[65] Wesley’s Works, vol. ii., p. 243; and Methodist Magazine, 1780, p. 322.
[66] “Life and Times of Lady Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 45; and Everett’s “Methodism in Sheffield,” p. 41.
[67] The above facts are taken from private manuscripts; from “Memoirs of Mrs. Grace Bennet, by William Bennet”; and from an authentic manuscript, in the British Museum, which, though not in Wesley’s handwriting, was read and revised by him, and has a few corrections by his own well known pen. This manuscript was published, a few years ago, by John Russel Smith, of Soho Square, London. The writer has compared the printed pamphlet with the original document; and, with a few unimportant exceptions, including one or two omissions, has found it faithfully and correctly given. It is from the same source, that we chiefly derive the following facts.
[68] Life of C. Wesley.
[69] Nineteen of these verses, with many erasures and corrections, in Wesley’s own abbreviated long hand writing, are at the end of the manuscript in the British Museum, from which the foregoing statements have been taken.
[70] Wesley’s Works, vol. xiii., p. 154.
[71] Watson’s Works, vol. v., p. 200.
[72] Moore’s Life of Wesley, vol. ii., p. 171.
[73] Manuscripts.
[74] Manuscript in British Museum.