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The Great Revival of the Eighteenth Century

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Academy, Doddridge’s, 29 Lady Huntingdon’s, 257

Aftermath, 260

Age before the Revival, The 32

Albert, Prince, 120

Alleine, Rev. Joseph, 197

Allen, Ebenezer, Governor of Martha’s Vineyard, 226

America, Awakening in, 28, 73, 85, 281

American Baptist Missionary Union, 256

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 255, 256

American Revival, 28, 73, 85, 281 Sunday-school Union, 256

Amusements, 15

Anabaptists, 52

Ancaster, Duchess of 37, 41

Anecdotes, 17–20, 37, 39, 41, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 69, 70, 72, 76, 82–84, 87, 89, 94, 96, 100, 103, 109, 112, 113, 115, 116, 125, 129, 130, 133–135, 137, 138, 140, 143–145, 148, 151, 153, 158, 159, 161, 166, 172, 177, 183, 194, 198, 200, 202, 218, 234, 236, 239, 243, 245, 247, 255, 256, 266, 288, 291, 293, 294, 298, 300, 301

Aram, Eugene, 147

Armenianism, 60

Arrests, 102

Atheism, Prevalence of, 15

Austrian Exiles, 28

Baptist Missionary Society, 250 Union, American, 256

Band-Meetings, etc., Origin of, 100

Basle Evangelical Mission, 256

Baynham, James, 195

Baxter, Richard, 266

Benson, Bishop, 69, 70

Bernard of Clairvaux, 114 Cluny, 114

Berridge, John, 150, 157, 169, 177, 270

Bible, The, the Power of God, 7, 279, 286 Reverenced, 277 Translated for India, 253

Bible Society, The 186, 189, 191, 256

Blomfield, Bishop, 18

Bloomfield, 197

Blossoms in the Wilderness, 180

Bogue, David, 254, 257, 320

Bolingbroke, Lord, 41, 60, 180

Borlase, Dr., 102

Boston in 1730, 232 Elm, 275 State of Society in, 282

Bradford, Joseph, 138

Britain’s Obligations to Missions for India, 254

British and Foreign School Society, 256

British Quarterly, 52, 92

Brontë Family, 160

Bruised Reed, 266

Buchanan, Claudius, 178, 190, 253, 254, 319

Buckingham, Duchess of, 38, 39

Bunyan, John, 160

Burke, Edmund, 236

Butler, Bishop, 22

322Byron, 117

Calvin’s Institutes, 61

Calvinistic Methodists, 101

Campbell, John, 178, 190

Captains of Ships in 18th Century, 221, 224

Cardigan, Lady, 42

Carey, William, 250

Carlyle, Thomas, 28, 305

Cennick, John, 123

Chatsworth, 49

Cheerfulness and Joy Significant of Revival, 98, 99, 101, 109, 124

Chesterfield, Lord, 41, 180

Christian Remembrances, 123

“Christian World Unmasked, The; Pray Come and Peep,”, 158

Christianity, Effect of, 98, 185

Chrysostom, 52

Church of England, Evangelical Party in, 269 Religion in, 15, 18, 233 Disabilities against Members of, 258 Opposition to Methodism, 99 Opposition to Revival, 22, 70, 156, 159, 172, 270 Southey on the Clergy of the, 308

