Excerpt from Memoirs of the Wesley Family: Collected Principally From Original Documents During the time in which men, eminent for their literary, diplomatic, or military talents, flourish, the public is rarely led to examine by what slow gradations their powers became matured or what evidence their infancy and youth afforded of that high celebrity which they afterward attained. The great utility of their literary labors, or the splendor of their public services, occupies and dazzles the mind, so that all minor considerations become absorbed and it is only when the public is deprived by death of such illustrious characters, that posterity feel disposed to trace them up to their earliest period; and inquire by what means these luminaries, so small at their rising, attained to such a meridian of usefulness and glory, and appeared so broad and resplendent at their setting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This study uses the experiences of Samuel Wesley (1662-1735) to examine what life was like in the Church of England for Tory High Church clergy.