Chapter XXXI: Part 31

97 – _Primitive Methodist Magazine_, 1865, p. 662.

98 – Seymour’s “Memoirs of Whitefield,” p. 66.

99 – _Christian History_, 1744.

100 – _Evangelical Magazine_, 1805.

101 – A Sermon on Samson, a type of Christ. To which is added an
Exposition of Ephesians v. 22–33; prefaced and recommended
by the Rev. Mr. Whitefield. Sold by Mr. John Syms, in
Ironmonger Row, near St. Luke’s Church, Old Street; John
Lewis, printer, in Bartholomew Close, near West Smithfield;
or Mr. Wharton, at the Tabernacle.

102 – _Christian History_, 1744.

103 – Ibid.

104 – _Christian History_, vol. vi., p. 40, 1744.

105 – Though “printed and sold by J. Lewis, in Bartholomew
Close,” the _Christian History_ was really under the
control of Whitefield. In an advertisement appended to
No. 3, vol. vi., 1744, it is stated, that the publication
“contains a general account of the progress of the
gospel, under the ministry of the Rev. Mr. Whitefield,
his fellow-labourers, and assistants;” that, though
originally published in the folio size, “_Mr. Whitefield_
had _ordered_ it to be printed in a pocket volume, as
judging it less cumbersome;” and that it was “the Rev. Mr.
Whitefield’s desire to have the volumes made as public as
possible.”

It may be added, that, on Whitefield’s return from America,
in July, 1748, the _Christian History_ was discontinued.
The last letter in it is dated “June 23, 1748;” and on the
last page is the following:――“N.B. This is the last number
of the _Christian History_ that will be printed.”

106 – At this time, the only Methodists in Exeter were the
followers of Whitefield.

107 – Mr. Kennedy, Adams’s host.

108 – Mr. Kennedy went with Mr. S. (Kennedy’s Letter.)

109 – In Prince’s _Christian History_, vol. ii., p. 320, there
is a letter, written by “William Shurtleff,” minister at
Portsmouth, stating that Whitefield came to Portsmouth on
November 6. Shurtleff and the Rev. Jabez Fitch, another
Portsmouth minister, met him. Fitch asked him to preach
that evening in his meeting-house. Whitefield did so; and
was to have preached again next morning, but was taken ill.

Respecting Prince’s _Christian History_, it may be
stated here, once for all, that it was a periodical,
in two octavo volumes, of 416 pages each, entitled, “The
Christian History, containing Accounts of the Revival and
Propagation of Religion in Great Britain and America, for
the years 1743 and 1744. Boston: printed by S. Kneeland
and T. Green, for T. Prince.” No. 1 was issued on March 5,
1743; and No. 103, the last, on February 16, 1745. Many
of the correspondents seem to trace to Whitefield the
beginning of the revivals both in Scotland and New England.

110 – Sir William Pepperell, the son of a Cornish fisherman,
but bred a merchant. In 1727, he was chosen one of His
Majesty’s Council, and was annually re-elected until his
death in 1759. In 1745, he had the command of the troops
which invested and conquered Louisbourg. The king, in
reward of his services, conferred upon him the dignity of
a baronet of Great Britain, an honour never before, and
never since, conferred on a native of New England. Just
before his death, he was appointed lieutenant-general.

111 – Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”

112 – _Christian History_, No. 3, vol. vi.

113 – A nick-name given to Whitefield’s converts and admirers in
America, and analogous to that of “Methodists” in England.

114 – Nichols’ “Illustrations of Literature,” vol. iv., p. 303.

No wonder that, soon after the receipt of this letter, the
Rev. Zachary Grey, D.D., wrote and published a pamphlet,
with the following title:――“A serious Address to Lay
Methodists, to beware of the false Pretences of their
Teachers. With an Appendix containing an Account of the
fatal and bloody effects of Enthusiasm in the case of
the Family of the Dutartres, in South Carolina. 1745.”
(8vo. 29 pp.) Dr. Grey tells his readers, as Dr. Cutler,
his correspondent, would have done, that “the Methodist
preachers are wandering lights, gadding about with canting
assurances, and leading people into bogs of delusion.”
In justice to Whitefield, it must be added that he had no
connection whatever with the family of the Dutartres. The
family consisted of father, mother, four sons, and four
daughters. In the highest degree, they were all fanatics.
They withdrew from all society, believing that they alone
had the true knowledge of God, and were taught by Him by
signs and impulses. They refused to perform militia and
highway duty, and threw off all obedience to the civil
magistrates. These facts, coupled with adultery on the
part of one member of the family, led Justice Simmons to
issue a writ for Judith Dutartre. In executing the writ,
Simmons was killed by a shot which the Dutartres fired
at him and his men. Six of the fanatics were carried
prisoners to Charleston, and five of them were sentenced
to be hanged for murder. Three were executed, and two,
on confessing their error, were pardoned. (“The Great
Awakening,” by Tracy, p. 79.)

115 – It was unfair to attribute this to Whitefield. In
“An Account of the Revival of Religion in Boston, in
1740–1–2–3. By Thomas Prince, one of the Pastors of the
Old South Church,” the following testimony is given by the
Rev. Dr. Colman:――“I do not remember any crying out, or
falling down, or fainting, either under Mr. Whitefield’s
or Mr. Tennent’s ministry, all the while they were at
Boston, though many were in great concern of soul.”
(p. 13.)

116 – “A large majority in the Presbyterian Church, and many,
if not most, of the Congregationalists, in New England,
held that the ministrations of unconverted men, if neither
heretical in doctrine nor scandalous for immorality, were
valid, and their labours useful.” (The Great Awakening,
by Tracy, p. 66.) Gilbert Tennent was one of the first
to publicly attack this monstrous error, in his famous
Nottingham sermon, on “The Danger of an Unconverted
Ministry.” For years afterwards, the error was furiously
maintained.

117 – Gillies’ “Life of Whitefield.”

118 – “Some,” says Mr. Hobby, “object to Mr. Whitefield,
because in England he is a _Churchman_, in Scotland
a _Kirkman_――here he is a _Dissenter_, and there an
_Anabaptist_――that is, he has communion with _all_ these
churches, and therefore ought to have communion with
_none_.”

119 – The Rev. Samuel Cooke was ordained in 1739, and died in
1783, aged seventy-four.

