John Wesley
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John Wesley’s 23 questions to the University of Oxford
John Wesley (1703-91) The date is 24 August 1744. John Wesley is preaching at St Mary's, the university church at Oxford. He asks the clergy, dons and undergraduates 23 searching questions. How would they answer them today? 1 You venerable...
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John Wesley and the Bishop of Exeter
John Wesley (1703-91) John Wesley always claimed that he didn’t enjoy controversy. However due to the opposition which Methodism, which he founded, generated he was often drawn into controversy. When he began to write his second letter to Bishop...
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What happened after John Wesley visited St Paul’s
John Wesley (1703-91) No-one was demonstrating outside St Paul's cathedral when, on Wednesday 24 May 1738, at about five in the morning, John Wesley opened his Greek New Testament to these words: 'Thus he has given us through these...
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