[201] The following abusive doggrel was published in the London Daily Post:—
ON MR. WHITEFIELD'S PREACHING IN MOORFIELDS, NEAR BEDLAM.
"Map, Ward, and Taylor did our wonder raise,
Now Whitefield has the giddy rabble's praise;
Infatuated crowds to hear him flock,
As once to France for Mississippi stock;
A proof more madmen out of Bedlam dwell,
Than are confined within that spacious cell."
[202] Gentleman's Magazine, 1739, p. 271.
[203] See the Weekly Miscellany concerning the forcible intrusion into the pulpit at St. Margaret's, Westminster.
[204] Trapp's "Sermons on being Righteous over-much" (p. 17).
[205] Seagrave's Hymns, republished, with Preface, by Daniel Sedgwick, 1860.
[206] Wilson's "Dissenting Churches," vol. ii., p. 559.
[207] Evangelical Magazine, 1814, p. 304.
[208] In the Weekly Miscellany, for June 30, 1739, there appeared a long article, of two pages, probably written by Dr. Trapp himself. The writer says it would be foolish to answer every "half-witted murderer of paper;" and therefore Trapp refuses to reply to "Seagrave's Answer." The present article, however, would serve in lieu of a mere formal rejoinder. Two sentences were as follows:—Seagrave "abuses the clergy with much rudeness and insolence; and, at the same time, pays his compliments to the Dissenters, as if the learning and orthodoxy of the nation rested chiefly, nay, almost only, in them." Again: "Pluralities are the stale topic of every ignorant creature who hates the Church. Pluralities are necessary in many cases, highly expedient in others; nor could the Church well subsist without them."