120 – In a pamphlet, published in 1745, and entitled, “The
Question whether it be right to turn Methodist considered,”
the Methodists are divided into four sections; namely,
“_Moravians, Inghamites, Westleyites, and Whitefieldians_.”

121 – _Methodist Magazine_, 1855, p. 1111.

122 – A river, near Portsmouth.

123 – Probably, the Rev. Thomas Prince, co-pastor with the Rev.
Dr. Sewall, of the Old South Church, Boston. He died in
1758, leaving behind him a large collection of public and
private papers relating to the civil and religious history
of New England. During the siege of Boston, the Old South
Meeting House was used for a riding school, nearly all the
timber of the pews and galleries being used for warming
it, and a large portion of Prince’s manuscripts, and
invaluable pamphlets employed in kindling the fires.

124 – _Primitive Methodist Magazine_, 1865, p. 715–16.

125 – The Rev. Edward Morgan, in his “Life and Times of Howell
Harris,” gives several extracts from a manuscript volume,
called “A Conference Book――including a general account
of the affairs of the Tabernacle, before and after
the separation of John Cennick; and an account of the
Preachers, Labourers, and Trustees, in connexion with
Mr. Whitefield, from December 1743 to 1749.” One of these
extracts relates, that, an association was held in London,
in 1745, at which Cennick, Harris, Hamond, Adams, Pugh,
Godwin, Heatly, Thorn, Simns, and Salmon, were present.
Cennick stated, that, he thought himself called to join
the Moravians. He delivered up the care of the Tabernacle
to Harris. The Societies in Wiltshire were given to
Cennick, because they chose him as their leader. Two
or three of the preachers went with him. It was agreed
that Harris should remain at the Tabernacle till the
commencement of 1746; and that he should then be succeeded
by Herbert Jenkins.

126 – These were probably the following: “Twenty-three Sermons
on various Subjects: to which are added several Prayers.
By George Whitefield, A.B., late of Pembroke College,
Oxford. A new edition, revised and corrected by the author.
London: printed by W. Strahan. 1745.” (12mo. 388 pp.)

127 – _London Magazine_, 1745.

128 – Whitefield’s influence at Boston was enormous. Among
the anecdotes, extant, of his power as a preacher, the
following is a specimen. When preaching in Boston, on one
occasion, a violent storm of thunder and lightning came
on; and, in the midst of his sermon, the congregation
sat in almost breathless awe. Whitefield, observing the
consternation of the people, fell on his knees, and, with
characteristic pathos, repeated――

“Hark, _the Eternal_ rends the sky!
A mighty voice before Him goes,――
A voice of music to His friends,
But threat’ning thunder to His foes:
‘Come, children, to your Father’s arms;
Hide in the chambers of my grace,
Until the storm be overblown,
And my revenging fury cease.’”

The great preacher then rose up, and, addressing his awed
auditors, exclaimed, “Let us now devoutly sing the ‘Old
Hundred.’” The congregation started to their feet, and
burst into a song of praise too memorable to be forgotten.
(Belcher’s “Biography of Whitefield,” p. 469.)

129 – Brainerd was a native of Connecticut, and was now about
twenty-eight years of age. In 1739, he was admitted a
member of Yale College; but was expelled in 1742, because
he expressed his belief that one of the tutors had no
religion, and because he had been guilty of attending a
religious meeting prohibited by the collegiate authorities.
In 1743, he began his Christian labours among the Indians.
He lived in a wigwam, slept upon a bundle of straw, and
fed on boiled corn, hasty pudding, and samp. His success
was great. He died in the house of Jonathan Edwards,
October 9, 1747, aged twenty-nine.

130 – “Life of Howell Harris,” 1791, p. 176.

131 – “Further Account of God’s Dealings with Rev. G. Whitefield,”
1747, pp. 29 and 37.

132 – _London Magazine_, 1745, p. 603.

133 – Habersham had now left the Orphan House.

134 – _London Magazine_, 1745, p. 603.

135 – The war.

136 – Oglethorpe was now in England, and Major Horton was his
military deputy in Georgia.

137 – “Life of Howell Harris,” 1791, p. 175.

138 – Hutton’s Memoirs, p. 189.

139 – James Hutton’s Memoirs, p. 191.

140 – “Life of Howell Harris,” 1791, p. 63.

141 – “Life and Times of Howell Harris,” pp. 111–114.

142 – _Christian History_, 1747, p. 9.

143 – _Ibid._, p. 99.

144 – _Christian History_, 1747, p. 16.

145 – Ibid., p. 174.

146 – Ibid., p. 54.

147 – Ibid., p. 142.

148 – Ibid., p. 78.

149 – Ibid., p. 60.

150 – _Christian History_, 1747, p. 156.

151 – Belcher’s “Biography of Whitefield,” p. 286.

152 – _Christian History_, 1747, p. 11.

153 – In the same year, a second edition was printed in Boston
(8vo 22 pp.), and a third in London (8vo, 24 pp.).

It may be added, that, about the same time, a volume of
sermons was printed at Philadelphia, and entitled “Five
Sermons, on the following subjects, namely: 1. Christ
the Believer’s Husband. 2. The Gospel Supper. 3. Blind
Bartimeus. 4. Walking with God. 5. The Resurrection of
Lazarus. By George Whitefield. With a Preface by the Rev.
Mr. Gilbert Tennent.” Tennent’s Preface, of twelve pages,
is dated, “Philadelphia, May 30, 1746;” and is laudatory,
but honest and earnest.

154 – Pounded rice, or Indian corn.

155 – Indian corn ground with the husks, and fried.

156 – The shell of a fruit so called.

157 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii., pp. 83, 84.

158 – _Arminian Magazine_, 1778, p. 418.

159 – In 1618, a law was passed in Virginia, which enacted,
that, “Every person should go to the Established Church
on Sundays and holidays, or lie neck and heels that night,
and be a slave to the colony the following week! For the
second offence, he was to be a slave for a month; and,
for the third, a year and a day!” (History of Virginia. By
Rev. William Stith, President of William and Mary College,
Virginia, 1747. 8vo.)

