Chapter IX: William and Mary’s Reign—1689–1702

Touching to Cure the King’s Evil, 167

Non-jurors, 169

William Sherlock, 169

George Hickes, 170

Jeremy Collier, 170

Henry Dodwell, 170

John Kettlewell, 171

Charles Leslie, 171

The Seven Non-juring Bishops, 171

The Act of Toleration, 172

The Comprehension Bill, 173

Commission to Revise the Liturgy, &c., 173

Convocation in 1689, 175

High Church and Low Church, 177

Samuel Wesley not a High Churchman, 177

His Opinion on the Union of Churchmen and 178
Dissenters,

King William the Head of the Low-Church Party, 180

Episcopacy Abolished in Scotland, 180

Position occupied by Socinians and Papists, 181

Character and Death of George Fox, 182

Wesley’s Comparison of Quakers with Papists, 183

Archbishop Tillotson, 184

Death and Character of Queen Mary, 185

Great Men flourishing in the Reign of William, 187

Character and Death of William, 188

CHAPTER X.

LAST DAYS AT SOUTH-ORMSBY—1694–1696.

Wesley’s Elegies on the Queen and Archbishop, 191

Epworth Living obtained through the Queen, 193

Tillotson refuses to Recommend Wesley to an Irish 194
Bishopric,

Marquis of Normanby, 195

Wesley, his Chaplain, in doubt how to Act, 197

Wesley’s Fidelity obliges him to leave Ormsby, 198

Children born at Ormsby, 199

Emilia Wesley, 199

Susannah Wesley, 200

Mary Wesley, 200