Wesley Corpus

“¢6, Mr. W. is partial throughout his Journal.’ I want to know the particular instances. ‘In what he mentions of me, he does not represent our conversation rightly.’ Then it is the fault of my memory. But be so kind as to point out the particulars that are not rightly represented. ‘ He has done the cause of our Saviour more mischief, than any one else could have done.’ Tell me how? unless you mean the Antinomian cause, by the cause of our Saviour. ‘I have several times gone to Mr. W. to explain. matters, and to desire him to be reconciled.’ Several times! When, and where? You surprise me much! Either my memory or yours fails strangely. ‘In truth, it is he that has stood out.’ Alas, my brother! What an assertion is this? Did not I come three years ago (before that Journal was published) in all haste, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and my brother, in five days, from the Land’s End, to a supposed conference in London? Was this standing out? But with what effect? Why, Mr. Spangenberg had just left London. None besides had any power to confer with us. And to cut us off from any such expectation, James Hutton said, they had orders, not to confer at all, unless the archbishop of Canterbury, or the bishop of London, were present. “ There cannot be under heaven a greater mistake, than this, that I ever did stand out, or that I do so now. There has not been one day for these seven years last past, wherein my soul has, not longed for union. And they have grossly abused your honest credulity, whoever have made you believe the contrary. «<7, Since Mr. Wesleys have published such stuff and inconsistencies, { cannot agree with them.’ My brother, make some of those inconsistencies appear, and it will be an act of solid friendship. But, ‘time will manifest matters, and what is of God will stand, and what is of man will come to nought.’ Most true; and according to this sure rule, it has already appeared, whose work i is of God; both at Bradford, at Horton, and in severa! towns not far from your own ‘neighbourhood. “8. The account you give of the Moravians in general, is the very same I had given before; viz. That next to those of our own Church, ‘who