160 – Mr. Davies was born in November, 1724. In his twenty-third
year, he was sent, by the Presbytery of Newcastle,
Pennsylvania, to Hanover, Virginia. He encountered many
obstacles, from the prejudice, bigotry, profaneness,
and immorality of the people; but his earnest and able
ministry triumphed over opposition, and produced great
results. In 1753, by the request of the trustees of New
Jersey College, he accompanied Gilbert Tennent to Great
Britain. He died February 4, 1761, at the early age of
thirty-six. His sermons, in three volumes, used to be
exceedingly popular.

161 – Gillies’ “Historical Collections,” vol. ii., p. 331.

162 – The Rev. Samuel Finley, D.D., was an exceedingly devout
and able man. Ordained in 1740, the first years of his
ministry were spent in itinerating with Whitefield,
Gilbert Tennent, and others, and in promoting the
remarkable revival of that period. For preaching to a
Presbyterian congregation in New Haven, he was arrested
by the civil authority, and carried out of the colony
as a vagrant. In 1744, he became minister at Nottingham,
Maryland, where he also opened an academy. On the death
of the Rev. Samuel Davies, he became his successor as
president of ♦Princeton College, in New Jersey. In his
last illness, on being asked how he felt, he answered, “I
am full of triumph; I triumph through Christ.” Being asked
again what he saw in eternity that made him wish to die,
he exclaimed, “I see the eternal goodness of God; I see
the fulness of the Mediator; I see the love of Jesus. Oh
to be dissolved, and to be with Him!” Dr. Finley died in
1766, at the age of fifty, and was buried by the side of
his friend Gilbert Tennent.

163 – Gillies’ “Historical Collections,” vol. ii., p. 333.

164 – _Christian History_, 1747, p. 26.

165 – _Christian History_, 1747, p. 29.

166 – Two months before this letter was written, the Countess
of Huntingdon, at the age of thirty-nine, became a widow.
Her husband, the Earl of Huntingdon, died on October 13th,
1746.

167 – “Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 88.

168 – See p. 158, vol. i.

169 – _Christian History_, 1747, p. 30.

170 – _Christian History_, 1747, p. 34.

171 – _Christian History_, 1747, p. 117.

172 – The large building erected in 1740. See page 377, vol. i.

173 – _Christian History_, 1747, p. 119.

174 – The wife of John Edwin, Esq., M.P., the grandson of Sir
Humphrey Edwin, Lord Mayor of London. The only daughter
and heir of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin became a Methodist, was
a particular friend of the eccentric Lady Townshend,
and married Charles Dalrymple, Esq. (“Life and Times of
Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 87.)

175 – _Christian History_, 1747, p. 121.

176 – Ibid., p. 83.

177 – The disputes respecting Kingswood School.

178 – Three months after this, Herbert Jenkins was preaching
in Scotland with such success, that, “at Glasgow, he
was complimented with the freedom of the city, and was
entertained by the magistrates, and likewise by the
Presbytery.” (_Scots’ Magazine_, 1747, p. 403.)

179 – _Christian History_, 1747, p. 128.

180 – _Christian History_, 1747, p. 128.

181 – _Christian History_, 1747, p. 146; and Whitefield’s Works,
vol. ii. p. 126.

182 – Whether designedly or not, Whitefield, in his political
sermon, pronounced eulogies on George the Second and his
Government, which they hardly merited.

183 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii., p. 141.

184 – _Christian History_, 1747, p. 178.

185 – Ibid., p. 209.

186 – _Christian History_, p. 211.

187 – _Christian History_, p. 225.

188 – Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”

189 – _Gentleman’s Magazine_, 1748, p. 329.

190 – See Tracy’s “Great Awakening,” pp. 388–433.

191 – _Christian History_, p. 192.

192 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 86.

193 – Ibid.

194 – Ibid., vol. ii., p. 375; and “Life and Times of Howell
Harris,” p. 117.

195 – “Life and Times of Howell Harris,” p. 115.

196 – Ibid.

197 – “Life and Times of Howell Harris,” 1791, p. 63.

198 – William Pulteney, Earl of Bath, a statesman of great
ability, who was born in 1682, and died in 1764. For some
years, he regularly attended Tottenham Court Road chapel.
In a letter to the Countess, written in 1749, he says:
“Mocked and reviled as Mr. Whitefield is by all ranks
of society, still I contend that the day will come when
England will be just, and own his greatness as a reformer,
and his goodness as a minister of the Most High God. I
earnestly beg your ladyship’s intercession on my behalf;
that, amidst the bustle, the cares and anxieties of
public life, I may have my mind roused only by the great
concerns of an eternal world, and fixed on those scenes of
immortality to which we are all quickly hastening.” (“Life
and Times of Countess of Huntingdon.”)

199 – The celebrated nobleman, of whom Dr. Johnson once remarked,
that, he was “a wit among lords, and a lord among wits.”
Born in 1694, and died in 1773. At the time referred to
in Whitefield’s letter, his lordship had recently resigned
the office of Chief Secretary of State; and, in a letter
to Lady Huntingdon, written nine months afterwards, he
said, “Mr. Whitefield’s eloquence is unrivalled――his zeal
inexhaustible; and not to admire both would argue a total
absence of taste, and an insensibility not to be coveted
by anybody. Your ladyship is a powerful auxiliary to the
Methodist Cabinet; and I confess, notwithstanding my own
private feelings and sentiments, I am infinitely pleased
at your zeal in so good a cause.” (Ibid.)

200 – In a letter to the Countess of Huntingdon, Lord
Bolingbroke said, “Mr. Whitefield is the most
extraordinary man in our times. He has the most commanding
eloquence I ever heard in any person; his abilities are
very considerable; his zeal unquenchable; and his piety
and excellence genuine――unquestionable. The bishops and
inferior orders of the clergy are very angry with him, and
endeavour to represent him as a hypocrite, an enthusiast;
but this is not astonishing――there is so little real
goodness or honesty among them. Your ladyship will be
somewhat amused at hearing that the King has represented
to his Grace of Canterbury, that Mr. Whitefield should
be advanced to the Bench, as the only means of putting
an end to his preaching. What a keen, what a biting
remark! but how just, and how well earned by those mitred
lords!” (“Sketches of the Life and Labours of Whitefield,”
published by “the Committee of the General Assembly of the
Free Church of Scotland, for the publication of the works
of Scottish Reformers and Divines,” p. 271.)

201 – Subsequent letters will shew that Dr. Doddridge complied
with Whitefield’s wish.

