[Footnote 753:  See Memoirs of the Rev. C. Wesley, by Thomas Jackson, passim.]

[Footnote 754:  See Tyerman’s Life of John Wesley, vol. iii. p. 310.]

[Footnote 755:  This was written before the author had read Mr. Tyerman’s Life of Whitefield; indeed, before that life was published.  Mr. Tyerman informs us that the dispute arose because some of the preachers informed Wesley that his brother Charles did not enforce discipline so strictly as himself, and that Charles agreed with Whitefield ’touching perseverance, at least, if not predestination too.’—­Tyerman’s Life of Whitefield, ii. 288.]

[Footnote 756:  Gledstone’s Life of Whitefield, p. 439, but surely Mr. Gledstone is scarcely justified in adding quite gratuitously, ’John Wesley was not a man with whom it was easy to be on good terms; his lofty claims must have fretted his brother and created uneasiness.’  Charles Wesley was quite equal to cope with John if he had preferred any ‘lofty claims’ beyond those which an elder brother might naturally have upon a younger.  But, in point of fact, there is no trace of any such rivalry between the brothers.]

[Footnote 757:  See Life and Times of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, by a member of the houses of Shirley and Hastings, vol. ii. pp. 71, 72.]

[Footnote 758:  For a fuller list of the ‘brilliant assemblies’ which Lady Huntingdon gathered together, see Tyerman’s Life of Whitefield, ii. 209, &c., and 407, &c.  Mr. Tyerman takes a more hopeful view of the good that was done among these classes than is taken in the text.]

[Footnote 759:  See Gledstone’s Life of Whitefield, p. 304.]

[Footnote 760:  Letters of Horace Walpole, from 1744 to 1753.]

[Footnote 761:  Not so Garrick’s brother actor, Foote.  The ‘Minor’ was a cruel attack upon Whitefield.  Foote spoke an epilogue in the character of Whitefield, ’whom he dressed and imitated to the life.’—­(See Forster’s Essays, ‘Samuel Foote.’) Foote defended himself on the ground that Whitefield was ’ever profaning the name of God with blasphemous nonsense,’ &c.]

[Footnote 762:  Marchmont Papers, ii. 377.]

[Footnote 763:  Lady Huntingdon’s Life (ut supra), ii. 379.]

[Footnote 764:  See the Christian Observer, Oct. 1857, p. 707.]

[Footnote 765:  Indeed, Lady Huntingdon appears to have been the originator of lay preaching among the Methodists.  Of Maxwell, the first lay preacher, she wrote to John Wesley:  ’The first time I made him expound, expecting little from him, I sat over against him,’ &c.—­See Life and Times of Lady Huntingdon, i. 33.]

[Footnote 766:  Life of Lady Huntingdon, ii. 490.]

[Footnote 767:  Id. i. 309.]

[Footnote 768:  Life of Lady Huntingdon, ii. 126, note.]

[Footnote 769:  Id. ii. 325.]