Wesley, John

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Testimony of Charles Nisbet against John Wesley
Testimony of Charles Nisbet against John Wesley
August 7, 1770

The testimony of Charles Nisbet against the doctrines contained in an extract from the minutes of some late conversation between Reverend John Wesley and others at a public conference in London on August 7, 1770. Transcript included.

Location: I-TurnbullM-undated-3

Subject: Religion and Spirituality

Format: Meeting Minutes

Time Period: 1760-1779

Letter from Charles Nisbet to Selina Hastings
Letter from Charles Nisbet to Selina Hastings
July 26, 1771

Charles Nisbet writes to Selina Hastings, the Countess of Huntingdon, about Methodist leader John Wesley's success in England and other related religious issues. Wesley "has been but too successful in seducing many of the ignorant and unwary into his Notions," as Nisbet explains. Transcript...

Location: I-TurnbullM-undated-2

Subject: Religion and Spirituality

Format: Letters/Correspondence

Time Period: 1760-1779

"Rev. Charles Nisbet, D. D., First President of Dickinson College," by Charles Collins
"Rev. Charles Nisbet, D. D., First President of Dickinson College," by Charles Collins
December 1853

Rev. Charles Collins, the eleventh president of Dickinson College, writes this short biography of Rev. Charles Nisbet, the first president of the College, in 1853.

Charles Collins, "Rev. Charles Nisbet, D. D., First President of Dickinson College," The Ladies Repository 13, no....

Location: Special Collections Periodicals

Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education, Religion and Spirituality

Format: Newspapers and Magazines

Time Period: 1840-1859
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