Wesley Corpus

And the worst is, he flatly affirms, “None can go to heaven, who believes three persons in the Godhead: ” Which is more than the most violent Arian or Socinian ever affirmed before. Add to this, that his ideas of heaven are low, grovelling, just suiting a Mahometan paradise; and his account of it has a natural tendency to sink our conceptions, both of the glory of heaven, and of the inhabitants of it; whom he describes as far inferior both in holiness and happiness to Gregory Lopez, or Monsieur De Renty. And his account of hell leaves nothing terrible in it; for, first, he quenches the unquenchable fire. 150 REv. J. wesley’s [April, 1779. He assures us there is no fire there; only he allows that the governor of it, the devil, sometimes orders the spirits that behave ill, to be “laid on a bed of hot ashes.” And, secondly, he informs you, that all the damned enjoy their favourite pleasures. He that delights in filth is to have his filth; yea, and his harlot too ! Now, how dreadful a tendency must this have in such an age and nation as this ' I wish those pious men, Mr. Clowes and Clotworthy, would calmly consider these things, before they usher into the world any more of this madman's dreams. Mon. 26.--I preached at Huddersfield, where there is a great revival of the work of God. Many have found peace with God: Sometimes sixteen, eighteen, yea, twenty in one day. So that the deadly wound they suffered, when their Predestinarian brethren left them, is now fully healed; and they are not only more lively, but more in number, than ever they were before. Tues. 27.--I saw a melancholy sight indeed! One that ten years ago was clearly perfected in love; but was worried by Mr. , day and night, threaping him down he was in a delusion, that at length it drove him stark mad. And so he continues to this day. Observe it was not Perfection drove this man mad, but the incessant teasing him with doubtful disputations. Wed. 28.-I had promised to preach at six in the morning, to the poor prisoners at Whiteley. Though the ground was covered with snow, so many people flocked together, that I was constrained to preach in the court of the prison.