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The term 'Evangelical' not synonymous with 'Methodist' or
'Puritan'
William Law
'The Serious Call'
John Wesley :-
His master motive
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His relation to his Conference
His extraordinary influence over his people
His strong and repeated expressions of attachment to the
Church
His confessions of his faults
His rash expressions
His censures of the clergy.
His adulation of the nobility.
His defects of taste
His views on slavery
His many
Charles Wesley
noble qualities
His influence over his brother
His mission as a link between his brother and Whitefield
His habit of drawing spiritual lessons from trifles.
His love of children
Selina, Countess of Huntingdon :-
Her moral courage
The nobility who attended her meetings Lady Huntingdon at Court
Her power over her preachers
Trevecca
Rebellion against her authority Testimonies to her worth. Lady Huntingdon's Connexion Some Methodist worthies.
The different opponents of the Methodists
Real good done by the Methodists .
Causes of the hostility against the Methodists :-
(1) They disturbed the prevailing quiet
(2) They were suspected of Puritanism and Popery.
(3) The extravagances of some among them
(4) The leaders could not always restrain their followers
(5) The crude theology of early Methodism .
(6) Their determination not to leave the Church
(7) The ‘irregularities,' especially of ordained ministers
(8) Suspicions of their hypocrisy and self-seeking
(9) Their quarrels among themselves
Shirley's Circular, printed letter'
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Publication of Fletcher's Vindication of the Minutes'
Violent writing, 1772-1775
Fletcher's' Checks to Antinomianism'
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Augustus Toplady
Conference of 1771
Toplady's violent abuse of Wesley and his followers
Controversy, of no permanent value, but productive of some good immediate effects
PART 3 THE EVANGELICALS.'
'Evangelicalism' and 'Methodism' compared and contrasted
Relation of the Evangelicals to Whitefield, Lady Huntingdon, &c. 167-9
Puritan element in the Church had never died out
James Hervey
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Specimens of his 'Meditations'
'Theron and Aspasio'
Hervey's controversy with Wesley
Grimshaw of Haworth
Berridge of Everton
William Romaine :-
'Life, Walk and Triumph of Faith'.
Henry Venn :-
Divergence between Methodists and Evangelicals
'Moderate Calvinism'
'The Complete Duty of Man'
John Newton :-
His early life
Mary Catlett: 'Letters to a Wife'
His influence over Cowper beneficial.
Superficial contrast, but real resemblance, between them
Newton's humour and classical tastes
Charges against Newton in relation to Cowper examined
William Cowper :—
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Influence of Cowper's poetry on the spread of Evangelicalism. His confidence in Newton's good judgment .
Thomas Scott:-
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'The Force of Truth'
The forbearance and gentleness of Newton
Scott unpopular; not appreciated by Cowper
He fights against perversions of Calvinism at Olney and the
Lock
Origin and success of the 'Commentary'
Richard Cecil :—
Cecil's 'Remains'.
Joseph Milner :-
'History of the Church of Christ'
Its defects
Its merits
Isaac Milner.
Robinson of Leicester
Bishop Beilby Porteus
'The Clapham Sect'.
The two Thorntons
William Wilberforce :-
'The Practical View,' &c.
Lords Dartmouth and Teignmouth
Dr. Johnson.
Hannah More :-
Popularity of her writings. Work at Cheddar
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'Spiritual Heroes'
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CHAPTER III.
SACRED POETRY.
(C. F. Abbey.)
Condition of sacred poetry at the end of the seventeenth century
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Hickes
Norris
Lady Chudleigh and Lady Winchelsea
Elizabeth Rowe.
S. Wesley, Sen.
S. Wesley, Jun,
Pomfret
Blackmore
Parnell.
Prior.
Hughes.
Elizabeth Thomas
Addison
Pope.
Tickell
Broome
Aaron Hill
Charles Pitt
Brady and Tate
The Old and New versions
Decline of congregational singing
Prejudice against other hymns than the Psalms
Hymn writers of the first part of the century :—
Watts
Doddridge.
S. Browne
Thomson
Young
Blair
Akenside
Hamilton
Harte
Gray.
Mason
Johnson
Goldsmith and Shenstone
Boyce
Smart
J. Byrom
Merrick
Chatterton
Mrs. Carter
Hymnody of the Methodist and Evangelical Revival :-
C. Wesley.
J. Wesley
Williams, Seagrave, Cennick, Hammond
Oliver, Bakewell, Berridge, Kempenfelt
Rowland Hill .
The Nonconformist hymn writers, Robinson, Hart, A. Steele,
Stennett, Medley, Perronet, Gibbons, &c. .
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R. Erskine, Blacklock, Bruce, Logan, Cameron .
General remarks on the sacred poetry of the eighteenth century
CHAPTER IV.
POPULAR CHURCH CRIES.
(J. H. Overton.)
Their unreasonableness
Why the name of 'the Church' could be used with such effect
'The Church in danger :-
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