Saturday Oct: 8th.
A cloudy day again. Nobody will go, except me; & I cant go. But I can & will go on Monday, that is, if I am well—et cœtera!--
Mrs. Martin called here with Mrs. Hill;[1] a lady who seems to have too many teeth, & quite enough ideas.
Rain again!— No going to Malvern.
Finished Mr. Curzon’s book, which disappoints me by not exactly suiting my case. It suits Mr. Curzon’s better—for it is directed against Fuller’s Doctrine of indefinite redemption[2]—i.e. the doctrine of atonement for sin, not sinners. The book appears to me to want compression & arrangement, & some other things besides. But I like much of it.
Mr. Hinton is not spared; nor does he deserve it.[3]
No letters. Bro & Sam at Worcester.
1. Wife of the Rev. Charles Hill, of Bromesberrow.
2. Andrew Fuller, Dialogues, Letters and Essays, on Various Subjects (London, 1806), pp. 233–251: “Conversation the Third: On Particular Redemption.”
3. In Rushton’s Defence, ed. cit., a note on Letter II, pp. 52–62, was severely critical of Hinton’s treatise on the Holy Spirit “not long since published,” i.e., The Work of the Holy Spirit in Conversion Considered in its Relation to the Condition of Man and the Ways of God (London, 1830), by John Howard Hinton (1791–1873).
