Views
Having adopted some of the views of John Hutchinson, Horne wrote in his defence. However, he disagreed with Hutchinson's fanciful interpretations of Hebrew etymology.
Horne fell under the imputation of Methodism, but was a high churchman; and he protested from the university pulpit against those who took their theology from George Whitefield and John Wesley rather than major Anglican divines. Nevertheless, he disapproved of the expulsion by John Hingson of six Methodist students from St Edmund Hall, Oxford, a high profile event of 1768 in Oxford; and he thought that Wesley should not be forbidden to preach in his diocese.
Horne was an active promoter of the Naval and Military Bible Society, founded in 1780. He supported the cause of the bishops of the Episcopalian Church of Scotland who in 1789 came up to London to petition parliament for relief from their legal disadvantages.
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