Church Signs and Counter-signs, 99

Church’s, Rev. Thomas, Denunciation of Evil, 21

Chubbs, 180

Church Missionary Society, 255

City Road Chapel, 91

Clapham Sect, 184, 189, 191

Clarkson, Thomas, 190

Clergy, Corruption of, 18

Coates, Alexander, 153

Colman, Dr., Testimony of, 285

Colliers, The, 75

Collins, 180

Colston, Edward, 218

Colston’s School, Bristol, 218

Compton, Adam, 198

Congregationalism, 170

Controversialists of Revival, 117, 119

Conversions, 219, 234, 238, 258, 266, 267, 284, 290

Cornwall, 116, 131, 171

Cottage Visitation, 50

Cowper, William, 126, 178, 207, 211

Cradle of London Methodism, 91

Crime in 18th Century, 14, 16, 21, 242

Criminals, Condition of, 200, 237, 239, 244

Criminal Law in 18th Century, 14, 237, 242, 244, 247, 248, 259

Danish Hymns, 131 Missionary Society, 250

Darkness before Dawn, 7, 107

Dawn, First Streaks of, 24

Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 258

Defoe, 177, 216

Deism, Prevalence of, 15

Derby, Earl of, 129

Dissenters, Disabilities of, 258

Dissent in, Boston, in 1730, 232

Divine authority of the New Testament, The, 255

Doddridge, Philip, 28, 31, 110, 113, 126, 267 his Academy, 29 his Friends, 36, 58 his Hymns, 29

Drawing-Room Preaching, 37, 38, 40 Effect of, 43

Drury Lane, 155

Dying Words, 169, 261, 262, 300

East India Company, 191

Economy of Charity, 210

Edinburgh Review, 69, 184, 253

Education, Neglect of, 16 Spreading, 257

Edwards, Jonathan, 28, 275, 283, 296

Effect of Rejection of Gospel, 7

Eighteenth Century Revival, 9, 277

Emerson, quoted, 12

323England and France Contrasted, 23, 180

England, State of Religion in, 23

Epitaphs, 156, 197, 212, 268

Episcopal Board of Missions, Methodist, 256 Protestant, 256

Epworth, 43, 53, 94, 97

Essays on Ecclesiastical Biography, 184

Everton, 156

Excitement of the Revival, 68

Executions at Tyburn in 1738, 14

Exiles in England, 28

Experiences of Christians expressed in Song, 128

Eyre, Jane, 160

Fair-Preaching, 83

Fenwick, Michael, 137

Ferrars, Lady, 40

Field-Preaching, 68, 89, 101, 104

First Day or Sunday-school Society, 256

Flaxley, 197

Fletcher of Madsley, 149

Florence, 7

Foote, the Actor, 154

Founders of London Missionary Society, 254

Foundry, The Moorfields, 91

France, 7, 180

Free Church of England, 101

French Protestants in England, 25

Fry, Elizabeth, 237, 258, 278

Gambold, John, 50, 64

Garrick, David, 155, 172

George II, 181

George IV, 158

Gerhardt, Paul, 113

German Empire, 7 Hymns, 131

Germain, Lady Betty, 41

Gisborne, Thomas, 192

Gladstone, W. E., 119, 317

Gloucestershire, 183, 193, 213

God’s Method of Diffusing the Truth, 12, 13

Goethe, 28, 305

Goldsmith, 21

Gospel Preached in Song, 114

Grant, James, 126 Sir Robert, 192

Gregory, Alfred, 196

Greenfield, Edward, 102

Griggs, Joseph, 126

Grimshaw, William, 160, 169, 178, 270

Guthrie, Dr., 158

Gwennap Pit, 103, 275

Haime, John, 151

Hamilton, Duchess of, 41 Lady Elizabeth, 243 Sir William, 179

Hardcastle, Joseph, 191

Hardships, 221

Harris, Howell, 272

Harvard College, Religion in, 285

Hastings, Lady Margaret, 170, 171

Haweis, Thomas, 254

Haworth, 160

Haymarket Theatre, 154

Helmsley, 119

Herbert, George, 110

Hervey, James, 50, 57, 60 Writings, 63

Hey, James (Old Jemmie o’ the Hey), 198

Hill, Rowland, 120, 159, 170, 254

Holy Club, The, 51, 54, 57, 60, 65, 170 Spirit, The, the Power, 85

Hooper, John, 195

Hopper, Christopher, 151

Horne, Dr., 66

Hospitality in New England, 225, 229, 231

Hostility to Revival, 21, 32, 61, 77, 288

Howard, John, 236, 318

Hymns, 115, 118, 119, 122, 125–130, 203, 311, 313 Character of, 127, 131 Influence of, 98, 99, 101, 109, 112, 129 of Doddridge, 29, 110 of Watts, 29, 31, 110 of Wesley, 112

