Wesley Corpus

Fri. 12.--I read over Leusden’s “ Dissertation in Defence of the Hebrew Points,” and was fully convinced, there is at least as much to be said on this as on the other side of the question. But how is it that men are so positive on both sides, while demonstration is to be had on neither? Certainly to be peremptory and dogmatical can never be so inexcusable as in a point so doubtful as this. Mon 22.--I read with the preachers this week the Glasgow “‘ Abridgment of Mr. Hutchinson’s Works ;” wherein the abridgers have expressed, with surprising exactness, not only his sense, but his very spirit: but, in truth, I cannot admire either; nay, I admire his hypethesis less and less, as I see the whole is unsupported by Scripture: very ingenious, but quite precarious. Wed. December 1.--One or two remarkable letters were put inte my hands: part of the first ran thus :--