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Do you think he was born an Arminian?

He was born neither Calvinist nor Arminian. To imply he was born with either belief is ludicrous.

They would not give him a pulpit to preach in ..so there were obviously doctrinal issues ..His mother came from a Puritan family with Puritan relatives.

Wesley was an ordained priest in the Church of England, no? It is my understanding that some, not all, of the parish leaders refused to allow him to preach from a pulpil after his return from Georgia.

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Wesley was refused a pulpit because of what he preached. He preached a non-sacramental gospel and a non-deterministic gospel.

He said that anyone could be saved and that anyone could preach and that they could be saved anyplace.

He ordained lay preachers, he preached in fields instead of pulpits, and he organized the great unwashed into legions of followers within the Anglican Church.

Those are the reasons they banned him from the pulpit.