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John Cennick: The Forgotten Evangelist - The Story of the First Methodist Lay Preacher Who Became the Apostle of Northern Ireland (Paperback)
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John Cennick: The Forgotten Evangelist - The Story of the First Methodist Lay Preacher Who Became the Apostle of Northern Ireland (Paperback)
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Loot Price R317
Discovery Miles 3 170
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This is the first ever full-scale biography of John Cennick, who
was an outstandingly successful eighteenth-century preacher. He was
the first layman to be used as a Methodist preacher by John Wesley
and was a significant contributor to the success of Methodism in
the Bristol area, especially Kingswood. Charles Wesley encouraged
him to also become a hymnwriter, editing his early hymns. Cennick
then became the right-hand man of the Calvinist Methodist, George
Whitefield, becoming not only 'the apostle of Wiltshire' but the
main leader of the work of that branch of Methodism in London and a
close friend of the Welsh evangelist Howell Harris. Upset by the
dissensions within Methodism, he became first a member and then an
ordained deacon within the Moravian Church and their chief
evangelist - working across parts of England and Wales, but mainly
in northern Ireland, where he established fifteen chapels, over
forty religious societies and over two hundred preaching places. It
is estimated that between 1739 and his early death at the age of
just 35 in 1755 he preached on between eight and nine thousand
occasions, sometimes in the face of appalling mob violence.His
story - and why John Wesley sought to erase his contribution -
provides a real insight into the religious revival initiated by the
Methodists and Moravians.
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