[3] His unusual, polemical style of preaching and writing made him popular but brought conflicts with other preachers throughout his life.

[4] Later that year, he married Mary Short, a servant, they moved to Mortlake in Surrey and Huntington resumed his gardening work.

[6] He was the son of a farmworker and he undertook work that was unskilled or semi-skilled, such as driving hearses and coaches, gardening and heaving coal.

The vision, which appeared as a bright light from which Christ's bloodied body emerged, told him that he was brought under the covenant love of God's elect.

[4] He became dissatisfied with his existing religious beliefs, and began to associate with Baptists, Methodists and Calvinists in various Surrey and Middlesex towns.

[9] His ongoing poverty, exacerbated by the loss of his coalheaving job, forced him to walk long distances every week.

He controversially claimed that Divine Providence alleviated his poverty at this time by occasionally supplying money, food and a horse.

[4] In 1782, he received another message – prophesy upon the thick boughs – and moved to London,[7] where he established a chapel on Titchfield Street.

"A real Antinomian, in the sight of God, is one who 'holds the truth in unrighteousness', who has gospel notions in his head, but no grace in his heart.

With him carnal ease passes for gospel peace, a natural assent of the mind for faith, insensibility for liberty, and daring presumption for the grace of assurance.

He is an enemy to the power of God, to the experience of the just, and to every minister of the Spirit, and is in union with none but hypocrites, whose uniting ties are 'the gall of bitterness and the bonds of iniquity'.

And this is a real Antinomian in the sight of God.”[13] During his time in London, Huntington's reputation grew, and he opened chapels elsewhere.

[4] Huntington and his wife lived in the Paddington area of London at first, but as their wealth grew they were able to move to a large villa in nearby Cricklewood.

[16] The inscription, which he composed only a few days before he died,[16] reads "Here lies the coalheaver who departed his life July 1st 1813 in the 69th year of his age, beloved of his God but abhorred of men.

The omniscient Judge at the grand assize shall ratify and confirm this to the confusion of many thousands, for England and its metropolis will know that there has been a prophet amongst them.