The history of Methodism . FROM A COPPERPLATE IN THE CHRISTIANS MAGAZINE, 1790. REV. JOHN BERRIDGE, of Everton, Bedfordshire. first visited himin 1758, andwrote: A fewmonths ago he was thoroughly convinced that by gracewe are saved through faith. Immediately he began toproclaim aloud the redemption that is in Jesus; and Godconfirmed his own word, exactly as he did at Bristol in thebeginning, by working repentance and faith in the hearers,and with the same violent outward symptoms. Strangescenes did Wesley witness in Everton Church during this andlater visits. During the first year af
The history of Methodism . FROM A COPPERPLATE IN THE CHRISTIANS MAGAZINE, 1790. REV. JOHN BERRIDGE, of Everton, Bedfordshire. first visited himin 1758, andwrote: A fewmonths ago he was thoroughly convinced that by gracewe are saved through faith. Immediately he began toproclaim aloud the redemption that is in Jesus; and Godconfirmed his own word, exactly as he did at Bristol in thebeginning, by working repentance and faith in the hearers,and with the same violent outward symptoms. Strangescenes did Wesley witness in Everton Church during this andlater visits. During the first year after his conversion Berridge was Southeys Buffoon and Fanatic 675 visited by a thousand persons under serious impressions, andit was computed that under his own and the joint ministry ofone of his converts, the Rev. Mr. Hicks, four thousand per-sons were awakened to spiritual concern. His circuit covered. REV. HENRY VENN, the Counties of Bedford, Cambridge, Essex, Hertford, andHuntingdon. Magistrates, country squires, and others op-posed him, and among them he was distinguished by thename of the old devil for over twenty years. Fornearly thirty years he spent three months annually in Lon-don, often preaching in Whitefields chapels. Southey has labeled Berridge buffoon and fanatic, but 676 British Methodism the Bishop of Liverpool, Dr. Ryle, after examining his ser-mons, affirms that it would do no harm to the Church ofEngland if she had a few more such buffoons and fanaticsamong her clergy. He bubbled over with humor, but hewas no professional jester. His very sedate brethren re-buked him, and Mr. Thornton wrote to him: You told meyou was born with a fools cap on. Is it not high time it waspulled off? Berridge replied: A fools cap is not soreadily put off as a nightcap. One cleaves to the head, andone to the heart. Odd things, he said, break from meas abruptly as croaking from a r
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