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A partial letter from Philip Henry Molther to John Wesley requesting Wesley visit and deliver a sermon. Additionally, there are several other short notes: from James Hutton to a Mr. Felschig, from James Hutton to John Wesley, and from Joseph Verding to Mr. Felshig. The original letter is accompanied by a handwritten copy and a note on the history between the various writers and addressees.

A letter from John Wesley to his mother relating a visit to Count Zinzendorf near Frankfort.

The diary of John Wesley, written primarily in a cipher. Each date includes an hourly calendar from 4am to 8pm.

Summary: Despite his lack of success in appealing to the Pope for an Ecumenical Council in 1518, Luther repeats his call in this pamphlet, combining it with a special appeal to the emperor and to the German princes. This is the first printing of this work, produced outside the city of Wittenberg.

Summary: Luther's German translation of the Wittenberg usage of the Catholic rite of Baptism (Ordo baptizandi). The work was reprinted fifteen times between 1523 and 1526, when Luther issued a revised edition.

Summary: Polemical tract against celibacy, attributed to Michael Keller, who was married August 10, 1526 in Augsburg.

Summary: Osiander provides a fuller translation of the traditional Catholic rite of baptism than Münzer or Luther, who had both published baptism liturgies one year earlier, and who had eliminated certain ritual elements.

Summary: Only printing of a Lutheran pamphlet by an anonymous preacher from Southern Germany on the subject of baptism and other ceremonies in the Catholic church, with an introduction by Nicolaus Gallus.

Summary: Interpretive pamphlet by Erasmus on the true nature of pilgrimage, as espoused by Jesus in Matthew XI, 28. Erasmus says that true pilgrimage is undertaken with spiritual, and not with physical feet, and, that Jesus receives all sincere pilgrims equally, whether they be clergy or lay, rich or poor, etc.

Summary: A German translation of Bugenhagen's "Short Admonition Full of Piety" to his neighbors in Bohemia, Silesia, and Lusatia, asking that they not give assistance to the Emperor and his troops in their war against the Protestants.

Summary: A. Faber was a Lutheran pastor in Schwerin when he wrote this book in 1533 against the false "blood of Christ" and the "idol" (i.e., the shrine in which the blood was kept) in the Cathedral at Schwerin. Such Holy blood miracles made for exceedingly popular pilgrimage sites in pre-Reformation Germany.

Summary: A collection of prayers and meditations written by Susanna Wesley, mother of John and Charles Wesley.

Summary: Lucy Rider Meyer wrote several of the songs in this collection. Proceeds went to the training of missionaries and deaconesses.

Summary: Compiled and used by Maggie Van Cott at her revival meetings. The first hymn is written by Van Cott.

Summary: The first biography of Susanna Wesley, the mother of John and Charles Wesley.

Summary: This collection of biographies was compiled by Zachariah Taft in 1825 to record the ministry of women in the early days of Methodism, lest they "drop into oblivion." Included are the biographies of Susanna Wesley, Mary Fletcher and Sarah Lawrance. The book is opened to John Wesley�s response to Mary Fletcher's letter about women preachers. He says she has "an extraordinary call" and is to continue preaching.

Summary: Written by Mary Fletcher about her adopted daughter, this book is open to her description of Sarah Lawrance's preaching: "Her method was, after singing and prayer, to read some life, experience, or some awakening author, stopping now and then, to explain and apply it as the Lord gave her utterance."

Summary: The biography of Mary Fletcher is compiled from her diary and her correspondence. In her writings, she tells of for her work with orphans and as a class leader.

Summary: Addressed to Johann Friedrich of Saxony and Philipp of Hesse, relating to the imprisonment of Heinrich of Brunswick as a prisoner of war.

Summary: Sermon preached September 21, 1544, on text: Revelation XII, 7-12 (St Michael Archangel).

Summary: This is a fine, well-preserved copy of a sixteenth century edition of the "Confessio Augustana and Melanchthon's Apology."