1746 JOHN WESLEY. The Principles of a Methodist Farther Explain'd in a Letter to a Gentleman. Manuscript and led to grace by

and led to grace by revivalist

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William Cullen Bryant

Cambridge and the University Press

He was just 23 years old when it was published and his lack of experience as a published author showed up even in the original preface

1746 JOHN WESLEY. The Principles of a Methodist Farther Explain'd in a Letter to a Gentleman. Manuscript and led to grace byA wonderful first edition of the first more nuanced articulation from Wesley of "What it means to be a Methodist." He employs the metaphor of a house; the house being Methodism itself. For Wesley, the porch is repentance; the door is faith; and the interior of the home is the life of holiness. Here we see for Wesley already the door eclipsed; it is what one does on the other side of the door, the experience of pure love and holiness, we might say