Volume 2

The spiritual Quixote: or, the summer's ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose. A comic romance / [Anon].

  • Richard Graves
Date:
1774
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The spiritual Quixote: or, the summer's ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose. A comic romance / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OWE SPIRITUAL QUIXOTS. 29%) ‘Parfon of the-parifh, ‘* who,” he faid, ‘¢ was'a “$6 friend. to their -caufe, and chad lent.-Mr; “‘ Whitfield his pulpit, when he lately vifited *6 the principality of Wales.” : They arrived at Newport before ten o’clock, ‘and accordingly waited upon the Door, who ‘received them ina polite manner, and told them, “¢ as he was perfuaded of Mr. Whit: “6 field?s good intentions, and knew alfo how ¢ fond people are of a new Preacher, and what ‘¢ an impreffion that very circumftance: often 6 made upon carelefs Chriftians, he had in- dulged his parifhioners, fer once, in hearing ** fo.famous a man ; but that, in general, he “did net at all approve of fuch irregular “6 proceedings. ‘© ] have already,” continued the Decor, ~ *¢ found the ill effe&s of my complaifance to *° Mr, Whitheld. My own people, who are «¢ very well difpofed, and who were before “entirely fatished with my plain doétrine, Snow, forfooth, give out, that I do not preach “6 the Gofpel, becaufe I do not always harp ‘‘ upon the fame @ring, of the New Birth, «¢ Faith without Works, and the like. They “ alfo expe&t me to have private meetings * two or three naghts in the week, and com- ee | ae i s* pliment