“Mr. Fletcher continues to push the Calvinists with unremitting vigour. He here encounters two formidable adversaries at once. The veteran Wesley, who now, perhaps, thinks it time to retire from the well-fought field, is fortunate in having so zealous an auxiliary.” (Monthly Review, 1773, p. 240.)
[271]. Whitefield had a Tabernacle at Kingswood; and Lady Huntingdon, in 1753, built one in Bristol, which Whitefield opened.
[272]. Thomas Janes, who from 1767 to 1770 was one of Wesley’s itinerants. His health not being equal to the rough work of a Methodist preacher he settled as the pastor of a dissenting congregation in Bristol. He died in 1773. He was a man of considerable abilities, and compiled and published a volume which he entitled “The Beauties of the Poets.”
[273]. One of the first masters of Wesley’s Kingswood School, but now an ordained clergyman of the Church of England, and curate of St. Werburgh in Bristol. He was an intimate friend of Lady Huntingdon.
[274]. The Band-meetings of the Methodists, consisting of persons selected from the Methodist classes.
[275]. The Lock Hospital, where Martin Madan was Chaplain.
[276]. A frock, painted with flames and devils, in which heretics were burnt by the Inquisition.
[277]. Richard Hill, the author of Pietas Oxoniensis.
[278]. Benson’s “Life of Fletcher.”