John Wesley’s Journal, in the classic abridged selection edited by Percy Livingstone Parker (1903). A representative selection from the full manuscript journals, arranged in 21 chapters.

  1. Wesley as a Missionary to Georgia
  2. Troubles in Georgia; Return to England; Peter Bohler; ‘I Felt my Heart Strangely Warmed’
  3. Field-Preaching; ‘All the World my Parish’; Whitefield; Wales; Experience with Demons
  4. Preaching Incidents; Wesley’s Labor Colony; Dispute with Whitefield; Curious Interruptions; The Mother of the Wesleys
  5. Wesley Refused Sacraments at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles; Natural Amphitheater at Gwennap; Wesley in Danger
  6. First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs; Wesley’s Protest against Ungodliness
  7. Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley’s Protest against Lawlessness
  8. Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy; Wesley as an Editor
  9. Wesley’s Marriage; Dealings with Cornwall Smugglers; His Illness and Recovery
  10. Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions; A Dream
  11. ‘I do Indeed Live by Preaching’; Wesley’s Advice to Travelers; Wesley and the French Prisoners
  12. Wesley’s Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; the Speaking Statue; Wesley’s Pentecost
  13. Wesley in Scotland Again; Methodist’s Wealth; ‘No Law for Methodists’; Exhausting Days; Whitefield
  14. Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents; Wesley’s Opinion of Mary Queen of Scots
  15. Wesley Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg, and Riding Horseback; Gwennap and 20,000 People; Death of Whitefield
  16. Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; At 70, Wesley Preaches to 30,000 People
  17. Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; Wesley and the American War
  18. On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lorg George Gordon
  19. An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Incidents in Scotland
  20. Wesley Collects Money for the Poor; Visits the House of Lords; His Reasons for his Long Life; ‘How is the Tide Turned;’ Last Entries
  21. Wesley’s Last Hours

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