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John Henry Newman and the Evangelicals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2011
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In the numerous studies of the life of Cardinal Newman, there has frequently been too much attention paid to his own personal development while the circle in which he moved has been ignored. This is particularly true of some of his early associations at Oxford.
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page 65 note 1 Fortnightly Review, NS xxvi (1879), 6.
page 66 note 1 Frank Newman's letters to the Fortnightly Review are in the Birmingham Oratory (F. W. Newman file 2) and are quoted by permission.
page 66 note 2 Newman, F. W., Contributions to the Early History of the late Cardinal Newman, 2nd ed.London 1891Google Scholar.
page 66 note 3 Suggestions respectfully offered to individual resident clergymen of the University in behalf of the Church Missionary Society in Via Media, London 1885, ii. 3–17.
page 67 note 1 Via Media, ii. 4.
page 67 note 2 F. W. Newman, Contributions …, 29–30.
page 67 note 3 Minister of St. Ebbe's and not of St. Aldate's as Frank Newman had incorrectly recalled.
page 67 note 4 Both these letters appear in Letters and Correspondence of J. H. Newman, ed. Mozley, Anne, London 1891, i. 215–17Google Scholar.
page 67 note 5 ‘Diary’ of Dr. John Hill, vii. 73b–74a. The MS. is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (St. Edmund Hall MS. 67) and is quoted by permission.
page 67 note 6 Ibid., vii. 80a.
page 68 note 1 C.M.S. Archives G/Ac/3, 20 February 1830.
page 68 note 2 Via Media, ii. 6–7.
page 68 note 3 Hill's ‘Diary’, vii. 81b.
page 69 note 1 MS. Cardinal Newman (Magdalen College Library), i. 89, cited by Middleton, R. D., Newman at Oxford: his Religious Development, Oxford 1960, 34Google Scholar.
page 69 note 2 E.g., Trevor, Meriol, The Pillar of the Cloud, London 1962Google Scholar; and Robbins, William, The Newman Brothers, London 1966Google Scholar.
page 69 note 3 Newsome, David, The Parting of Friends, London 1966, 10–15Google Scholar. The author refers to the unpublished Hulsean prize by H. Willmer, entitled ‘Evangelicalism 1785–1835’.
page 69 note 4 Reynolds, J. J. S., The Evangelicals at Oxford, 1757–1835, Oxford 1953, 84Google Scholar. He quotes Gladstone's assessment in Gleanings of Past Years, London 1879, vii. 211–12: ‘A school of ultra-Calvinism which lay far in advance of the ordinary evangelical tenets’.
page 70 note 1 The bulk of the sources for the following paragraphs is in MS. form, as follows John Hill's ‘Diary’ (Bodleian, St. Edmund Hall MS. 67); ‘Letters’ of F. W. Newman (Birmingham Oratory, F. W. Newman files); ‘Letters and Recollections’ of B. W. Newton, in the possession of C. E. Fry, Esq., of Newport, IOW. Printed sources include: Newman, F. W., Phases of Faith, London 1850Google Scholar; Philpot, J. H., The Seceders, London 1930–2Google Scholar; The Gladstone Diaries, ed. Foot, M. R. D., i. London 1968Google Scholar and numerous tracts, see 72 n. 3 below.
page 70 note 2 For the negotiations relating to the appointment see Hill's ‘Diary’, vi. 37b–42a.
page 70 note 3 See Ward, W. R., Victorian Oxford, London 1965, 76Google Scholar, based on Hill's ‘Diary’, vi. 115b–117b.
page 70 note 4 Hill's ‘Diary’, vii. 20b.
page 70 note 5 Mozley, T., Reminiscences chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford Movement, 2nd ed., London 1882, 116Google Scholar. However, Frank Newman wrote to his brother: ‘His account of my friend Charles Brenton quite astounded me. … It would be quite a literary curiosity if I had been asked to give my Reminiscences of Charles Brenton, to compare it with T.M's …’ (Birmingham Oratory, F. W. Newman file 2).
