دانلود کتاب The Lives of Early Methodist Preachers. Vol. I

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Wesleyan Heritage Publications, 1998.
(В файле 163 с.)."There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the Counsel of the Lord, that shall stand." (Prov. xix. 21) This maxim of inspired wisdom receives a striking illustration in the personal history of the Rev. John and Charles Wesley. The beginning of John Jackson's description of the Wesleys' spiritual state is a description of their spiritual condition before, not after, their conversion. This description of the Wesleys' pre-conversion spiritual condition extends down to the paragraph beginning: "These seasonable instructions they gratefully accepted, and immediately realized their truth. From this time their spiritual enjoyments were rich and abounding." These eminent men were trained in the belief and practice of the strictest Churchmanship; so that they would have thought it a sin to deviate from the rubric, to conduct public worship in an unconsecrated place, or to countenance the ministrations of a man on whose head the hands of a prelate had never been laid. Yet these very men were so controlled by the providence and grace of God, as to be a means of introducing, and that upon an extensive scale, a freedom of religious action, such as had scarcely been witnessed in any country since the apostolic age.