[Footnote 770:  Id. ii. 236.]

[Footnote 771:  Id. i. 324.]

[Footnote 772:  Life of the Rev. Rowland Hill, by the Rev. E. Sidney, p. 65.]

[Footnote 773:  Life of Lady Huntingdon, ii. 315.]

[Footnote 774:  Id. ii. 467.]

[Footnote 775:  Gladstone’s Life of Whitefield, p. 465.]

[Footnote 776:  Life of Lady Huntingdon, ii. 423.]

[Footnote 777:  Id. ii. 521.]

[Footnote 778:  Lord Lyttelton’s Letter to Mr. West, quoted in A Refutation of Calvinism, by G. Tomline, Bishop of Winchester, p. 253.]

[Footnote 779:  Not, of course, that he waited until the death of Whitefield before reopening the question; for Conference met in August, and Whitefield did not die until September 1770.]

[Footnote 780:  Extracts from the Minutes of some late Conversations between the Rev. Mr. Wesley and others at a Public Conference held in London, August 7, 1770, and printed by W. Pim, Bristol.  ’Take heed to your doctrine.’]

[Footnote 781:  Life of Lady Huntingdon, ii. 236.]

[Footnote 782:  Id. 240.]

[Footnote 783:  Id. 240, 241.]

[Footnote 784:  Life of Lady Huntingdon, ii. 243, &c.]

[Footnote 785:  Id. 245.  Berridge said the contest at Bristol turned upon this hinge, whether it should be Pope John or Pope Joan.]

[Footnote 786:  And of his own writings he said:  ’A softer style and spirit would have better become me.’—­See Life of Rev. R. Hill, by Rev. G. Sidney, pp. 121, 122.]

[Footnote 787:  Id. p. 122.]

[Footnote 788:  Southey’s Life of Wesley, ii. 180.]

[Footnote 789:  See the abuse quoted in the Fourth Check, pp. 11, 42, 121.]

[Footnote 790:  See Fourth Check, p. 155.]

[Footnote 791:  Works of A.M.  Toplady, with Memoir of the Author, in six volumes, vol. i. p. 100.]

[Footnote 792:  But at the same time a very modest and moderate one.  ‘Predestination,’ he wrote, ’and reprobation I think of with fear and trembling; and, if I should attempt to study them, I would study them on my knees.’ (Letter, dated Miles’s Lane, March 24, 1752, quoted by Mr. Tyerman in his Oxford Methodists, p. 270.) And again:  ’As for points of doubtful disputation, those especially which relate to particular or universal redemption, I profess myself attached neither to the one nor the other.  I neither think of them myself nor preach of them to others.  If they happen to be started in conversation, I always endeavour to divert the discourse to some more edifying topic.  I have often observed them to breed animosity and division, but never knew them to be productive of love and unanimity....  Therefore I rest satisfied in this general and indisputable truth, that the Judge of all the earth will assuredly do right,’ &c.  This, however, was written in 1747 (see Tyerman, 254).  Perhaps when he wrote Theron and Aspasio some years later his views were somewhat changed.]