CHAPTER VI.-ENGLAND.

Firstfruits of the Whistonian philosophy. James Peirce. His moral

deficiency. Hallet and his students. Alarm in the Churches at

Exeter. Advice sought from ministers in London.

Meeting at

Salter's Hall. Circular of Exeter ministers. Withdrawal of Peirce

and his adherents. Sermon of Benjamin Wills in defence of the

Trinitarians. Excitement at the Weigh House. Reynolds assailed

by Hawkins and Browne. Last days of Reynolds. Samuel Pomfret's

defence of the Church at the Weigh House. Letter of Barrington

to Dr. Gale. Steadfastness of Bradbury. Pinners' Hall Lectures.

Appeal of Bradbury to Watts. Pre-existent scheme. Bradbury

attacked by Morgan. Correspondence of Bradbury and Watts.

Agitation of the Jacobites. Reports of spies. High Church con-

venticles. Calamy and the Government. Arrest of Atterbury.

Letters of Williamson, Keeper of the Tower. Walpole and the

Dissenters. Regium Donum. "Dark conventicles." French

prophets

187-226

CHAPTER VII.-AMERICA.

Revival in Connecticut. Origin of Windham Plantation. Question of

the "senter." Church embodiment. Second Church. Call of

William Billings. Eliphalet Adams. Death of Whiting. Jonathan

Edwards at Northampton. Solomon Stoddard. Edwards as a

preacher. Home life. First published sermons. Awakening in

1735. Stoddard's views of the Lord's Supper. Breck at Springfield.

Sheriff at a council with a drawn sword. Martin Cabot at Killingly.

Troubles at Voluntown. Mutual confession at Middleborough.

Agitation of the clergy at Boston. Letter of Harris to the Bishop of

London. Complaint of Governor Belcher to the bishop. Remon-

strance of the Hampshire Association. Pacific proposals of Belcher.

Commissary Price and the refractory clergy

CHAPTER VIII-ENGLAND.

227-257

Seedtime of English Deism. Voltaire in England. Three Denomina-
tions. Congregational Board. Fund Board. Fund Academy. King's
Head Society. King's Head Academy. Samuel Parsons. Abraham
Taylor. Complaints of Thomas Gibbons. Joseph Griggs. Dismissal
of Taylor. Tutors of the Academy. Coward Trust. Catechetical
lecture. Philip Doddridge student at Kibworth. Advice of Clark.
Divinity and drama. Pastorate at Kibworth. Removal to North-
ampton. Accepts the call to Castle Hill. Letter to Clark. Entry
in church-book. Confession of faith. Strickland Gough on decay
of the Dissenting interest. Reply of Doddridge. Family Expositor
and Dr. Guyse. Church at Olney. Letter to Watts. Doddridge in
the Consistory Court of All Saints, Northampton. Defeat of Chan-
cellor Reynolds. Village preaching. Watts's hymns. Suspicions

respecting Watts and Doddridge. Watts's treatise on the Redeemer.
Letter of Watts to his father. Wesley and Whitefield 258-304

CHAPTER IX.-AMERICA.

Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin. Orphans and slaves. Hostility of

Anglican clergy. Gratuitous scandal. Franklin's testimony to

Whitefield's integrity. Prosecution of Whitefield by the Bishop's

Commissary. Letter of Jonathan Edwards to Whitefield. Whitefield

in Boston. Cutler's account of his preaching. Visit to Cambridge.

Clergy dread the coming of the Wesleys. Visit of Whitefield to

Northampton. At New Haven. New lights" and "Old lights."

First society at New Haven. Separatist Church. Expulsion of David

Brainerd from Yale College. Remonstrance of Dissenting deputies.

Governor Law's reply. Rejoinder of Dr. Avery. "Old light"

intolerance. Letter of Edwards to McCulloch. Indiscriminate zeal.

Reaction in Connecticut. Tract on liberty of conscience and the

right of private judgment Elisha Williams. Sons of Liberty."

Patrick Henry and the clergy in Hanover.

"Commonwealth of Hypocrites"

Samuel Johnson and the

305-335

CHAPTER X.-ENGLAND.

Mutual sympathy of Congregational Churches. Church at Basingstoke.

Solicitude of Doddridge for the preservation of evangelical truth.

Colonel Gardiner. Formation of a missionary society Sermon and

conference at Denton. Doddridge and the Methodists. Censured by

Nathanael Neal. Reply of Doddridge. Disaffection of Jacobites.

Designs of the Pretender reported from Rome. Landing of Charles

Edward Stuart. General alarm. Letter of the Duke of Newcastle

to Lord Milton. Letter of Lord Justice Clerk to Lord Tweeddale.

