. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . JABEZ BUNTING. The earliest portrait in existence. * The Life of J. Bunting, , vol. i. p. 147. The date is 1803. t Memoir of Wifliam Bramwell by the Rev. Thomas Harris, pp. Ill, 112. Bramwell was atLeeds 1801-2 with John Barber and Richard Reece as colleagues. SOURCES AND ORIGIN. 41. EEV. W. BEAMWELL. The painful experience glanced at inthe preceding quotation is also referred toby William Dawson in the funeral sermonhe preached on the occasion of Bramwellsdeath. In a highly rhetorical passage ofthis sermon Bramwell is once more
. The origin and history of the Primitive Methodist Church . JABEZ BUNTING. The earliest portrait in existence. * The Life of J. Bunting, , vol. i. p. 147. The date is 1803. t Memoir of Wifliam Bramwell by the Rev. Thomas Harris, pp. Ill, 112. Bramwell was atLeeds 1801-2 with John Barber and Richard Reece as colleagues. SOURCES AND ORIGIN. 41. EEV. W. BEAMWELL. The painful experience glanced at inthe preceding quotation is also referred toby William Dawson in the funeral sermonhe preached on the occasion of Bramwellsdeath. In a highly rhetorical passage ofthis sermon Bramwell is once more likenedto Elijah, who in a fit of depression betookhimself to the wilderness, where hissolicitous brethren find him. When theyput the question: What doest thouhere, brother? He might have answered with greatpropriety, I have been very jealousfor the Lord God of Hosts. I fear acriminal love of the world is rivallingJesus Christ in the heart of HisChurch, and therefore I thought mybest course was to retire, and trywhat can be done by me in any otherway. But when his brethren softeneddown the distorted features of the detested object, which his tremblinghand, at the instigation of his jealous heart, had drawn ; when they took off thedeep shades with which he had overcharged its countenance ; when they drew thepicture of the monster division;
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