Chapter 31

[219]The widow of Frederick, Prince of Wales.[220]Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Peterborough.[221]Letters to Lady F. Shirley, No. 70.[222]The Prince of Wales, afterwards George the Third.[223]Andrew Stone, a proud, very able, and very mercenary man, and sub-preceptor of the Prince of Wales.[224]Dr. Hales was clerk of the closet to the Princess Dowager of Wales.[225]Letters to Lady F. Shirley, No. 73.[226]Wesley’s “Works,” vol. x., p. 305.[227]Methodist Magazine, 1847, p. 965.[228]The work was published in two sizes: 3 vols., 8vo, 18s.; and 3 vols., 12mo, 9s.[229]Wesley writes:—“The twelfth dialogue is unexceptionable; and contains such an illustration of the wisdom of God in the structure of the human body, as, I believe, cannot be paralleled in either ancient or modern writers” (Wesley’s “Works,” vol. x., p. 314).[230]Wesley’s “Works,” vol x., p. 322.[231]Wesley’s “Works,” vol. x., p. 306.[232]Published in two volumes, 8vo, in 1757.[233]Published in 1760, pp. 224, octavo.[234]Three weeks afterwards, Lady Frances Shirley herself sent this valuable work to Hervey, who described the present as “a magnificent and beautiful set of books; the paper fine; the type grand; the binding rich; the principal contents invaluable.”[235]Letters to Ryland, No. 15.[236]Ibid., No. 16.[237]Letters to Ryland, No. 17.[238]Objections to Dialogue xvi. In other words, that, saving faith is “A real persuasion, that the blessed Jesus has shed His blood forme, and fulfilled all righteousness inmy stead: that, through this great atonement and glorious obedience, He has purchased, even for my sinful soul, reconciliation with God, sanctifying grace, and all spiritual blessings”; and that, in the case of a man convinced of his sin and danger, this is theonlyrequisite in order to the obtaining of pardon, and adoption into the family of God.[239]“An intended collection of the most evangelical pieces from the beginning of the Reformation down to the present day.”[240]Wesley’s “Christian Library, consisting of Extracts and Abridgments of the Choicest Pieces of Practical Divinity, which have been published in the English Tongue.” In fifty-one volumes, 12mo; begun in 1749, and now being completed, in 1755. Hervey’s critique is unjust, and indicates the alienation, which already existed between the two Oxford Methodists.[241]Letters to Lady F. Shirley, No. 83.[242]Letters to Ryland, No. 19.[243]See Whitefield’s “Works,” vol. iii., p. 133.[244]Doubtless, Wesley.[245]Whitefield, in a letter to Hervey, dated, December 9th, 1756, observes:—“Last night, Mr. M⸺ informed me, that, Mr. C⸺” (udworth?) “showed him a pamphlet, wrote on purpose to prove the fundamental errors of my printed sermons, and that you had offered to preface it, but he chose you should not. That this is true, I as much believe, as that I am now at Rome. But I wish that my dear friend may not repent his connection and correspondence with some, when it is too late. This is my comfort, I have delivered my soul. Mr. R⸺ has sent me the two volumes of ‘Jenks’s Meditations,’ and desires me to annex my recommendation to yours. I have answered, that, it will not be prudent, or beneficial to him, so to do. I fear they are too large to go off.”[246]These Sermons were published in 1757; but preached in 1756.[247]Letters to Lady F. Shirley, Nos. 91 and 95.[248]Hervey’s Fast-Day Sermons had an enormous circulation. In a letter, dated August 5, 1758, he writes,—“Besides six thousand printed in London, an edition was printed in Scotland, which was speedily sold off. I was also desired, by a Society established for giving away religious books among the poor, to grant them leave to print an impression for this purpose. In Ireland they have been printed. Into Dutch they are translated; and a letter, from America, informs me, that, they have been reprinted there.” All this was within two years of their first publication.[249]Evangelical Magazine, 1777, p. 73.[250]“Marshall on Sanctification;” and “Jenks’s Meditations.”[251]Letters to Ryland, Nos. 57 and 63.[252]The following are some of the publications to which Sandeman’s book gave birth:—1. A Sufficient Answer to the Author of the Letters on Theron and Aspasio. By J. Wesley.2. Animadversions on the Letters on Theron and Aspasio.3. A Plain Account of Faith in Jesus Christ.4. An Epistolary Correspondence, relating to the Letters on Theron and Aspasio.5. The Law of Nature defended by Scripture.6. The True Comer. By Colin Mackie.7. Thoughts, on Letters to the Author of Theron and Aspasio.8. An Inquiry into the Spirit and Tendency of Letters on Theron and Aspasio.9. Palaemon’s Creed, reviewed and examined: in two volumes. By David Wilson.10. Nymphas to Sosipater, remarking on the Letters on Theron and Aspasio.