The Journal of John Wesley

by

John Wesley


Table of Contents

About This Book

Title Page

EDITOR'S NOTE

INTRODUCTION

AN APPRECIATION OF JOHN WESLEY'S JOURNAL

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

The Journal of John Wesley

Chapter 1. Wesley as a Missionary to Georgia

Chapter 2. Troubles in Georgia; Return to England; Peter Bohler; 'I Felt my Heart Strangely Warmed'

Chapter 3. Field-Preaching; 'All the World my Parish'; Whitefield; Wales; Experience with Demons

Chapter 4. Preaching Incidents; Wesley's Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield; Curious Interruptions; The Mother of the Wesleys

Chapter 5. Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles; Natural Amphitheater at Gwennap; Wesley in Danger

Chapter 6. First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs; Wesley's Protest against Ungodliness

Chapter 7. Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness

Chapter 8. Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy; Wesley as an Editor

Chapter 9. Wesley's Marriage; Dealings with Cornwall Smugglers; His Illness and Recovery

Chapter 10. Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions; A Dream

Chapter 11. 'I do Indeed Live by Preaching'; Wesley's Advice to Travelers; Wesley and the French Prisoners

Chapter 12. Wesley's Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; the Speaking Statue; Wesley's Pentecost

Chapter 13. Wesley in Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; 'No Law for Methodists'; Exhausting Days; Whitefield

Chapter 14. Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents; Wesley's Opinion of Mary Queen of Scots

Chapter 15. Wesley Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg, and Riding Horseback; Gwennap and 20,000 People; Death of Whitefield

Chapter 16. Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; At 70, Wesley Preaches to 30,000 People

Chapter 17. Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; Wesley and the American War

Chapter 18. On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lorg George Gordon

Chapter 19. An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Incidents in Scotland

Chapter 20. Wesley Collects Money for the Poor; Visits the House of Lords; His Reasons for his Long Life; 'How is the Tide Turned;' Last Entries

WESLEY'S LAST HOURS