[136] Hutton’s Memoirs, p. 294, and Holmes’ History of the United Brethren, vol. ii., p. 41.
[137] It is said, however, that he translated the “Divine Poems” of Rees Pritchard, from Welsh into English; (Wesleyan Times, January 23, 1865), a work which we have never seen.
[138] Holmes’ History of the United Brethren, vol. ii., p. 2, etc.
[139] It is a somewhat curious coincidence, that of the Oxford Methodists, Whitefield died in 1770, Gambold in 1771, Ingham in 1772, and Clayton in 1773. At least three of these also died in the month of September. The two Wesleys were in the midst of the Calvinian controversy,—the hottest of their lives.
[140] Methodist Magazine, 1814, p. 92.
[141] Charles Wesley’s Journal, vol. ii., p. 393.
[142] Mr. Hutchins, one of the Oxford Methodists, and afterwards doctor, and rector of Lincoln College, was Hervey’s tutor (Gospel Magazine, 1769, p. 12).
[143] Coke and Moore’s “Life of Wesley,” p. 51.
[144] Arminian Magazine, 1798, p. 171.
[145] The letter was written on the Sabbath.