“I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.”

— John Wesley

Journal entry (1 August 1777), published in The Journal of the Rev. John Wesley (1827), p. 104
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Christian theologian 1703–1791

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