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Memoirs of the Wesley Family WESLEYAN HERITAGE Library Biographies MEMOIRS OF THE WESLEY FAMILY By Adam Clarke, LL.D. F.A.S. “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord” Heb 12:14 Spreading Scriptural Holiness to the World Wesleyan Heritage Publications © 1998 MEMOIRS OF THE WESLEY FAMILY; COLLECTED PRINCIPALLY FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. BY ADAM CLARKE, LL.D., F.A.S. SECOND EDITION; REVISED, CORRECTED, AND CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED. GEORGE PECK, EDITOR. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY LANE & TIPPETT, FOR THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 200 MULBERRY-STREET. Joseph Longking, Printer. 1848 [NO COPYRIGHT] ************************************* Memoirs Of The Wesley Family; By Adam Clarke, LL.D., F.A.S. CONTENTS Origin of the Name Wesley History of the Act of Uniformity Rev. Bartholomew Wesley Rev. John Wesley Matthew Wesley Rev. Samuel Wesley, sen. Rev. Samuel Annesley, LL.D. Samuel Annesley, jun. Benjamin Annesley Sarah Annesley Judith Annesley Ann Annesley Elizabeth Annesley Mrs. Susannah Wesley Rev. Samuel Wesley, jun. Miss Susannah Wesley, 1st. Miss Emilia Wesley -- Mrs. Harper Annesley and Jedediah Wesley Miss Susannah Wesley, 2d. -- Mrs. Ellison Miss Mary Wesley -- Mrs. Whitelamb Miss Mehetabel Wesley -- Mrs. Wright Miss Anne Wesley -- Mrs. Lambert Rev. John Wesley Miss Martha Wesley -- Mrs. Hall Rev. Charles Wesley Miss Kezziah Wesley [The Appendix was omitted -- The listings are below and if anyone is interested we can send a paper copy to you upon request. The Maxeys] APPENDIX I. Marlborough, a Poem, by Samuel Wesley, sen. II. Eupolis his Hymn to the Creator III. Samuel Wesley's Letter on the Septuagint IV. Several Curious Cases, &c. V. The Pig; a Tale, by Samuel Wesley, jun. VI. On Mr. Hobbes; by the same ************************************* Memoirs Of The Wesley Family; By Adam Clarke, LL.D., F.A.S. ADVERTISEMENT, BY THE EDITOR OF THE LONDON EDITION Among the persons that have contributed to the pages of this portion of the Series of Dr. Adam Clarke's Miscellaneous Works, the Rev. William Beal may be named with respect, whose volume, entitled "The Fathers of the Wesley Family," is noticed, but who is here otherwise acknowledged for important aid. It may be further remarked, as anxious solicitude is experienced to present the whole Series as correct as possible to the public, that Dr. Clarke commenced preparations for a second edition of this work as far back as the latter end of 1823. This having been the case, a change of circumstances has rendered, in two or three instances, a change of dates necessary. The reader, therefore, will have to substitute 1824 for 1835, in a foot note, p. 40; for that which was strictly correct at the former period, had become less so at the latter, -- the party relieved having died in the interim, and a change of circumstances having been experienced by some of the living. The same remark will apply to Mr. Cropp, noticed p. 66, who, since the period of the entry was made, has removed from Vincent-square to the neighborhood of Monmouth. It has been suggested too, by one who is well acquainted with the geography of the neighborhood, that John Wesley can scarcely be supposed to have taken up his residence at Preston as stated, with a view to avoid the Five Mile Act. The reason assigned is, that Weymouth, which is only about three miles from Preston, is a "corporation town." It is therefore urged, and with some plausibility, that Preston was the only refuge for the family, while Mr. Wesley, its head, lay generally concealed in some place between Preston and Poole, being more than five miles distant from any corporation town, when he appeared in public, occasionally visiting the home of his partner and of his children by stealth. A doubt has been expressed, whether Whitchurch was actually the place of Samuel Wesley's birth,. Dr. Clarke himself does not speak with perfect confidence as to the fact; nor, indeed, could he, as the family are said to have removed to Preston, in May, 1663, as a kind of permanent residence, during the father's life. Admitting him, according to the general opinion entertained on the subject, to have been born at Whitchurch, it must have been during some visit or temporary residence of the family at the place. Preston has been assigned as the probable place of his birth; and the arguments in favor of that opinion are to be found in the "Fathers of the Wesley Family," . The seizure and imprisonment of John Wesley, of Whitchurch, is adverted to p. 55. Attention, however, has been directed to another seizure in 1662; the year succeeding, mentioned in the second edition of Dr. Calamy's work. Thus was this good man hunted from place to place, like a partridge upon the mountains. Praise God for better days! for the house of Brunswick! The entry at Exeter College, must be made to conform with the year 1684. THE EDITOR Memoirs Of The Wesley Family; By Adam Clarke, LL.D., F.A.S. INTRODUCTION