324Hymnists of the Revival, 109, 121, 123, 126, 192

Huddersfield, 169

Huguenots, The, 24, 98 Descendants in England, 26 Influence on Revival, 26 Settlement in England, 26

Huntingdon, Lady, 20, 35, 46, 50, 64, 66, 69, 91, 101, 124, 135, 143, 148, 155, 159, 169, 172, 183, 254, 257, 261, 307

Huntingdon, William, 276

Hupton, Job, 127

Independents, 256

Indians, Cause of, Espoused by Whitefield, 290

Ingham, Benjamin, 50, 170

Itinerancy, by Wesley, 93

Itinerant Preachers, 116, 160

Jay, William, 184

Jenner, Dr. Edward, 195

Johnson, Samuel, 55

Joss, Toriel, 149

Juvenal, 52

Kempis, Thomas à., 55, 59

Kingsbury, William, 254

Kirk, John, Author of “Mother of the Wesleys”, 44

Lackington, 154

Lancashire, 131 Independent College, 257

Lanterns, New Lights and Old, 48

Lavington, Bishop, 70

Law, William, 53

Lay Preaching, 132, 136, 139, 147–149, 151

Lecky on the Effect of the Revival, 10

Lee, Jesse, 275

Literature, State of, at beginning of 18th Century. How Affected by Revival, 16, 269

Livingstone, 255

Local Preachers, 136 Wesley’s Reasons for, 136

London Missionary Society, 191, 254, 255, 319

Love of Souls, 101, 185, 186, 281

Luther, 7, 57, 110, 114, 179

Lyttleton, Lord, 17, 40, 42

Macaulay, 86, 97, 99, 189 Tribute to Puritans, 9, 97, 303–305

McOwan, Peter, 130

Mann, Sir Horace, 40

Mansfield, Lord, 172

Marlborough, Duchess of, 37, 39, 42

Marshman and Ward, 253

Martyrs, 195

Maxfield, Thomas, 115, 134

Melcombe, Lord, 42

Methodism, 182, 257, 275, 278 in New England, 275

Methodists acknowledged, 177, 256 and Puritans Compared, 98

Methodists and Quakers, 278

Methodist Band-Meetings, etc., 100

Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society, 256

Methodists, Beginning of, 45, 52, 80, 91 Calvinistic and Wesleyan, 101

Methodists, Creed of, 100 Early, 98, 102, 309 Effect of, 35, 129 Efforts of Earliest, 257 Expelled from Oxford, 66 Growth of, 40, 170 in United States, 275 Held as Opposed to Church of England, 66, 70, 94, 99 Hymnals, 32 Manifestations of, 85 Origin of Name, 52, 60, 309 Regarded as Enemies, 21, 70, 94, 99, 139, 143, 144, 233, 309

325Methodists, Sects of, 276

Middleton, 180

Milton, 110

Minor, The, 154

Mission Enterprises, 186, 250, 256 to Africa, 191, 255 to China, 255 to India, 190, 253 to Madagascar, 255 to South Seas, 255

