The English Church in the Eighteenth Century

by Charles J. Abbey; John Henry Overton

[813] See Newton's Works, in six volumes, edited by Cecil, passim.

[814] See especially his fourth sermon on 'The Messiah' in the series suggested by Handel's Oratorio. There is not a taint of irreverence, but no one but a man who had an exquisite sense of humour could have written the first two pages of that sermon.

[815] See Taylor's Life of Cowper, p. 426.

[816] Id. p. 139.

[817] Not, of course, a 'Methodist' as distinguished from an 'Evangelical,' but according to the indiscriminate use of the term common in his day.

[818] Life of Scott, 216.

[819] Id. 127.

[820] Id. 261.

[821] Id. 238.

[822] See Milner's History of the Church of Christ (new ed. four vols. Cadell, 1834), passim, and especially Introduction, and vol. i. 110, 131, 136, 137, 156; ii. 415; iii. 73.