The English Church in the Eighteenth Century

by Charles J. Abbey; John Henry Overton

[472] H. More, Phil. Works, General Preface, § 6; and Enthusiasmus Triumphatus, § 52.

[473] § 62.

[474] 'Address to the Clergy.'—Wesley's Works, 492.

[475] Coleridge seems to have read H. More with much enjoyment.—Aids to Reflection, i. 106-10. 'Occasional draughts,' Channing writes, of More and other Platonists, 'have been refreshing to me.' ... Their mysticism was noble in its kind, 'and perhaps a necessary reaction against the general earthliness of men's minds. I pardon the man who loses himself in the clouds, if he will help me upwards.'—W.E. Channing's Correspondence 338.

[476] Quoted by Bishop Berkeley, Theory of Vision, pt. i. § 116.

[477] Schlosser, History of the Eighteenth Century, chap. 1. i. Horsley's Charges, 86. Quarterly Review, July 1864, 70-9.

[478] Warburton's Works, iv. 568.

[479] 'Letter to the Bishop of Gloucester.'—Wesley's Works, ix. 151.

[480] Dedication to his Three Sermons, quoted by H.S. Skeats, History of the free Churches, 333.

[481] W. Roberts, Memoirs of Hannah More, i. 500, ii. 61, 70, 110.