[152] C. Wesley's Journal, vol. i., p. 139.
[153] Doubtless Mr. Fox, late a prisoner in the city prison; but now a vendor of "fowls, pigs, and cheese." (See "The Oxford Methodists," pp. 364, 370.)
[154] Whitefield's Journal.
[155] Archbishop Potter.
[156] "Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon," vol. i., p. 196.
For a season, Whitefield's irregularities somewhat tried the patience of Bishop Benson; and it is related that, in an excited conversation with the Countess of Huntingdon, he "bitterly lamented" that he had ordained his youthful protégé. The countess replied, "Mark my words: when you come upon your dying bed, that will be one of the few ordinations you will reflect upon with complacence." It deserves remark, that Bishop Benson, on his dying bed, sent ten guineas to Whitefield, as a token of his favour and approbation, and begged to be remembered by him in his prayers.
[157] "Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon," vol. i., p. 23.
[158] Ibid. p. 20.
[159] She died five years afterwards, in 1744.
[160] "Life and Times of Countess of Huntingdon," vol. i., p. 25.