John wesley siblings

Charles Wesley His father, Samuel Wesley, was the Rector of the parish. His mother, Susannah, was a daughter of the Rev. Charles was the youngest, save one Kezia , of nineteen children, of whom only ten survived their infancy, seven daughters and three sons, Samuel, John, and Charles. Such was the improvidence, in some respects, of the father, so numerous were his dependents, and so small his income, that their condition was exceedingly straitened, and their struggles with poverty seldom intermitted.

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They had scarcely any intercourse with Dissenters, and were rigidly attached to the Church of England. The father had become extensively known as a ready writer of poetry, and the mother was a strenuous Jacobite. The first eight years of his life were passed at home, under the tuition of his mother. John, five years his senior, had been sent to the Charterhouse School, in London; and, two years later , Charles was entered at Westminster School, of which his eldest brother, Samuel then about twenty-five years old, and by whom he was at first supported there , was one of the teachers.

His stay at Westminster was prolonged ten years, during which he was thoroughly fitted for the University. In , being in his eighteenth year, he was elected to Christchurch College, Oxford, as his brother, John, had been five years before. Would you have me to be a saint all at once?

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Early in his third year, Charles entered upon a methodical and serious mode of life. This gained me the harmless name of Methodist. In half a year [after this] my brother left his curacy at Epworth, and came to our assistance. We then proceeded regularly in our studies, and in doing what good we could to the bodies and souls of men. Charles began it, and John controlled and shaped it.