Susanna Wesley
This is the story of Susanna Wesley, 1669-1742 Mother of Charles and John Wesley, who were founders of the Methodist Church. Susanna and her husband, Samuel, had nineteen children, ten of whom survived to adulthood. Her son Charles became a well-known hymn writer and her son John became the found of Methodism. Susanna was brought up in a Puritan home as the youngest of twenty-five children. As a teenager, she became a member of the Church of England. She became the wife of a chronically debt-ridden parish rector in an English village. She said, "I have had a large experience of what the world calls adverse fortune." Nonetheless, Susanna managed to pass down to her children Christian principles that stayed with them.
This is the story of Susanna Wesley, 1669-1742 Mother of Charles and John Wesley, who were founders of the Methodist Church. Susanna and her husband, Samuel, had nineteen children, ten of whom survived to adulthood. Her son Charles became a well-known hymn writer and her son John became the found of Methodism.
Susanna was brought up in a Puritan home as the youngest of twenty-five children. As a teenager, she became a member of the Church of England. She became the wife of a chronically debt-ridden parish rector in an English village. She said, "I have had a large experience of what the world calls adverse fortune." Nonetheless, Susanna managed to pass down to her children Christian principles that stayed with them.
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WIDOWHOOD. 189-<br />
discern that the Holy Spirit hath laid in our own<br />
minds a good foundation of a strong, reasonable, and<br />
lively hope of God's mercy through Christ.<br />
" This is the assurance we ought to aim at, which the<br />
apostle calls '<br />
the full assurance of hope,' which he<br />
admonishes us to ' hold fast to the end.' And the consequence<br />
of encouraging fanciful people in this new way<br />
of seeking assurance (as all do that hear them tell their<br />
silly stories without rebuke), I think, must be turning<br />
them out of God's way into one of their own devising.<br />
You have plainly proved that the Scripture examples<br />
and that text, in fact, which they urge in their defence<br />
will not answer their purpose, so that they<br />
are unsupported<br />
by any authority human or Divine (which<br />
you have well observed) and the<br />
;<br />
credit of their relations<br />
must, therefore, depend on their own single<br />
affirmation, which surely will not weigh much with the<br />
of mankind.<br />
sober, judicious part<br />
" I began to write to Charles before I last wrote to<br />
you, but could not proceed, for my chimney smoked<br />
so exceedingly that I almost lost my sight, and remained<br />
well nigh blind a considerable time. God's<br />
blessing on eye-water I make, cured me of the soreness,<br />
but the weakness long remained. Since, I have been<br />
informed that Mr. Hall intends to remove his family to<br />
London, hath taken a house, and I must it (if please<br />
God I live) go with them, where I hope to see Charles ;<br />
and then I can fully speak my sentiments of their new<br />
notions more than I can do by writing ;<br />
therefore I<br />
shall not finish my<br />
letter to him.<br />
" You have heard, I suppose, that Mr. Whitfield is<br />
taking a progress through these parts to make a collection<br />
for a house in Georgia for orphans and such of<br />
the natives' children as they will part with, to learn
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