The history of Methodism . is junior. Educated at Queens College,Oxford, he became a close student of metaphysics, and soonafter he became a vicar he wrote in defense of Locke againstBishops Butler and Browne. He had heard strange rumors of the Methodists, and re-ceived John Wesley coldly when Henry Piers, Vicar of Bex-ley, brought him to Shoreham in 1744, but the interviewresulted in a lifelong friendship. The vicarage became acongenial home for the evangelists, and in it a room was setapart for Methodist services. Vincent Perronet probablyinfluenced Wesleyan Methodism, as regards its ecclesi
The history of Methodism . is junior. Educated at Queens College,Oxford, he became a close student of metaphysics, and soonafter he became a vicar he wrote in defense of Locke againstBishops Butler and Browne. He had heard strange rumors of the Methodists, and re-ceived John Wesley coldly when Henry Piers, Vicar of Bex-ley, brought him to Shoreham in 1744, but the interviewresulted in a lifelong friendship. The vicarage became acongenial home for the evangelists, and in it a room was setapart for Methodist services. Vincent Perronet probablyinfluenced Wesleyan Methodism, as regards its ecclesiasticaldevelopment, more than any other clergyman. It was to him that John Wesley addressed his Plain Account of the 664 Perronets Prophecy 665 People called Methodists. The coming separation he fore-saw without dread. Writing to Charles Wesley in 1762, hestyled the United Societies the Methodist Church, repeat-ing the phrase in another letter of 1763. It is significant,says the Rev. J. S. Simon, that his correspondent was. FROM THE COPPERPLATE BY RIDLEY. REV. VINCENT PERRONET, M. of Shoreham, Kent, the Archbishop of the Methodists. Charles Wesley. Vincent Perronets breezy common sense refreshes us. While Charles was agonizing at the thought of separation, and John was proving by vehement assertions that no separation had taken place, Perronet glanced along the coming years and anticipated approaching events. He42 666 British Methodism did not fear what he apprehended; he quietly prepared theminds of the reformers for the ecclesiastical changes whichwere inevitable. If we could by some subtle analysis detectthe constituent elements of the force which affected Wesleywhen, in his later years, he formally prepared his societiesfor a separate existence, we think that the influence of Per-ronet would be clearly revealed. We have a vivid account by Mr. Simon of Charles Wesleysintroduction to Shoreham Church: It is September 16,1746. The church is crowded. Mr. Green reads the
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