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'Let us endeavour to make religious conversation, which is in all respects desirable, in some degree fashionable.Both were worthy parish priests, and the spheres of houstons manhattan beach ca duty of both lay in remote country villages both died at a comparatively early age both were Calvinists and both in the course of controversy came into collision with John Wesley.A sad lack of Christian charity is conspicuous in all writers (except Fletcher) in this ill conducted controversy, but Toplady outherods Herod.It was not so much as a preacher that Newton's forte lay for though his sermons were full of matter and read well, it is said that they were not houstons manhattan beach ca well delivered and, perhaps, they are in themselves a little heavy, and deficient in the lighter graces of oratory.While agreeing thoroughly with Methodist doctrines (we may waive the vexed question of Calvinism), they thoroughly disapproved of the Methodist practice of itinerancy, which they regarded as a mark of insubordination, a breach of Church order, and an unwarrantable interference with the parochial system.All his writings, including his delightful letters houstons manhattan beach ca as well as his poetry, are remarkably free from mawkishness and mere sentimentality.It has frequently been objected that Christians of the Puritan and Evangelical schools, when describing their conversion, have been apt to exaggerate their former depravity.They would hardly have ventured to make so clean a breast before men who, like the majority of the Evangelical leaders, had always lived at least outwardly respectable lives and houstons manhattan beach ca if they had ventured to do so, these good men could hardly have appreciated their difficulties.Both in his character and in his writings Romaine approached more nearly than any of the so called Puritans of his day to the typical Puritan of the seventeenth century.Toplady also censures the 'rancour with which houstons manhattan beach ca Mr.He belonged to Lady Huntingdon's Connexion until the 'secession' of 1781, when, like Venn and other parochial clergymen, he was compelled to withdraw from formal union, though he still retained the closest intimacy with her.