Battle at Prestonpans. Report of Cope. Private account. Exulta-

tion at Rome. Doddridge and his volunteers. General support of

the Government. Letter of Henry Vane. Pretender at Carlisle.

The Mayor and his "formalities." Class meetings suspected of

sedition. Charles Wesley and the night of prayer. Pretender in

Manchester. Miss Byrom. Abraham Haworth. Agitation in the

neighbourhood. Communications from Warrington, Stockport, and

Derby. Letter of Doddridge to the Secretary of State. Horace

Walpole and the panic in London. Despatches to the Duke of Cum-

berland. Correspondence of the Duke. Intercepts the Pretender.

The Pretender in retreat at Shrewsbury. Standish and Clifton.

Letter of Thomas Savage. Defeat of the Pretender. End of

Coppock. Watts's Rational foundation of a Christian Church."

Mutual sympathy of Watts and Doddridge. Letters of Watts and

Hervey. Death of Watts

336-381

CHAPTER XI.-AMERICA.

Treatise of Edwards on extraordinary prayer. David Brainerd. Jerusha
Edwards. Aaron Burr. Grave of Brainerd. Letter of Aaron Burr

to Doddridge. College in New Jersey. Opposition of the Anglican

clergy. Troubles at Northampton. Views of Edwards on Church

communion. Treatise on the qualification for full communion.

Meeting of council. Second council. Dr. Erskine and the friends of

Edwards in Scotland. Letter of Erskine to Noy. Edwards and

Gillespie. Edwards a missionary at Stockbridge. Letter to his

daughter. His neighbour Samuel Hopkins. Writings of Edwards.

His letter to Dr. Wigglesworth on the attack of Mayhew. His interest

in the Indians. Warning against the French. Message from the

Council and House of Representatives in Boston to Governor Shirley.

Stockbridge attacked by Indians and French. Colonel Williams.

College at Williamstown. Troublers from Northampton. Death of

Aaron Burr. Letters of Esther Burr. Death of Edwards.

of Mrs. Edwards. Postcript of Susannah Edwards

CHAPTER XII.-ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

Letter

382-412

Moravian troublers at Northampton. Sermon of Doddridge on Christian

candour and unanimity. Enquiry of Thomas Harmer respecting

missions. Samuel Morris in Virginia. Reports to Doddridge.

Letter of Samuel Davies to Doddridge. Referred to the Bishop of

London. Correspondence of Doddridge and the Bishop. Letters of

the Virginian clergy. Their intended petition to the House of Bur-

gesses, to enforce a law for the suppression of preaching. The law

found to be obsolete. Missions in Hanover County reported to

Doddridge by Samuel Davies. Decided Nonconformity of Doddridge.

Letter to James Hervey. Failing health of Doddridge. Letter of

Barker. Doddridge at Lisbon. His dying experience. Letters of

Mrs. Doddridge to her children. Letter of Davies to Mrs. Doddridge.

Private academies. Joint action of King's Head Society and the

Fund Board. Hoxton Academy at Ottery. John Lavington. James

Rooker. Thomas Reader. Interview of Joint Committee in London

with Dr. Marryat on his dying bed. Appointment of three tutors.

John Conder, Thomas Gibbons, and John Walker. Academic mutiny.

Vindication of Conder. James Scott and the Northern Education

Society. Academy at Heckmondwike. Letter of James Slinn to

Mrs. Whitefield. Robert Hall of Arnsby. Christopher Hall. 413-454

CHAPTER XIII.-AMERICA AND ENGLAND.

Loyal address of Congregational churches of Hampshire in New England,
on the surrender of Canada. James Otis on the wise administration
of George the Third, and the excellence of the British Constitution.
William Moore and the churches in Nova Scotia. Appeal of Boston
ministers. The Acadians. Opportunity for the evangelization of
Canada neglected. Causes of the War of Independence. Jonathan
Mayhew and Ezra Stiles. Letter of American Convention to the
dissenting deputies. Correspondence of Henry Caner and the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury. Dr. Samuel Johnson, an Anglican clergyman,

proposes the abolition of charter government in New England.

Restriction of commerce. Destructive philosophy. Stamp Act

riot at Newport. Letter to the Lords Commissioners. General resist-

ance to the execution of the Stamp Act. Nova Scotia contented.

Thanksgiving for the repeal of the Stamp Act. Renewal of taxes

on commerce. Indignation of Boston Citizens. Return of Governor

Hutchinson to England. Letter of Henry Pelham on the state of

Boston. Samuel Cooke's election sermon. Whitefield at Newport.

Chests of tea thrown into Boston Harbour. Letters of Franklin.

Preparations for the coming conflict. Town's-meetings and their

regulations. Tyranny of the majority. Vigilance Committees.

Attempt to bury a man alive. Franklin on the effect produced in

London by the resistance in America. The King must go on.

