Footnotes

FOOTNOTES ft1. Wesley’s Works, vol. 1., p. 75.

ft2. Wesley’s Works, vol. 1., p. 91.

ft3. Ibid., vol. 1., p. 96.

ft4. The “Societies” which Mr. Wesley mentions in his Journals as visited by him in London and Bristol, were the remained of Societies which, according to Dr. Woodward, began about the year 1667 among a few young men in London who were awakened under the ministry of Dr. Horneck and others.

ft5. Wesley’s works, vol. 1., p. 158 ft6. Wesley’s Works.

ft7. Wesley’s Works.

ft8. The want of a provision for their wives and families, in the early periods of Methodism, caused the loss of many eminent Preachers, who were obliged to settle in Independent congregations. ft9. “I shall follow, though not with equal steps.” ft10. In the year 1747.

ft11. A man of one book.

12. Good men avoid sin from the love of virtue;

Wicked men avoid sin from a fear of punishment.

ft13. Thou shalt not be hanged.

ft14. Homily on the Salvation of man.

ft15. Art. 17.

ft16. Office of consecrating Priests.

ft17. Visitation of the Sick.

ft18. Collect before the Holy Communion.

ft19. Order of Confirmation.

ft20.This Sermon was originally published in a separate pamphlet, accompanied by the following address “to the reader,” to which was affixed the author’s signature: — “It was not my design, when I wrote, ever to print the latter part of the following Sermon: But the false and scurrilous accounts of it which have been published, almost in every corner of the nation, constrain me to publish the whole, just as it was preached; that men of reason may judge for themselves.” — EDIT. ft21. Your persuasions shall not prevail with us even though they should really convince us. — EDIT.

ft22. What follows for some pages is an answer to a paper, published in the Christian Magazine, p. 577-582. I am surprised Mr. Dodd should give such a paper a place in his Magazine, which is directly contrary to our Ninth Article.

ft23.

O’er these drear realms stern Rhadamanthus reigns, Detects each artful villain, and constrains

To own the crimes long veil’d from human sight:

In vain! Now all stand forth in hated light.

ft24. The following is Dryden’s translation of this quotation from Ovid: Rememb’ring, in the fates, a time when fire

Should to the battlements of heaven aspire;

And all the blazing world above should burn,

And all the’ inferior globe to cinders turn. — EDIT. ft25. N. B. The following part of this paragraph is now added to the Sermon formerly preached.

ft26.

Such help as pictures to sore eyes afford,

As heap’d-up tables to their gouty Lord.

ft27. The following is Boscawen’s translation of these verses from Horace: Thy lands, thy dome, thy pleasing wife,

These must thou quit; ‘tis nature’s doom:

No tree, whose culture charms thy life,

Save the sad cypress, waits thy tomb. — EDIT.

ft28. Seneca.