1878. Chiefly Written by Themselves. In Six Volumes. This edition contains Volumes Five and Six. A compilation of biographies of eminent Methodist preachers. These men were trained in the belief and practice of the strictest churchmanship; so that they would have thought it a sin to deviate from the rubric, to conduct public worship in an unconsecrated place, or to countenance the ministrations of a man on whose head the hands of a prelate had never been laid. Yet these very men were so controlled by the providence and grace of God, as to be a means of introducing, and that upon an extensive scale, a freedom of religious action, such as had scarcely been witnessed in any country since the apostolic age. Contents of Volume Five: Life of Thomas Taylor; Life of John Furz; Life of Thomas Rankin; Life of George Story; Life of William Black; Life of William Ashman; Life of Richard Whatcoat. Contents of Volume Six: Life of John Valton; Life of George Shadford; Life of Jasper Robinson; Life of Thomas Hanson; Life of Robert Wilkinson; Life of Benjamin Rhodes; Life of Thomas Tennant; Life of John Allen; Life of John Pritchard; and Life of William Adams. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417947403, 1417947411.