Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ROBERT RAIKES. (After Druramond.) THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH, 1715-1815. 559 SO morbid, so complacent and often so bitter as to show a Calvinism,curious contrast to the practical excellence of life Avhich itlargely succeeded in producing. Thus Simeon, towards the endof his life, declared himself so corrupt that he could only wonderat being still kept out of hell. Henry Venn congratulates hisson on the opposition
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ROBERT RAIKES. (After Druramond.) THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH, 1715-1815. 559 SO morbid, so complacent and often so bitter as to show a Calvinism,curious contrast to the practical excellence of life Avhich itlargely succeeded in producing. Thus Simeon, towards the endof his life, declared himself so corrupt that he could only wonderat being still kept out of hell. Henry Venn congratulates hisson on the opposition of the Huntingtonians, for their hatred. CHARLES SniEOX, ISOS.{Kings College, Cambridge.) is much to be preferred to their praise. Toplady, in 1772,addresses his spiritual father, a man twice his age, with allthe violence of a bold young man, as the victim of hisattack coolly described him. Time, sir, he writes to JohnWesley, has already whitened your locks, and the hour mustshortly come which will transmit you to the tribunal of thatGod on whose sovereignty the greater part of your life hasbeen one continued assault. Still more scurrilous were hisrhymes on the supposed intention of Wesley to raise a perse-cution against the Calvinists. This plot, as fabulous as the Popish of Charles day, is told in the form of a fable:— 1784 The Churcli inAmerica. 560 BE VOLUTION AND REACTION. • Theres a fox who resideth hard by,The most perfect and holy aud slyThat ever turned coat, or did pilfer or lie. As this revereud Reyuard one daySat thiukiug what name best to play,Satan came by, a brief visit to pay. Oh, your servant, my fr
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