AND

HIS COADJUTORS.

BY

REV. WM. C. LARRABEE, A. M.

EDITED BY

REV. B. F. TEFFT, D. D..

VOLUME II.

Cincinnati:

PUBLISHED BY SWORMSTEDT & POE,

FOR THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AT THE WESTERN BOOK
CONCERN, CORNER OF MAIN AND EIGHTH STREETS.

R. P. THOMPSON, PRINTER.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851,

BY SWORMSTEDT & POWER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Ohio.

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CONTENTS.

CHARLES WESLEY.

CHAPTER I.

EARLY LIFE OF CHARLES WESLEY.

He is trained in childhood by his estimable mother-He is sent

to the Westminster school-He enters the University of Oxford-

Providential incidents-He organizes the first Methodist society at

Oxford-He becomes college tutor-He sails for America with

John Wesley-He becomes secretary to the Governor of Georgia

and missionary at Frederica-His faithful services-His bad suc-

cess-His ungenerous treatment from the Governor and the peo-

ple-He falls sick-He is left unattended-Two human angels

visit him-He recovers his health-Reconciliation between him

and Governor Oglethorpe-He returns to England as bearer of dis-

patches-He resigns his office as secretary of the colony-He

intends to return to America as missionary, but is prevented by ill

health

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CHAPTER II.

CHARLES WESLEY'S CONVERSION.

His defective views of religious experience-He is troubled in

mind-He visits Mr. Law-He meets Zinzendorf-Peter Bohler-

Discourse about instantaneous conversion-He reads the "Life of

Haliburton"-He studies the doctrines of faith and justification—

The Hutton family-Mr. Bray-Mr. Ainsworth-Charles Wesley

reads "Luther on the Epistle to the Galatians"-He seeks instruc-

tion in Christian experience from the unlearned and lowly-He

receives the evidence of sins forgiven-He goes about doing

good...

CHAPTER III.

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CHARLES WESLEY'S TRAVELS AND PUBLIC MINISTRY.
Meeting between John and Charles Wesley in 1738-They visit

the Bishop of London-Charles Wesley declines a settlement-He

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