ABSTRACT
At Bristol the modern practice of field-preaching had begun; and the foundations of Methodism as a substantive and organized sect, existing independently of the Church, were now to be laid at Bristol. These are remarkable events in the history of that city, one of the most ancient, most beautiful, and most interesting in England. Wesley describes him as a man of regular life and conversation; who constantly attended the public prayers and sacraments, and was zealous for church, and against dissenters of every denomination. Wesley himself had no intention of being personally engaged either in the direction or expence of the work; for the property had been settled upon eleven feoffees, and upon them he had supposed the whole responsibility would rest. Mr. Wesley was perhaps induced to pronounce so high and extravagant an eulogium upon the memoirs of this excellent man by a description of his ‘deliverance from temptation,’ which accorded perfectly with one of leading doctrines of Methodism.
