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assumed name, to which "as I cannot get at 

 D.D. for want of cash, neither can I get at M. A. 

 for the want of learning" he added the odd 

 degree S.S., meaning "Sinner Saved." After 

 undergoing the pangs of spiritual labour along 

 with hard troubles of the flesh at Ewell and 

 Sunbury, he began to preach among his humble 

 neighbours, and kept up this ministry while 

 earning a livelihood by unloading coals at Thames 

 Ditton, so that he became notorious as the 

 converted coal-heaver. He rose to be the 

 Spurgeon of his day, with John Bunyan rather 

 for model, as far as one can judge from the 

 twenty volumes of his works, little known to 

 the "new theology" of our generation, which 

 hardly remembers him unless from a casual 

 allusion by Macaulay. He was indeed of a more 

 fanatical and fuliginous spirit than would now- 

 adays recommend a popular preacher; and his 

 picture in the National Portrait Gallery suggests 

 a coarsely strong animal nature, subdued, as it 

 might be, by religious enthusiasm. So great grew 

 his following that "Providence Chapel" was 

 built for him in London, and rebuilt in Gray's 

 Inn Lane when destroyed by fire. Though he 

 boasted of being " Beloved of God, but abhorred 



