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Wesley His Own Biographer, Being Illustrations of His Character, Labours, and Achievements, From His Own Journals and Letters [ed.] With an
Wesley His Own Biographer Being Illustrations of His Character Labours and Achievements From His Own Journals and Letters With an - ed. Author:John Wesley Title: Wesley His Own Biographer, Being Illustrations of His Character, Labours, and Achievements, From His Own Journals and Letters [ed.] With an Intr. by G.s. Rowe General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 Original Publisher: Elliot Stock Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no ill... more »ustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: John Nelson Impressed for a Soldier. May 15. -- After comforting the little flock at Norton, I rode the shortest way to Birstal. Hero I found our brethren partly mourning and partly rejoicing on account of John Nelson. On Friday, the 4th instant, (they informed me,) the constables took him just as ho had ended his sermon at Adwalton, and the next day carried him before the Commissioners at Halifax, the most active of whom was Mr. Coleby, Vicar of Birstal. Many were ready to testify that he was in no respect such a person as the Act of Parliament specified. But they were not heard. He was a preacher: that was enough. So he was sent for a soldier at once. A Chancery Bill! Thursday, Dec. 27. -- I called on the solicitor whom I had employed in the suit lately commenced against me in chancery, and here I first saw that foul monster a chancery bill! A scroll it was of forty-two pages, in large folio, to tell a story which needed not to have taken up forty lines! And stuffed with such stupid, senseless, improbable lies, many of them too, quite foreign to the question, as I believe, would have cost the compiler his life in any heathen court either of Greece or Rome. And this is equity in a Christian country! This is the English method of redressing other grievances! Ten Thousand Cares of Little Weight. Saturday, Jan., 1745. -- I had often wondered at myself, and sometimes mentioned it to others, that ten thousand...« less