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[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. xiii. preface 3.]

[Footnote 807: Or perhaps we should have said 'of the Evangelical school;' only, Law can hardly be said to have belonged to that school.

Bishop Wilson's _Sacra Privata_, and other devotional works, and some of Bishop Ken's devotional works, rank, intellectually at any rate, far above Venn's _Complete Duty of Man_.]

[Footnote 808: Here again we must except Bishop Wilson, who hardly seems to belong to the eighteenth century. He was as one born out of due time.

We must except, too, some of the works of those High Churchmen of the old type, who lived on into the eighteenth century, but who, in their lives and writings, reflected the spirit of a past age--a spirit which breathes in every prayer of our Liturgy, but which is very rarely seen in the eighteenth century, or, for the matter of that, in the nineteenth.]

[Footnote 809: Southey's _Life of Cowper_, i. 117.]

[Footnote 810: See 'Biographical Sketches' in the _Christian Observer_ for 1877.]

[Footnote 811: _Christian Observer_ for February, 1877.]

[Footnote 812: See, _inter alia_, _William Wilberforce, his Friends, and his Times_, by J.C. Colquhoun, pp. 90, 98.]

[Footnote 813: See Newton's _Works_, in six volumes, edited by Cecil, _pa.s.sim_.]

[Footnote 814: See especially his fourth sermon on 'The Messiah' in the series suggested by Handel's Oratorio. There is not a taint of irreverence, but no one but a man who had an exquisite sense of humour could have written the first two pages of that sermon.]

[Footnote 815: See Taylor's _Life of Cowper_, p. 426.]

[Footnote 816: Id. p. 139.]

[Footnote 817: Not, of course, a 'Methodist' as distinguished from an 'Evangelical,' but according to the indiscriminate use of the term common in his day.]

[Footnote 818: _Life of Scott_, 216.]

[Footnote 819: Id. 127.]

[Footnote 820: Id. 261.]

[Footnote 821: Id. 238.]

[Footnote 822: See Milner's _History of the Church of Christ_ (new ed.

four vols. Cadell, 1834), _pa.s.sim_, and especially Introduction, and vol. i. 110, 131, 136, 137, 156; ii. 415; iii. 73.]

[Footnote 823: i. 156.--See also i. 131, &c.]

[Footnote 824: See i. 136, 137, 325, 457.]

[Footnote 825: ii. 597, &c.]

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