This source names John Wesley directly: "Isaac Watts and from John and Charles Wesley, alongside pieces attributed to Allen and to members of his own congregation, and it was printed without either author attributions or musical notation."
Source Richard Allen (Hymnology Archive)Hymnology Archive; cross checked against Hymnary.org
This source names John Wesley directly: "abridged for American Methodists by John Wesley in 1784; citing this record alongside the Thirty-Nine Articles for the same doctrinal claim is the same Reformation-era confession counted twice..."
Source Articles of Religion, What We Believe, The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (thecmechurch.org)The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
This source names John Wesley directly: "religious refugees from the start: John Wesley preached his earliest sermons there before returning to England to found Methodism, and Lutheran Salzburgers persecuted in Europe settled at Ebenezer..."
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
This source names John Wesley directly: "collection of verse John and Charles Wesley issued together in March 1739 in London, printed by William Strahan and sold by James Hutton and at Mr."
Source Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739 (Hymnology Archive and Wikipedia)Hymnology Archive and Wikipedia contributors
This source names John Wesley directly: "Archive's catalogue entry for the Wesleys' published works and the Wikipedia articles on Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739), And Can It Be and Charles Wesley."
Source Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739 (Hymnology Archive and Wikipedia)Hymnology Archive and Wikipedia contributors
This source names John Wesley directly: "open-access collection API record for "John Wesley," an etching by the Scottish artist John Kay, 1790, from his series of original portraits and caricature etchings."
Source John Wesley, accession 33.30(133) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
This source names John Wesley directly: "John and Charles Wesley, sons of an Anglican rector, formed a small, disciplined devotional group at Oxford in 1729, nicknamed the Holy Club and, mockingly, the Methodists for its methodical rule of..."
Source Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of MethodismHenry D. Rack
This source names John Wesley directly: "Rack's Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism, 3rd edition, Epworth Press, 2002, widely regarded as the finest modern biography of Wesley, sets the movement's rise against its..."
Source Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of MethodismHenry D. Rack
This source names John Wesley directly: "The office John Wesley created in 1784 when he ordained Thomas Coke general superintendent for the fledgling Methodist societies in America, a functional office of oversight rather than a third holy..."
Source The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist ChurchUnited Methodist Churchthe holders' own account
This source names Wesley directly: "Nine Articles and abridged by John Wesley for American Methodists in 1784."
Source Articles of Religion, What We Believe, The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (thecmechurch.org)The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
This source names John Wesley directly: "Methodists from the Church of England, John Wesley reluctantly agreed to let the movement in America organise as its own church, sending Thomas Coke to ordain Francis Asbury as general superintendent."
Source American Saint: Francis Asbury and the MethodistsJohn Wigger
This source names John Wesley directly: "John Wesley's sermons are his own primary theological and homiletic record, published and republished across his lifetime and after in various collected editions, and this record states honestly..."
Source The Sermons of John WesleyJohn Wesley
This source names John Wesley directly: "abridged for American Methodists by John Wesley in 1784; citing both together for the same doctrinal claim is the same Reformation-era text counted twice across a documented line of abridgment, not..."
Source The Thirty-Nine Articles of ReligionChurch of Englandthe holders' own account
This source names John Wesley directly: "the 1784 Deed of Declaration by which John Wesley had first given the original Wesleyan societies a legal constitution."
Source Methodist Union (Dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland)