historyofmethodism/christian-library

A Christian Library (Wesley's abridgments) with collation apparatus

278 works from Wesley's Christian Library (~4.64M words), full English text plus the collation cuts ('What Wesley Left Out'), headnotes and cross-references as separate fields.

Canonical home: https://achristianlibrary.org (each record carries its canonical URL). This dataset is a machine-generated export of that site's build, regenerated from the source of truth and never hand-edited; the site remains the one published address of the text.

Licence

This edition's own work is CC BY 4.0; public-domain source text is unclaimed. Machine-learning training, fine-tuning, evaluation and retrieval — including commercial model development — are explicitly permitted under those terms: keep the attribution and say if you changed the text. Full terms: https://achristianlibrary.org/rights

Credits

Source text (Wesley's public-domain abridgments) is unclaimed; the apparatus is CC BY 4.0.

How the English was made

English text was drafted with LLM assistance and checked against the source; the verification procedure and what has and has not been checked are described on the site's rights / about pages. Treat it as a careful working translation, not a critical edition.

Loading

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("historyofmethodism/christian-library", data_files="data/christian-library-2026-09-08.jsonl.gz")

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