Missionary Societies, 250, 256, 320

Moffat, Robert, 191, 255

Molière, 155

Montague, Duchess of, 42

Montgomery, James, 118

Moorfields, London, 84, 91, 134, 149, 233

Morality at Beginning of 18th Century, 16

Moravians, The, 35, 64, 113, 170, 250, 256

More, Hannah, 178, 210

Morgan, 50

Mystery of Life, The, 65

Napoleon at St. Helena, 255

Nash, Beau, Overcome by Wesley, 87

Nelson, John, 139

Netherlands Missionary Society, 256

Newman, John Henry, 269

Newton, John, 123, 126, 149, 174, 190, 216, 217, 270

Noel, Baptist, 259

Nonconformists, Religion Among, 15

Oliver, John, 115

Olivers, Thomas, 115, 125, 311, 313

One-eyed Christians, 183

Orphan Asylum in Georgia, 291, 296

Oxford, 48, 65 Forecasting Future of Union, 48

Oxford Methodists, 49 Society, 54

Parson, John, 151

Perronet, Edward, 125

Persecution, 102, 139, 143, 270

Philadelphia Adult and Sunday-school Union, 256

Pilgrim’s Progress, The, 219, 236

Pitt, William, 42, 266

Politics Influenced by Revival, 258

Pope, 38

Portraits of Revivalists, 154, 271

Power of Song, 114

Practical View of Christianity, 266, 267

Prayer, 102

Preacher and Robbers, The, 151

Preaching at Beginning of 18th Century, 61 by Laymen, 132, 136, 139, 147, 148, 149, 151 in Drawing-Room, 37, 38, 40 Effect of, 7, 98, 99, 101, 107, 139, 143

Prejudices Against Lay Preachers, 132

Prison Philanthropy, 199, 217, 234, 236, 241, 246, 248, 258, 318

Promoting Christian Knowledge, Society for, 250

Propagation of Gospel, Society for, in New England, 250

Propagation of Gospel, Society for, in Foreign Parts, 250

Protestant Episcopal Board of Missions, 256

Puritans, The, 8, 9, 35, 52, 98, 303, 305 Macaulay’s estimate of, 9, 97, 303 and Methodists Compared, 98

Quakers, The, 35, 231, 278

Quarterly Review, 125, 126

Quietists, 55

Quixote, the Spiritual, 154

Raikes, Anne, 213

Raikes, Robert, 183, 193, 194, 196, 201, 211, 214 at Windsor, 202, 208 House at Gloucester, 213

326Raymont of Pegnafort, 93

Reciprocation the Soul of Methodism, 100

Redruth, Cornwall, 103

Reformation, The, 8

Reign of Terror, 181

Rejection of Gospel, its Effect on Nations, 7

Religion, State of at Beginning of 18th Century, 10, 22, 23, 107 State of and After Revival Contrasted, 13, 277

Religious Tract Society, 191, 256

Repeal of Test and Corporation Acts, 258

Revival, The, Anecdotes of (See Anecdotes.)

Revival Beacons, 184 Becomes Educational, 193, 257, 278 Beginning of, 24, 28, 35, 39, 49, 57, 73, 181, 186 Cheerfulness and Joy of, 98, 99, 101, 109, 124 Conservative, 86 Dawn of, 24, 48, 49 Depth of, 277 Done Most for Well-being of Mankind, 280 Effect on Literature, 260 Effect of on World at Large, 279, 293 Effects of, 8, 10, 13, 107, 115, 129, 132, 147, 166, 171, 180, 183, 186, 258, 259, 260, 269, 277, 279, 285, 293, 296, 300 Evangelical in England, 8, 271, Fair-Preaching, 83 Field-Preaching, 68, 89, 101, 104 Foremost Names in, 46, 154 Fruit of, 180, 186

Revival, Growth of, 73, 265 Hostility to, 21, 22, 32, 61, 77, 94, 102, 154, 156, 159, 172, 288, 298 Importance of, 10 in Wales, 272 in America, 275, 281, 288, 295, 300 at Kingswood, 77 Lay Preaching, 132, 135, 139, 147, 148, 149, 151 Sects Formed, 276 Singers of, 109, 121, 123, 126, 192, 310 Spiritual, 114, 285

Revivalist Portraits, 154, 271

Richmond Legh, 267

Ridicule of Revivalists, 154, 253, 298

Rise and Progress in the Soul, 267

Ritual Absent in Revival, 114

Rock of Ages, 119

Rockingham, Lady, 40

Rogers’ Lives of Early Preachers, 151

Romaine, William, 149, 172

Roman Catholics, 133, 145, 193

Romelly, Sir Samuel, 26

Romish Stories and Incidents in Work of Wesley, 133, 145

Romney, Earl, 259

Rosary, The, 99

Rowlands, 272

Sabbath Observance, 17, 229

Sacred Song, Power of, 109, 113, 127

Sailors’ Hardships, etc., 221, 224, 240

Saints Everlasting Rest, 267

Salvation by Grace the Grand Doctrine of the Revival, 60, 186, 270, 284

Sandwich Islands, 255

Sandys, 110

Sarton, William, 195

Saunderson, Lady Frances, 37

Savonarola, 7

Schools, Sunday, 16, 196–199, 201, 204

327School, Sunday, Commended, 207, 208 Effect of, 201, 215 First Day or Society, 256 Growth of, 208, 209, 215

