hing among the Methodists. Of Maxwell, the first
lay preacher, she wrote to John Wesley: 'The first time I _made him_
expound, expecting little from him, I sat over against him,' &c.--See
_Life and Times of Lady Huntingdon_, i. 33.]

[Footnote 766: _Life of Lady Huntingdon_, ii. 490.]

[Footnote 767: Id. i. 309.]

[Footnote 768: _Life of Lady Huntingdon_, ii. 126, note.]

[Footnote 769: Id. ii. 325.]

[Footnote 770: Id. ii. 236.]

[Footnote 771: Id. i. 324.]

[Footnote 772: _Life of the Rev. Rowland Hill_, by the Rev. E. Sidney,
p. 65.]

[Footnote 773: _Life of Lady Huntingdon_, ii. 315.]

[Footnote 774: Id. ii. 467.]

[Footnote 775: Gladstone's _Life of Whitefield_, p. 465.]

[Footnote 776: _Life of Lady Huntingdon_, ii. 423.]

[Footnote 777: Id. ii. 521.]

[Footnote 778: Lord Lyttelton's _Letter to Mr. West_, quoted in _A
Refutation of Calvinism_, by G. Tomline, Bishop of Winchester, p. 253.]

[Footnote 779: Not, of course, that he waited until the death of
Whitefield before reopening the question; for Conference met in August,
and Whitefield did not die until September 1770.]

[Footnote 780: Extracts from the Minutes of some late Conversations
between the Rev. Mr. Wesley and others at a Public Conference held in
London, August 7, 1770, and printed by W. Pim, Bristol. 'Take heed to
your doctrine.']

[Footnote 781: _Life of Lady Huntingdon_, ii. 236.]

[Footnote 782: Id. 240.]

[Footnote 783: Id. 240, 241.]

[Footnote 784: _Life of Lady Huntingdon_, ii. 243, &c.]

[Footnote 785: Id. 245. Berridge said the contest at Bristol turned upon
this hinge, whether it should be Pope John or Pope Joan.]

[Footnote 786: And of his own writings he said: 'A softer style and
spirit would have better become me.'--See _Life of Rev. R. Hill_, by
Rev. G. Sidney, pp. 121, 122.]

[Footnote 787: Id. p. 122.]

[Footnote 788: Southey's _Life of Wesley_, ii. 180.]

[Footnote 789: See the abuse quoted in the _Fourth Check_, pp. 11, 42,
121.]

[Footnote 790: See _Fourth Check_, p. 155.]

[Footnote 791: _Works of A.M. Toplady, with Memoir of the Author_, in
six volumes, vol. i. p. 100.]

[Footnote 792: But at the same time a very modest and moderate one.
'Predestination,' he wrote, 'and reprobation I think of with fear and
trembling; and, if I should attempt to study them, I would study them on
my knees.' (Letter, dated Miles's Lane, March 24, 1752, quoted by Mr.
Tyerman in his _Oxford Methodists_, p. 270.) And