PRINTED AND SOLD FOR THE AUTHOR, SOLD ALSO, BY JOHN MASON, 14, CITY ROAD, AND - 1848. PREFACE. METHODISM has been justly characterized as a revival of primitive Apostolical Christianity. The instruments by which it was effected were distinguished by great disinterestedness, fervent piety, and untiring zeal. It is important that those who have entered into their labours, should be accurately acquainted with the spirit and manner of life of the men whom God so greatly honoured as instruments of spiritual good, and that they should tread in their steps. The generation of ministers contemporary with Mr. WESLEY, and employed by him, has nearly passed away. The subject of this Memoir was one of their number,-one of the connecting links between the former and the present race of Wesleyan Ministers;-exhibiting in modern times a fair specimen of the simplicity, the gravity, the spirituality, and the holy fervour, by which the early Methodist Preachers were distinguished. |