Sympathy of Whitefield with the people of New England. Death of

Whitefield. Josiah Quincey on the Nature of the American struggle.

Extreme course in parliament. Letters of William Gordon, pastor

of the church at Roxbury. Private letter from Boston. The sword

of civil war unsheathed. Pulpit oration of Samuel Langdon, president

of Harvard College
455-494

CHAPTER XIV.-ENGLAND.

Death of Bradbury. Job Orton. His advice to Caleb Ashworth on the

management of the academy at Daventry. William Hextal. Trying

position of Ashworth. Losses of Mrs. Doddridge. Joseph Priestley's

account of the Academy. His settlement at Needham Market.

Dissatisfied with the Apostle Paul. Removal. Academy of the

"Rational" dissenters at Warrington. "Rational" liturgy opposed

by John Taylor. The Divinity Tutor. Suit of the dissenting deputies

in the case of the sheriffs of London. Legal status given to dissent

by Lord Mansfield's decision. Priestley at Warrington. Usefulness

of Seddon's MS. sermons to his friend Wilding. Foolish opinion that

study is not necessary to a gentleman. Benjamin Stapp and the

church at Shrewsbury. Letter of Orton to Mrs. Doddridge. Majority

of the church withdraw and build the chapel at Swan Hill. Letter

of Cheney Hart to Seddon. James Scott and first students at

Heckmondwike. Church at Cockermouth and resistance to the

intrusion of Arianism. John Glover at Mattishall. George Lambert,

John Newton, and Whitefield. First sermon of Newton in White

Chapel, Leeds. Unsuccessful applications for episcopal ordination.

Preaches at Warwick. Letter of Newton to Warhurst, and his desire

to become a dissenting minister. Presentation to Olney. 495-524

CHAPTER XV.-AMERICA.

Dr. Zubly on the law of Liberty. Appeal to Lord Dartmouth. Instruc-
tion of Lord Dartmouth to General Gage. Violent articles in the
New York journals against the descendants of the Puritans in New
England, described as 'holy sinners and thorough-paced hypo-

crites." Thomas Paine. "Common sense opposed to mediation.

Change in Franklin. Invasion of Canada. Siege of Quebec. Retreat

of the Americans. Franklin and Madame Walker. Address of

Congress to the Canadians. Treaty of America with France, Spain,

and Holland. Letter of George Washington to his wife. English

sympathy with the Americans. Struggle for ascendency, and the

humiliation of Great Britain. Franklin's terms of peace. Declaration

of Independence. Concession impracticable. Letter of George III.

to Lord North. Contest embittered. Mutual complaints of Ameri-

can republicans and loyalists. Violence of preachers. Champion's

prayer. Adventure of Dr. Daggett at New Haven. Samuel Hopkins

on the inconsistency of the Declaration of Independence with negro

slavery. His earnest protest. Erection (of meeting-house. Samuel

Phillips of Andover, and his arrears of salary
525-558

CHAPTER XVI.-ENGLAND.

Newton at Olney. William Cowper. Newton proud of his position as a

clergyman of the established church. Little artifices among the poor.

Thomas Scott. Apologia. Samuel Walker of Truro. John Berridge

of Everton, and his bishop. Letter to a dissenting minister on

itinerant preaching. William Grimshaw. Movements of "Rational "

dissenters. Decline and extinction of churches. No church discipline.

Position of a "Rational" minister. Lost to society. Priestley on the

practical effect of Freethinking. His advice to ministers. Rationalists

contrasted with Independents. Enfield on church and dissent.

Priestley on establishments. Rationalism in the Church of England.

Archdeacon Blackburne and the freethinking clergy. Application to

parliament for relief from subscription. Speech of Edmund Burke

on the hardships of the latitudinarian clergy. Rejection of the

petition. Dissenters' Relief Bill. Letter of the King. Bishop

Newton's idea of liberty. Chatham's reply to Archbishop Drummond.

William Hextal and the church at Northampton. No evangelical

succession in the churches of the "Clapham Sect." "Societies "

formed by the followers of Whitefield. Countess of Huntingdon's

connexion. Howell Harris at Trevecca. Opening of the college..

Quarterly meetings in Wales. William Shrubsole. Thomas Tupper

at Portsea Church formed at Bath. New English Academy 559-598

CHAPTER XVII-AMERICA.

General resistance to American independence. Letter of the King to
Lord North English ports in danger. Resolution in parliament to
discontinue the war. Negotiation for peace. No social change
required. Priestley against Kings. Loyalty of Congregational
churches. Views of Lambert. Settlement of the terms of the Treaty
of Peace. Oswald and the American Commissioners. Repeated
conferences and correspondence. A curious episode. Claims of the
Loyalists. Threat of accumulative damages. Final settlement.