On March 2 -- ( 226 years ago)

John Wesley's Epitaph

To the memory of the venerable
John Wesley, A.M., late fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford.

This great light arose (by the singular providence of God) to enlighten these nations, and to revive, enforce, and defend, the pure apostolic doctrines and practices of the primitive church:

which he continued to do, both by his writings and his labours for more than
half a century:

And to his inexpressible joy, not only, beheld their influence extending, and their efficacy witness’d in the hearts and lives of many thousands, as well in the western world as in these kingdoms:

But also, far above all human power of expectation, liv’d to see provision made by the singular grace of God, for their continuance and establishment to the joy of future generations.

Reader, if thou art constrain’d to bless the instrument, give God the glory.

After having languished a few days, he at length finished his course and his life together, gloriously triumphing over death, March 2^nd An. Dom. 1791 in the eighty

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