page 70 note 6 Herein lay another difference between the Radicals and some traditional Evangelicals. Their dissatisfaction with the latter is reflected in Brenton's disparaging remarks about the Record. He recalled how it ‘vacillated … and what an uncertain answer was returned to the question Ought the Roman Catholics to be admitted into Parliament or not’. Brenton, C., A Sermon on Rev. XIV. 13 … Ryde 1849, 46Google Scholar.
page 71 note 1 ‘Such was his enthusiasm for the study of prophecy that he became known as “Millennial Marsh”’, Russell, G. W. E., A Short History of the Evangelical Movement, London 1915, 78Google Scholar.
page 71 note 2 Hill's ‘Diary’, vi. 23a.
page 71 note 3 Ibid., vi. 56a.
page 71 note 4 Ibid., vii. 20a.
page 71 note 5 Ibid., vii. 38b.
page 71 note 6 Letter of B. W. Newton to his mother 23 December 1827 (Fry Collection).
page 71 note 7 Robbins, W., The Newman Brothers, London 1966, 32–3Google Scholar. It is shown there that Maisie Ward's conjecture that Frank's parish visiting was done in 1826 is incorrect. Professor Robbins has, however, muddled the order of the correspondence between John and Frank in this matter.
page 71 note 8 Ward, Maisie, The Young Mr Newman, London 1948, 127–8Google Scholar. Another point of contact between Newman and the Radicals may have been their mutual interest in prophecy. Newman's interest is amply demonstrated in his writings.
page 72 note 1 F. W. Newman, Contributions …, 62.
page 72 note 2 F. W. Newman, Phases of Faith, 6 ff.
page 72 note 3 See Bulteel, H. B., A Sermon on I Corinthians 2: 12 preached before the University of Oxford, Oxford 1831Google Scholar; SirBrenton, Charles, A Sermon on Revelation tending to show the absurdity and impiety of the promiscuous use of the burial service, preached in the Parish Church of Stadhampton, 11 December 1831, Ryde 1849Google Scholar; Lambert, W. G., A Call to the Converted, Oxford 1831Google Scholar; Philpot, J. C., Memoir of William Tiptaft, 2nd ed., London 1867Google Scholar; G. V. Wigram, A Protest against the National Establishment of England (as yet unlocated).
page 72 note 4 See F. W. Newman, Phases of Faith, and Newton, B. W., Answers to questions on the propriety of leaving the Church of England, London 1841Google Scholar. Philpot's secessionary letter is to be found in J. H. Philpot, The Seceders, i. 276–88.
page 72 note 5 See Hill's ‘Diary’, viii. 7a–8a, 29b. In December ‘Darby preached in St Ebbe's from Romans 1122 on the rejectn of the Gentile Church’.
page 72 note 6 Wilson, D., Memorial Sermon for Basil Woodd, The character of the Good Man as a Christian Minister, with an appendix, London 1831Google Scholar; Hill's ‘Diary’, viii. 53b.
page 72 note 7 Ibid., ix. 3b. Inaccurately but more fully quoted by W. R. Ward, Victorian Oxford, 77, where ‘not’ is inserted before ‘altogether likeminded’.
page 72 note 8 See Newsome, David, ‘Justification and Sanctification: Newman and the Evangelicals’ in J.T.S, xv (1964), 36Google Scholar.
page 73 note 1 C.M.S. Archives G/Ac/3, 20 February 1830.
page 73 note 2 Ibid., 11 March 1830.
page 73 note 3 Alumni Oxonienses, ed. Foster, J., London 1887Google Scholar.
page 73 note 4 Hill's ‘Diary’, vii. 25b.
page 73 note 5 Ibid., vii. 21a.
page 73 note 6 Ibid., vii. 56a.
page 73 note 7 Letters and Correspondence of J. H. Newman, ed. Anne Mozley, i. 226.
page 74 note 1 Fry Collection, Large MS. Book 195.
page 74 note 2 Professor Owen Chadwick refers to Brenton, Bulteel and Newman, F. W. as being ‘on the fringe of a Strict Baptist group’, The Victorian Church, London 1966, i. 416Google Scholar. However, of the Radical Evangelicals whom we have mentioned only Philpot and Tiptaft can be labelled as Strict Baptists. Brenton, Bulteel and Newman were all for a time associated with the Plymouth Brethren although that name only became current around 1835.