[253]Wesley says, “both the misplacing the commas, and the putting of ‘mankind’ for ‘this kind,’ were the printer’s fault, not mine; a part of those numerous errors of the press, which were occasioned by my absence, from it, and the inaccuracy of the corrector” (Wesley’s Works, vol. x. p. 332).[254]Wesley’s “Works,” vol. x. p. 305.[255]Gospel Magazine, 1775, p. 255.[256]Arminian Magazine, 1778, p. 136.[257]New Spiritual Magazine, 1783, p. 164.[258]Hervey’s sermons, printed in his lifetime, were the following:—1. “The Cross of Christ, the Christian’s Glory;” a Visitation Sermon. 2. “The Time of Danger.” “The Means of Safety.” And “The Way of Holiness;” three Fast-day Sermons. After his death, the following were published:—1. “The Ministry of Reconciliation.” 2. “The Grounds of Christian Rejoicing.” 3. “Salvation by Christ.” 4. “Many made Righteous by the Obedience of One,” two sermons. 5. “The Divinity of Christ,” four sermons. 6. “On Repentance.” 7. “Search the Scriptures.” 8. “On Love to God,” two sermons.[259]Life of Venn, p. 332.[260]The title of the surreptitious edition was, “Aspasio Vindicated, and the Scripture Doctrine of Imputed Righteousness Defended against the Objections and Animadversions of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley. In Eleven Letters, written and prepared for the Press, by the late Rev. Mr. J⸺s H⸺y, A.B.”[261]Wesley’s Works, vol. viii., p. 334.[262]The sermon was addressed to the second regiment of foot guards, who, to the beat of the drum, marched to the chapel, with the Commander of the garrison at their head.[263]William Wogan was born in 1694; and, after being educated at Westminster and Oxford, entered the army. In 1718, he married Catherine Stanhope, of the family of the Earls of Chesterfield. He died at Ealing in 1758. He was a Millennarian, but attended the daily service of the Church of England, and advocated a strict attention to the Church’s rubrics.—“Private Journal and Literary Remains of Dr. Byron.”[264]A recent Bishop of the Church of England, on perusing this manuscript letter, wrote: “It is a very interesting document, and leads to many reflections. Mr. Broughton’s day, and the day of his once friend Wesley, were more important in the history of our Church than many are willing to believe. They disturbed, but they taught; and they led others to think and teach. Whatever might be their errors, it was not for the careless and thoughtless and the ignorant to be their judges. It might be for the best that Whitefield would not take the advice in this letter; but the affectionate strain is peculiarly pleasing, and the pious union between two persons, who differed on some points, may be a lesson that need not be lost even in our own day.”[265]On this occasion, Broughton administered the Sacrament, and prayed.[266]Gentleman’s Magazine, 1741, p. 387.[267]A pet name.[268]In the life of Venn, Broughton is called “Mr.BryanBroughton, Secretary to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.” This is a mistake. There was a Mr.BryanBroughton; but he was not the man whom the author meant.[269]This was a most unaccountable and barbarous murder. The lady was the wife of Captain Dalrymple. The wretched youth had lived in the service of his master and mistress for the last five years. In the full confession that he made, he stated, he had no dislike to the unfortunate lady, and he murdered her, not from malice or for plunder, but solely at the instigation of the devil. The details of the deed are too revolting to be here recited. Suffice it to say, the murder was committed “of Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square,” on March 25, 1746; and, that, exactly a month afterwards, “Matthew Henderson was carried in a cart from Newgate, and executed at the end of New Bond Street. He went to the place of execution in a white waistcoat, drawers, and stockings. Two clergymen, one of the Church of England, and the other of the Church of Scotland, prayed with him, in the cart, for a considerable time. His body was carried from the gallows, and hung in irons, on a common, about five miles from London, on the Edgware Road” (London Magazine, 1746).