During the time in which men, eminent for their literary, diplomatic, or military talents, flourish, the public is rarely led to examine by what slow gradations their powers became matured; or what evidence their infancy and youth afforded of that high celebrity which they afterward attained. The great utility of their literary labors, or the splendor of their public services, occupies and dazzles the mind, so that all minor considerations become absorbed; and it is only when the public is deprived by death of such illustrious characters, that posterity feel disposed to trace them up to their earliest period; and inquire by what means these luminaries, so small at their rising, attained to such a meridian of usefulness and glory, and appeared so broad and resplendent at their setting. This is equally the case both with states and men: hence the historian as well as the biographer, influenced by the maxim, Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, -- endeavors to investigate those philosophic and intellectual principles which gave birth and being to such physical, political, and mental energies. That divine Providence, which arranges and conducts the whole, and under whose especial guidance and control the course of the present state is ordered, so that all operations in the natural, civil, and moral world issue in manifesting the glory, justice, and mercy of the Supreme Being, lies further out of the view of men, and by most is little regarded; hence a multitude of events appear to have either no intelligent cause, or none adequate to their production; and because the operations of the divine hand are not regarded, historians and biographers often disquiet themselves in vain to find out the causes and reasons of the circumstances and transactions which they record. In the dispensations of mercy to the world, and the effects produced by them, the principles from which all originated, the agencies employed, and the mode of working, are still more difficult of apprehension, particularly to those minds which regard earthly things, and see nothing in the natural and moral world but general laws, of which they do not appear to have any very distinct view; and which never can account for the endlessly varied occurrences in a single human life, much less in a state, and still less in a government of the church. By the government of the church, I mean the continuation of that energetic and supernatural principle by which pure and undefiled religion, consisting in piety to God and benevolence to man, is maintained in the earth. There has been an unhappy propensity in all times to deny the existence of this principle, and its operations on the minds and hearts of men; and this has been the fruitful source both of irreligion and false doctrine: and hence the church of God often feels the necessity of contending earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. This has a greater extension of meaning than is generally allowed: it does not merely apply to the denial of the existence of one Supreme Being, but also to his influences and operations, even where his being is allowed. When moral effects, the purest, the most distinguished, and the most beneficial to society, are attributed to natural causes, human passions, and the inquietudes of vanity, and not to the Author of all good, the Father of lights, then we may safely assert, that the person who so views them is one of those unwise men of whom the Psalmist speaks. He excludes God from his own peculiar work; gives to nature what belongs to grace; to human passions, what belongs to the divine Spirit; and to secondary causes what must necessarily spring from the First Cause of all things. Were not the subject too grave, it would be sufficient to excite something more than a smile, to see men, both of abilities and learning, in their discussion of spiritual subjects which they have never thoroughly examined, because they have never experimentally felt them, laboring to account for all the phenomena of repentance, faith, and holiness, by excluding the Spirit of God from his own proper work; and to the discredit of their understanding, and the dishonor of religion and sound philosophy, search for the principle that produces love to God and all mankind, with all the fruits of a holy life, in some of the worst passions of the human heart. In reference to a great and manifest revival of religion in the land we have heard the following concessions: "It is granted (say such men) that multitudes of the most profligate of the people have been morally changed; and, from being a curse to their respective neighborhoods, have become a blessing to the whole circle of their acquaintance; the best of servants, sons, and husbands; obedient subjects to the state, and a credit to humanity." But how was this change effected? "Why," say they, "by the persuasive arguments of a powerful orator; who, to the love of power and the lust of ambition, added extraordinary address, and general benevolence.
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