On 21st September 1787, they arrived in London...In London Mr. Winchester formed an acquaintance and friendship with a number of distinguished clergymen...The friendship contracted with Mr. Wesley was severed only by death. This occured in 1791. Mr. Winchester paid a just tribute to his memory by a funeral discourse which was published...It is also said, that near the close of his life, he expressed to Mr. Winchester his belief in the restoration. He remarked that he had written a sermon on the subject which he had placed in the care of a printer to be published after his decease--that he had paid him for so doing, and had given him a strict injunction to sell no copies, but to distribute them gratuitously to the world...(pgs. 107-108.)
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