1. Great Cloud
of Witnesses
Session 5

2. George
Fox
(1624 – 1691)

3. Edward Burrough,
an early Friend
“While waiting upon the Lord in silence, as
often we did for many hours together, we
received often the pouring down of the Spirit
upon us, and our hearts were glad and our
tongues loosened and our mouths opened,
and we spake with new tongues as the Lord
gave us utterance, and His Spirit led us, which
was poured down upon us, on sons and
daughters, and the glory of the Father was
revealed. And then began we to sing praises to
the Lord God Almighty and to the Lamb
forever.”

5. John
Wesley,
home
again at
Epworth

6. Ridiculing
the
Methodists

7. John Wesley
preaching at Oxford (1744)
“How few of you spend, from one week to
another, a single hour in private prayer!...
Who of you is, in any degree, acquainted
with the work of his Spirit, his supernatural
work in the souls of men? Can you bear
(unless now and then, in a church) any talk
of the Holy Ghost?... In the name of the
Lord God Almighty, I ask, What religion
are you of?”

8. Thomas Walsh
Methodist lay preacher
“This morning the Lord gave me
language that I knew not of, raising my
soul to him in a wonderful manner.”
—Diary entry, March 8, 1750

9. Greatest Wesley Sound Bites
“The world is my parish” (after the bishop of Bristol
complained about Wesley coming into “his” territory)
“Do all the good you can,
by all the means you can,
in all the ways you can,
in all the places you can,
at all the times you can,
to all the people you can,
as long as ever you can.”

10. William
Law
(1686 –
1761)

11. William Law
“Resisting the Spirit, quenching the Spirit,
grieving the Spirit gives growth to every
evil that reigns in a fallen creation and
leaves men and churches an easy prey to
the world, the flesh, and the devil. Nothing
but obedience to the Spirit, walking in the
Spirit, trusting Him for continual
inspiration can possibly keep men from
being sinners or idolaters in all that they
do.”

12. William Law
“Read whatever chapter of Scripture you will,
and be ever so delighted in it—yet it will leave
you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it
found you unless it has turned you wholly and
solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you
into full union with and dependence upon
Him…. Take away this inspiration of the Holy
Spirit, or suppose it to cease for a moment,
then no religious acts or affections can give
forth anything that is godly or divine.”