References
Chapter 1
[1]. George J. Stevenson, Memorials of the Wesley family, Partridge, 1876 (hereafter referred to as ‘Stevenson’), p.158.
[2]. John Kirk, The mother of the Wesleys, Jarrold, 1868 (hereafter referred to as ‘Kirk’), p.5.
[3]. Ibid., p.20.
[4]. Ibid., p.16.
[5]. Ibid., p.13.
[6]. Stevenson, p. 160.
[7]. Ibid., p. 193.
[8]. Kirk, p.32.
Chapter 2
[1]. John Dunton, The life and errors of John Dunton, London, 1818 (hereafter referred to as ‘Dunton’), p.3.
[2]. Luke Tyerman, The life and times of the Rev. Samuel Wesley, M.A., Simpkin Marshall, 1866 (hereafter referred to as ‘Tyerman’), p.318.
[3]. Samuel Wesley’s Autobiography, Ms RAWL. C. 406, Bodleian Library, Oxford University (hereafter referred to as ‘Autobiography’), p.l.
[4]. Ibid.
[5]. Ibid.
[6]. Ibid., p.2.
[7]. Ibid.
[8]. Ibid.
[9]. Ibid., p.3.
[10]. Ibid.
[11]. Kirk, p.35.
[12]. Autobiography, p.3.
[1]. Autobiography, p.3.
[2]. Ibid.
[3]. Ibid., p.4.
[4]. Ibid.
[5]. Eighty-four of the questions answered by Wesley are listed by Tyerman, pp.81-2.
[6]. Ibid., p.127.
[7]. Autobiography, p4.
[8]. Tyerman, p.194
[9]. Kirk, p.67.
Chapter 4
[1]. Kirk, p.79.
[2]. Tyerman, p.249.
[3]. Stevenson, pp.79-80.
[4]. Ibid., p.81.
[5]. Arminian Magazine, 1784, p.606.
[6]. Tyerman, p.253.
[7]. Manchester Guardian, 2 July 1953.
[8]. Ibid.
[9]. Ibid., 3 July 1953
[10]. Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, XXIX, p.55.
[11]. Manchester Guardian, 3 July 1953.
[12]. Ibid.
Chapter 5
[1]. Stevenson, p.168.
[2]. Ibid., p.163.
[3]. Ibid.
[4]. Ibid., p.164.
[5]. Ibid., p. 165.
[6]. Ibid.
Chapter 6
[1]. Tyerman, p.291.
[2]. Stevenson, pp.89-90.
[3]. Ibid., p.90.
[4]. Ibid., p.199.
[5]. Kirk, pp, 129-30
[6]. Ibid., p.109.
[7]. Ibid.
[8]. Stevenson, pp. 106-7.
[9]. Ibid., p.107.
[10]. Ibid., pp.95-6
[1]. Kirk, p.85.
[2]. Stevenson, p. 195.
[3]. Ibid., p.197.
[4]. Tyerman, p.349.
[5]. Ibid., p.358.
[6]. The ‘Old Jeffrey’ affair is fully reported in Tyerman, pp. 348-64.
[7]. W. H. Fitchett, Wesley and his century, Briggs, 1906, p.40.
Chapter 8
[1]. Stevenson, pp. 175-6
[2]. Ibid., p. 182.
[3]. Ibid., p. 184.
[4]. Ibid., p.185.
[5]. Ibid., p.203.
[6]. Ibid., p.204.
[7]. Ibid.
[8]. Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, 1898.
[9]. Stevenson, pp.96-7
[10]. Ibid., p.101.
Chapter 9
[1]. Stevenson, pp. 198-9.
[2]. Ibid., pp. 199-200.
[3]. The Letters of John Wesley, (standard edition), vol. 1, p.8.
[4]. Ibid., p.7.
Chapter 10
[1]. Stevenson, p.265.
[2]. Ibid., p.299.
[3]. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Hetty Wesley, Harper & Bros, 1903 (hereafter referred to as ‘Quiller-Couch’), pp.35-6.
