1562 E. Underhill in Narr. Reformation (Camd. Soc.) 159 I was also callede ‘the hoote gospellar’, jestynge and mokynge me, saynge ‘he is alle off the sprete’.

1760 D. Gordon Gen. Hist. Royal & Noble Personages I. 500 Being converted to the reformed religion, [he] became so sincere and zealous a protestant, that those of the band, who were less religious, nick-named him the hot Gospeller.

1841 E. H. Chapin Disc. Var. Subj. ix. 193 Ranters, and Hot-Gospellers, and Fifth-Monarchy men, millennium prophets and expounders of the Apocalypse.

1874 J. L. Motley Life John of Barneveld I. vii. 330 Those hot gospellers.

1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary v. v. 271 There are Hot Gospellers even among our guards.

1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. viii. 71 That terrible old Hot Gospeller who..screams undying hate of all institutions.

1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Oct. 713/1 The hot-gospeller Spooner marries the thin-lipped Harriet.

1968 Times 6 Nov. 3/4 The hot-gospeller H. H. Nininger, who preached the value and importance of meteorites.

1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 18 Mar. 34/4 It was also a city of mass politics, of prophets and hot-gospelers and popular demagogues, of bitter ethnic rivalries..of rampant anti-Semitism.