202 – The following jottings, respecting Whitefield’s visit,
appeared in the _General Advertiser_:――

“Edinburgh, September 15. Yesterday, arrived here from
London the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, who has lately
returned from the West Indies. He is to preach this
afternoon in the Orphan Hospital Park, where a tent was
erected this morning for that purpose.”

“Edinburgh, September 26. Mr. Whitefield has preached
every day, since his arrival, in the Orphan Park, to
numerous auditories; and yesterday afternoon, in the
Tolbooth Kirk. He set out this morning for Glasgow.”

The _Scots’ Magazine_ supplies further information; namely,
that Whitefield made collections for the Orphan Hospital;
that, on his arrival at Glasgow, he preached every day at
the Gorbals, the magistrates having refused him the use
of the high-church yard; that he also preached in several
churches in and about Glasgow, and at Falkirk; that, after
his return to Edinburgh, he preached at Fife; that his
farewell sermon was delivered in the Orphan Hospital Park
on October 26; and that the next day he set out for London.

203 – Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”

204 – “Life of John Erskine, D.D.,” p. 134.

205 – _Gentleman’s Magazine_, 1748, p. 523; and _General
Advertiser_, Nov. 24, 1748.

206 – The meaning is, Whitefield did not make collections for
his Orphan House.

207 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii., p. 198.

208 – “Life of Howell Harris,” 1791, p. 196.

209 – “Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 109; and Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii., p. 225.

210 – _Gospel Magazine_, 1776, p. 40.

211 – The Rev. E. Paxton Hood, in his recently published “Life
of Dr. Watts,” says, on the authority of Dr. Gibbons, the
story just related “is entirely fictitious.” Dr. Gibbons
published his “Memoirs of Watts,” in 1780, thirty-two
years after Watts’s death. The reader must decide whether
the doctor or the _Gospel Magazine_ of 1776 is the better
authority.

212 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii., p. 201.

213 – Ibid., p. 207.

214 – Ibid., p. 201.

215 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii., p. 212.

216 – “Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 107.

217 – The following extract from one of Doddridge’s letters
will cast light on this. “Northampton, October 2, 1748.
The spread of Moravianism has infected several weak, but
affectionate people of my flock, and now appears, in spite
of long dissembling, to have effected rank Antinomianism
in principle, joined with a contempt of almost all
external ordinances, and an entire alienation of affection
from me, though among persons who have always had great
reason to love me.” (Doddridge’s Diary and Correspondence,
vol. v., p. 78.)

218 – Doddridge was now completing his “Family Expositor.”

219 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii., p. 220.

220 – Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”

221 – “Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 105.

222 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii., pp. 220, 224.

223 – It is somewhat strange that this is not mentioned in
Wesley’s Journal.

224 – Dr. Gibbons was a very learned and able man. His degree
of Doctor of Divinity was conferred by the University of
Aberdeen, in 1764, when he was one of the tutors of the
Dissenting Academy at Mile-End. He was a voluminous author,
his different publications being forty-six in number. He
died in 1785, and was buried in Bunhill Fields. (Wilson’s
“History of Dissenting Churches.”)

225 – “Life and Times of Countess of ♦Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 112.

226 – “Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 98.

227 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii., p. 229.

228 – Ibid., p. 230.

229 – Ibid., p. 231.

230 – Whitefield’s home, at Plymouth, during this and every
subsequent visit, was the house of Andrew Kinsman. Mr.
Kinsman was now in the twenty-fifth year of his age. Seven
years ago, he had been converted by reading Whitefield’s
sermons. In 1745, he was married to Miss Tiley, another
of Whitefield’s converts. He and his wife gave the piece
of ground, at Plymouth, on which the Tabernacle was built,
and also contributed generously towards the erection of
that edifice. In 1750, Kinsman began to preach out of
doors, at Plymouth Dock, and was subjected to the most
violent persecutions. Sometimes, he was surrounded by
eight or nine military drums, to drown his voice; and
often he had to flee for his life. After this, he became
an _itinerant_, and preached with great acceptance in
Bristol, London, and elsewhere. At the Tabernacle, London,
Shuter, the celebrated comedian, was one of his hearers,
and was deeply affected by his ministry. In 1763, he was
ordained as the pastor of the Society at Plymouth Dock,
to which he henceforth chiefly confined his labours, with
the exception of visits to London and Bristol. He died,
in 1793, aged sixty-eight. (_Evangelical Magazine_, 1793,
pp. 45–60.)

231 – C. Wesley’s Journal, vol. ii., p. 53.

232 – Just about the time when this was written, Wesley,
Grimshaw, and Thomas Colbeck were in the utmost danger of
being murdered, at Roughlee, by a drunken mob, raised and
encouraged by this same clerical Mr. White. (See Wesley’s
Journal.)

233 – White’s sermon, with its dedicatory letter, addressed to
the Archbishop of Canterbury, was printed at Preston.

234 – Just at this time, another hostile pamphlet was published,
not far from Colne: “A brief description of the Methodists;
and a confutation of their dangerous principles. By John
Sladdin, of Ovenden, near Halifax, a Layman. York: printed
by Cæsar Ward; and sold by all the distributors of the
_York Courant_. 1749.” (12mo. 16 pp.) The following is
a brief specimen of Mr. Sladdin’s style and sentiments:
“Though, before they fancied themselves to have been
converted, the Methodists were openly lewd and profane,
would swear and be drunk, and wallow in sensuality
and voluptuousness, yet they might have a few amiable
qualities; perhaps they were courteous, affable, kind,
obliging, and faithful in their promises. But now, alas!
by passing through those dismal stages of conversion, they
have contracted such a mass of melancholy humours as hath
quite soured their formerly sweet and engaging tempers
into pride and envy, peevishness and faction, insolence
and censoriousness. Nothing now will satisfy them but
heats of fancy and transports of passion. Whilst they
should be attending to the sober dictates of Scripture and
right reason, they are looking for _incomes_, _impulses_,
and secret _manifestations_; and are apt to interpret
every odd whimsy for an innate whisper from heaven, and
every brisk emotion of their spirits for a smile of God’s
countenance. Go, ye proud wretches, you that have swelled
yourselves with conceit――you who, like a company of
bladders, are blown up with your own breath, and swell and
look big, and yet have nothing but wind within you; go,
bring forth fruits meet for repentance, and let people see
you grow more humble and lowly in your opinions.”

