[146] Evangelical Magazine, 1794, p. 295.
[147] Memoirs of Risdon Darracott, p. 24.
[148] Memoirs of Risdon Darracott, p. 155.
[149] Mr. Ryland writes,—“Mr. Hervey began the study of the Hebrew about the nineteenth year of his age, by the instigation of an acquaintance, who gave him no manner of assistance. The only book he took up was the Westminster Hebrew Grammar. That book seems to be contrived by the devil to prevent the learning of the Hebrew language: it is dark and obscure, harsh and unpleasant, ugly and disgustful, dull and listless; and Hervey threw it by in despair. After a long time and much perplexity, by a happy Providence, there was another Fellow of Lincoln College, who, seeing Hervey in his painful embarrassment, pitied him, and took him into his bosom. He conducted him to the first chapter of Genesis, and analysed every word; he taught him to reduce every noun to its proper pattern; he instructed him to trace every verb to its proper root, and to work every verb through the active and passive conjugations. If the devil could have had his way, we should have lost one of the finest Hebrew scholars in the world; but, after Mr. Hervey had learnt to analyse the first chapter of Genesis, he went on like a giant, and, to my certain knowledge, became one of the first scholars in Europe for a familiar knowledge of the Hebrew Bible.”
[150] Arminian Magazine, 1778, p. 132.
[151] He was ordained a priest, at Exeter, in the month of December, 1739.
[152] Wesley’s Works, vol. i., p. 81.
[153] Gospel Magazine, 1771, p. 174.
[154] In after-years, called Hartland Abbey.
[155] Arminian Magazine, 1778, p. 132.