed Sermons of, II ; Eirst printed hymns of, 15 ; preaches before the University, 22 ; spirit of the ministry of, 51 : persecution of, 52 ; accused oi Calvinism, 76 ; special work in lime ol national distress, 100 ; in sickness w nt< \ >ins on .sv.-V, t Passages of Si rip! me, 1 22 : composes hymns to Lampe's tunes, [38 | careless in eailing his hymn-books, 1 ;i) ; orr< m On death ol Whitefield, 152; unpublished poems, 1 58, [62, si. 15 | ; attachment to Whitefield, INDEX 289 l 5&> x 59 5 clearness and force of his writing, 164; signed the second edition of the Rules, 163 ; short hymns in Magazine, 205, 242 ; on the Gordon riots, 206, 213 ; large number of his hymns in the large hymn-book, 206 ; his last publication, 228 ; visita- tions to the prisons, 229 ; record of his death, 237 ; hymns for Children, 246 ; wrote large number of hymns on the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, 251; the same revised by J. W.,ib; Poetical Works "of, 252 ; total original prose and poetical publications of, 254 ; Journal of, 18, 25, 27, 32, 48, 49, 52, 69, 70, 114, 158, 206, 229 ; Life of, by Jackson, 13, 17, 18, 21, 23, 25, 32, 34, 44, 48, 51, 66, 68, 92, 97, 100, 107, 112, 114, 122, 127, 139, 152, 158, 206. Wesley, Charles, Esq.; 214. ,, John, First publications of, 9 ; early letter of, 10 ; earliest translations of Germanhymns by, 1 1 ; mistakes respecting his writings, 12 ; studies the Homilies on Justification by faith, 13 ; high estimate of Life of Haliburton, 13 ; cause of difference between, and Whitefield, 14, 173 ; beginning of his great work, 15 ; Missionary Life, ib. ; visits Moravians in Germany, 16 ; Conversion, ib.; preaches before the University, 20, 32 ; converses with Bp. of London on Christian Per- fection, 20 ; cares for the poor, 26, 42 ; influence of Law's writings on, 27 ; reads while walking, 31 ; vindicates his teaching, 35 ; visits the prisons, 42 ; observes the Christian Festivals, 47 ; appeals to Bp. of London, 51 ; ethical teaching of, 53; preaches from his father's tomb, 57 ; denied the Sacra- ment at Epworth, ib. ; opinion of Sheridan's Lectures, 60 ; carries books when travelling, 62 ; urges the use of the Christian Library, 63 ; tries to con- ciliate the Catholics of Ireland, 64 ; skilled in logic, 68 ; great labour of, 69, 103, 133 ; opinion of the French language, JT, ; charity of, 85, 90 ; controversy with Dr. Gill, 8y ; always called Rev. Mr. Wesley, 87 ; portrait of, by Williams, 92 ; revises the Christian Library, 95 ; pro- poses to raise 200 Volunteers, 98 ; Roman Catechism wrongly attributed to, 99 ; accused of connexion with popery, ib. ; anti-popish publications of, ib. ; meets the voters of Bristol, ib. ; severe writing of, 102 ; defence of Theron and Aspasio, ib. ; replies to Dr. Free, 104 ; during illness writes his own epitaph, 109 ; purpose in publishing the Desideratum and the Primi- tive Physick, 115 ; letters of, to Thompson on Assurance, 115 ; curious defence of, 116; has difficulty in providing good tune-books, 118; hampered by false teachers, 121 ; opinion of the Short Hymns (No. 214), 122 ; refutes Bp. Warburton, 123 ; purpose of, in preparing the Survey (No. 220), 125 ; reads the Survey with his preachers, 126 ; portrait of, by Hone, 132 ; charged with inconsistency, 133; " power " of, explained, 134; how led to embrace doctrine of Christian Perfection, 135 ; strives to prevent smuggling, 136 ; writes to several public Journals in defence of his work, 136-7 ; appeals to the clergy, 140; opinion of Mary Gilbert's Journal, 142 ; views on Law's writings, 143 ; on Brainerd's Life, ib.; on Tissot's works, 145 ; defines Christian Per- fection, 146 ; controversy with Toplady, 148, 155 ; commends the Experience 290 INDEX of E.J., 149 ; writes on public affairs, id., 159, 187, 193; Sermon on death of White- field, 151 ; controversy on Calvinism, 152; abridges Young's Night Thoughts, 153 ; assailed by Rev. Mr. Fleury, 1 54 ; publishes a collection of his Works, 156; care for children, 160 ; ex tempore sermon, 175 ; writings on the American War, 180, 183,184,201,202,210; opens City Road Chapel, 