The English Church in the Eighteenth Century

by Charles J. Abbey; John Henry Overton

[763] Lady Huntingdon's Life (ut supra), ii. 379.

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

[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.

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

[767] Id. i. 309.

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

[769] Id. ii. 325.

[770] Id. ii. 236.

[771] Id. i. 324.

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