[Footnote 793:  Mr. Tyerman, however, thinks otherwise.  ’After the lapse of a hundred years,’ he writes (Oxford Methodists, p. 201), ’since the author’s death, few are greater favourites at the present day.’]

[Footnote 794:  Boswell’s Life of Johnson, vol. v. p. 93.]

[Footnote 795:  See especially Meditations among the Tombs, p. 29, the passage beginning, ’Since we are so liable to be dispossessed of this earthly tabernacle,’ &c.]

[Footnote 796:  ‘I dare no more write in a fine style,’ he said, ’than wear a fine coat....  I should purposely decline what many admire—­a highly ornamental style.’]

[Footnote 797:  Hervey’s Letters in answer to Wesley were published after his death, against his own wish expressed when he was dying.]

[Footnote 798:  Hervey’s Meditations, &c., ut supra, Life.]

[Footnote 799:  Toplady’s Works, i. 102.]

[Footnote 800:  ‘My writings,’ he wrote to Lady F. Shirley, ’are not fit for ordinary people:  I never give them to such persons, and dissuade this class of men from procuring them.  O that they may be of some service to the more refined part of the world!’]

[Footnote 801:  Life of Hervey, prefixed to his Meditations, ut supra.]

[Footnote 802:  See Kyle’s Christian Leaders of the Last Century.]

[Footnote 803:  See Life of Lady Huntingdon, i. 374.]

[Footnote 804:  Life of Wilberforce, by his Sons, vol. ii. p. 137.]

[Footnote 805:  See Life, Walk, and Triumph of Faith, by W. Romaine, especially pp. 28, 40, 98, 99, 102, 149, 158, 182, 192, 227, 229, 232, 233, 274, 275, 286, 287, 321.]

[Footnote 806:  ‘Memoir of the Author,’ prefixed to Venn’s Complete Duty of Man (new ed.  London, Religious Tract Society), p. xiii. preface 3.]

[Footnote 807:  Or perhaps we should have said ’of the Evangelical school;’ only, Law can hardly be said to have belonged to that school.  Bishop Wilson’s Sacra Privata, and other devotional works, and some of Bishop Ken’s devotional works, rank, intellectually at any rate, far above Venn’s Complete Duty of Man.]

[Footnote 808:  Here again we must except Bishop Wilson, who hardly seems to belong to the eighteenth century.  He was as one born out of due time.  We must except, too, some of the works of those High Churchmen of the old type, who lived on into the eighteenth century, but who, in their lives and writings, reflected the spirit of a past age—­a spirit which breathes in every prayer of our Liturgy, but which is very rarely seen in the eighteenth century, or, for the matter of that, in the nineteenth.]

[Footnote 809:  Southey’s Life of Cowper, i. 117.]

[Footnote 810:  See ‘Biographical Sketches’ in the Christian Observer for 1877.]

[Footnote 811:  Christian Observer for February, 1877.]