[270]A fourth edition of this pamphlet was published in 1763.[271]The Society’s Report, for 1763, contains a notice, “To all Farmers, Gardeners, and other Occupiers of Land in England,” from the Trustees for the Charity Schools in St. Andrew’s, Holborn, to the effect, that, they had been informed, the country was in need of labourers; and that they were prepared “to bind Boys apprentices for seven years, to learn the art of husbandry; and Girls for five years, to do household work;” and, that, they would give £5 with every boy, and £3 with every girl so apprenticed. The Boys had been taught reading, writing, and the first five rules of Arithmetic; and the Girls to read and write, and “to do plain work.”[272]They were begun in 1688, and were all supported by private subscriptions. (Report of Society, for 1772.)[273]The Rev. John Clayton, also, was a subscriber, of £2 2s.per annum.[274]Thomas Broughton, the Secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and Thomas Broughton, Vicar of St. Mary Redcliff, Bristol, and Prebendary of Sarum, have sometimes been mistakenly considered one and the same person. The latter, an eminent author, was son of the Rector of St. Andrew’s, Holborn; and died, at Bristol, in 1774, at the age of 70. It is a curious fact, that, both the Thomas Broughtons died in the same month of the year, and on the same day of the month, and that the day was St.Thomas’s.[275]Wesley’s Works, vol. xiii., p. 288.[276]Ibid., vol. xii., p. 6.[277]Wesley’s Works, vol. i., p. 81.[278]Supplement to Whitefield’s Answer to Bishop of London’s Letter, p. 8.[279]Wesley’s Works, vol. viii., p. 335.[280]Methodist Magazine, 1778, p. 177.[281]Ibid., p. 176.[282]C. Wesley’s Journal, vol. i., p. 129.[283]The remainder of the letter refers to some arrangements to render assistance to Mr. Fox, who accompanied Kinchin and Wesley to Manchester. By Wesley’s advice, he had settled at Oxford; and it was now proposed to subscribe £30, to pay his rent, and to establish him in business, as a vendor of “fowls, pigs, and cheeses.”[284]Another entry in the same Register is as follows:—“The parish church of Thorp-Arch was rebuilt in 1756, and finished in 1762. William Sisset, Esq., gave the stone. The Rev. Mr. Atkinson gave fifteen guineas, and paid for the plastering. His mother, Mrs. Agnes Atkinson, gave the font. Lady Hastings gave five pounds for the pulpit. Mr. Sisset built his own and servants’ seats, and gave the painting of the pews. The rest was done by the parishioners.”[285]Even now, the united value of the two livings is not more than about £400 a year.[286]Wesley’s text on this occasion, was, “Unto him that worketh not,” etc.; “the great truth,” he writes, “so little understood in what is called a Christian country.” Whitelamb evidently understood it not.[287]Wesley adds, “on my father’s tombstone.”[288]The rich farmer, who married Wesley’s sister Susannah,—a brutal fellow, who was reduced to poverty, and ultimately lived on alms, which Wesley obtained for him, through Mr. Ebenezer Blackwell. The Rector of Epworth used to speak of him as “thewenof my family.”[289]Arminian Magazine, 1778, p. 184.[290]Wesley says, Whitelambofferedit.[291]Mrs. Wesley died about six weeks before this letter was written. Kezziah Wesley died March 9, 1741, “full of thankfulness, resignation, and love.”[292]Arminian Magazine, 1778, p. 186.[293]Methodist Magazine, 1845, p. 151.[294]Clarke’s Wesley Family, vol. ii., p. 280.[295]Clarke’s Wesley Family, vol. ii., p. 102.[296]Methodist Magazine, 1845, p. 37.[297]Wesley’s Works, vol. ii., p. 75.[298]Ibid., vol. xii., p. 453.[299]Clarke’s Wesley Family, vol. ii., p. 184.[300]C. Wesley’s Journal, vol i., p. 69.[301]Clarke’s Wesley Family, vol. ii., p. 106.[302]Ibid., p. 110.[303]James Hutton, the publisher,—an early friend of the Wesleys, and one of the principal Moravians in England.[304]Wesley’s Works, vol. i., p. 279.[305]Ibid., p. 286.[306]The Moravians.[307]Clarke’s Wesley Family, vol. ii., p. 338.[308]Wesley’s Journal, 1st edition.[309]It is difficult to say what is meant by the word “writings.” Does it refer to some newspaper correspondence? Or to published sermons, tracts, or pamphlets? I have never met with anything published by Westley Hall himself; or heard of anything except a poetical epistle to his son, mentioned hereafter; and his sermon, preached at Salisbury, in defence of polygamy.[310]Wesley’s Works, vol. ii., p. 214.[311]Dove’s Wesley Family.

