Excerpt from The Life of the Rev. Thomas Coke, L. L. D: A Clergyman of the Church of England, but Who Laboured Among the Wesleyan Methodists, for the Last Thirty-Eight Years of His Life, and Who Died Suddenly on Shipboard, After Being Four Months at Sea, on His Passage to East Indies Where, however, the voice of tradition has been strong, unvarying, and continued it is reasonable to suppose that it contains, at least, the outlines of truth; and it would be as absurd to reject all it utters, as it would be dangerous to receive all its amplifications and details. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.