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p.1204:-
called Lay and Itinerant Preaching. By Rowland Hill.
M.A. late of St. John's College, Cambridge,
and Minister of Surrey Chapel.
THE title-page sufficiently discovers the design and
tendency of this pamphlet. We learn from it, that, when Mr.
Hill was a member of the University of Cambridge, that
University "was almost in total darkness. ... ... He hopes
some Gospel hero in the neighbourhood of Penrith will
make it a point to to besiege that town (p.8); and he
laments that "there seems to be an awful death
prevailing over the people of Carlisle, though they have not
wanted the blessing of some most faithful Gospel sermons
from the dean, and his brother, the late Mr. Milner, of
Hull, whose abundant services to the Church of Christ, not
only as a preacher but as an ecclesiastical historian,
together with his other useful publications, will render his
name deservedly respected by all livers of the Gospel, and
of good and useful literature" (p.9); yet "his sentiments,
perhaps, might have been more correct according to Scripture
rule, if less favourable to high-church discipline." ... ...
And more of the same into Scotland.
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