OF THE LATE REV. JOHN WESLEY, A. M. WITH A REVIEW OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS, AND A HISTORY OF METHODISM, From it's Commencement in 1729, to the prefent time. BY JOHN HAMPSON, A. B. VOL. III. SUNDERLAND: I PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY JAMES GRAHAM; AND SOLD BY J. JOHNSON, M.DCC.XCI. 210. m. 960. HE Executors of Mr Wefley, having taken THE much pains, by notices and advertisements, to prevent the circulation of these Memoirs, or any other account of Mr Wefley, than that which they are now preparing, and which is to be figned by their names, the Public are refpectfully informed, that the Rev. Dr. PRIESTLEY, in a letter to a near relation of the Author, has authenticated the correfpondence between the Wesleys, which is fo frequently alluded to, in thefe pages: which authentification is gratefully acknowledged, and would have been inferted before the preface, had it not come too late for publication. This correfpondence was not in Mr Wefley's poffeffion; confequently is not to be found among his papers.Whether the account the Executors fhall publish, will be found" fpurious and hafty" or not, it is too foon to determine. It is hoped, however, nothing of this fort will ftrike the judicious reader in the prefent work. Should their account be an impartial one, it is more than the world expects: and in this cafe, we fhall certainly be not a little dif appointed. |