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| | John Wesley |
 | | WESLEY, John, founder of Methodism, born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, 17 June, 1703; died in London, 2 March, 1791. |
 | | His preaching was at first successful, but his rigorous discipline became distasteful alike to settlers and Indians, and at length, on becoming the subject of enmity and persecution, through his attempt to influence the secular affairs of the colony, he relinquished his Work and returned to England in 1738. |
 | | Being refused, he conferred with Thomas Coke, a presbyter of the Church of England, and with others, and on 2 September, 1784, he ordained Coke bishop, after ordaining Thomas Vasey and Richard What-coat as presbyters, with his assistance and that of another presbyter. |
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