[219]The widow of Frederick, Prince of Wales.

[220]Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Peterborough.

[221]Letters to Lady F. Shirley, No. 70.

[222]The Prince of Wales, afterwards George the Third.

[223]Andrew Stone, a proud, very able, and very mercenary man, and sub-preceptor of the Prince of Wales.

[224]Dr. Hales was clerk of the closet to the Princess Dowager of Wales.

[225]Letters to Lady F. Shirley, No. 73.

[226]Wesley’s “Works,” vol. x., p. 305.

[227]Methodist Magazine, 1847, p. 965.

[228]The work was published in two sizes: 3 vols., 8vo, 18s.; and 3 vols., 12mo, 9s.

[229]Wesley writes:—“The twelfth dialogue is unexceptionable; and contains such an illustration of the wisdom of God in the structure of the human body, as, I believe, cannot be paralleled in either ancient or modern writers” (Wesley’s “Works,” vol. x., p. 314).

[230]Wesley’s “Works,” vol x., p. 322.

[231]Wesley’s “Works,” vol. x., p. 306.

[232]Published in two volumes, 8vo, in 1757.

[233]Published in 1760, pp. 224, octavo.

[234]Three weeks afterwards, Lady Frances Shirley herself sent this valuable work to Hervey, who described the present as “a magnificent and beautiful set of books; the paper fine; the type grand; the binding rich; the principal contents invaluable.”

[235]Letters to Ryland, No. 15.

[236]Ibid., No. 16.

[237]Letters to Ryland, No. 17.

[238]Objections to Dialogue xvi. In other words, that, saving faith is “A real persuasion, that the blessed Jesus has shed His blood forme, and fulfilled all righteousness inmy stead: that, through this great atonement and glorious obedience, He has purchased, even for my sinful soul, reconciliation with God, sanctifying grace, and all spiritual blessings”; and that, in the case of a man convinced of his sin and danger, this is theonlyrequisite in order to the obtaining of pardon, and adoption into the family of God.

[239]“An intended collection of the most evangelical pieces from the beginning of the Reformation down to the present day.”

[240]Wesley’s “Christian Library, consisting of Extracts and Abridgments of the Choicest Pieces of Practical Divinity, which have been published in the English Tongue.” In fifty-one volumes, 12mo; begun in 1749, and now being completed, in 1755. Hervey’s critique is unjust, and indicates the alienation, which already existed between the two Oxford Methodists.

[241]Letters to Lady F. Shirley, No. 83.

