The life and times of the Rev. Samuel Wesley / Rector of Epworth and father of the Revs. John and Charles Wesley, the founders of the Methodists

by L. Tyerman

[93]. In the fourth volume of the Athenian Oracle Wesley vindicates his charges against the Quakers by quotations from their writings, and sums up the matter thus:—“Quakerism is a compendium of all heresies, some of which we shall name—Pharisees, Sadducees, Ebionites, Gnostics, Eucratites, Marcionites, Cainites, Manichees, Jacobites, Acephalae, Tritheites, Adamites, Helcecaites, Marcocites, Colorbalites, Sabellians, Samosatenians, Macedonians, Arians, Donatists, Priscillians—cum multis aliis,” (p. 366.)

[94]. Macaulay.

[95]. Macaulay.

[96]. Knight’s History of England.

[97]. Wesley’s History of England, vol. iv., p. 41.—Dr Adam Clarke says that Samuel Wesley was one of King William’s chaplains, but on what authority I know not.

[98]. Wesley’s Answer to Palmer.

[99]. Wesley’s Life of Christ.

[100]. Thus the name is spelt in the letter; but there can be no doubt that Wesley is meant.

[101]. Birche’s Life of Tillotson.

[102]. Clarke’s Wesley Family.