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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