again: 'As for points
of doubtful disputation, those especially which relate to _particular_
or _universal_ redemption, I profess myself attached neither to the one
nor the other. I neither think of them myself nor preach of them to
others. If they happen to be started in conversation, I always endeavour
to divert the discourse to some more edifying topic. I have often
observed them to breed animosity and division, but never knew them to be
productive of love and unanimity.... Therefore I rest satisfied in this
general and indisputable truth, that the Judge of all the earth will
assuredly do right,' &c. This, however, was written in 1747 (see
Tyerman, 254). Perhaps when he wrote _Theron and Aspasio_ some years
later his views were somewhat changed.]

[Footnote 793: Mr. Tyerman, however, thinks otherwise. 'After the lapse
of a hundred years,' he writes (_Oxford Methodists_, p. 201), 'since the
author's death, few are greater favourites at the present day.']

[Footnote 794: Boswell's _Life of Johnson_, vol. v. p. 93.]

[Footnote 795: See especially _Meditations among the Tombs_, p. 29, the
passage beginning, 'Since we are so liable to be dispossessed of this
earthly tabernacle,' &c.]

[Footnote 796: 'I dare no more write in _a fine style_,' he said, 'than
wear a fine coat.... I should purposely decline what many admire--a
highly ornamental style.']

[Footnote 797: Hervey's _Letters_ in answer to Wesley were published
after his death, against his own wish expressed when he was dying.]

[Footnote 798: Hervey's _Meditations_, &c., _ut supra_, _Life_.]

[Footnote 799: Toplady's _Works_, i. 102.]

[Footnote 800: 'My writings,' he wrote to Lady F. Shirley, 'are not fit
for ordinary people: I never give them to such persons, and dissuade
this class of men from procuring them. O that they may be of some
service to the more refined part of the world!']

[Footnote 801: _Life of Hervey_, prefixed to his _Meditations_, _ut
supra_.]

[Footnote 802: See Kyle's _Christian Leaders of the Last Century_.]

[Footnote 803: See _Life of Lady Huntingdon_, i. 374.]

[Footnote 804: _Life of Wilberforce_, by his Sons, vol. ii. p. 137.]

[Footnote 805: See _Life, Walk, and Triumph of Faith_, by W. Romaine,
especially pp. 28, 40, 98, 99, 102, 149, 158, 182, 192, 227, 229, 232,
233, 274, 275, 286, 287, 321.]

[Footnote 806: 'Memoir of the Author,' prefixed to Venn's _Complete Duty
of Man_ (new ed. London, Religious Tract Society), p