Wesley Corpus

“The dictatorial Mr. John lyingly maintains argument enough for the gaping dupes whom he leads by the nose.” (Page 6.) “He and his lay lubbers go forth to poison the minds of men.” (Page 11.) Are not then the lay lubbers and the gaping dupes just fit for each other? But who are these lay lubbers? They are “Wesley's ragged legion of preaching tinkers, scavengers, draymen, and chimney-sweepers.” (Page 21.) 3. “No man would do this, unless he were as unprincipled as a rook, and as silly as a jackdaw.” y“His own people say, ‘He is a very poor preacher;’ and that most of his laymen, raw and ignorant as they are, preach much more to the purpose. Indeed, the old gentleman has lost his teeth. But should he not then cease mumbling with his gums?” (Page 25.) “Why do they not keep the shatter-brained old gentleman locked up in a garret?” (Page 36) 4. “I doubt not but for profit' sake he would profess himself a stanch Calvinist.” (Page 16.) “The Rev. Mr. John, Mr. Whitefield’s quondam under strapper.” (Ibid.) How sadly then did he mistake, when he so often subscribed himself, “Your dutiful, your obliged and affectionate, son l’’ “Mark the venom that now distils from his graceless pen.” “The venomous quill of this gray-headed enemy to all righteousness.” (Pages 17, 19.) 5. “The wretch thought himself safe, but the crafty slanderer is taken in his own net.” (Page 20.) “This truly Socinian, truly heathen, truly infernal, passage is found in that heretic's sermon.” (Page 23.) “The most rancorous pretences that ever actuated the prostituted pen of a venal profligate.” (Page 30.) “With him devils and Dissenters are terms synonymous. If so, what a devil must he bel” (Ibid.) “The sole merit of the disappointed Orlando Furioso.” (how pretty and quaint that is !) “is, seeking to enkindle a flame of ecclesiastical and civil discord:” (No; to put it out; which, I bless God, is done already, to a great degree:) “And his sole perfection consists in perfect hatred of all goodness and all good men.” (Page 31.) Now, let all the world judge between Mr. Hill and me. I do not say all the religious world; but all that have the smallest portion of common sense and common humanity.