The Project Gutenberg eBook of The works of the Rev. John Wesley, Vol. 11 (of 32)
Title: The works of the Rev. John Wesley, Vol. 11 (of 32)
Author: John Wesley
Release date: May 13, 2024 [eBook #73617]
Language: English
Original publication: Bristol: William Pine, 1771
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The Works of the
Rev. John Wesley, M.A.
Transcriber’s Notes
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THE
WORKS
OF THE
Rev. JOHN WESLEY, M.A.
Late Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford.
Volume XI.
BRISTOL:
Printed by WILLIAM PINE, in Wine-Street.
MDCCLXXII.
THE
CONTENTS
Of the Eleventh Volume.
An Extract of the life and death of Mr. Thomas Haliburton.
PART ♦IV.
Chapter IV. Of his death.
An extract of the life of Monsieur de Renty.
Chapter I. Of his marriage, birth, and general way of life.
Chapter II. His humility.
Chapter III. His self-denial and mortification.
Chapter IV. His patience.
Chapter V. His faith.
Chapter VI. His hope.
Chapter VII. His love of God.
Chapter VIII.
Section I. His love of man in general.
Section II. His charity to the poor.
Section III. His charity to the sick.
♦Section IV. His zeal for the salvation of his neighbour.
Chapter IX. His outward behaviour and conduct of business.
Chapter X. His death.
An extract from the life and death of Thomas Walsh.
Chapter I. Of his birth and education.
Chapter II. Of his religion, and the struggle which he found between nature and grace, till the sixteenth year of his age.
Chapter III. Giving a farther account of him; the corruptions he struggled against, and the means he made use of to subdue them.
Chapter IV. Of his forsaking the church of Rome.
Chapter V. Some further account of his progress in the way of life, with other reasons of his conduct, in regard of the church of Rome.
Chapter VI. Of some particulars previous to his Conversion.
Chapter VII. Giving a farther account of his soul particularly of his deep convictions.
Chapter VIII. Of his finding rest to his soul.
Chapter IX. Of the confirmation of his soul in the grace of God, and the happy effects which it produced in him.
Chapter X. His employment among his Christian brethren, and the treatment he met with from the world.
Chapter XI. His providential appointment to labour for the good of his neighbour, by preaching the gospel.
Chapter XII. He begins to preach.
PART II.
Chapter I. Of his entire application to preaching the gospel.
Chapter II. He goes into the provinces of Leinster and Connought, and preaches the word there.
Chapter III. Some farther account of the troubles he met with, on account of preaching the gospel.
♦Chapter IV. A short account of the endeavours of the Romish clergy, to prevent his usefulness among their people.
Chapter V. He goes to England, and labours there.
Chapter VI. His love to souls, and zeal for promoting the glory of God.
Chapter VII. His application to study, love to the holy scriptures, improvement which he made thereof.
Chapter VIII. His manner of preaching.
Chapter IX. Of his frequent sickness, the exercises of his mind therein, and the improvement which he made thereof.
Chapter X. Of his temptations, conflicts, and exercises of soul.
Chapter XI. His communion with God.
Chapter XII. Some farther particulars, relating to the head of his communion with God.
PART III.
Chapter I. An extract from Mr. Thomas Walsh’s diary, relating chiefly, to the experience of his own soul, in his course of walking with God.
Chapter II. The extract from his diary continued.
Chapter III. The same continued.