Wesley Corpus

must observe, that the doctrine contained therein is not only quite unproved, quite precarious from beginning to end, as depending entirely on the assertion of a single brain-sick man ; but that, inmany instances, it is contradictory to Scripture, to reason, and to itself. But, over and above this, it contains many sentiments that are essentially and dangerously wrong. Such is that concerning the Trinity ; for he roundly affirms God to be only one person, who was crucified : So that he revives and openly asserts the long-exploded heresy of the Sabellians and Patripassians ; yea, and that of the Anthropo- morphites ; affirming that God constantly appears in heaven in the form of a man. 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. He assures us there is no fire there ; only he allows that the gover- nor of it, the devil, sometimes orders the spirits that behave ill, to [April, 1779. 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 tendencymust this have in such an age and nation as this ! I wish those pious men, Mr. Clowes and Clotworthy, would calmlyconsider 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 ofGod. Manyhave found peacewithGod: 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