Wesley Corpus

Thur. 22.--I read the curious * Journal of Mr. S .” President of the Council in Georgia ; full as trifling and dull, and about as true, as that of Mr. Adams, President of the Prophets. Wed. 27.--I finished the following letter to an old friend, whose spirit and life once adorned the Gospel :-- Cookham, JNov. 27, 1750. “ Dear Sir,--Several times I have designed to speak to you at large, concerning some things which have given me uneasiness: and more than once I have begun to speak, but your good, humour quite disarmed me; so that I could not prevail upon myself to give you pain, even to remove a greater evil. But I cannot delay any longer, and therefore take this way (as less liable to disappointment) of laying before you, with all free dom and unreset ve, the naked sentiments of iny heart. You seem to pie A % iL ’ ~ a's 502 REV. J. WESLEY’S JOURNAL. [Nov. 1750 admire the Moravians much. I love them, but cannot admire them; (although I did once, perhaps more than you do now;) and that for the following reasons :-- “First. I do not admire the names they assume to themselves. They commonly style themselves, ‘The Brethren,’ or, ‘The Moravian Church." Now, the former of these, ‘The Brethren,’ either implies, that they are the only Christians in the world, (as they were who were so styled in the days of the Apostles,) or at least, that they are the best Christians in the world, and therefore deserve to be emphatically so called. But is not even this a very high encomium upon themselves? I should therefore more admire a more modest appellation.