[242]Letters to Ryland, No. 19.

[243]See Whitefield’s “Works,” vol. iii., p. 133.

[244]Doubtless, Wesley.

[245]Whitefield, in a letter to Hervey, dated, December 9th, 1756, observes:—“Last night, Mr. M⸺ informed me, that, Mr. C⸺” (udworth?) “showed him a pamphlet, wrote on purpose to prove the fundamental errors of my printed sermons, and that you had offered to preface it, but he chose you should not. That this is true, I as much believe, as that I am now at Rome. But I wish that my dear friend may not repent his connection and correspondence with some, when it is too late. This is my comfort, I have delivered my soul. Mr. R⸺ has sent me the two volumes of ‘Jenks’s Meditations,’ and desires me to annex my recommendation to yours. I have answered, that, it will not be prudent, or beneficial to him, so to do. I fear they are too large to go off.”

[246]These Sermons were published in 1757; but preached in 1756.

[247]Letters to Lady F. Shirley, Nos. 91 and 95.

[248]Hervey’s Fast-Day Sermons had an enormous circulation. In a letter, dated August 5, 1758, he writes,—“Besides six thousand printed in London, an edition was printed in Scotland, which was speedily sold off. I was also desired, by a Society established for giving away religious books among the poor, to grant them leave to print an impression for this purpose. In Ireland they have been printed. Into Dutch they are translated; and a letter, from America, informs me, that, they have been reprinted there.” All this was within two years of their first publication.

[249]Evangelical Magazine, 1777, p. 73.

[250]“Marshall on Sanctification;” and “Jenks’s Meditations.”

[251]Letters to Ryland, Nos. 57 and 63.

[252]The following are some of the publications to which Sandeman’s book gave birth:—1. A Sufficient Answer to the Author of the Letters on Theron and Aspasio. By J. Wesley.2. Animadversions on the Letters on Theron and Aspasio.3. A Plain Account of Faith in Jesus Christ.4. An Epistolary Correspondence, relating to the Letters on Theron and Aspasio.5. The Law of Nature defended by Scripture.6. The True Comer. By Colin Mackie.7. Thoughts, on Letters to the Author of Theron and Aspasio.8. An Inquiry into the Spirit and Tendency of Letters on Theron and Aspasio.9. Palaemon’s Creed, reviewed and examined: in two volumes. By David Wilson.10. Nymphas to Sosipater, remarking on the Letters on Theron and Aspasio.

[252]The following are some of the publications to which Sandeman’s book gave birth:—

1. A Sufficient Answer to the Author of the Letters on Theron and Aspasio. By J. Wesley.

2. Animadversions on the Letters on Theron and Aspasio.

3. A Plain Account of Faith in Jesus Christ.

4. An Epistolary Correspondence, relating to the Letters on Theron and Aspasio.

5. The Law of Nature defended by Scripture.

6. The True Comer. By Colin Mackie.

7. Thoughts, on Letters to the Author of Theron and Aspasio.

8. An Inquiry into the Spirit and Tendency of Letters on Theron and Aspasio.

9. Palaemon’s Creed, reviewed and examined: in two volumes. By David Wilson.

10. Nymphas to Sosipater, remarking on the Letters on Theron and Aspasio.

[253]Wesley says, “both the misplacing the commas, and the putting of ‘mankind’ for ‘this kind,’ were the printer’s fault, not mine; a part of those numerous errors of the press, which were occasioned by my absence, from it, and the inaccuracy of the corrector” (Wesley’s Works, vol. x. p. 332).

[254]Wesley’s “Works,” vol. x. p. 305.

[255]Gospel Magazine, 1775, p. 255.

[256]Arminian Magazine, 1778, p. 136.

[257]New Spiritual Magazine, 1783, p. 164.

