Wesley’s Christian Library Vol 12

Vol 12 Contents

• Herbert Palmer
  • Memorials of Godliness and Christianity
    • To the Reader
    • Of making Religion one’s Business
    • An Appendix Applied to the Calling of a Minister
• [Richard Allestree]
  • 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
• William Whateley, Directions for Married Persons
  • 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

Description & Discussion

note from John Wesley p. 25-26 warning about Whole Duty.

We now know it’s Richard Allestree (1619-81). So is Private Devotions here (says monk)

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