235 – Methodist preaching was begun, in this neighbourhood, in
the year 1746, by John Cennick, Thomas Adams, and other
“assistants” of Whitefield. A Society was formed, chiefly
consisting of members of the Rev. Mr. Williams’s church
at Gosport, and of the Rev. Mr. Norman’s at Portsmouth.
In 1754, they erected Portsmouth “Tabernacle.” (Seymour’s
“Memoirs of Whitefield.”)

236 – He was expecting her arrival from America.

237 – Whitefield’s Sunday congregation at Haverfordwest was
estimated at nearly twenty thousand. (Whitefield’s Works,
vol. ii., p. 264.)

238 – Her ladyship was at Bristol for the benefit of her health,
and had apartments in the house of Whitefield’s brother.
She was also begging money towards the erection of Bristol
Tabernacle. (“Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,”
vol. ii., pp. 378–380; and Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii.,
p. 258.)

239 – Hodge’s “History of the Presbyterian Church in America,”
part ii., p. 241.

240 – “Memoirs of Franklin,” vol. i., p. 185.

241 – Franklin’s wife was a Miss Read, before he married her.

242 – _Evangelical Magazine_, 1803, p. 28.

243 – “Life of Rev. Robert Robinson,” p. 18.

244 – Both the Wesleys were now in Bristol, and they, Whitefield,
and Howell Harris had a conference. Hence, the following
from Charles Wesley’s Journal:――“1749, August 3. Our
conference this week with Mr. Whitefield and Mr. Harris
came to nought; I think through their fleeing off.”
Was this another attempt to amalgamate Wesley’s and
Whitefield’s Societies?

245 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii., p. 269.

246 – Ibid., p. 272.

247 – The Rev. Mr. Thompson was rector of St. Gennys, near
Camelford, in Cornwall. After being educated at Exeter
College, Oxford, he became chaplain to the _Tiger_
man-of-war, in which he went to America. On his return
to England, he succeeded to a family estate of about £500
a year, and settled at St. Gennys. Though not an “Oxford
Methodist,” he preached the doctrines of the Methodists,
and was ardently attached to their leaders. He was an
intimate friend of Hervey, who dedicated to Mr. Thompson’s
eldest daughter the first volume of his “Meditations.”
Mr. Thompson was a man of considerable genius, and is said
to have been the author of a volume of religious poems,
which were published anonymously. He died in 1781. (“Life
and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon.”)

248 – For Haime’s own account of his success at Shaftesbury, and
his unjust imprisonment, see the _Arminian Magazine_ for
1780, p. 308. He was one of the best of Wesley’s martial
preachers.

249 – Whitefield, Howell Harris, and others held an
“Association” in London, on September 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7.
(See “Life and Times of Howell Harris,” p. 115.)

250 – At Dublin, they had made a contract _de præsenti_, to
which Wesley attached great importance, and not without
reason. “Any contract made, _per verba de præsenti_, was,
before the time of George II., so far a valid marriage,
that the parties might be _compelled_, in the spiritual
courts, to celebrate it _in facie ecclesiæ_:” (“The
Student’s Blackstone,” by Robert Malcolm Kerr, LL.D.,
p. 103.)

251 – C. Wesley’s Journal, vol. ii., p. 178.

252 – Tradition says, that when Whitefield preached at Birstal,
his voice was heard on Staincliffe Hill, a mile and a half
from where he stood, crying, “O earth, earth, earth, hear
the word of the Lord!” (Gledstone’s “Life and Travels of
George Whitefield.”)

253 – John Wesley’s Journal.

254 – Ibid.

255 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 264.

256 – “Life of Howell Harris,” p. 200.

257 – Whitefield calls him “captain;” but, if not now, he soon
afterwards was colonel.

258 – Wesley’s Works, vol. iii., p. 406.

259 – For further details, see “Life and Times of Wesley,”
vol. ii., pp. 37–39.

260 – John Haughton, one of Wesley’s brave itinerants, who
afterwards became an ordained clergyman of the Church
of England. (Myles’s “Chronological History of the
Methodists.”)

♦261 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 120.

262 – _Arminian Magazine_, 1779, p. 375.

263 – Lady Chesterfield was a natural daughter of King George
the First, and therefore half-sister to his present
Majesty George the Second. Her mother was Melosina de
Schulenberg, Duchess of Kendal. (“Life and Times of the
Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 462)

264 – Wesley’s Journal.

♦265 – James Hutton’s “Memoirs.”

266 – The letter was _franked_ by Martin Madan.

267 – _Wesleyan Methodist Magazine_, 1875, p. 643.

268 – “Memoirs of Oglethorpe,” pp. 370, 371.

269 – Three years after this, Mr. Pearsall published his
“Contemplations on the Ocean, Harvest, Sickness, and the
Last Judgment” (12mo. 220 pp.),――a work written in the
same style as Hervey’s “Meditations.”

270 – Sixty-three years after this, the life of Darracott was
published, with the title, “The Star of the West; being
Memoirs of the Life of Risdon Darracott. By James Bennett.”
(12mo. 172 pp.)

271 – The meeting-house built for Whitefield in 1740.

272 – Mr. Bennet, of Tresmere, a warm-hearted friend of the
Methodists, and who had been an acquaintance of Wesley’s
father, the Rector of Epworth. (Charles Wesley’s Journal,
vol. i., p. 369.)

273 – The preacher here resuming his “old armour” was probably
one of the two mentioned in the following extract from
Charles Wesley’s Journal:――

“1743. Sunday, July 17. At St. Ives, I heard the rector
preach from Matt. v. 20. His application was downright
railing at the new sect――those enemies to the Church,
seducers, troublers, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,
etc. At Wednock, Mr. Hoblin, the curate, entertained us
with a curious discourse on ‘Beware of false prophets.’ I
stood up over against him, within two yards of the pulpit,
and heard such a hodge podge of railing, foolish lies, as
Satan himself might have been ashamed of.” For an account
of the horrible persecutions at St. Ives, see the “Life
and Times of Wesley.” In those days, it required a bold
heart for a Methodist to attempt to preach in this part
of the peaceful fold of Bishop Lavington.

274 – James Hervey, the Oxford Methodist, had been curate here.

