and most highly respected by those who knew him best. It will now hardly be a question with any man, whether he would not rather have been John Wesley, who died not worth ten pounds, than Lavington, Bishop of Exeter, who so bitterly reviled him.* SECTION I cannot suppress an anecdote respecting this inveterate enemy of Methodists and Moravians. The author of this Character had been educated under the tuition of that venerable servant of Christ, Samuel Walker, minister of Truro. After studying at Oxford, intending tò enter into holy orders, he applied to this bishop, with a testimonial from the country, signed by this apostolic labourer, Mr. Mitchel, rector of Verrian, and Mr Penrose, vicar of Gluvias, men in the nearest intimacy with Mr. Walker, and clergymen of the first respectability in the diocese; but the bishop refused to countersign the testimonial, as" of men worthy of credit," and assigned as his reason, that this eminent saint of God" PREACHED FAITH WITHOUT WORKS!" It has been long since decided whose works have been found approved before the great Judge of quick and dead. SECT. VI.] APPENDIX. SECTION VI. A LIST OF THE ITINERANT METHODIST PREACHERS, Who have laboured in connexion with the LATE REV. JOHN WESLEY, AND WITH THE METHODIST CONFERENCE. FROM MYLES'S CHRONOLOGY, PUBLISHED IN 1802. before the Christian they united with the THE years inferted before the names denote the period when thofe Preachers commenced Itinerants. Thofe marked thus name, were Clergymen of the Established Church before Methodists; and those marked thus § at the fame place, were made Clergymen after their union with them. Those marked thus died in the work. Those marked thus † departed from it; fome from the want of health, and fome it is to be feared through a defect of zeal; but it would be impoffible in all cafes to tell the real caufe: Let it be obferved, that this mark does not imply moral guilt. Those marked thus were expelled. Thofe without a mark are now labouring with their brethren as Itinerants, or as Invalids, nearly worn out in the Lord's fervice. The date at the end of the names, fhew the years when those Preachers died, when they defifted from travelling, or were expelled. I have mentioned fome very useful Local Preachers, because we are com. manded to "give honour to whom honour is due," and they as a body have been, and are very numerous, and very ufeful in fpreading the cause of Methodism. N. B. A few Laymen affifted Mr. Wesley as Local Preachers before Itimerancy was established. WILLIAM MYLES, The First Race of Methodist Preachers, from the Year 1739 to 1765. 1739. In this year the Methodist Itinerancy began. JOHN WESLEY, Father of the Work, having formed the firft Society at Oxford in November 1729. He died 1791. CHARLES WESLEY, the first to whom the appellation of Methodift was given at Oxford, in 1729, during his brother's abfence in Lincolnshire. He died 1788. GEORGE GEORGE WHITEFIELD. The first of the Methodifts that preached in the open air. He began that practice in Bristol, Sunday, March 25, 1739- He feparated from Mr. Wesley, but continued an Itinerant Preacher while he lived, and was at the head of the Calvinist Methodists. He died in America, 1770. 59 Dan. Rumfteadt 75 1747 J. Edwards † 1754 63 Is. Clough t 74 1742 Wm. Biggs † 1751 64 Js. Cotty t 80 43 J. Brown (a) 59 43 J. Bennett + 51 64 Mofely Cheekt 69 65 D 1742 Wm. Darney * 1779 40 table. 77 43 J. Downs* 74 45 Rd. Thomas 44 Fd. Dunftan 69 47 Ben. Beanland † 52 56 Js. Deaves + 68 51 Thos. Brifcoe * 95 64 John Dillon 54 Ben. Biggs + 62 65 Js. Demfter t 75 55 J. Brandon † 66 E 60 Ifaac Brown 62 W. Brammah* 63 Rd. Boardman* 83 1748 John Fisher + 64 Js. Brownfieldt 70 (a) A Local Preacher in Newcastle. (b) He died in confequence of ill treatment received from mobs. (c) A Local Preacher in Keighly Circuit. (d) A Local Preacher in Rochdale. (e) A Local Preacher in the county of Limerick. He came with his parents from the Palatinate in Germany, in the year 1707; being perfecuted for being a Proteftant. (f) A Local Preacher in Briftol. (g) A Local Preacher in Cornwall. (b) He was father to the learned John Henderfon. This extraordinary man was born in the county of Limerick in the year 1757. He began his ftudies at Kingfwood School, and afterwards entered the University of Oxford, where he died in November 1788. There is a remarkable account of him in his funeral fermon, preached and published by the Rev. Mr. Agutter: alfo in the Arminian Magazine, for March 1793. He was kept feventeen days previous to interment: Two reafons wat were affigned for this, 1. There was no fign of putrefaction except on his left hand. 2. The Collegians wished to diffe&t his brain. Three days after he was buried his father had his grave opened. His appearance was still the fame, but no sign of life. He was an only child, and his father never recovered the fhock occafioned by his death. He was brought from Oxford, and buried at Kingswood near Bristol. (i) He was a Local Preacher in the Halifax Circuit. (k) The firft Layman that fet out as an Itinerant Methodist Preacher. (1) The first that died in the work. He died in Bristol of the small pox. He was a useful good man. (m) A Local Preacher near Leeds. (1) A Local Preacher in London, remarkably useful to condemned malefactors. (r) He had been exciuded, August 2, 1744, in Bristol; but was re-admitted upon his repentance. Afterwards he was ordained in the Church. These names added together make 220. The whole of thefe acted as public charafters among the Methodifts during the first twenty-five years of their Itinerancy. Some for a longer and others for a shorter period, fome in a greater and others in a Jeffer pliere. 1. As the Circuits (or Rounds as they were then called) were very extentive, the Preachers were almoft conftantly travelling; and living in the friends, houfes. They were gready beloved by the people, who were witneffes of their piery, toch in public and private. 2. As a body they were not very learned, their unremitting labours did not admit of much improvement, though in this refpe&t fome of them however were poffefed of confiderable learning In general, they were men of found experience, and mighty in the Scriptures. 3. Their being fo often absent from their families, together with their inceffant labours, occafioned many of them to defift fron travelling. The Second Race of Methodist Preachers, from the Year |