• A letter from John Wesley to his wife, Mary, expressing his love for her and her daughter.
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    Letter from John Wesley to Mary (Goldhawk/Vazeille) Wesley, April 2, 1751

    Wesley, John, 1703-1791
    A letter from John Wesley to his wife, Mary, expressing his love for her and her daughter.
    A letter from John Wesley to his wife, Mary, expressing his love for her and her daughter.
  • A letter from John Wesley to John Bennet concerning his travel plans in the north of England in spring of 1751.
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    Letter from John Wesley to John Bennet, Bristol, March 12, 1751

    Wesley, John, 1703-1791
    A letter from John Wesley to John Bennet concerning his travel plans in the north of England in spring of 1751.
    A letter from John Wesley to John Bennet concerning his travel plans in the north of England in spring of 1751.
  • A letter from John Wesley to Ebenezer Blackwell praising Elizabeth Miller, describing her virtues and esteem.
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    Letter from John Wesley to Ebenezer Blackwell, London

    Wesley, John, 1703-1791
    A letter from John Wesley to Ebenezer Blackwell praising Elizabeth Miller, describing her virtues and esteem.
    A letter from John Wesley to Ebenezer Blackwell praising Elizabeth Miller, describing her virtues and esteem.
  • A letter from John Wesley to Ebenezer Blackwell advising him and his wife to trust in God's plan for them.
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    Letter from John Wesley to Ebenezer Blackwell, Dublin, April 20, 1748

    Wesley, John, 1703-1791
    A letter from John Wesley to Ebenezer Blackwell advising him and his wife to trust in God's plan for them.
    A letter from John Wesley to Ebenezer Blackwell advising him and his wife to trust in God's plan for them.
  • A letter from John Wesley to Howell Harris concerning disputes amongst the collective group traveling to preach in Plymouth and Cornwall.
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    Letter from John Wesley to Howell Harris, Newcastle upon Tyne, March 3, 1746

    Wesley, John, 1703-1791
    A letter from John Wesley to Howell Harris concerning disputes amongst the collective group traveling to preach in Plymouth and Cornwall.
    A letter from John Wesley to Howell Harris concerning disputes amongst the collective group traveling to preach in Plymouth and Cornwall.
  • A letter from Charles Wesley to John Wesley expressing concern over a number of people who he has identified as committing a "false issuance of Faith," warning his brother about the potentially harmful lies of one of these individuals, and musing about the preparedness for opening one's heart to God.
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    Letter from Charles Wesley to John Wesley

    Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788
    A letter from Charles Wesley to John Wesley expressing concern over a number of people who he has identified as committing a "false issuance of Faith," warning his brother about the potentially harmful lies of one of these individuals, and musing about the preparedness for opening one's heart to God.
    A letter from Charles Wesley to John Wesley expressing concern over a number of people who he has identified as committing a "false issuance of Faith," warning his brother about the potentially harmful lies of one of these individuals, and musing about the preparedness for opening one's heart to God.
  • A partial letter from Philip Henry Molther to John Wesley requesting Wesley visit and deliver a sermon. Additionally, there are several other short notes: from James Hutton to a Mr. Felschig, from James Hutton to John Wesley, and from Joseph Verding to Mr. Felshig. The original letter is accompanied by a handwritten copy and a note on the history between the various writers and addressees.
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    Letter from Philipp Heinrich Molther to John Wesley, London

    Molther, Philipp Heinrich, 1714-1780
    A partial letter from Philip Henry Molther to John Wesley requesting Wesley visit and deliver a sermon. Additionally, there are several other short notes: from James Hutton to a Mr. Felschig, from James Hutton to John Wesley, and from Joseph Verding to Mr. Felshig. The original letter is accompanied by a handwritten copy and a note on the history between the various writers and addressees.
    A partial letter from Philip Henry Molther to John Wesley requesting Wesley visit and deliver a sermon. Additionally, there are several other short notes: from James Hutton to a Mr. Felschig, from James Hutton to John Wesley, and from Joseph Verding to Mr. Felshig. The original letter is accompanied by a handwritten copy and a note on the history between the various writers and addressees.
  • A letter from John Wesley to his mother relating a visit to Count Zinzendorf near Frankfort.
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    Letter from John Wesley to Susanna (Annesley) Wesley, July 6, 1738

