Author: Joseph Priestley

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-12

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780428950163

Excerpt from Original Letters by the Rev. John Wesley, and His Friends: Illustrative of His Early History, With Other Curious Papers, Communicated by the Late Rev. S. Badcock; To Which Is Prefixed, an Address to the Methodists We fee here the marks of that ardent and determined mind, which nothing could {hake from its purpofe, and that principle of the appropriation of the whole of h1s time to one great objeei, from which nothing was ever able afterwards to divert him, lefizre and behas he fomewhere fays, having for ever taken leave of each other. Perhaps no man ever triflcd lefs, or gave lefs time to any thing that could be called amufement, than Mr. Wefley. His whole life was one fcene of ferions bufinefs, of one kind or other, and of almofl unremitted exertion 5 but which ufe made perfeetly eafy to him, fo that one employment ferved to relieve an other. With thefe extraordinary qualities, nothing was wanting to make him one of the firft of human characters, but awell in I= formed mind, and rational principles of re ligion. But for want of thefe, how mirer ably do we, in thefe letters, find him be wildered and difireffed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.