...After casting lots, Wesley reluctantly launched forth. On Monday, April 2: At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile, and proclaimed in the highways...Minister of Christ?) "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted;...

...reckoned by many interpreters to be as important as the date of the Aldersgate experience), John Wesley "submitted to be more vile, and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation." His first open-air sermons were delivered first to about 3,000 people "on a little piece of rising...

...accustomed to meet once or twice a week in Nicholas-street. iii. Mon. 2. At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile, and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation, 1 George Whitefield (1714-70), a fellow Methodist leader, whose attachment to the Calvinist doctrine...

...saving of souls almost a sin if it had not been done in a church. Mon. 2. — At four in the afternoon I submitted to be more vile, and proclaimed in the highways...tidings of salvation, speaking from a little eminence in the ground adjoining to the city, to about 3000 people. . . . Sunday 8. — At seven in the morning...

...hesitating John Wesley to undertake their care. While Whitefield was sailing to Georgia, John Wesley "proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation,...little eminence in a ground adjoining to the city (Bristol), to about three thousand people." From this day, April 2, 1739, may be reckoned a new era...