476 TviEMorRs OF MR, JOHN WESLEY. June 2g, 



*n the metropolis, he occafionally travelled through 

 every part of Great Britain and Ireland, eftabliftiing con- 

 gregations in each kingdom. In 1750, he married a 

 lady, from whom he was afterward feparated. By this 

 lady, who died in 1781, he had no children. 



We have already mentioned Mr. Wefley as a very 

 various and voluminous writer. Divinity, both devo- 

 tional and controverfial, biography, hillory, philofo- 

 phy, politics, and poetry, were all, at different time:?, 

 the fubiefts of his pen : and, whatever opinion ma.y be 

 entertained of his theological fentiments, it is inpof- 

 iible to deny him the merit of having done very exten- 

 live good among the lower claffes of people. He cer- 

 tainly poflefled great abilities, and a fluency which was 

 ■well accommodated to his hearers, and highly acceptable 

 to them. He had been gradually declining for three 

 years pad : yet he flill rofe at four in the morning, and 

 preached, and travelled, and wrote as ufual. He preach- 

 ed at Leatherhead, in Surrey, on the Wednefday be- 

 fore his death. On theFriday following, appeared the firft 

 fymptoms of his approaching diflblution. The four fuc- 

 ceeding days he fpent in prailing God ; and he left this fcene, 

 in which his labours had been fo extenfive and fo ufe- 

 ful, at a quarter before ten in the morning of the fecond of 

 March 1791, in the 88t]i year of his age His remains, 

 after lying in a kind of flate at his chapel in, the city- 

 road, dreited in the facerdotal robes which he ufually 

 wore, and on his head the old clerical cap, a bible in 

 one hand, and a white handkerchief in the other, were, 

 agreeably to his own dire61ions, and after the manner 

 of the interment of the late Mr. Whitfield, depofited in 

 the cemetry behind his chapel, on the morning of the 

 9th March, amid an innumerable concourfe of his friends 

 and admirers, many of whom appealed in deep mourn- 

 ing on the occafion. One fingularity was obfervable in 

 the funeral frrvice : Infi:e?id of " We give thee hearty 

 thanks for tliat it hath pleafcd thee to deliver this our 

 prother,^'' it was rend, " our father." A fermon, pre- 



