[26] “Biog. Brit.” Article, Barrington. [27] Dr. Southey, remarking on this incident, says: “The hymn, indeed, was likely to have this effect upon an assembly whose minds were under the immediate impression produced by a pathetic preacher.” They were those well-known words: Give me the wings of faith to rise Within the veil, and see The saints above, how great their joys, How bright their glories be. Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears, They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears. I ask them whence their victory came; They with united breath Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb, Their triumph to His death. They marked the footsteps that He trod, His zeal inspired their breast; And, following their Incarnate God, Possess the promised rest. Our glorious Leader claims our praise For His own pattern given, While the long cloud of witnesses Show the same path to heaven. [28] See an admirable and interesting summary of Doddridge’s Life and Character,—“Philip Doddridge:” “North British Review.” [29] Glover’s “Leonidas,” a poem scarcely ever read or referred to now, but which created considerable interest on its publication, and for some time held a conspicuous place in English poetry. [30] Mr. Waller’s lines, to which her ladyship refers, are at the conclusion of his Divine Poems: The soul’s dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made: Stronger by weakness wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. The verses of Dr. Watts which her ladyship intends is the poem in his “Horæ Lyricæ,” entitled “A Sight of Heaven in Sickness.” [31] “Daniel Defoe, His Life and Recently Discovered Writings.” By William Lee. 3 vols. [32] See “Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel Defoe,” etc. By Walter Wilson, Esq. [33] See the whole of this in the “Posthumous Works of the late learned and Rev. Isaac Watts,” 1779. [34] See an interesting table of “Memorable Affairs in my Life and Coincidents,” in Watts’ writing, in Appendix to this volume. [35] See “History of England,” by Earl Stanhope, vol. i. chap. 1. [36] Lord Macaulay says: “There was considerable excitement, but it was allayed by a temperate and artful letter to the clergy, the work, in all probability, of Bishop Gibson, who stood high in the favour of Walpole, and shortly after became minister for ecclesiastical affairs.” [37] Essay on “Popular Ignorance.” [38] See the “Clapham Sect.” Sir James Stephen’s Essays in “Ecclesiastical Biography.” [39] “Memorials, etc. etc. of the late W. M. Bunting.” [40] Doddridge’s “Life and Correspondence,” vol. iv. p. 520.