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Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperbound. 79 p.; 4 pl. (Salisbury's port.; confs. 1744, 1780?; Foundery, City Road Chapel); 18 cm. (Wesley Historical Soc. lecture ; 10) Good, sewn, in orig. light blue wrapper. Spine lightly stained.

VG, sewn, in lightly creased orig. blue wrapper. (Wesley bi-centenary manuals ; 9). Binding is Paperbound.

VG orig. light blue linen in good, price-clipped dj. xiv, 199, [1] p.; 19 cm. Focus: Henry Vaughan, Francis Quarles, Richard Crashaw, John Davies, Henry More and Thomas Traherne. Binding is Hardcover.

VG orig. green cloth in edgeworn green dj. x, 213, [1] p.; 22 cm. Index of names, p. [212]-13; general index, p. [214] `John Wesley's extraordinary versatility is apparent to every reader of the Journal. He had talents and natural interests which, suitably directed, would have assured him of a distinguished and lucrative position in several walks of life: Scholarship, Literature, Medicine, Law, and Politics. Had he accepted a living in the Established Church, eschewed all distinctively `Methodist' emphasis in doctrine and thus obtained episcopal approval, he might have become a Bishop. He was keenly interested in the Science of his day and kept well abreast of new discoveries, theories, and inventions. Confronted by these possibilities, what did John Wesley choose? The answer is astonishing as we contrast it with what might have been. He chose to be an itinerant preacher of Christ's Gospel in a parish that knew neither Bishop nor boundary. To the casual observer, this might have seemed the erratic decision of an incompletely balanced mind; a closer acquaintance with John Wesley would have convinced him how beautifully balanced that mind was. Assured that `it were better for me to die than not to preach the gospel of Christ', he made a choice which for self-abnegation, heroism and far-reaching consequences has few parallels in the history of human excellence.' (p. [207]). Binding is Hardcover.…

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