Wesley Corpus

Hill “is unworthy the name either of the gentleman or the Christian; and is amazed that Mr. Hill should lay claim to either of those titles.” (Page 6.) Not so. It is my belief that Mr. Hill is both a gentleman and a Christian; though I still think, in his treatment of Mr. Fletcher and me, he has acted beneath his character. Yet it is very likely, “a friend of yours” (not mine) “might say, I wrote in much wrath.” (Page 7.) I wrote then in just as much wrath as I do now; though your friend might think otherwise. 6. Nay, but Mr. W. “gives all the Calvinist Ministers the most scurrilous, Billingsgate language, while he is trumpeting forth his own praises, in Mr. F.’s ‘Second Check to Antinomianism.’” (Page 8.) - A small mistake. I do not give Billingsgate language to any one: I have not so learned Christ. Every one of those Hymns, out of which Mr. Hill culls the harshest expressions, are not mine, but my brother’s. Neither do I trumpet forth my own praises. Mr. Hill's imagining I do, arises from an innocent mistake. He con tinually takes for granted that I read over and correct all Mr. F.’s books before they go to the press. So far from it, that the “Fourth Check to Antinomianism” I have not read over to this day. But Mr. W. “thinks himself to be the greatest Minister in the world.” Exceedingly far from it. I know many now in England, at whose feet I desire to be found in the day of the Lord Jesus. 7. To that question, “Why does a man fall upon me, because another gave him a good beating?” Mr. Hill answers, “If your trumpet had not given the alarm, we should not have prepared ourselves for the battle.” (Page 53.) Nay, truly, not mine, but Mr. Shirley’s. I was sitting quietly in my study, on the other side of St. George's channel, when his trumpet gave the alarm. Yet I say again, I am not now sorry for these disputes, though I was sorry. You say, truly, “Mr. W.’s temper has been manifested” hereby. (Page 56.) Let all candid men judge between us, whether Mr. F. and I, on the one hand, or Mr.