[142] Gillies' "Life of Whitefield."
[143] Such is Whitefield's description of Mr. Garden; who, however, in 1740, instituted proceedings against him in the ecclesiastical court, and suspended him from his ministerial office. But more of this anon.
[144] Language like this fully confirms what has just been said respecting justification by faith only.
[145] So Whitefield spells the word; but I have failed to find such a place in Lewis's elaborate "Topographical Dictionary of Ireland." The same also may be said of Karrigholt.
[146] Dr. Boulter was a remarkable man. In 1719, at the age of forty-eight, he went to Hanover with George I., in the capacity of chaplain, and was employed to teach Prince Frederick the English language. During the same year, he was made Bishop of Bristol. Five years later, he became Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland. He expended £30,000—an enormous sum in those days—in the augmentation of small livings; erected and endowed hospitals, at Drogheda and Armagh, for the reception of clergymen's widows; supported the sons of many poor divines at the University; contributed greatly to the establishment of the Protestant charter schools; and, during a scarcity of food, in 1740, provided, at his own expense, two meals a day for upwards of two thousand five hundred distressed persons. He died four years after his courteous kindness to Whitefield.
[147] The following letter from Clayton to Wesley, has not before been published:—"Salford, May 7, 1738. We feared much that you were the author of the 'Oxford Methodists,' prefixed to Mr. Whitefield's Sermons; but Mr. Kinchin has relieved us. It is the opinion of Dr. Deacon, Dr. Byrom, and his brother Josiah, as well as myself, that you had better forbear publishing, at least for a time, till your difficulties are blown over. Dr. Byrom has the same fears about the poems, as the 'Methodists,' and doubts you are too hasty and sanguine about them."
[148] Charles Wesley writes: "I heard George Whitefield preach to a vast throng at St. Helen's."
[149] On the title-page of Mr. Silvester's sermon, there is the following: "Recommended to the Religious Societies." Of course, it was well known that Whitefield had recently been the favourite preacher of these Societies, both in Bristol and in London.
[150] Whitefield says, this was the first time he "ever prayed ex tempore before such a number in public." (Whitefield's Life and Journals, 1756, p. 114.)
[151] C. Wesley's Journal.