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Susanna Wesley : the complete writings / edited by Charles Wallace, Jr.
Van Pelt Library BX8495.W55 A2 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wesley, Susanna, 1669-1742.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. 1997
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wesley, Susanna, 1669-1742.
- Wesley, Susanna.
- Anglicans--England--Biography.
- Anglicans.
- England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 504 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Contents:
- Part I Letters
- 1. Religious and Sexual Politics: Yarborough and Hickes Correspondence 34
- 2. "Dear Sammy": Samuel Wesley Jr. School Correspondence 40
- 3. More Letters to "Dear Sammy" 52
- 4. The Rectory Fire 64
- 5. The Evening Prayers Controversy 78
- 6. An Age of Reason
- and Credulity 84
- 7. A Rich Brother in India 92
- 8. Advice to an Oxford Man 102
- 9. Distinction at Oxford, Scandal at Home 117
- 10. A Continuing Cure of Souls 130
- 11. Advisor to the Holy Club 144
- 12. More Advice, More Concern 157
- 13. A Widow and a Supportive Critic of Revival 171
- 14. Last Letters 184
- Part II Journals
- 15. "Think Much and Speak Little": First Surviving Entries 202
- 16. "Keep a Due Guard over Your Words" 215
- 17. "You Write What Is Familiar to You by Practice" 233
- 18. "I Cannot Altogether Acquiesce" 252
- 19. "But What Do You Think?" 270
- 20. "Bend the Whole Force of the Mind in a Serious Use of the Ways and Means of Religion" 283
- 21. "The Most Blest and Happy Day" 302
- 22. "These Blessed Lucid Intervals" 319
- 23. "To Feel a Vital Joy Overspread and Cheer the Heart" 340
- Part III Educational, Catechetical, and Controversial Writings
- Introduction to the Writings 365
- 24. On Educating My Family 367
- 25. The Apostles' Creed Explicated in a Letter to Her Daughter Susanna 377
- 26. Obedience to the Laws of God: A Brief (Unfinished) Exposition on the Ten Commandments 408
- 27. A Religious Conference between Mother and Emilia 425
- 28. Some Remarks on a Letter from Whitefield 462.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-497) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195074378
- OCLC:
- 32396426
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