Jul 7, 2022
If anything remains consistent across history, it’s that grown men will act like children and people be causing drama. The bishop here is George Lavington, the Bishop of Exeter who was the Bishop of Exeter from 1746 to 1762. Mr. T I do not yet know the identity of, but he was a clergyman of Methodist leanings in and around the area of Bideford, England. This snippet is taken from a letter written by George Whitefield, the founder of Calvinistic Methodism in the UK, to his benefactor, Selina Hastings the Dowager Countess of Huntingdon, on 15th August 1749 while he was in Plymouth as part of his itinerating preaching tour of the south west of England.
#oddly specific today#if you don't know what's been happening in the uk then lets summarize#absolute chaos in the cabinet of government#so many resignations#so many arguments#men acting like children#boris is gone#its been chaotic#history#18th century#1740s#methodism#church history#protestant history#george lavington#exeter#bideford#plymouth#england#english history#british history#calvinistic methodism