[Footnote 521:  Quoted in Christian Schools and Scholars, ii.  Sec. 5.]

[Footnote 522:  For fuller details, see The Life and Opinions of W. Lam, by J.H.  Overton, published since the first edition of this work.]

[Footnote 523:  Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 125.]

[Footnote 524:  E. Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life, 13.]

[Footnote 525:  Quarterly Review, 103, 310.]

[Footnote 526:  Ewing’s Present-Day Papers, 14.]

[Footnote 527:  In Leslie Stephen’s English Thought in the Eighteenth Century we have a vivid picture of the retreat at Kingscliffe—­the devotional exercises, the unstinted almsgiving, and Law’s little study, four feet square, furnished with its chair, its writing-table, the Bible, and the works of Jacob Behmen.  ’Certainly a curious picture in the middle of that prosaic eighteenth century, which is generally interpreted to us by Fielding, Smollett, and Hogarth.’—­Chap. xii. 6 (70).]

[Footnote 528:  F.D.  Maurice, Introduction to Law’s Answer to Mandeville, v.]

[Footnote 529:  Works, xi. 216.]

[Footnote 530:  Answer to Dr. Trapp.—­Works, vi. 319.]

[Footnote 531:  Way to Divine Knowledge, 2nd ed. 1762, p. 7.—­Works, vol. vii.]

[Footnote 532:  Id.]

[Footnote 533:  Plato, Republic, b. x.  Sec. 611.]

[Footnote 534:  Appeal to all that Doubt, 3rd ed. 1768, p. 131.—­Works, vol. vi. Spirit of Prayer, 1st part, 73, vol. vii.]

[Footnote 535:  Id. 24.]

[Footnote 536:  Answer to Dr. Trapp, 38-39, vol. vi.]

[Footnote 537:  Id.]

[Footnote 538:  Way to Divine Knowledge, 14.]

[Footnote 539:  Answer to Dr. Trapp, 244.]

[Footnote 540:  Way to Divine Knowledge, 98.]

[Footnote 541:  The special reference to Dr. Joseph Trapp’s ’Four Sermons on the Folly, Sin, and Danger of being Righteous overmuch; with a particular view to the Doctrines and Practices of Modern Enthusiasts,’ 1739.  The work had an extensive sale.  S. Johnson’s Works (R.  Lynam), v. 497.  It should be added that, from their own point of view, the sermons contain much sound sense and are by no means deficient in religious feeling.]

[Footnote 542:  Appeal, &c., 278.]

[Footnote 543:  Appeal, &c., 279.]

[Footnote 544:  Id. 280.]

[Footnote 545:  Id. 282.]

[Footnote 546:  Id. 275.]

[Footnote 547:  Id. 282.]

[Footnote 548:  Id. 4.]

[Footnote 549:  Spirit of Prayer, pt. i. 56-8.]

[Footnote 550:  Spirit of Prayer, pt. i. 67.]

[Footnote 551:  Way to Divine Knowledge, 78, and 31. Appeal, &c., 5.]

[Footnote 552:  Way to Divine Knowledge, 14.]