275 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 140.

276 – The Rev. Aaron Burr was now thirty-six years of age. He
had graduated at Yale College, and had been the pastor
of the Presbyterian Church at Newark, in New Jersey. He
died in 1757, aged forty-three. He married a daughter of
the celebrated Jonathan Edwards; and his son, Aaron Burr,
became vice-president of the United States. The College at
Princeton was greatly indebted to its first president.

277 – Thomas Hartley, M.A., was rector of Winwick, in
Northamptonshire. He was a man of great ability, an
earnest Christian, a millenarian, and a mystic. His
“Paradise Restored” is one of the ablest books, respecting
the millennium, in the English language, and deserves
attention.

278 – It was about this period that John Thorpe was converted.
Thorpe was a young man of twenty, and a most virulent
opposer of the Methodists. In a public-house, he and his
convivial companions, for a wager, agreed to mimic the
preaching of Whitefield, the Wesleys, and others. Each
performer was to open the Bible, and hold forth from
the first text that met his eye. After three, in their
turn, had mounted the table, and exhausted their stock of
buffoonery, it devolved on Thorpe to close the irreverent
scene. “I shall beat you all,” he said, as he ascended the
table. He opened the Bible, and the text his eye fell upon
was, “Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.”
Conviction of sin at once seized him, and he proceeded to
preach a sermon, not in banter, but with the most serious
earnestness. When he left the table, not a syllable was
uttered concerning the wager. Profound silence pervaded
the company. Thorpe immediately went home. This was his
last bacchanalial revel. He soon joined Wesley’s Society,
at Rotherham. In 1752, he became one of Wesley’s itinerant
preachers, and continued to act as such for twelve years
afterwards. He then turned Calvinist. The Rotherham
Society was rent in twain. The seceders formed themselves
into a Dissenting Church. Thorpe became their minister;
and, in 1776, died, “the pastor of the Independent Church
at Masborough.” (_Evangelical Magazine_, 1794, pp. 45–50.)

279 – William Green, a schoolmaster, was the principal Methodist
at Rotherham. His house was the preachers’ home. On one
occasion, the mob caught William by the hair of his head,
and dragged him through the streets. On another, he was
hunted by hounds, and escaped by climbing a tree, and
hiding himself among its foliage. (Everett’s “Methodism in
Sheffield,” pp. 84–86.)

280 – Charles Wesley, under the date of “July 16, 1751,” writes:
“The door at Sheffield has continued open ever since Mr.
Whitefield preached here, and quite removed the prejudices
of our first opposers. Some of them were convinced by him,
some converted, and added to the Church.” (C. Wesley’s
Journal.)

281 – Methodism in Manchester was begun in 1747, when a few
young men formed themselves into a Society, and hired a
garret in which to hold their services. Christopher Hopper
speaks of preaching in this attic meeting-house, in 1749,
when his “congregation consisted of not more than from
twenty to thirty persons.”

282 – Wesley and his preachers had encountered violent
persecutions at Bolton. (See “Life and Times of Wesley.”)

♦283 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon.”

284 – Wesley had been in Ireland since April 7th. At Cork, the
mayor, the town drummers, and his serjeants, followed by
an innumerable mob, had marched to Wesley’s meeting-house.
The rabble pelted Wesley with whatever came to hand. Many
of the congregation were roughly handled. All the seats
and benches of the chapel, the floor, the door, and the
frames of the windows, were burnt. The mob patrolled
the streets, abusing all who were called Methodists. The
windows of Mr. Stockdale’s house were smashed to atoms.
At length, the soldiers appeared, and the mayor and his
myrmidons turned cowards.

285 – _Scots’ Magazine_, 1750, p. 302.

286 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 186.

287 – _Scots’ Magazine_, 1750, p. 348.

288 – Ibid.

289 – Ibid.

290 – “The Oxford Methodist,” p. 260.

291 – Hervey’s Letters.

292 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 164.

293 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 163.

294 – The letter was probably addressed to Robert Swindells,
against whom the notorious grand jury at Cork, in 1749,
made a presentment, and prayed for his transportation.
For more than forty years, Robert Swindells was one of
Wesley’s itinerant preachers. “He died,” says Atmore, in
his “Methodist Memorial,” “in 1783, full of days, riches,
and honour.” Wesley writes: “In all those years, I never
knew him to speak a word which he did not mean; and he
always spoke the truth in love. One thing he had almost
peculiar to himself,――he had no enemy.”

295 – The Duke of Somerset, who died in 1748, entertained a high
opinion of Mr. Browne. When his grace was not able to lead
the prayers of his family himself, he was accustomed to
employ the poet as his chaplain. (“Life and Times of the
Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 127.)

296 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 167.

297 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii., p. 406.

298 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii., p. 410.

299 – The reference here is not to anything done by Wesley, as
Southey and Philip imagined, but to the fact that, during
the previous year, an immense amount of mischief had been
effected by an infamous man, named Roger Ball, who had
gained access to the pulpits of the Methodists, and had
even been domiciled as a member of Wesley’s Dublin family.
The man was an Antinomian of the worst description, a
crafty debauchee, full of deceit, and teaching the most
dangerous errors. (See “Life and Times of Wesley.”)

300 – Wesley’s Journals.

301 – Kindly supplied by Mr. Stampe, of Grimsby.

302 – The _Scots’ Magazine_ for 1751 (p. 356) says: “Mr. George
Whitefield arrived at Glasgow, from Ireland, July 10th;
preached there some days, and came to Edinburgh on the
18th, where he preached generally twice a day in the
Orphan Hospital Park. He set out for England on the 6th
of August.”

303 – Doddridge’s Diary and Correspondence, vol. v., p. 217.

304 – Wesley had just published his “Serious Thoughts upon the
Perseverance of the Saints.” (12mo. 24 pp.)

305 – See Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii., p. 462.

306 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 453.

307 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii., p. 438.

308 – Gillies’ “Memoirs of Whitefield.”

309 – The _Scots’ Magazine_ for 1752 (pp. 414 and 462), says:
“Mr. George Whitefield arrived at Edinburgh on September
2nd, and preached, morning and evening, every day, in
the Orphan Hospital Park. He made a tour to the west on
September 27th; returned to Edinburgh, October 5th; and,
on the 10th, set out for England.”

