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"WE, the underwritten, being appointed by the WILL of the late REV. JOHN WESLEY, as a Committee to preach in, and appoint Preachers for the New Chapel, in the City Road, London; and also the Methodist Chapel in King Street, in Bath: Do engage, that we will use all the rights and privileges given us by Mr. Wesley, in the present instance, in ENTIRE SUBSERVIENCE to the Conference.

THOMAS COKE,

JAMES CREIGHTON,

PEARD DICKENSON,

ANDREW BLAIR,

JOHN VALTON,

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JOSEPH Bradford,

JAMES ROGERS,

WILLIAM THOMPSON, WILLIAM MYLES."
HENRY MOORE,

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THE next public document which claims attention,—that by which the special character and work of the Preachers are defined, and which contains most of the Rules whereby they consent to be governed, is generally called the "Large Minutes;" described in the Preface, (pp.iv, v.) They are here subjoined: te laat enigma 70 Wq>

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LARGE MINUTES. by MO (

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Minutes of several Conversations, between the Rev. John Wesley, A.M., and others. From the Year 1744 to the Year 1789. da

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Ir is desired, That all things be considered as in the immediate presence of God.

That every person speak freely whatever is in his heart.

intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever, from the respective times when the same shall be done by such delegate or delegates, notwithstanding any thing herein contained to the contrary.

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Fourteenth, *All resolutions and orders touching elec tions, admissions, expulsions, consents, dispensations, delegations, or appointments, and acts whatsoever of the Conference, shall be entered and written in the journals or minutes of the Conference, which shall be kept for that purpose, publicly read, and then subscribed by the President and Secretary thereof for the time being, during the time such Conference shall be assembled; and when so entered and subscribed, shall be had, taken, received, and be the acts of the Conference; and such entry and subscription, as aforesaid, shall be had, taken, received, and be evidence of all and every such acts of the said Conference, and of their said delegates, without the aid of any other proof; and whatever shall not be so entered and subscribed, as aforesaid, shall not be had, taken, received, or be the act of the Conference: and the said President and Secretary are hereby required and obliged to enter and subscribe as aforesaid, every act whatever of the Conference.

Lastly, tWhenever the said Conference shall be reduced under the number of forty members, and continue so reduced

This regulation is necessary, for the preservation of order.

+ By this rule care is taken, as far as possible, that the chapels be ever applied to their original design, as places of divine worship, as it enacts, That the Trustees respectively shall have full power to nominate Preachers for the chapels for ever, if the members of the Conference so -far neglect their duty, that forty of them be not assembled for three years successively, at the usual time of holding the Conference, and at the places appointed by the preceding Conferences.

for thared yearly assemblies thereof fuccésively, or whenever evit590251 the members thereof shall decline or neglect to meet together shalldecline

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annually for the purposes aforesaid; during the space of three years, that then, and in either of the Hiď è vents, the Conference of the people called Methodists shall be extinguished, and all the aforesaid powers,* privileges, à advantages shall cease and the said thapels and premises, and all other chapels and premises, which How are, of hereafter may be settled, given, of conveyea, dpon the trusts aforesaid, shall vest in the trustees for the time being of the said chapels and premises respectively, and their successors for event; upon trust that they, and the survivors of them, and the trustees for the time being, do, shall, and may, bits appoint { such person and persons to preach and expound God's holy word therein, and to have the use and enjoyment

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thereof for such time, and in such manner, as to them shall seem propersino ) D at 901 do ano dove prove bus Is Iç 10 rodio vas to b Dit ivor'Twastsgeleb bisa tied **Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend, or bé construed to extend, to extinguish, lessen, or abridge the life estate of the said John Wesley, and Charles deed Wesley, or either of them, of and in any of the said chapels and premises, or any other chapels and premises whets wherein they the said John Wesley, and Charles Wesley, or either of them; now› haye, or may have, any estate or interest, powerbor authority whatsoever In Withess Whereof the

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exercise of all the powers during Mr. Wesley's fine, no more than the which I been already vested in Him by former deeds, or should bqgresh ishigi70, 1913 OF be by future deeds, It was not in his pulver to give himself a any further rights or privileges in the chapels, thun in those which the trust-deeds of each chapel respectively invested him with The Espectively clause amounts SRATES A merely to a reservation of his former powers, and not too d

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said John Wesley hath hereunto set his hand and seal, the twenty-eighth day, of February, in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by. the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland king, defender of the faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eightyfout f zsit noitibmoŋ no :279d197JOHN (Seal) WESLEYTOW zyms!,920 ) asmoɗT,991timmos gmwollot edt timroq yeni Sealed and delivered (being first di brs¶ notion

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In the name of God, Amen!

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101 JOHN WESLEY, Clerk, sometime Fellow of LincolnCollege, Oxford, revoking all others, appoint this to be my last Will and Testamenty of art ystupak noqu havot saw JI *

¿T'give all fffy books now on sale, and the dopies of their (only subject to a tent' charge of st. a year to the widə and children of my brother") to my faithful friends, John Horton, Merchants George Wolff, Merchant, and Willia1 Marriott, Stockbroker, all of London, in trust for the gene ral fund of the Methodist Conference in carrying on the work of God by Itinerant Preachers: on condition that they permit the following committee, Thomas Coke, James Creighton, Peard Dickensong Thomas Rankin, George Whitfield, and the London Assistant for the time being, still toy superintend the printing press, and to employ Hannah Paramore, and George Paramore, as heretofore, unless four of the Committee judge a change to be needful. .wolf msilliW.

I give the books, furniture, and whatever else belongs to the in the three houses at Kingswood, in trust to Thomas Coke,y Alexander Mather, and Henry Moore) tó belstill employed in teaching and maintaining the children of poor Travelling Preachers. A

I give to Thomas Coke, Doctor John Whitehead, and Henry Moore, all the books which are in my study and bedchandBeriat London; and insmyiastudies elsewhere, in trust for the use of thesPreacherst who shall laboure there from time to timen 099 9dt to atroq redto o bas OIT

moit192m) 251 107 siq eldativa 20m edt aq8d19q ei aids I give the coins, and whatever else is found in the drawer of my bureau at London, to my dear granddaughters Mary and Jane Smith2 AJ avaraa W .яM ! nemA bo to emen et al

-albgavetoallomyl maritseripts, to Thomass Coke, o Ddctor you ed of aint taroqqs erdto Ils guidover brotx 999[lo * It was found upon inquiry that the pithetparsum due whe £1600%!

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