CROSSE (John):

A Letter to the Author of Remarks on Two of the Most Singular Characters of the Age. With a Reply by the Former.

London Printed; and Sold by G. Kearsley..., 1790. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 190 x 120 mms., pp. vi [vii section title, viii blank], 98 [99 adverts, 100 blank], disbound; title-page and last blank leaf soiled. John Crosse (1739 - 1816) came under the influence of John Wesley at an early age, and Wesley occasionally preached at his church in Bradford. In this pamphlet, he is responding to a personal attack by Edward Baldwyn (1745 - 1817). He had been appointed master of Bradford Grammar School in 1784, but, as Oxford DNB notes, "Baldwyn's time in Bradford was, however, dominated by his quarrel with the vicar of Bradford, John Crosse, and with the Sunday lecturer at the parish church, William Atkinson. Since 1703, the master of Bradford grammar school had, save for four years, also held the post of lecturer. Baldwyn regarded the post as a perquisite, but Crosse, who became vicar in the same year that Baldwyn took over the school, appointed Atkinson instead. Baldwyn attributed this to a grudge, for Crosse had also been a candidate for the job as master of Bradford grammar school, but there were also theological differences. Crosse, like Atkinson, was an evangelical, with sympathies for Methodism." ESTC T45640 locates 7 copies in UK libraries and a copy at Duke University.

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FLETCHER (John):

A Vindication of the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Last Minutes: Occasioned by A circular, printed Letter. Inviting principal Persons, Both Clergy and Laity, as well of the Dissenters as of the established Church, Who disapprove of those Minutes, To oppose them in a Body, as a dreadful Heresy: and designed T removed Prejudice, check Rashness, promote Forbearance, defend the Character of an eminent Minister of Christ, and prevent some important scriptural Truths from being hastily branded as heretical. In Five Letters, To the Hon. and Rev. Author of the circular Letters. By a Lover of Quietness and Liberty of Conscience.

London: Printed and sold at the New Chapel, City-Road; and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses..., 1788. 12mo (in 6s), pp. 98. BOUND WITH: [FLETCHER (John)]: A Second Check to Antinomianism; occasioned by A Late Narrative, In Three Letters. To the Hon. and Rev. Author. By the Vindicator of the Reverend Mr. Wesley's Minutes. London: Printed and sold at the New Chapel, City-Road; and at the Rev. Mr. Wesley's Preaching-Houses..., n. d. [1771]. FIRST EDITION. 12mo (in 6s), pp. xi [xii blank], 109 [110 blank], including half-title. BOUND WITH: [FLETCHER (John)]: A Third Check to Antinomianism; occasioned by A Late Narrative, In Three Letters. To the Hon. and Rev. Author. By the Vindicator of the Reverend Mr. Wesley's Minutes. The Second Edition London: London: Printed by Robert Hawes..., 1775. 3 volumes bound in 1, 170 x 105 mms., contemporary calf, gilt spine, morocco label reading "Fletcher's Works" and "2" in gilt below label; some water-staining of texts, spine rubbed, joints a little worn, top and base of spine worn, but a good copy, with a date of 1797 on top margin of recto of front free end-paper, a former owner's name obscured ("Samuel [?Coosier]/ His Book" and "[?Henry] Humphreys" below that. Fletcher (1729 - 1785) wrote these works, along with other "checks to Antinomianism" in reply to a work by Walter Shirley, An Impartial View, of A Narrative of the Principal Circumstances relative to the Rev. Mr. Wesley's late Conference..., first published in 1771.

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WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH. WESLEY (John):

[Drop-title]: Rules of the Band Societies. Drawn up December 25, 1738. Directions given to the Band Societies, December 25, 1744 [p. 3 drop-title].

London: Published by John Mason [T. Roche Printer], c. 1835. 12mo, 160 x 100 mms., pp. 4; a little soiled and stained. The text on p. 1 ends with "of your sins?" The imprint at the bottom of the first page is "London:/ Published by John Mason,/ 14, City-Road, and sold at 66, Paternoster-Row." Underneath a long rule on p. 4 is "T. Roche, Printer, 23, Gloucester Street, St. John Street Road." Between the end of the text on p. 4 and the printer's identification is a short rule with a lozenge in the middle.

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WINTER (Cornelius). JAY (William):

Memoirs of the Life and Character of the late Reverend Cornelius Winter, compiled and composed by William Jay.

Bath: Printed and Sold by M. Gye..., 1808. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, pp. xxi [xxii blank, xxiii engraved dedication, xxiv blank], 478 [479 adverts, 480 blank], including half-title and errata leaf, uncut, contemporary boards, paper label on spine; corners and edges a bit worn, but a very good copy, with the (probably contemporary) notation "Oakridge Wesleyan Sunday School Library" on the recto of the front free end-paper. Winter (1741 or 1742 - 1808) served both as Congregationalist minister and factotum to John Wesley and George Whitefield. Having been inspired by Wesley's preaching, he followed Wesley to Savannah, Georgia, where they hoped to convert the Indians and the black slaves. The present work is not so much a biography as a compendium of Winter's letters, with commentary and supplementary information from Jay, (1769-1853), the Congregational minister, who was the pastor of Argyle Chapel at Bath, and remained there for sixty-two years.

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