310 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
p. 152.

311 – “Life and Times of Wesley,” vol. ii., p. 138.

312 – Both were now in London.

313 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii., p. 477.

314 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 203.

315 – The Rev. W. Grigsby, the present minister of the _third_
Tabernacle, writes: “June 13, 1876. The only thing,
besides the name and memory of Whitefield, at the
Tabernacle, is the pulpit in which he preached; which,
when the old place was taken down, was transferred to the
new one, unaltered in form or size, but not in outward
appearance.”

316 – The new plantation at Bethesda.

317 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 194.

318 – “Life of Charles Wesley,” vol. ii., p. 19.

319 – The French Church, in Grey Eagle Street, Spitalfields, of
which Wesley had taken possession in 1750. It stood where
the brewery of Truman, Buxton, and Hanbury stands now.

320 – “Life and Times of Wesley,” vol. ii., pp. 121–126.

321 – Hutton’s Memoirs, pp. 579, 580.

322 – Rimius’s “Supplement to the Candid Narrative,” etc.,
pp. 93–96.

323 – The story was, that Mr. William Bell was one of the
Moravian financial agents, and that, in order to revive
his “drooping spirits,” in reference to the Moravian debts,
Bohler requested him to come to his house in “Nevil’s
Alley, Fetter Lane.” After much persuasion, Bell came,
and “was introduced into a hall, where was placed an
artificial mountain, which, upon singing a particular
verse, was made to fall down; and then, behind it, was
discovered an illumination, representing Jesus Christ
and Mr. Bell, sitting near each other, while, out of the
clouds, was represented plenty of money falling round
about them.” It is notable that Bohler, in his letter,
does not deny the actual occurrence of the “artificial
mountain scene.”

324 – Rimius’s quotation from Zinzendorf’s book was, “The
_Economists_ of the Society may say to a rich young man,
‘Either give us all thou hast, or get thee gone.’”

325 – Hutton’s Memoirs, pp. 304–306.

326 – In 1755, Zinzendorf and James Hutton, his editor,
published in two parts, making together more than 200
octavo pages, an amusing, but extremely foolish, answer
to the accusations brought against the Moravians by
Whitefield and others. The following was the confused
title, punctuation and italics not excepted:――“An
Exposition, or True State, of the Matters objected to
in _England_ to the People known by the name of _Unitas
Fratrum_: In which, _Facts_ are related as they are;
the true _Readings_ and sense of _Books_, said to be his,
(which have been laid to his Charge sometimes without
sufficient Proof that they were so, and been moreover
perverted and curtailed) are restored; _Principles_
are laid down as they ought, fairly; the _Practice_,
as it has been, is at present, and is intended for the
future, is owned. By the _Ordinary_ of the Brethren. The
_Notes_ and _Additions_, by the _Editor_. London: printed
for J. Robinson, in Ludgate Street. 1755.” This was an
odd production; but no good end would be answered by
quotations from it.

327 – Under the date of “November 3, 1753,” Wesley wrote: “I
read Andrew Frey’s Reasons for leaving the Brethren. Most
of what he says, I knew before; yet I cannot speak of them
in the manner in which he does: I pity them too much to be
bitter against them.”

328 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 16.

329 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i.,
p. 203.

330 – Benjamin Rhodes, now a boy of eleven years of age, but
afterwards one of the best of Wesley’s itinerant preachers,
was present at Birstal. He writes: “I went with my father
to Birstal to hear Mr. Whitefield. I found my soul deeply
affected under the word. At first, I had a kind of terror;
but, before the sermon was ended, my heart was melted into
tenderness, and sweetly drawn after God.” (_Arminian
Magazine_, 1779, p. 358.)

331 – No doubt Wesley’s old chapel, the Orphan House.

332 – When he had a chance, Wesley reciprocated this. Under the
date of “August 14th, 1753,” the very time when Whitefield
was preaching in the “Orphan House” at Newcastle, Wesley
wrote: “I willingly accepted the offer of preaching in the
house lately built for Mr. Whitefield, at Plymouth Dock.
Thus it behoveth us to trample on bigotry and party zeal.
Ought not all who love God to love one another?” (Wesley’s
Works, vol. ii., p. 287.)

333 – The original Society Book of the Osmotherley Methodists
still exists, and contains the following entry: “1753.
August 21st. Mr. George Whitefield preached here in the
evening.” From a manuscript “History of Methodism in
Barnardcastle,” it appears that, at this time, Whitefield
also paid a visit there. On arriving, he enquired if
there were any religious persons in the town. “Yes,”
was the prompt reply, “There are the _Lilty Pattens_”――a
nickname given to the Barnardcastle Methodists, from the
circumstance that they went to their meeting-house in
_pattens_. He preached in a yard, out of the Horse Market,
from Ezekiel xxxiii. 11.

334 – The _Newcastle Journal_, of August 11, 1753, contained a
paragraph to this effect.

335 – This was one of Wesley’s Societies. In fact, Whitefield’s
former friends, the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, had no
Societies in the north of England; nor had Whitefield
himself.

336 – This is only true in the sense that Whitefield had not
been in this part of the kingdom until now. John Bennet
and others had already formed Methodist Societies in all
the places mentioned, except, perhaps, Wrexham.

337 – Twelve months before, when Wesley was at Chester, there
was great disturbance; and, a few days after his departure,
the mob destroyed his meeting-house.

338 – Probably this was John Newton, then a tidewaiter at
Liverpool, but afterwards curate of Olney, and rector of
St. Mary, Woolnoth, London.

339 – Probably William Darney, one of Wesley’s itinerants.

340 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
p. 343.

341 – It is a curious fact that this remarkable man was
sometimes almost fascinated by Whitefield’s preaching.
On one occasion, when the great preacher was representing
the sinner under the figure of a blind beggar, whose dog
had broken from him, and who was groping on the brink
of a precipice, over which he stepped, and was lost,
Chesterfield was so excited by the graphic description,
that he bounded from his seat, and exclaimed, “By heavens,
the beggar’s gone.” It is also related, that when it was
proposed in the Privy Council that some method should be
used to stop Whitefield’s preaching, Chesterfield, who
was present, turned upon his heels, and said, “Make him
a bishop, and you will silence him at once.”

342 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
pp. 378–380.

