[11] There was surely a Scriptural reason for this feeling. See Luke 15:7, 10, and Heb. 1:15.
[12] Acts 13:2.
[13] See Benson’s “Life of Fletcher.”
[14] “Religion in England under Queen Anne and the Georges.” By John Stoughton, D.D., vol. ii. pp. 158, 159. Hodder & Stoughton.
[15] Bradburn’s mother died during his first year’s ministry. In connection with this event he mentions a circumstance which enabled him to be resigned to the bereavement, and which many readers will regard with unusual interest. “God spared her life, nearly twelve years, in answer to a prayer which I offered up when she seemed to be dying, in which I begged that she might live twelve years exactly. I was then very young, and could not bear the thought of losing her, but imagined I should be able to part with her after those years.”
[16] Bradburn’s lodgings.
[17] “Life of Samuel Bradburn.” By T. W. Blanshard. P. 68. Elliot Stock, 1870. A most interesting biography of the famous Wesleyan preacher.
[18] Bradburn’s Life, see above, pp. 85, 86.
[19] Bradburn’s Life, pp. 177, 178.
[20] Ibid., pp. 183, 184.