The history of Methodism . DRAWN BY P 6. FliNTOFF. sl\ AXX S CHURCH, BLACKFRIARS. Where Romailie*preached his sermon on The Life, Walk, and Triumphof Faith. his being a disciple of Calvin or Arminius. Venn was amoderate Calvinist, of the same school as many of the laterevangelicals in the Church of England. Of other clergymenof the same type, such as Madan, Newton, Scott, Cecil, andthe two Milners, we must give an account later. Wesley states his feeling toward the Calvinistic evangel-icals when he says of the Methodists who remained with him,They tenderly love many who are Calvinists, though
The history of Methodism . DRAWN BY P 6. FliNTOFF. sl\ AXX S CHURCH, BLACKFRIARS. Where Romailie*preached his sermon on The Life, Walk, and Triumphof Faith. his being a disciple of Calvin or Arminius. Venn was amoderate Calvinist, of the same school as many of the laterevangelicals in the Church of England. Of other clergymenof the same type, such as Madan, Newton, Scott, Cecil, andthe two Milners, we must give an account later. Wesley states his feeling toward the Calvinistic evangel-icals when he says of the Methodists who remained with him,They tenderly love many who are Calvinists, though they do not love their CHAPTER LXXIV Help from the Mountains of Switzerland On the Shore of Lake Geneva.—For the Church or for theArmy.—Finding the Methodists.—A Memorable Conversion.— Fletcher, Wesley, and Walsh.—An Ecclesiastical Phenome-non.—Dunham or Madelev ? S IR, said Henry Venn to one who asked him hisopinion of Fletcher. he was a luminary. A lumi-nary, did I say? He was a sun ! I have known allthe great men for these fifty years, but I have known nonelike him. Such was the judgment of a backward over a century, Dr. Rigg, one of themost judicial of Methodist writers, affirms that in thegalaxy of names which make up the historic roll of theEvangelical Revival, from the Oxford days of Wesley tothe rise of Charles vSimeons ascendency at Cambridge, thereis not one star at once so bright and so particularas Jean Guillaume de la Flechere, or, as we all now knowhim, John Fletcher. That such a one as Fletcher shouldever come to be identified with English Methodism wouldhave
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