2^4 MEMOIRS OF MR. JOttN WESLEY. • June 29, 



lumination : And their conduiEt has been direcled by 

 impulfes." 



Our readers will judge for themfelves, according to 

 their various modes of education, and to the different 

 lights in which they may refpeftively view the doc- 

 trines of our common Chriflianity, whether this re- 

 prefentation of the origin of the Methodifts, and of 

 their diftinguifi'Og tenets, be accurate and jull. — Not 

 prefuming to fi. in judgment on the religious opinions 

 of an} man, we fhall only obferve, that an appellation, 

 originally given in reproach, has been gloried in ever 

 fincc, by thofc who have diftinguifhed themfelves as 

 the followers either of Mr. Whitfield or of Mr. Wcfley. 

 " After the v/ay called methodifm, fo v/orfl)ip they the 

 god oi their father:- f." But the ridicule and contempt 

 which the fingulaiity of their conduft produced, both 

 John and Charles Wefley were well qualified to bear. 

 lie); were noi to be intimidated by danger, actuated 

 by intereft, or deterred by difgrace. 



The boundaries of this ifland were foon deemed by 

 Mr. Wefley too confined for a zeal which difplayed the 

 pici"; of an apoftle, and of an intrepidity to which few 

 miflionaries had been fuperior. In 1735, he emharked 

 for Georgia, one of our colonies, which was, at that 

 time in a ftate of political infancy ; and the great ob- 

 jeft of this voyage was to preach the gofpel to the In- 

 dian nations in the vicinity of that province. He re- 

 turned to England in 1737. Of his fpiritual labours, both 

 in this country and in America, he himfelf has given 

 a very copious account, in a feries of "journals," print- 

 ed at different periods. Thefe journals drew upon our 

 labor-ous preacher, and his coadjutors, fome fcvere 

 anir. adverfions from two right reverend prelates — Dr. 

 George Lavmgton, billiop of Exeter, and Dr. W^illiara 

 Warburton, bifliop of Gloucefter. The former pul> 



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