FOOTNOTES:
[1] C. Wesley’s Life, vol. ii., p. 242.
[2] Methodist Magazine, 1783, p. 684.
[3] Methodist Magazine, 1857, p. 616.
[4] “Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 17.
[5] Ibid. vol. ii., p. 427.
[6] Methodist Magazine, 1857, p. 693.
[7] Manuscript letter.
[8] The meaning of this is, that, at least, £500 of what the Methodists have always technically designated “The Yearly Collection,” was, at this period, employed in paying chapel debts. Except that for Kingswood school, this was the only connexional collection that Wesley had; and he strongly insisted that every Methodist should render it support. In an unpublished letter, addressed to Matthew Lowes, and dated March 11, 1762, Wesley writes: “In the enclosed papers, (which you may read in every society, just before you meet the classes,) you will see the design of the general yearly collection, to which every Methodist in England is to contribute something. If there is any who cannot give a halfpenny a year, another will give it for him.”
[9] Wesley’s Works, vol. xii., p. 126.
[10] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1751, p. 179.
[11] Myles’s History.
[12] Methodist Magazine, 1825, p. 122; and 1829, p. 585.
[13] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1763, p. 463.
[14] Burslem old circuit book.
[15] Manuscript.
[16] Methodist Magazine, 1812, p. 534; and 1843, p. 89.
[17] Liverpool old society book.
[18] Wesley’s Works, vol. xiv., p. 276.
[19] Ibid. vol. xii., p. 126.
[20] Wesley’s Works, vol. xii., p. 126. All this confusion arose chiefly out of the half insane ravings of Bell and his friends in 1762. In a long, unpublished letter, dated September 29, 1764, Wesley writes: “I never staggered at all at the reveries of George Bell. I saw instantly, at the beginning and from the beginning, what was right and what was wrong; but I saw withal, ‘I have many things to speak, but you cannot bear them now.’ Hence, many imagined I was imposed upon; and applauded themselves in their greater perspicacity; as they do at this day. ‘But if you knew it,’ says his friend to Gregory Lopez, ‘why did you not tell me?’ I answer with him, ‘I do not speak all I know, but what I judge needful.’ Still, I am persuaded, there is no state under heaven from which it is not possible to fall.”
[21] Methodist Magazine, 1783, p. 681.
[22] Wesley’s seal is a dove, having in its mouth an olive branch, and surrounded with the words “Nuncia Pacis.”
[23] Methodist Magazine, 1805, p. 277.
[24] Ibid. 1808, p. 297.
[25] Theological Magazine, 1802, p. 39.
[26] Methodist Magazine, 1803, p. 215.
[27] Methodist Magazine, 1813, p. 441.
[28] Wesley’s Works, vol. iii., p. 320.
[29] Methodist Magazine, 1815, p. 459.
[30] Taylor’s “Redeeming Grace.”
[31] Wesley’s Works, vol. xii., p. 359.
[32] Methodist Magazine, 1785, p. 491.
[33] Atmore’s “Memorial”; and Methodist Magazine, 1851, p. 869.
[34] Wesley’s Works, vol. iii., p. 324.
[35] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1744, p. 51.
[36] Methodist Magazine, 1825, p. 454.
[37] Wesleyan Times, June 19, 1849.
[38] Entwisle’s Memoir, p. 31.
[39] Methodist Magazine, 1826, p. 464.
[40] Wesley’s Works, vol. xii., p. 127.
[41] Minutes of Conference.
[42] A manuscript circular, signed by Wesley himself.
[43] London Magazine, 1768, p. 125.
[44] Philip’s Life of Whitefield, p. 492.
[45] London Magazine, 1768, p. 214.
[46] Wesley’s Works, vol. xii., p. 281.
[47] Ibid. vol. xii., p. 126.
[48] “Life and Times of Howel Harris,” p. 246.