[4]. John Julian, The Dictionary of Hymnology, article ‘Hetty Wesley’.
[5]. ‘The Vicar of Bray’, anonymous, c.1720.
[6]. Letter in the Methodist Archives, Rylands University, Manchester. Before the process of photocopying was available certain authors assumed that this letter was written by Hetty’s sister Martha.
[7]. Kirk, p. 117.
[8]. Quiller-Couch, p. 183.
[9]. The author expresses his thanks to Dr Charles Baker for several of the facts here reported in the matter of Hetty Wesley. Dr Baker researched the subject in visiting several churches and archives in England.
[10]. Frank Baker, Charles Wesley as revealed in his letters, Epworth, 1948, p.8.
[11]. Quiller-Couch, pp. 256-7
[12]. Ibid., p.257.
[13]. Ibid., pp.258-60.
Chapter 11
[1]. Stevenson, pp. 38-40.
[2]. Ibid., pp. 40-41.
[3]. Ibid., pp. 41-2
[4]. Ibid., p.44.
Chapter 12
[1]. Stevenson, p.263.
[2]. Ibid., p.264.
[3]. Ibid., p.281.
[4]. Ibid., p.293.
[5]. Ibid., p.309.
[6]. Ibid., pp.309-10.
[7]. Ibid., p.307.
[8]. John Wesley, Letters, vol. IV, p. 156.
[9]. Frank Baker, Charles Wesley’s verse, Epworth, 1963, p.10.
[10]. John Wesley, Letters, vol. V, p. 112.
Chapter 13
[1]. Stevenson, p.267.
[2]. Ibid., p. 119.
[3]. Ibid., p. 131.
[4]. Ibid., p. 122.
[5]. Ibid., p. 123.
[6]. Ibid., p. 124.
[7]. Ibid., p. 125.
[8]. Ibid., p. 128.
[9]. Ibid.
[10]. Ibid., p. 129.
[11]. Ibid.
[12]. Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, June 1960, p.129.
[13]. Stevenson, p.134.
[14]. Ibid.
[15]. Ibid., p.147.
[16]. Ibid., p.207.
[17]. Luke Tyerman, The life of John Wesley, Hodder & Stoughton, 1880, vol. 1, pp. 102-3.
The Rev. V. H. H. Green, D.D., Fellow and Senior Tutor at Lincoln College, Oxford University, says in his The Young Mr Wesley (Edwin Arnold Ltd, 1963, p.246), ‘It seems ultimately that John Wesley intimated that he would be willing to take the living (which was in the gift of the Lord Chancellor), but by that time it had been offered to and accepted by Samuel Hurst.’
[18]. Tyerman, p.444.
[19]. Stevenson, pp. 149-50.
Chapter 14
[1]. Stevenson, p. 150.
[2]. Ibid.
[3]. John Wesley, Letters, vol. 1, pp.203, 228.
[4]. Stevenson, p.218.
[5]. Letter by Hetty Wesley to her mother (undated) in Methodist Archives, Rylands University, Manchester.
[6]. Stevenson, p.367.
[7]. Charles states that Luther was dealing with the Scripture, ‘who loved me and gave himself for me,’ and the repeated use of these pronouns in the hymn strongly suggests that this was the one Charles composed on this occasion.
[8]. 24 May 1738 was universally accepted as the date of John’s conversion till a Roman Catholic writer, Maxim Piette, stated that his conversion had taken place when he was ordained in 1725. But in 1725 Wesley had no understanding of the truth of salvation by faith and throughout his life he spoke of 24 May 1738 as ‘the day of my conversion’.
[9]. Stevenson, p.217.
[10]. Ibid., pp. 217-8
[11]. Ibid., p.218.
[12]. Ibid., pp. 215-6.
[13]. Ibid., p.213.
[14]. Ibid., pp. 220-21.
[15]. Kirk, pp. 230-31.
[16]. John Wesley, Journal, vol.3, pp.29-30.
[17]. Ibid., pp. 30-31.
[18]. Stevenson, p.227.