Which die in the Lord, yea,
saith the Spirit, that they may
rest from their labours and
Their works do follow them.’
Rev. xiv. 13.”[[347]]
Our task is ended. Many and pleasant have been the hours spent in tracing the history of one of the noblest men that God ever made. It is superfluous to say more respecting him; and yet, with a lingering reluctance to quit the work, we cannot deny ourselves the gratification of adding a few more words concerning his general character.
Samuel Wesley, jun., wrote an elegy immediately after his father’s death, which his brother John published in the first volume of the Arminian Magazine. The following are extracts:—
“With opening life his early worth began,
The boy misleads not, but foreshows the man.
Directed wrong, though first he miss’d the way,