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By way of encouraging others to keep themselves thus in touch with God, Fletchcr formed what he called a Religious Society, into whose fellowship he brought all he could whom he found desirous of living the life of full salvation which he everywhere advocated. He laid before them a set of home-questions which he urged upon them as a useful form of self-examination.
Five years had passed since Fletchcr entered Madeley as its Vicar, and with the result of his labours he was anything but satisfied. Of the fifth year he wrote: "This last year has been the worst I have had here barren in convictions, fruitful in backslidings." "The coming of Mr. Wesley's preachers into my parish gives me no uneasiness.
At one or two and twenty, he had read and formed opinions on Shakespeare, on Beaumont and Fletchcr, on Massinger, Milton, Cowley, Isaac Walton, Burns, Collins, and others; some of these, be it observed, lying much out of the ordinary course of a young man's reading.
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