Wesley Corpus

cf. Baker list, 22 Editorial Introduction: In July 1744 John Wesley published the fourth extract of his Journal. The extract covered the dates of November 1, 1739 through September 3, 1741. This was the period when the debate raged between the Wesley brothers and the English Moravians over the use of "means of grace." Since the period included the time when Charles Wesley had published Means of Grace (1740), John chose to append a copy of this defense of the means of grace to his extract (pp. 115-17). He also appended a new poem titled "The Bloody Issue," which defended the means of grace as God's chosen way to heal our sin-diseased nature. While the author of the second poem is not identified in the Journal, Charles Wesley claimed it as his by including it in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749), 1:168-71. Editions: Charles Wesley. "The Bloody Issue." In John Wesley's Extract of Wesley's Journal No. 4, 118-20. London: Strahan, 1744. 2nd Bristol: Farley, 1749. pp. 117-19 not included with Journal in Works edn.