[209] The Weekly Miscellany for May 19th says: "On Sunday last, during the time of Mr. Whitefield's preaching on Kennington Common, a well-dressed man dropped down dead, who was said to be a householder near the Park, Southwark. Two or three others fainted away in the crowd, with the heat."
[210] On the same day, Whitefield and Charles Wesley attended a Moravian meeting at Fetter Lane. Charles says, "A dispute arose about lay-preaching. Many, particularly Bray and Fish, were zealous for it. Mr. Whitefield and I declared against it." (C. Wesley's Journal.)
[211] His text was, "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee." (C. Wesley's Journal.)
[212] On the same day, Charles Wesley writes: "I received the sacrament at St. Paul's, with best part of our Society." (C. Wesley's Journal.) Whitefield's sermon at Moorfields was from the text, Luke xix. 9, 10, and was immediately published, with the title, "An Exhortation to come and see Jesus. A Sermon preached at Moorfields, May 20, 1739. By George Whitefield, A.B., of Pembroke College, Oxford. London: printed for C. Whitefield, in 1739." (12mo. 14 pp.)
[213] Doddridge's Correspondence, vol. iii., p. 381.
[214] Milner's "Life and Times of Dr. Isaac Watts," p. 638.
[215] Boswell's "Life of Johnson," chap. xvii.
[216] Ibid., chap. xliii.
[217] Methodist Magazine, 1849, p. 165.
[218] Wesley's Works, vol. iv., p. 473. I incline to think this date is not correct.—L. T.