Wesley Corpus

Mr. Le Hunte [William Le Hunte: matriculated, Christ Church, 1710, age 17; Proctor 1724, Vicar of Kidderminster I729, Rector of Oxhill 1731. He contributed a set of verses to the Carmina Quadragesimalia, or Lent Verses, vol. i. 1723, p. 79 (Wordsworth, University Life, pp. 309, 312).] and Mr. Sherman send their service.--I am Your loving Brother. I believe I could put off two or three more receipts if I had them. Pray my love to my brother and sister. On Friday St. Peter's Church in the Baily was beaten down by the fall of the steeple. Saturday morning a chandler here murdered two men and wounded a third; in the evening a fire broke out at the Mitre, but was stopped in a few hours. To his Brother Samuel LINCOLN COLLEGE, December 5, 1726, DEAR BROTHER,--I return you thanks for your favorable judgment on my sermon, and for the alterations you direct me to make in it; yet, in order to be still better informed, I take the liberty to make some objections to some of them, in one or two of which I believe you misunderstood me. I. The reasons why I conceive the Samaritans to have been idolaters are, first, because our Savior says of them, ' Ye worship ye know not what '; which seems to refer plainly to the object of their worship: and, secondly, because the old inhabitants of Samaria, who succeeded the Israelites, were undoubtedly so; and I never heard that they were much amended in after-times, -- ‘These nations feared the Lord, and served their graven images, both their children and their children's children' (2 Kings xvii. 41). II. Were the Jews obliged to love wicked men And is not our commandment extended to some cases to which theirs did not reach to the excluding some instances of revenge, which were indulged to them