A Blueprint for Revival by Williamson Mark;

Author:Williamson, Mark;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO018000, book
ISBN: 4573149
Publisher: Authentic Media
Published: 2011-08-04T00:00:00+00:00

Wesley’s first experience of nearly being killed by a riotous mob came in Staffordshire in 1743, when he endured five hours of being assaulted in the streets. By then he and his lay preachers had become accustomed to being ‘arrested’ by local mobs, and dragged to the nearest magistrate’s house by an enraged group, who then often realized they had no specific charges to bring against them. The experience below, from his home town of Epworth, is typical:

I rode over to a neighbouring town to wait upon a Justice of Peace, a man of candour and understanding; before whom (I was informed) their angry neighbours had carried a whole wagon-load of these new heretics. But when he asked what they had done there was a deep silence; for that was a point their conductors had forgot. At length one said, ‘Why, they pretended to be better than other people; and, besides, they prayed from morning to night.’ Mr. Stovin asked, ‘But have they done nothing besides?’ ‘Yes, sir,’ said an old man: ‘an’t please your worship, they have convarted my wife. Till she went among them, she had such a tongue! And now she is as quiet as a lamb.’ ‘Carry them back, carry them back,’ replied the Justice, ‘and let them convert all the scolds in the town.’

Wesley’s Journal, 9 June 1742

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