    Wesley, John, 1703-1791
    A letter from John Wesley to his mother relating a visit to Count Zinzendorf near Frankfort.
    A letter from John Wesley to his mother relating a visit to Count Zinzendorf near Frankfort.
  • The diary of John Wesley, written primarily in a cipher. Each date includes an hourly calendar from 4am to 8pm.
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    John Wesley's diary

    Wesley, John, 1703-1791
    The diary of John Wesley, written primarily in a cipher. Each date includes an hourly calendar from 4am to 8pm.
    The diary of John Wesley, written primarily in a cipher. Each date includes an hourly calendar from 4am to 8pm.
  • Summary: Despite his lack of success in appealing to the Pope for an Ecumenical Council in 1518, Luther repeats his call in this pamphlet, combining it with a special appeal to the emperor and to the German princes. This is the first printing of this work, produced outside the city of Wittenberg.
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    Doctoris Martini Luther Appellation oder Berüffung an eyn christlich frey Conciliu[m] vo[n] dem Bapst Leo vnnd seynem vnrechtm Freuel vorneweret vnd repetiret

    Luther, Martin, 1483-1546
    Summary: Despite his lack of success in appealing to the Pope for an Ecumenical Council in 1518, Luther repeats his call in this pamphlet, combining it with a special appeal to the emperor and to the German princes. This is the first printing of this work, produced outside the city of Wittenberg.
    Summary: Despite his lack of success in appealing to the Pope for an Ecumenical Council in 1518, Luther repeats his call in this pamphlet, combining it with a special appeal to the emperor and to the German princes. This is the first printing of this work, produced outside the city of Wittenberg.
  • Summary: Luther's German translation of the Wittenberg usage of the Catholic rite of Baptism (Ordo baptizandi). The work was reprinted fifteen times between 1523 and 1526, when Luther issued a revised edition.
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    Das Tauff Buchlin

    Luther, Martin, 1483-1546
    Summary: Luther's German translation of the Wittenberg usage of the Catholic rite of Baptism (Ordo baptizandi). The work was reprinted fifteen times between 1523 and 1526, when Luther issued a revised edition.
    Summary: Luther's German translation of the Wittenberg usage of the Catholic rite of Baptism (Ordo baptizandi). The work was reprinted fifteen times between 1523 and 1526, when Luther issued a revised edition.
  • Summary: Polemical tract against celibacy, attributed to Michael Keller, who was married August 10, 1526 in Augsburg.
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    Vnderricht ausz göttlichen vnd gaystlichen Rechten : Auch ausz den flayschlichen bepstlichen Vnrechten, ob ain Priester ain Eeweyb, oder Concubin, das ist, ain Beyschlaff haben möge

    Keller, Michael
    Summary: Polemical tract against celibacy, attributed to Michael Keller, who was married August 10, 1526 in Augsburg.
    Summary: Polemical tract against celibacy, attributed to Michael Keller, who was married August 10, 1526 in Augsburg.
  • Summary: Osiander provides a fuller translation of the traditional Catholic rite of baptism than Münzer or Luther, who had both published baptism liturgies one year earlier, and who had eliminated certain ritual elements.
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    Ordnu[n]g wie man tauffet, bissher im Latein gehalten, verteütscht : Hierin ist, auss etlichen Ursachen, was die andern, als uberflüssig, veracht haben, nicht aussgelassen

    Catholic Church
    Summary: Osiander provides a fuller translation of the traditional Catholic rite of baptism than Münzer or Luther, who had both published baptism liturgies one year earlier, and who had eliminated certain ritual elements.
    Summary: Osiander provides a fuller translation of the traditional Catholic rite of baptism than Münzer or Luther, who had both published baptism liturgies one year earlier, and who had eliminated certain ritual elements.
  • Summary: Only printing of a Lutheran pamphlet by an anonymous preacher from Southern Germany on the subject of baptism and other ceremonies in the Catholic church, with an introduction by Nicolaus Gallus.
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    Von der Papisten Tauff : vnd andern Caeremonien oder Kirchendiensten ob die nach erkanter vnd angenomener Warheit durch jemand Christlich zu besuchen vnd zu gebrauchen sein

    Summary: Only printing of a Lutheran pamphlet by an anonymous preacher from Southern Germany on the subject of baptism and other ceremonies in the Catholic church, with an introduction by Nicolaus Gallus.
    Summary: Only printing of a Lutheran pamphlet by an anonymous preacher from Southern Germany on the subject of baptism and other ceremonies in the Catholic church, with an introduction by Nicolaus Gallus.
  • Summary: Interpretive pamphlet by Erasmus on the true nature of pilgrimage, as espoused by Jesus in Matthew XI, 28. Erasmus says that true pilgrimage is undertaken with spiritual, and not with physical feet, and, that Jesus receives all sincere pilgrims equally, whether they be clergy or lay, rich or poor, etc.
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    Von walfart

    Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
    Summary: Interpretive pamphlet by Erasmus on the true nature of pilgrimage, as espoused by Jesus in Matthew XI, 28. Erasmus says that true pilgrimage is undertaken with spiritual, and not with physical feet, and, that Jesus receives all sincere pilgrims equally, whether they be clergy or lay, rich or poor, etc.
    Summary: Interpretive pamphlet by Erasmus on the true nature of pilgrimage, as espoused by Jesus in Matthew XI, 28. Erasmus says that true pilgrimage is undertaken with spiritual, and not with physical feet, and, that Jesus receives all sincere pilgrims equally, whether they be clergy or lay, rich or poor, etc.
  • Summary: A German translation of Bugenhagen's "Short Admonition Full of Piety" to his neighbors in Bohemia, Silesia, and Lusatia, asking that they not give assistance to the Emperor and his troops in their war against the Protestants.
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    Christliche vermanung

    Bugenhagen, Johann, 1485-1558
    Summary: A German translation of Bugenhagen's "Short Admonition Full of Piety" to his neighbors in Bohemia, Silesia, and Lusatia, asking that they not give assistance to the Emperor and his troops in their war against the Protestants.
    Summary: A German translation of Bugenhagen's "Short Admonition Full of Piety" to his neighbors in Bohemia, Silesia, and Lusatia, asking that they not give assistance to the Emperor and his troops in their war against the Protestants.
  • Summary: A. Faber was a Lutheran pastor in Schwerin when he wrote this book in 1533 against the false "blood of Christ" and the "idol" (i.e., the shrine in which the blood was kept) in the Cathedral at Schwerin. Such Holy blood miracles made for exceedingly popular pilgrimage sites in pre-Reformation Germany.
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    Von dem falschen Blut vnd Abgott im Thum zu Schwerin. : mit einer schönen Vorrede

    Faber, Aegidius, approximately 1490-1558
    Summary: A. Faber was a Lutheran pastor in Schwerin when he wrote this book in 1533 against the false "blood of Christ" and the "idol" (i.e., the shrine in which the blood was kept) in the Cathedral at Schwerin. Such Holy blood miracles made for exceedingly popular pilgrimage sites in pre-Reformation Germany.
    Summary: A. Faber was a Lutheran pastor in Schwerin when he wrote this book in 1533 against the false "blood of Christ" and the "idol" (i.e., the shrine in which the blood was kept) in the Cathedral at Schwerin. Such Holy blood miracles made for exceedingly popular pilgrimage sites in pre-Reformation Germany.
  • Summary: A collection of prayers and meditations written by Susanna Wesley, mother of John and Charles Wesley.
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    The prayers of Susanna Wesley

    Wesley, Susanna, 1669-1742
    Summary: A collection of prayers and meditations written by Susanna Wesley, mother of John and Charles Wesley.
    Summary: A collection of prayers and meditations written by Susanna Wesley, mother of John and Charles Wesley.
  • Summary: Lucy Rider Meyer wrote several of the songs in this collection. Proceeds went to the training of missionaries and deaconesses.
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    Everybody's Gospel songs

    Summary: Lucy Rider Meyer wrote several of the songs in this collection. Proceeds went to the training of missionaries and deaconesses.
    Summary: Lucy Rider Meyer wrote several of the songs in this collection. Proceeds went to the training of missionaries and deaconesses.
  • Summary: Compiled and used by Maggie Van Cott at her revival meetings. The first hymn is written by Van Cott.
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    Mrs. Van Cott's praise book

    Summary: Compiled and used by Maggie Van Cott at her revival meetings. The first hymn is written by Van Cott.
    Summary: Compiled and used by Maggie Van Cott at her revival meetings. The first hymn is written by Van Cott.
  • Summary: The first biography of Susanna Wesley, the mother of John and Charles Wesley.
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    The mother of the Wesleys : a biography

    Kirk, John, 1813-1886
    Summary: The first biography of Susanna Wesley, the mother of John and Charles Wesley.
    Summary: The first biography of Susanna Wesley, the mother of John and Charles Wesley.
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