Methodist Church

The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and...

HC was an Evangelical, and may have been a Quaker or a Methodist .

At Cadiz in Spain, OE had a spiritual reawakening which he calls conversion, after which he worshipped as a Methodist as well as an Anglican . His conversion came as the climax and resolution...

He was baptised into the Church of England at St Margaret's, Westminster, in 1759, and had a spiritual experience of conversion and rebirth fifteen years later, after which he became a Methodist (still at...

Brought up in all the fervour of early Methodism (to which each of her parents had devoted their life before she was born), EF seems to have retained no trace of it after she was...

EF 's father, Peter Jaco , born in 1721, was a Cornishman, who early in life worked for his father in the pilchard fishery; ships owned by the family sailed in the Mediterranean. EF said...

Three biographies appeared in the years following MBF 's death, and went through many re-issues. Local memory of her remained strong (as instanced by the Memorial Chapel at Leyton Wesleyan church), and so did international...

Mary Bosanquet dated a letter which was printed three years later as a pamphlet at both London and Bristol: Jesus, Altogether Lovely; or, A Letter to Some of the Single Women in the Methodist Society

Mary Bosanquet (later Fletcher) wrote to John Wesley on the question of just how close Methodist women were to be permitted to come to actually preaching.

MBF gave her first actual sermon, that is a public address tied to a text in the Bible: this is the first known instance of a Methodist woman preaching from a scriptural text.

The child of wealthy English Anglican family of Huguenot extraction, Mary Bosanquet received at about the age of four what she felt to be a proof that God answers prayer. At five she developed an...

At eighteen, while her family moved on from the London season to the fashionable seaside resort of Scarborough, she got permission to stay on in London at the house of an uncle, where she overtaxed...

He was of Swiss origin, ten years her senior (born in 1729 at Nyon near Geneva), and a fellow-evangelical. In 1773 John Wesley had approached him about taking on leadership of the Methodist movement...

The new vicar (who did not live in the parish) respected her so highly that he allowed her to appoint a curate (the vicar's substitute) of her own choice, Mr Horne. She was personally sorry...

MBF seems to have been too much occupied with the religious life to have much thought to spare for earthly politics. At the beginning of December 1792, however, after a conversation with someone anxious about...