[Footnote 738:  See Tyerman, iii. 278.]

[Footnote 739:  Southey, i. 301, &c.]

[Footnote 740:  So said Charles (see Jackson’s Life of C. Wesley).  John, however, gave a different account.  ‘My brother,’ he said to John Pawson, ’suspects everybody, and he is continually imposed upon; but I suspect nobody, and I am never imposed upon.’]

[Footnote 741:  ‘I seldom,’ he wrote to Fletcher in 1768, ’find it profitable for me to converse with any who are not athirst for perfection and big with the earnest expectation of receiving it every moment.’—­Tyerman, iii. 4.]

[Footnote 742:  ’With my latest breath will I bear testimony against giving up to infidels one great proof of the unseen world; I mean that of witchcraft and apparitions, confirmed by the testimony of all ages.’—­Id. 11.  See also T. Somerville’s My own Life and Times, p. 254.  ’On my asking him if he had seen Farmer’s Essays on Demoniacs, then recently published, I recollect his answer was, “Nay, sir, I shall never open that book.  Why should a man attend to arguments against possessions of the Devil, who has seen so many of them as I have?"’]

[Footnote 743:  Tyerman, iii. 252.  It should not be forgotten that at the beginning as well as at the end of their career the Wesleys met with great consideration from some of the bishops.  Charles Wesley speaks in the very highest terms of the ‘affectionate’ way in which Archbishop Potter treated him and his brother, and John seems never to have forgotten the advice which this ‘great and good man’ (as he calls him) gave him—­’not to spend his time and strength in disputing about things of a disputable nature, but in testifying against open vice and promoting real holiness.’]

[Footnote 744:  Id. 384.]

[Footnote 745:  Id. 411.]

[Footnote 746:  Mr. Curteis (Bampton Lectures for 1871, p. 382) calls Wesley ’the purest, noblest, most saintly clergyman of the eighteenth century, whose whole life was passed in the sincere and loyal effort to do good.’]

[Footnote 747:  This passage on the contrast between Wesley and Whitefield was written before the author had read Tyerman’s Life of Whitefield; a similar contrast will be found in that work, vol. i. p. 12.]

[Footnote 748:  For some well-selected specimens of Whitefield’s sermons see Tyerman’s Life of Whitefield, vol. i. pp. 297-304, and ii. 567, &c.]

[Footnote 749:  Life and Times of the Rev. G. Whitefield, by Robert Philip, p. 130, &c.]

[Footnote 750:  Whitefield’s Letters; a Select Collection written to his Intimate Friends and Persons of Distinction in England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, from 1734 to 1770, vol. i. p. 277, &c.]

[Footnote 751:  See Whitefield’s Letters (ut supra), passim.]

[Footnote 752:  Even Warburton owned, ’of Whitefield’s oratorical powers, and their astonishing influence on the minds of thousands, there can be no doubt.  They are of a high order.’—­Life of Lady Huntingdon, i. 450.]