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3. Is not the very essence of Quietism (though in a new shape) contained in these words ‘--* The whole matter lies in this, that we should suffer ourselves to be relieved.” (Sixteen Discourses, p. 17.) “One must do nothing, but quietly attend the voice of the Lord.” (Ibid. p. 29.) “ T’o tell men who have not experienced the power of grace, what they he 228 REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. [Sept. 1741 should do,-and how they ought to behave, is as if you should send a lame man upon an errand.” (Ibid. p.'70.) “The beginning is not to be made with doing what our Saviour has commanded. For whosoever will begin with doing, when he is dead, he can do nothing at all ; but whatever he doeth in his own activity, is but a cobweb; that is, good for nothing.” (Ibid. p. 72, 81.) ‘As soon as we remain passive before him as the wood which a table is to be made from, then something comes of us.” (Seven Discourses, p. 22.) O my brethren, let me conjure you yet again, in the name of our common Lord, “if there be any consolation of love, if any bowels and mercies,” remove “the fly” out of “the pot of ointment ;” separate “the precious from the vile!” Review, I beseech you, your whole work, and see if Satan hath gained no advantage over you. “ Very excellent things” have been “ spoken of thee, O thou city of God.” But may not “ He which hath the sharp:sword with two edges” say, Yet “I have a few things against thee?” O that ye would repent of these, that ye might be ‘a glorious Church ; not having spot, or ats or any such thing.”