Wesley’s Christian Library Vol 12

Memorials of Godliness and Christianity
To the Reader
Of making Religion one’s Business
An Appendix Applied to the Calling of a Minister
An Extract from the Whole Duty of Man
To the Reader
A Preface, Shewing the Necessity of Caring for the Soul
Chapter I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII
Private Devotions for Several Occasions
A Collection of Prayers for Families
Directions for Married Persons: William Whateley
To the Reader
The Author’s Address to the Christian Reader
Chapter I, Chapter II, Chapter III, Chapter IV
Chapter V: Shewing the first Effect of Love, viz. Pleasingness
Chapter VI: Of the Faithfulness and Helpfulness of the Married
Chapter VII: Shewing the Duties of the Married to their Families
Chapter VIII: Of a Man’s keeping his Authority
Chapter IX: Of the Parts and Ends of a Man’s Authority
Chapter X: Of Justice in the Husband’s Government
Chapter XI: Of Wisdom
Chapter XII: Of Mildness
Chapter XIII: Of Maintaining one’s Wife
Chapter XIV: Of the Wife’s peculiar Duties
Chapter XV: Containing some Application of the whole Subject
Extracts from the Works of Robert Sanderson, D.D
The Life of Bishop Sanderson
Four Sermons:
A Sermon Preached in St. Paul’s Church, London, November 4, 1621
A Sermon Preached at St. Paul’s Cross, London, November 21, 1624
A Sermon Preached at St. Paul’s Cross, London, April 15, 1627
A Sermon Preached at a Visitation at Grantham in Lincolnshire, August 22, 1634

A note on the marriage extract, from
Samuel Johnson’s Practical Sermon on Marriage in Context: Spousal Whiggery and the Book of Common Prayer
HOWARD D. WEINBROT
Modern Philology, Vol. 114, No. 2 (NOVEMBER 2016), pp. 310-336 (27 pages)

30. Burkitt, Expository Notes, 51; William Whately (or Whateley), Directions for Married Per-
    sons: Describing the Duties Common to Both, and Peculiar to Each of Them (Bristol, 1753), 65.
    Whately’s book, so different from the examples of William Gouge and Norris, began as A
    Bride-bush; or, A Wedding Sermon: Compendiously describing the Duties of Married Persons. It was
    pirated in 1617, authorized in London 1619, and reprinted in 1623. It later became Direc-
    tions for Married Persons, appeared in vol. 22 (1753) of John Wesley’s Christian Library, 50 vols.
    (Bristol, 1749–55), again in Bristol in 1753 and 1768, and in London in 1790 and 1794. Its
    views reflected and enhanced contemporary social attitudes regarding marital relations