The Sermons of John Wesley
1872 Edition
(Thomas Jackson, editor)
Chronologically Ordered

A Word of Explanation
This index of John Wesley's Sermons attempts to arrange
them in chronological order; that is, from his earliest written
to his latest. The arrangement is based on the work of Timothy L.
Smith and Albert C. Outler. Both scholars independently published
chronological lists of the sermons. Smith's list provides the basic
structure for our chart. Where there are disagreements between Smith
and Outler, both scholarly views are given in italics. This explains
why some sermons appear twice, once in the sequence of each scholar.
("The Means of Grace" actually appears three times in our list,
because Smith assigns it two different dates.) When both Smith and
Outler agree, we have left the script unitalicized and list the
date only in Smith's column.
Within Jackson's collection on the sermons he
included four sermons not written by John Wesley. They are:
"The Cause and Cure of Earthquakes," "On the Resurrection of the
Dead," "On Grieving the Holy Spirit," and "On the Holy Spirit."
Smith includes "The Cause and Cure of Earthquakes" by Charles
Wesley in his list as well as "On Grieving the Holy Spirit" by
John Gambold. Outler's list is composed of only those sermons
by John Wesley himself, and thus the dates given for these sermons
are Smith's only. The sermon "On Predestination" was omitted
from Smith's list and thus the date given for it is only that
of Outler. (The numbers in parentheses after each sermon
title are those given in Thomas Jackson's 1872 edition of Wesley's
Works.)
Smith's chronological list of the sermons is published
in the Wesleyan
Theological Journal (17, 2, Fall 1982). Outler's list appears
in the Bicentennial Edition of the Works of John Wesley,
Volumes I- IV, and is published by Abingdon Press.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Smith's
Dates |
Sermon
Title
(Jackson's Number) |
Outler's Dates |
| |
1720s |
|
| Jan. 11, 1727 |
|
|
| Oct. 6, 1727 |
|
|
| |
1730s |
|
| Feb. 19, 1732 |
|
1787 |
| Sept. 3, 1732 |
|
|
| Jan. 1, 1733 |
|
|
| 1733 |
|
|
| Sept. 21, 1735 |
|
|
| Feb. 20, 1737 |
|
|
| June 7, 1738 |
|
June 11, 1738 |
| June 7, 1738 |
|
June 11, 1738 |
| Apr. 25, 1739 |
|
1746 |
| Apr. 29, 1739 |
|
|
| July 21, 1739 |
|
1748 |
| July 21, 1739 |
|
1748 |
| July 21, 1739 |
|
1748 |
| Sept. 23, 1739 |
|
1748 |
| Oct. 6, 1739 |
|
1746 |
| Nov. 11, 1739 |
|
1741 |
| Nov. 15, 1739 |
|
1746 |
| |
1740s |
|
| Oct. 22-26, 1740 |
|
1748 |
| Oct. 22-26, 1740 |
|
1748 |
| Oct. 22-26, 1740 |
|
1748 |
| Apr. 3, 1741 |
|
1748 |
| June 24, 1741 |
|
|
| June 27, 1741 |
|
1750 |
| July 25, 1741 |
|
|
| Oct. 18, 1741 |
|
1746 |
| Nov. 11, 1739 |
|
1741 |
| Apr. 4, 1742 |
|
|
| June 2, 1742 |
|
1750 |
| June 6, 1742 |
|
1746 |
| Jan. 30, 1743 |
|
1750 |
| May 29, 1743 |
|
1760 |
| Feb. 17, 1744 |
|
1760 |
| Aug. 24, 1744 |
|
|
| June 25, 1745 |
|
1746 |
| May-June 1746 |
|
1746 |
| May-June 1746 |
|
1746 |
| May-June 1746 |
|
1746 |
| Oct. 6, 1739 |
|
1746 |
| Oct. 18, 1741 |
|
1746 |
| June 6, 1742 |
|
1746 |
| June 25, 1745 |
|
1746 |
| Apr. 25, 1739 |
|
1746 |
| Nov. 1-16, 1747 |
|
1748 |
| Nov. 1-16, 1747 |
|
1748 |
| Nov. 1-16, 1747 |
|
1748 |
| Apr. 3, 1741 |
|
1748 |
| Sept. 23, 1739 |
|
1748 |
| July 21, 1739 |
|
1748 |
| July 21, 1739 |
|
1748 |
| July 21, 1739 |
|
1748 |
| Oct. 22-26, 1740 |
|
1748 |
| Oct. 22-26, 1740 |
|
1748 |
| Oct. 22-26, 1740 |
|
1748 |
| Nov. 1-16, 1747 |
|
1748 |
| Nov. 1-16, 1747 |
|
1748 |
| Nov. 1-16, 1747 |
