1783 METHODIST TRACT. Life and Death of John Janeway - To be Given Away. By James Wheatley.

A rather scarce tract printed by the Methodists, offered at auction just once in the last 100+ years. Unusually, issued by the Methodists as a free tract, not to be sold, and also without the authors name, for reasons which will be obvious in a moment.  The subject was one well-known in the puritan era. John Janeway, also a puritan, was brother of eminent non-conformist divine, James Janeway. John, however, was quite ill and died before his ministry could fully take shape. That said, his death was, in the words of the age, "triumphant." His death was an echo of the triumphant deaths of the early martyrs of the first few centuries and of the reformation . . . but the wicked persecutors of Eusebius and Foxe are recast as the universal foe . . . mortality.   This particular edition, first written in 1749, and here issued in 1783, was produced by the pen of Methodist wild-man, James Wheatley.  Wheatley became a Methodist itinerant evangelist c. 1742/3, but was expelled from the Methodist m