[803] See Life of Lady Huntingdon, i. 374.
[804] Life of Wilberforce, by his Sons, vol. ii. p. 137.
[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.
[806] 'Memoir of the Author,' prefixed to Venn's Complete Duty of Man (new ed. London, Religious Tract Society), p. xiii. preface 3.
[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.
[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.
[809] Southey's Life of Cowper, i. 117.
[810] See 'Biographical Sketches' in the Christian Observer for 1877.
[811] Christian Observer for February, 1877.
[812] See, inter alia, William Wilberforce, his Friends, and his Times, by J.C. Colquhoun, pp. 90, 98.