Today's installment concludes Wesley Begins Methodism,our selection from History of England in the Eighteenth Century by William E.H. Lecky

The Methodist preacher came to an Anglican parish in the spirit and with the language of a missionary going to the most ignorant heathens.Continuing

From him Wesley for the first time learned that form of the doctrine of justification by faith which he afterward regarded as the fundamental tenet of

Wesley peremptorily refused to leave Oxford, and the reason he assigned was very characteristic.Continuing Wesley Begins Methodism,our selection