|
1748 |
| Sept. 8, 1749 |
|
1750 |
| Nov. 1-7. 1749 |
|
1750 |
| Nov. 1-7. 1749 |
|
1750 |
| Nov. 1-7. 1749 |
|
1750 |
| Nov. 1-7. 1749 |
|
1750 |
| Nov. 1-7. 1749 |
|
1750 |
| Nov. 1-7. 1749 |
|
1750 |
| Nov. 1-7. 1749 |
|
1750 |
| June 2, 1742 |
|
1750 |
| Nov. 1-7. 1749 |
|
1750 |
| Jan. 30, 1743 |
|
1750 |
| Nov. 1-7. 1749 |
|
1750 |
| June 27, 1741 |
|
1750 |
| Nov. 1-7. 1749 |
|
1750 |
| Nov. 1-7. 1749 |
|
1750 |
| Nov. 1-7. 1749 |
|
1750 |
| Sept. 8, 1749 |
|
1750 |
| Nov. 1-7, 1749 |
|
1750 |
| |
1750s |
|
| Mar. 9, 1750 |
|
|
| Mar. 1, 1751 |
|
1760 |
| Feb. 5, 1752 |
|
1760 |
| May 5, 1754 |
|
1760 |
| May 15, 1754 |
|
1759 |
| Feb. 17, 1755 |
|
1760 |
| Mar. 10, 1758 |
|
|
| May 14, 1758 |
|
May 14, 1768 |
| May 22, 1758 |
|
1765 |
| May 26, 1758 |
|
Apr. 24, 1767 |
| Oct. 1, 1758 |
|
May 6, 1781 |
| Oct. 22, 1758 |
|
Nov. 24, 1765 |
| Dec. 9, 1758 |
|
|
| May 15, 1754 |
|
1759 |
| May 29, 1743 |
|
1760 |
| Mar. 1, 1751 |
|
1760 |
| May 5, 1754 |
|
1760 |
| Feb. 17, 1755 |
|
1760 |
| Feb. 5, 1752 |
|
1760 |
| Feb. 17, 1744 |
|
1760 |
| |
1760s |
|
| Nov. 30, 1760 |
|
1762 |
| Mar. 29, 1761 |
|
Dec. 6, 1784 |
| July 13, 1761 |
|
Oct.-Nov. 1784 |
| Oct. 27, 1761 |
|
June 11, 1788 |
| Nov. 29, 1761 |
|
Nov. 25, 1789 |
| Nov. 30, 1760 |
|
1762 |
| Jan. 30, 1763 |
|
|
| Mar. 28, 1763 |
|
|
| May 22, 1758 |
|
1765 |
| Oct. 22, 1758 |
|
Nov. 24, 1765 |
| Apr. 4, 1767 |
|
|
| May 26, 1758 |
|
Apr. 24, 1767 |
| May 14, 1758 |
|
May 14, 1768 |
| |
1770s |
|
| Nov. 11, 1770 |
|
|
| June 5, 1773 |
|
May 7, 1775 |
| |
|
June 5, 1773 |
| June 5, 1773 |
|
May 7, 1775 |
| Sept. 11, 1775 |
|
|
| Nov. 7, 1775 |
|
|
| Apr. 21, 1777 |
|
|
| Nov. 21, 1777 |
|
Nov. 23, 1777 |
| Nov. 21, 1777 |
|
Nov. 23, 1777 |
| May 20, 1778 |
|
|
| 1778 |
|
|
| Dec. 5, 1779 |
|
Oct. 17, 1787 |
| Oct. 1, 1758 |
|
May 6, 1781 |
| |
1780s |
|
| July 6, 1781 |
|
|
| Nov. 30, 1781 |
|
|
| Jan. 20, 1782 |
|
|
| Mar. 13, 1782 |
|
|
| 1782 |
|
July-Aug. 1782 |
| July 9, 1782 |
|
|
| Aug. 29, 1782 |
|
Jan.-Feb. 1783 |
| Oct. 10, 1782 |
|
|
| Jan. 7, 1783 |
|
|
| Aug. 29, 1782 |
|
Jan.-Feb. 1783 |
| Apr. 22, 1783 |
|
|
| May 26, 1783 |
|
|
| 1783 |
|
May-June 1783 |
| July 12, 1783 |
|
|
| 1783 |
|
|
| Mar. 5, 1784 |
|
|
| July 13, 1761 |
|
Mar.-Apr. 1784 |
| Apr. 28, 1784 |
|
|
| 1784 |
|
Oct.-Nov. 1784 |
| July 17, 1784 |
|
|
| Oct. 15, 1784 |
|
|
| Mar. 29, 1761 |
|
Dec. 6, 1784 |
| Mar. 18, 1785 |
|
|
| 1785 |
|
July-Aug 1785 |
| 1785 |
|
Sept.-Oct. 1785 |
| 1785 |
|
Nov.-Dec. 1785 |
| Sept. 28, 1785 |
|
|
| Oct. 24, 1785 |
|
|
| Mar. 3, 1786 |
|
|
| Mar. 30, 1786 |
|
|
| May 1, 1786 |
|
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| May 23, 1786 |
|
|
| June 28, 1786 |
|
|
| Oct. 7, 1786 |
|
|
| Dec. 30, 1786 |
|
|
| 1787 |
|
July 8, 1787 |
| Feb. 19, 1732 |
|
1787 |
| May 22, 1787 |
|
|
| June 27, 1787 |
|
|
| July 23, 1787 |
|
|
| July 28, 1787 |
|
|
| Aug. 27, 1777 |
|
|
| Oct. 7, 1787 |
|
|
| Dec. 5, 1779 |
|
Oct. 17, 1787 |
| Mar. 25, 1788 |
|
|
| Apr. 8, 1788 |
|
|
| Apr. 9, 1788 |
|
|
| Apr. 22, 1788 |
|
|
| May 2, 1788 |
|
|
| Oct. 27, 1761 |
|
June 11, 1788 |
| Aug. 12, 1788 |
|
|
| Dec. 30, 1788 |
|
|
| Apr. 9, 1789 |
|
|
| May 4, 1789 |
|
|
| July 2, 1789 |
|
|
| Aug. 15, 1789 |
|
|
| 1790 |
|
Aug. 1789 |
| Nov. 29, 1761 |
|
Sept. 25, 1789 |
| |
1790s |
|
| Feb. 19, 1790 |
|
|
| Mar. 26, 1790 |
|
|
| 1790 |
|
Aug. 1789 |
| Apr. 21, 1790 |
|
|
| June 17, 1790 |
|
|
| July 6, 1790 |
|
|
| Sept. 21, 1790 |
|
|
| Jan. 17, 1791 |
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