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Wesley (SAMUEL SR an English clergyman)

SAMUEL, SR., an English clergyman; born in Winterborne-Whitchurch, England, in 1662. He was the in London, March 2, 1791. WESLEY, SAMUEL, SR., an English WEST JR. He wrote "Life of Christ: An Heroic Poem," Eupolis' Hymn to the Creator," etc. He is best known by the two hymns to be found in Methodist hymn Methodist denomination, and the parent of some smaller religious bodies now in- He died in Epworth, April 25, 1735.

WESLEYAN METHODISM, the of some smaller religious bodies now inlargest and most important British Methodist denomination, and the parent dependent of its government.

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