188 ; proposes to publish a Magazine, 190; violent press persecution, 192 ; advices to preachers, 195 ; his first Conferences in Ireland, 195 ; publishes his Magazine, 196 ; writes on popery, 201 ; issues the large Hymn-Book, 206 ; controversy with O'Leary, 208 ; founds a Tract Society, 217 ; thoughts on his own Sermons, 220 ; abridges Liturgy and ordains Super- intendents and Elders for America, 223, 224, 226, 232, 239 ; objects to the term Bishop, 239 ; Sermon on death of Fletcher, 227 ; enrols Deed of Declaration, 227 ; last visit to Ireland, 240 ; last publication of, 244 ; establishes a Strangers' Friend Society, 246 ; re- flections on entering his 88th year, 246 ; death, 247 ; More Work for, or a I 'indi- cation of the Decrees, etc., 155 ; Sermon on Pleasantness of a Religious Life, wrongly ascribed to, 11; Sermons, 195 5 Works, Krrors in, 23, 28 ; total number of, 254 ; Churchmanship of, by Dr. Rigg, 1 14,249; his designated Successoi . . [ournal of, 17, 1 30, 31, 36, 40, 42, 48, 49, 5°. 5'» 54i 5 s . 6o, 61, 62, 7L 72, 73. 1 ;. 104, 1 14, us. 1 i' 1 . 120, 123, 1 2 }, 1 1 J3, hi. [43, 1 17. 151, 156, 175, 177, I So, is.., [83, 185, 188, 189, 190, 201, 203, 218, 220, 224, 231, 232,234, 243, 246, 248, 251. Wesley, Life of, Beechanvs, 252 ; The Churchman's, 249 ; Hampson's, 77; Moore's, 10, 51, 58, 139, 227,237; Canon Overton's, 227 ; Southey's, 14, 96, 181, 184, 208, 216, 227, 229 ; Telford's, 28, 92 ; Tyerman's, viii., 14, 17, 20, 41, 61, 63, 72, 77, 79, 89, 97, 98, 108, 114, 120, 123, 127, 129, 130, 133, 181, 190, 192, 201, 221, 246, 252 ; Watson's, 90, 156; Wedg- wood's. 67; Whitehead's, 150; list of Works, by lleylin and Smith, viii. ; Works of, own edition (177 1-4), 16, 28, 43, 53,59,80, 119, 122,142,147, I5°> !54> 157, 160, 162, 163, 164,165,171,177,252; Ben- son's edition (1809*13), 160, 180, 195, 252 ; Jackson's edition (1829-31), 16, iS, 19, 21, 27,29,31,33, 35, 44,53, 59, 60, 62, 63, 66, 68, 80, 95, 102, 103, 107, 115 125, 129, 133, *3 6 > HO, 143- 149. 155, 160, 175, 180, 186, 192, 209, 218, 221, 231, 23 Wesley. J. and C. , Poetical Works \>f. \iii., II, 12, 21, 22, 34, 44, 49, 69, 105 119, 140, 151, 158, 161, i< 252. ,, Samuel. Letters and Lite 1 : Sermon by, 1 24 ; Hymn of, 206. ,, Samuel, Jan., Hymns of, 206, 250. ,, Susannah, 57. ,, 1 [istorical Society, v., 65 Westminster Journal, 1 37 '. Wheatley, Mr. James, 98. Wilson, Captain I [enry, 2 i s West [ndies, Missionaries fi 11 . 2 |8. Whatcoat, Richard, 21 | Whitaker, William, Life of, s ;. Wheatley, fames, Life ol faraway by, 79. Whitby, Dr., ;. 235. Whiteneld, Rev. George) 13, 14, 18, 1, ji, 61, 107, 151, 15S, 189, 232 | L tt< rsby, 13, 14. ;i : T( aching of, defended, INDEX 291 51 ; Weekly History, 17, 22, 29 ; Tverman's Life of, 30, 159. Whitfield, G., (Book-Steward), 206, 214. Whitehead, Dr., 150, 157, 185. Wilkes, John, 159. Wilcocks, Thomas, Works of, 45. Williams, Rev. Dr. H. W.,227, 241. Wilson, Captn. Henry, 248. ,, Mr. Thomas, Life of, 95. Winter, Dr. Samuel, Life of, 95. Womack, Bp. Lawrence, 197, 198. Wood's At hence Oxonienses, 10. Woodhead, Abraham, 230. Woolmer, Rev. T., 11. Woodward, Joseph, Life of, 85. "Words," 27, 42, 43, 217. Word, A, To whom it may concern, 42, 138. Worthington, John, 84. Wotton-under-Edge, 189, Wright, Richard, "156. Wroot, 11. Young, Dean of Sarum, Works of, 94. York Hymn-Book, 236. Zanchius, on Predestination, 148. Zinzendorf, Count, 38, 107 ; Hymns of, 65 ; Life of, by Spangen- berg, 66, 158. ERRATA. p 9, 1. p- 12, 1. p. 13,1. p. 14, 1. p- 17, 1. p. 39, 1. p- 48,1. p- 59,1- p. 68, 1. p- 85,1. p- 108, 1. p. 164, 1. p. 254, I. p- 254, I. 37, for Grey read Gray. 3, substitute the book was sold by auction for ^20. 39, for J- Watts read I. Watts. 20, for Frank read Franck. 28, for 14 read 13. 39, for each read the former. 5, for 139 read 138. 23, for see No. 63 read James Janeway. 43, for Saunderson read Sanderson. 25, for Barardiston read Barnardiston. 29, for Jackson's read Tyerman's. 21, for one sermon read two sermons. 14, for 326 read 315. 16, for 61 read 62. " * J THE COLLEGE, DIDSBURY. 4uf sU**/fo > /Imus .Zj. /frog-