Scott, Captain Jonathan, 149 Thomas, 269 Walter, Sir, 117

Sects Rising from Revival: Bible Christians of West of England, 276 Primitive Methodists Of the North, 276 New Connection Methodists, 276 United Free Church Association, 276

Selborne, Lord, Referred to, 125

Sharp, Granville, 190

Shaw, Robert, 169

Ships of 18th Century, 220

Shirley, Lady Fanny, 64 Mr. (Lady Huntingdon’s Cousin), 20

Sidney, Sir Philip, 110

Simeon, Charles, 269

Singers of the Revival, 109, 121, 123, 126, 192, 310

Slave Abolition, 186, 211, 265, 278

Smiles, Dr., referred to, 24

Smith, Adam, 207 Sydney, 184, 253

Society, State of, at beginning of 18th Century, 10, 16, 24, 75, 277, 282, 294 State of and after Revival, Contrasted, 13, 277

Somerset, Duchess of, 36

Songs Used in Great National Movements, 109

Southey, 71, 83, 89, 93, 115, 130, 133, 146, 147, 157, 166, 249, 276, 308

Spain, 7

Spencer, 52

St. Ambrose, 117

St. Ann’s, Black Friars, London, 174

St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, 172

Stage Libels against the Revivalists, 154

Staniforth, Sampson, 151

Stanhope, Earl, Testimony to Wesley, 10

Starting Point, The, of Modern Religious History, 181

Steam Engine, The, 12

Steele, Miss, 126

Stephen, Sir James, 83, 184, 191, 192, 269 Sir George, 192

Stevens, Dr. Abel, 27, 83, 182, 216, 249, 262, 300

Stocker, John, 127

Stock, Thomas, 204

Story, George, 147

Stratford, Joseph, 196

Streaks of Dawn, First, 24

Suffolk, Countess of, 40

Swedenborg, 276

Swedish Missionary Society, 250

Taylor, Isaac, 45, 83, 128

Teachers, Character of at Beginning of 18th Century, 17

Te Deum, 114

Teignmouth, Lord, 189, 254

Tennent, Gilbert, 286, 287, 290

“The Last Judgment”, 118

Thomson, Mr., The Vicar of St. Gennys, 70

Thornton, John, 190

Ticket, The, 99

Told, Silas, 216, 257 his Preaching and his Work, 235

Toleration Act, 258

Toplady, Augustus, 119, 121

Tottenham Court Chapel, 120, 150

Townshend, Lady, 37 John, 258 Lord, 42

Tractarian Movement, The, 48

Tract Societies, 186, 191

Trevisa, John De, 193

Trimmer, Sarah, Mrs., 209

Trophies of Revival, 115

328Turnpikes in England, 93

Tyerman, Mr., referred to, 27, 43, 249

Tyndale, William, 183, 193

Venn, Henry, 169

Vicar of Wakefield, 21, 267, 305

Voltaire, 51, 180

Wales, 272

Walker, Samuel, 171

Walpole, Horace, 39, 43, 79, 83, 154

Walsh, Thomas, 135, 145

Warburton, Bishop, on Wesley, 22

Ward and Marshman, 253

Watson, Richard, 158

Watt, James, 12

Watts, Isaac, 29, 110, 122, 128 Friends of, 36 his Mother, 26 Hymns of, 29, 113 Literary Labors, 29