[258]Hervey’s sermons, printed in his lifetime, were the following:—1. “The Cross of Christ, the Christian’s Glory;” a Visitation Sermon. 2. “The Time of Danger.” “The Means of Safety.” And “The Way of Holiness;” three Fast-day Sermons. After his death, the following were published:—1. “The Ministry of Reconciliation.” 2. “The Grounds of Christian Rejoicing.” 3. “Salvation by Christ.” 4. “Many made Righteous by the Obedience of One,” two sermons. 5. “The Divinity of Christ,” four sermons. 6. “On Repentance.” 7. “Search the Scriptures.” 8. “On Love to God,” two sermons.

[259]Life of Venn, p. 332.

[260]The title of the surreptitious edition was, “Aspasio Vindicated, and the Scripture Doctrine of Imputed Righteousness Defended against the Objections and Animadversions of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley. In Eleven Letters, written and prepared for the Press, by the late Rev. Mr. J⸺s H⸺y, A.B.”

[261]Wesley’s Works, vol. viii., p. 334.

[262]The sermon was addressed to the second regiment of foot guards, who, to the beat of the drum, marched to the chapel, with the Commander of the garrison at their head.

[263]William Wogan was born in 1694; and, after being educated at Westminster and Oxford, entered the army. In 1718, he married Catherine Stanhope, of the family of the Earls of Chesterfield. He died at Ealing in 1758. He was a Millennarian, but attended the daily service of the Church of England, and advocated a strict attention to the Church’s rubrics.—“Private Journal and Literary Remains of Dr. Byron.”

[264]A recent Bishop of the Church of England, on perusing this manuscript letter, wrote: “It is a very interesting document, and leads to many reflections. Mr. Broughton’s day, and the day of his once friend Wesley, were more important in the history of our Church than many are willing to believe. They disturbed, but they taught; and they led others to think and teach. Whatever might be their errors, it was not for the careless and thoughtless and the ignorant to be their judges. It might be for the best that Whitefield would not take the advice in this letter; but the affectionate strain is peculiarly pleasing, and the pious union between two persons, who differed on some points, may be a lesson that need not be lost even in our own day.”

[265]On this occasion, Broughton administered the Sacrament, and prayed.

[266]Gentleman’s Magazine, 1741, p. 387.

[267]A pet name.

[268]In the life of Venn, Broughton is called “Mr.BryanBroughton, Secretary to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.” This is a mistake. There was a Mr.BryanBroughton; but he was not the man whom the author meant.

[269]This was a most unaccountable and barbarous murder. The lady was the wife of Captain Dalrymple. The wretched youth had lived in the service of his master and mistress for the last five years. In the full confession that he made, he stated, he had no dislike to the unfortunate lady, and he murdered her, not from malice or for plunder, but solely at the instigation of the devil. The details of the deed are too revolting to be here recited. Suffice it to say, the murder was committed “of Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square,” on March 25, 1746; and, that, exactly a month afterwards, “Matthew Henderson was carried in a cart from Newgate, and executed at the end of New Bond Street. He went to the place of execution in a white waistcoat, drawers, and stockings. Two clergymen, one of the Church of England, and the other of the Church of Scotland, prayed with him, in the cart, for a considerable time. His body was carried from the gallows, and hung in irons, on a common, about five miles from London, on the Edgware Road” (London Magazine, 1746).

[270]A fourth edition of this pamphlet was published in 1763.

[271]The Society’s Report, for 1763, contains a notice, “To all Farmers, Gardeners, and other Occupiers of Land in England,” from the Trustees for the Charity Schools in St. Andrew’s, Holborn, to the effect, that, they had been informed, the country was in need of labourers; and that they were prepared “to bind Boys apprentices for seven years, to learn the art of husbandry; and Girls for five years, to do household work;” and, that, they would give £5 with every boy, and £3 with every girl so apprenticed. The Boys had been taught reading, writing, and the first five rules of Arithmetic; and the Girls to read and write, and “to do plain work.”

[272]They were begun in 1688, and were all supported by private subscriptions. (Report of Society, for 1772.)

[273]The Rev. John Clayton, also, was a subscriber, of £2 2s.per annum.

