1761.
Distinguished Men—England from 1760 to 1791—Newgate
Prison—_Westminster Journal_—London Methodists—Methodism’s
first Female Preacher—Journey to the North—_Real_ Antinomian
Methodists—James Relly—Rev. Henry Venn’s Irregularities—Separation
from the Church—Methodism in Aberdeen—Letter to Mrs. Hall—John
MacGowan—Methodism in Darlington, Yarm, Scarborough, Otley,
Bingley, Rotherham, etc.—Wesley admonishing an Itinerant—Alexander
Coates—A Compromise—Conference in London—Original Letter by J.
Manners—Christian Perfection—_London Magazine_—_Lloyd’s Evening
Post_—_St. James’s Chronicle_—Two Sermons before University of
Oxford—Wesley’s Publications—Methodist Tunes and Singing 393-430
1762.
Rev. Benjamin Colley—Christian Perfection—Thomas Maxfield—George
Bell—Wesley admonishing Fanatics—Sad Confusion—A false
Prophecy—“Philodemas”—Good educed from Evil—Cautions to greatest
Professors—Maxfield’s Whinings—End of Bell—Wesley and his Brother
on Christian Perfection—Wesley at Everton—Wesley in Ireland—A
starving Player—Methodist Professors of Sanctification—Conference at
Leeds—A Cornish Magistrate—Letters on Christian Perfection—Hostile
Publications—Wesley’s Publications 431-458
1763.
Wesley the only Clerical Itinerant—Letters in _London
Chronicle_—Fanatical Methodists—Wesley’s Friends desert him—Rev.
J. Fletcher—Rev. W. Romaine—“Farther Thoughts on Christian
Perfection”—Advice to the Sanctified—Distress in London—“Society for
the Reformation of Manners”—A “Pious Fraud”—Scottish Ladies—Methodism
in Edinburgh, Dunbar, Barnard castle, etc.—Letter from Dr. Conyers—“A
kind of Gentleman”—Matthew Mayer—Conference Minutes, between 1753 and
1763—Howel Harris at Conference of 1763—Welsh Jumpers—Danger of rich
Methodists—Methodism in Norwich and London—Rev. Jacob Chapman—Dr.
Byrom—Increase of Methodism creates a Difficulty—Erasmus and his
Ordination—Wesley and Dr. Rutherforth—Wesley and Bishop Warburton—Jane
Cooper—Wesley’s Publications 459-496
1764.
Whitefield in Ill Health—The half insane Watchmaker—Blandford
Park—Oratorios—Wesley on his northern Journey—Unpublished
Letter by Wesley to Lady Maxwell—An adventurous Ride—Riding in
Carriages—Difficulty—Unpublished Letter by Wesley to Countess of
Huntingdon—Proposed Clerical Union—On Consecrating Churches—Defraying
Debts on London Chapels—Proposed new Theatre at Bristol—A
Pastoral Address—A Methodist Orphanage—Rev. Thomas Hartley—The
Mystics—Millenarianism—Attacks on Methodism—Wesley’s last letter
to Hervey—Hervey’s “Eleven Letters to Wesley”—Old Friends
divided—Quarrelling and its Results—Letters to Thomas Rankin—Methodist
Manifesto 497-533
1765.
Methodism at High Wycombe—A Long Tour—Alexander Knox, Esq.—Opinions
and essential Doctrines—Conference of 1765—Methodism at
Huddersfield—Important Letter to Rev. H. Venn—Disgraceful
Scene in Devonshire—Faults of Cornish Methodism—Professors
of Sanctification—Captain Webb—Methodism in Kent—A serious
Accident—“Mumbo Chumbo”—“The Scripture Way of Salvation”—Imputed
Righteousness—Celibacy—Wesley’s “Notes on the Old Testament” 534-554
1766.
Methodism at Yarmouth—A quadruple Alliance—Horace Walpole on
Wesley—Methodism in Bath, Cheltenham, Burton on Trent, Nottingham,
and Sheffield—Christian Perfection—Unpublished Letters by Fletcher
and Wesley—Methodism at Warrington—Trust Deed of Pitt Street Chapel,
Liverpool—Chapel Architects—Wesley in Scotland—An Adventure—A mad
Woman in Weardale—Letter to the Dean of Ripon—A vindictive Parson—An
odd Mistake—Methodism at Pateley Bridge, Bradford, Halifax, and
Haworth—Coolness between Wesley and his Brother—Are Methodists
Dissenters?—Methodist public Worship—Wesley’s autocratic Power—An
unflattering Picture of the Methodists—Pastoral Visitation—The
Way to make Useless Preachers Useful—Conference of 1766—A Mob
Defeated—Methodism at Helstone—Methodist Soldiers at Northampton—Miss
Lewen—Attacks on Methodism—“Plain Account of Christian Perfection”
555-594
1767.
Whitefield—Letter to C. Wesley—Wesley and Dr. Dodd—Irish
Superstition—Wesley in Ireland—Methodist Success—Letter to Lady
Maxwell—Wesley defending the Methodists—First Methodist Missionary
Collection—First Methodist Chapel in America—Methodist Statistics
in 1767—Yorkshire Methodism—“Primitive Methodism”—Conference of
1767—Chapel Debts—Wesley on the Wing—Methodism in Sheerness—“Methodism
Triumphant”—“The Troublers of Israel”—Smuggling—Wesley’s Publications
595-618