Waugh, Alexander, 254

Welsh Preaching and Preachers, 275

Wesleyan Methodists, 101 Missionary Society, 256, 320

Wesleyan Societies, 170, 182

Wesleyanism, Historians of, 182

Wesley, Charles, 45, 50, 57, 118, 121, 128, 265

Wesley, John, 21, 26, 46, 50, 53, 80, 92, 122, 136, 165, 179, 182, 207 as an Administrator, 82, 86 and Church Polity, 82, 86 and Bradford, 138 and Fenwick, 137 and Nelson, 145 and Silas Told, 217, 233, 237, 249 and Walsh, 146 and Whitefield Compared, 69, 80, 86, 87, 89, 148 and Field-Preaching, 89

Wesley, John, and Methodists Regarded as Enemies, 21, 94, 99 and Hervey’s Teaching, 59 at Epworth, 43, 53, 94, 95 at the Foundry, Moorfields (City Road Chapel), 91 at Glasgow, 11 at Gwennap Pit, 103 at Oxford, 50, 53 at York, 96 Compared with Calvin, 69 Conversion, Time of, 58 Creed, 100 Death of, 262 Early Religious Experiences, 53 Effect of His Preaching on Himself, 82 Effect of His Preaching on Others, 82, 87, 96, 114 Estimate of by Macaulay, 86, 89 Expelled from Church of England, 68, 69 Expelled from Oxford, 65 Hymns, 112, 113, 114, 124, 126 Influence of, 10, 26, 182 Itinerancy, 93 on Sabbath-Schools, 208 Parish, the World, 91 Power over Others, 82, 87, 137 Preaching in Epworth Church-yard, 95 Restrictions on Lay Preachers, 134 Tomb, 262 Translations, 113 Victory of, over Nash, 87

329Wesley, Samuel, 43, 53 Susannah, 44, 134 her Sayings, 45

Weston, Favel, 58, 62

Wilberforce, William, 178, 189, 191, 254, 258, 265, 266

Wilderness, Blossoms in, 180

Wilks, Matthew, 254

Winter, Cornelius, 184, 257

Wiseman, Cardinal, 131

White, Rev George, Vicar of Colne, 71

Whitefield, George, 32, 46, 52, 60, 69, 73, 86, 122, 148, 165, 179, 184, 195, 258, 270, 284 and the Children, 292 Among the Indians, 290 and the Poor Woman, 56 and Wesley Compared, 69, 80, 86, 87, 89, 148 and the Recruiting Sergeant, 84 Among the Nobility, 36, 38, 41, 79 Among the Roughs, 83, 115 at Boston, New England, 284, 285 at Cambridge, New England, 28 at Harvard, 285 at Kingswood, Bristol, 73 at Princeton, 290 at Gloucester, 73 at New Haven, 285 at Oxford, 49, 54 at the Tower of London, 73 Compared with Luther, 69 Description of his Preaching During Thunder Storm, 79 Early Religious Experience, 55

Whitefield, George, Effect of his Preaching on Himself, 80, 81, 294 Effect on Others, 43, 76, 79, 82–84, 87, 115, 284, 294, 295, 301 First Meeting Charles Wesley, 56 in Georgia, 291 Journeys, 281 in New York, 288 in America, 73, 85, 281 in Wales, 272 in London, 81 in Maryland, 290 in Moorfields, London, 84 in Philadelphia, 289 on Toriel Joss and Newton, 149 Preaching of, 73, 295 on Religion in America, 299 Orphan Asylum in Georgia, 291, 296 Regarded as a Fanatic, 83 Ridiculed, 154 The First in the Opening of the Methodist Movement, 80 Treatment of Those Who Opposed Themselves to Him, 78, 298 Watts’ Blessing of, 32

Williams, John (Martyr of Erromanga) 255

Woolston, 180

Work Done in the Revival, 66

Wyclif, John, 193

Xavier, Francis, 93

York, Wesley at, 96

Yorkshire, 131, 139, 160, 170

Yorkshire, Apostles of, 139

Young Cottager, The, 267

Zinzendorf, Count, Hymns of, 113, 171

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