Wesley Corpus

However, “he renounces the discipline of the Church.” (Page 15.) This objection too I have answered at large, in my Letters to Dr. Church,-another kind of opponent than Mr. Rowland Hill; a gentleman, a scholar, and a Christian; and as such he both spoke and wrote. 15. “He falsely says, Almost all who were educated at Trevecka, except those that were ordained, and some of them too, disclaimed the Church, nay, and spoke of it upon all occasions with exquisite bitterness and contempt.” This is a terrible truth. If Lady Huntingdon requires it, I can procure affidavits, both concerning the time and place. 16. “He professes he stands in no need of Christ's righteousness.” (Page 23.) I never professed any such thing. The very sermon referred to, the fifth in the first volume, proves the contrary. But I flatly deny that sense of imputed righteousness which Mr. Hill contends for. 17. “He expressly maintains the merit of good works, in order to justification.” (Page 24.) Neither expressly nor implicitly. I hope Mr. Hill has not read Mr. Fletcher's Checks, nor my sermons on the subject. If he has not, he has a poor excuse for this assertion: If he has, he can have no excuse at all. 18. “He contradicts himself concerning Enoch and Elijah. See his Notés, the former edition.” (Page 28.) Wisely directed ! for Mr. Hill knew the mistake was corrected in the next edition. 19. “He is ever raising malicious accusations against the lives and doctrines of all Calvinists, whether Churchmen or Dissenters, throughout all the kingdom.” (Page 29.) Thousands of Calvinists know the contrary, both Church men and Dissenters. 20. “He exerts all his art to irritate the civil powers against all the people of God.” (Page 30.) “He says, the Dissenters revile and lightly esteem the sacred person of the King.” I answer, (1.) Are the Dissenters, are the Calvin ists, “all the people of God?” (2.) If you think they are, do all these defend the American rebels? Who affirms it? I hope not a quarter, not a tenth part, of them. (3.) Do I say, all the Dissenters revile the King? I neither say so, nor think so. Those that do, are guilty of what you impute to me. They “irritate the civil powers” against themselves. 21.