The English Church in the Eighteenth Century

by Charles J. Abbey; John Henry Overton

THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL.

(J.H. Overton.)

[(1.) THE METHODIST MOVEMENT.]

• Strength and weakness of the Church in the middle of the eighteenth century [313]
• Propriety of the term 'Evangelical Revival' [314]
• Contrast between Puritans and Evangelicals [315]
• William Law [316]
• John Wesley [316-336]
• George Whitefield [337-340]
• Charles Wesley [340-3]
• Fletcher of Madeley [343-6]
• Selina, Countess of Huntingdon [347-354]
• Other Methodist worthies [355]

[(2.) THE CALVINISTIC CONTROVERSY.]

• Feebleness and unprofitableness of the controversy [356]
• The disputes between Wesley and Whitefield [357-8]
• Minutes of the Conference of 1770 [358-360]
• The 'Circular printed Letter' [360]
• Conference of 1771 [361]
• Controversy breaks out afresh in 1772 [362]
• Fletcher's checks to Antinomianism [363-5]
• Toplady's writings [365]

[(3.) THE EVANGELISTS.]

• James Hervey [366-370]
• Grimshaw of Haworth [370-1]
• Berridge of Everton [371-2]
• William Romaine [372-4]
• Henry Venn [374-7]
• Evangelicalism and Methodism contemporaneous [377-8]
• John Newton [378-381]
• William Cowper [381-3]
• Thomas Scott [384-8]
• Richard Cecil [388]
• Joseph Milner [388-392]
• Isaac Milner [392-3]
• Robinson of Leicester [393-4]
• Bishop Porteus [394]
• 'The Clapham Sect' [394]
• John and Henry Thornton [395]
• William Wilberforce [395-8]
• Lords Dartmouth and Teignmouth [398]
• Dr. Johnson [398-9]
• Hannah More [399-402]
• Strength and weakness of the Evangelical leaders [402-3]

[CHAPTER X.]

CHURCH FABRICS AND SERVICES.