ABSTRACT
The meeting with Whitefield soon led to an introduction to the Fetter Lane Society. Analysis of Cennick’s published sermons reveals a number of patterns, although he preached many more sermons than he published. Familiar themes are addressed within the overall concept of the certainty that a Christian should expect opposition in the world. Once the Wesleys had seceded from the Moravian-run Fetter Lane Society on 16 July 1740 and established their own preaching venue at the Foundery, London, doctrinal issues arose between what would be termed the Calvinistic (Whitefield) and Arminian (Wesley) branches of Methodism. Relations with the Moravians who had arrived in England in 1738 fluctuated between mutual regard and doctrinal differences. It is important to clarify the nature of the Moravianism which Cennick encountered in the 1740s. There was no attempt to deceive the Count, no subterfuge, but also no self-irony.