[274]Thomas Broughton, the Secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and Thomas Broughton, Vicar of St. Mary Redcliff, Bristol, and Prebendary of Sarum, have sometimes been mistakenly considered one and the same person. The latter, an eminent author, was son of the Rector of St. Andrew’s, Holborn; and died, at Bristol, in 1774, at the age of 70. It is a curious fact, that, both the Thomas Broughtons died in the same month of the year, and on the same day of the month, and that the day was St.Thomas’s.

[275]Wesley’s Works, vol. xiii., p. 288.

[276]Ibid., vol. xii., p. 6.

[277]Wesley’s Works, vol. i., p. 81.

[278]Supplement to Whitefield’s Answer to Bishop of London’s Letter, p. 8.

[279]Wesley’s Works, vol. viii., p. 335.

[280]Methodist Magazine, 1778, p. 177.

[281]Ibid., p. 176.

[282]C. Wesley’s Journal, vol. i., p. 129.

[283]The remainder of the letter refers to some arrangements to render assistance to Mr. Fox, who accompanied Kinchin and Wesley to Manchester. By Wesley’s advice, he had settled at Oxford; and it was now proposed to subscribe £30, to pay his rent, and to establish him in business, as a vendor of “fowls, pigs, and cheeses.”

[284]Another entry in the same Register is as follows:—“The parish church of Thorp-Arch was rebuilt in 1756, and finished in 1762. William Sisset, Esq., gave the stone. The Rev. Mr. Atkinson gave fifteen guineas, and paid for the plastering. His mother, Mrs. Agnes Atkinson, gave the font. Lady Hastings gave five pounds for the pulpit. Mr. Sisset built his own and servants’ seats, and gave the painting of the pews. The rest was done by the parishioners.”

[285]Even now, the united value of the two livings is not more than about £400 a year.

[286]Wesley’s text on this occasion, was, “Unto him that worketh not,” etc.; “the great truth,” he writes, “so little understood in what is called a Christian country.” Whitelamb evidently understood it not.

[287]Wesley adds, “on my father’s tombstone.”

[288]The rich farmer, who married Wesley’s sister Susannah,—a brutal fellow, who was reduced to poverty, and ultimately lived on alms, which Wesley obtained for him, through Mr. Ebenezer Blackwell. The Rector of Epworth used to speak of him as “thewenof my family.”

[289]Arminian Magazine, 1778, p. 184.

[290]Wesley says, Whitelambofferedit.

[291]Mrs. Wesley died about six weeks before this letter was written. Kezziah Wesley died March 9, 1741, “full of thankfulness, resignation, and love.”

[292]Arminian Magazine, 1778, p. 186.

[293]Methodist Magazine, 1845, p. 151.

[294]Clarke’s Wesley Family, vol. ii., p. 280.

[295]Clarke’s Wesley Family, vol. ii., p. 102.

[296]Methodist Magazine, 1845, p. 37.

[297]Wesley’s Works, vol. ii., p. 75.

[298]Ibid., vol. xii., p. 453.

[299]Clarke’s Wesley Family, vol. ii., p. 184.

[300]C. Wesley’s Journal, vol i., p. 69.

[301]Clarke’s Wesley Family, vol. ii., p. 106.

[302]Ibid., p. 110.

[303]James Hutton, the publisher,—an early friend of the Wesleys, and one of the principal Moravians in England.

[304]Wesley’s Works, vol. i., p. 279.

[305]Ibid., p. 286.

[306]The Moravians.

[307]Clarke’s Wesley Family, vol. ii., p. 338.

[308]Wesley’s Journal, 1st edition.

[309]It is difficult to say what is meant by the word “writings.” Does it refer to some newspaper correspondence? Or to published sermons, tracts, or pamphlets? I have never met with anything published by Westley Hall himself; or heard of anything except a poetical epistle to his son, mentioned hereafter; and his sermon, preached at Salisbury, in defence of polygamy.

[310]Wesley’s Works, vol. ii., p. 214.

[311]Dove’s Wesley Family.

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