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,”