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The Person of Christ: A Discourse (First Edition)Delivered at the Grosvenor-Street Chapel, Manchester, July 25th, 1871 in Connection with the Assembling of the Wesleyan-Methodist Conference, Being the Second Lecture on the Foundation of John Fernley, Esq, With the History of the Doctrine of Christ's Person, and Notes
Note: This first edition of Person of Christ was superseded a few years later by the second, enlarged edition (The Person of Christ: Dogmatic, Scriptural, Historical). For almost all purposes, that second edition is the one…
Discourses on the Kingdom and Reign of ChristDelivered in the Chapel of the Wesleyan Theological Institution at Didsbury
Pope had taken the late John Hannah’s chair as tutor at Didsbury College in 1867; this book was published 1869. 21 chapters, 395pp. In 1880, Pope published a “Third and Enlarged Edition” of these sermons under…
“O Spare Me”A Sermon for the New Year
PDF link below. Here is the text cleaned up for easier browser reading, with block quotes and section headings provided by me. “O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be…
“Inaugural Address” at Didsbury, 1867delivered in the College Chapel, Didsbury, on Friday, September 20th, 1867
Stevenson (Methodist Worthies) reports on the dramatic circumstances in which Pope delivered this address: The Rev. Dr. John Hannah, who had for many years been the Theological Tutor at the Didsbury Wesleyan College, died before the…
The Abiding Word
An early sermon on I Peter 1:24-25 by William Burt Pope, published as a booklet. Robertson, in Methodist Worthies (p. 438), reports that it was “preached on behalf of the Wesleyan Foreign Missionary Society, in 1865,…
Love of the Commandment
A sermon preached to young men at Woodhouse Grove School.
Translation of Rudolf Stier’s Words of the Lord Jesus
From 1855 to 1859, Pope translated nine volumes (4,500 pages) of Rudolf Stier’s Words of the Lord Jesus (Die Reden des Herrn Jesu). In these volumes, Stier (1800-1862) set himself to comment on every recorded word…
“The Holmfirth Flood”
R.W. Moss identifies this as Pope’s earliest publication. It is signed W.B.P., Halifax. It really is a ten-page account of a terrible flood.
Wesley’s Christian Library Vol 30
Vol 30 Contents Description & Discussion John Norris (1637-1711), philosopher, John C. English, “John Wesley’s Indebtedness to John Norris.” Church History 60, no. 1 (March 1991): 55-69 before bonnet: 30:70 Christopher M. B. Allison, “The Methodist…
Wesley’s Christian Library Vol 29
Vol 29 Contents Description & Discussion Advertisement on p. 212, dated 1826:
Wesley’s Christian Library Vol 28
Vol 28 Contents Description & Discussion John Howe (1630-1705) prdl
Wesley’s Christian Library Vol 27
Vol 27 Contents Description & Discussion Tillotson! ACW 27:3 has this peculiar aside: church society article Flavel: odd choices I think
Wesley’s Christian Library Vol 26
Vol 26 Contents Description & Discussion Country Parson 1680 here
Wesley’s Christian Library Vol 25
Vol 25 Contents Description & Discussion Interesting history of devotions & prayers: Susanna Hopton has been recovered as the editor. Extracts From The Works Of Dr. Reynolds, Sometime Bishop Of Norwich Sermons I-VI Devotions For Every…