343 – The centenary services of this venerable edifice were held
on November 25th, 1853, when a sermon was preached by the
Rev. John ♦Angell James, and addresses were delivered
by the Revs. G. Smith, Henry Quick, J. Glanville, and Dr.
Joseph Beaumont; the whole of which were published, in a
12mo. volume of 159 pages.

344 – Mrs. Grinfield, one of the ladies who attended on Queen
Caroline.

345 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
p. 381.

346 – _Arminian Magazine_, 1779, p. 318

347 – A Methodist from Leeds,――one of Charles Wesley’s most
devoted friends. When Charles was summoned to London,
on account of his brother’s illness, Mr. Hutchinson, who
was staying at Bristol, for the benefit of his health,
resolutely determined to bear him company. He died,
at Leeds, seven months after this, on which occasion
Charles Wesley composed two beautiful hymns. In a letter
to his wife, dated “Leeds,” Charles exclaims, with his
characteristic ardour, “I have been crying in the chamber
whence my John Hutchinson ascended. My heart is full of
him, and I miss him every moment; but he is at rest.”
(C. Wesley’s Journal.)

348 – “Life of C. Wesley,” vol. ii., p. 33; and Whitefield’s
Works, vol. iii., p. 45.

349 – “Life of C. Wesley,” vol. ii., p. 33.

350 – Hodge’s “Presbyterian Church in the United States,”
part ii., p. 243.

351 – Ibid.

352 – Mr. Davies kept a diary, from which the following extract
is made:――“Wednesday, Dec. 26, 1753. Mr. Whitefield
having sent us an invitation to make his house our home
during our stay here, we were perplexed what to do, lest
we should blast the success of our mission among the
Dissenters, who are generally disaffected to him. We at
length concluded, with the advice of our friends and his,
that a public intercourse with him would be imprudent in
our present situation; and we visited him privately this
evening. The kind reception he gave us revived dear Mr.
Tennent. He spoke in the most encouraging manner of the
success of our mission, and, in all his conversations,
discovered so much zeal and candour, that I could not but
admire the man as the wonder of the age. When we returned,
Mr. Tennent’s heart was all on fire, and, after we had
gone to bed, he suggested that we should watch and pray;
and we arose and prayed together till about three in the
morning.” (Wakeley’s “Anecdotes of Whitefield,” p. 258.)

353 – According to the “_old style_,” Whitefield was born on
December 16th. In 1751, an Act of Parliament was passed
for the adoption of the “_new style_” in all public and
legal transactions; and ordered that the day following the
2nd of September of the year 1752 should be accounted the
14th of that month. This explains the seeming discrepancy
in Whitefield’s letter.

354 – Gillies says, Whitefield took twenty-two destitute
children with him.

355 – Vol. xii., p. 479.

356 – No doubt, New Jersey College had legal authority to confer
the degree: but, under the circumstances then existing,
the degree was worthless. The first time that M.A. was
attached to Whitefield’s name in England was in 1763.
This was done in his “Observations” on the Bishop of
Gloucester’s book; but it is right to add that the
pamphlet was printed by Whitefield’s friends, _after_ he
had embarked for America.

357 – The Rev. Aaron Burr, President of New Jersey College.

358 – “Account of European Settlements in America, 1778,”
vol. ii., p. 270.

359 – _London Magazine_, 1754, p. 381.

360 – Sir William Pepperell, the Cape Breton hero.

361 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. ii., p. 419.

362 – “Life of Charles Wesley,” vol. ii., p. 67.

363 – A charter to found a college was granted by the Governor
of New Jersey on October 22, 1746, and Mr. Dickinson
was appointed president. Dickinson, however, died a year
afterwards, and before the charter was carried into
operation. Besides this, the provisions of the charter
were not liked; and hence, in 1748, Governor Belcher
obtained a new one from George II., Burr was chosen
president, a commencement was made, six students graduated,
five of whom became ministers. (Hodge’s Presbyterian
Church in the United States.)

364 – Burr had married one of Edwards’s daughters.

365 – A fast-day sermon, on the encroachments of the French,
published in 1755.

366 – Mr. Burr died three years after this. One of his two
children became vice-president of the United States.

367 – The publication of these letters has been already noticed.

368 – Mrs. Bevan was the widow of Arthur Bevan, Esq., who, for
fourteen years, represented Carmarthen in Parliament. She
was converted under the ministry of the famous Griffith
Jones. For twenty years after his death, she supported
his schools in Wales, and in her will left £10,000 to
perpetuate their good effects. She was an elegant and
accomplished woman; and, at every visit, Whitefield was
wont to preach in her house at Bath. (“Life and Times of
the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. i., p. 454.)

369 – Ibid., p. 195.

370 – Cennick died exactly a week before this letter was written.

371 – “Memoirs of Rev. Cornelius Winter.” By William Jay.

372 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
pp. 336, 337.

373 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 132.

374 – Ibid., p. 136.

375 – “Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon,” vol. ii.,
p. 344.

376 – “The Oxford Methodists,” p. 290.

377 – This was afterwards published, with the following title:
“An Epistle to the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield: written in
the year 1755. By Charles Wesley, A.M., late student of
Christ Church, Oxford. London, 1771.” (8vo. 8 pp.)

378 – The place at Bradford where Whitefield preached was “in
an open part of the town, near the water-side. His texts
were, John iii. 14, and 1 John iii. 8.” (“Memoirs of John
Fawcett, D.D.,” pp. 15–17.)

379 – There had been a schism among the Leeds Methodists.
A considerable number had seceded; John Edwards had
formed them into a separate Society; and, probably, the
meeting-house Whitefield mentions was intended for Edwards
and his congregation. Wesley’s first chapel in Leeds was
built two years afterwards, in St. Peter’s Street.

380 – Wesley’s Societies. Except the Societies formed by
Ingham and his friends in the West Riding of Yorkshire,
Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland, none others
existed in the north of England.

381 – The Long Acre chapel does not now exist. In Charles Street,
a few yards from Long Acre, there is a building called
“Whitefield’s Presbyterian Church;” but its minister,
the Rev. C. J. Whitmore, tells me it is not the chapel in
which Whitefield preached.

382 – Wilson’s “Dissenting Churches in London,” vol. iii.,
p. 365.

383 – Whitefield’s Works, vol. iii., p. 166.