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John and Charles Wesley: Selected Prayers, Hymns, Journal Notes, Sermons, Letters and Treatises is unavailable, but you can change that!

The leaders of the Methodist revival that swept eighteenth-century England, John and Charles Wesley reveal a spirituality that synthesized into a unique blend elements from the church fathers, Catholic mystics and Protestant Reformers. The major works of the Wesleys appear in this volume, including John Wesley’s Plain Account of Christian Perfection and Charles Wesley’s Hymns.

leader of the revival. On the other hand, except in this celebrated journal entry, Wesley himself did not stress the Aldersgate Street event. In the Plain Account of Christian Perfection, Wesley leaps straight from Georgia to his visit to the Moravians in Germany, completely omitting his experience of May 24, 1738. He does the same in his Short History of the People Called Methodists, wherein he traces what he calls “the three rises of Methodism” not to Aldersgate Street but to the Holy Club in November
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