Wesley Corpus

For there is nothing in the creature, but thou may est find in me.’ ‘I am all-sufficient; therefore, walk before me, and be thou perfect!’” (Christian Library, Vol. X., page 47.) Here are exactly twenty lines, neither more nor less, “as they stand in the ‘Christian Library.’” Now, fulfil your engagement; prove that I “have twenty times contra dicted them in some other of my publications.” If you cannot, acknowledge you have done me wrong. In the heat of your resentment, you have undertaken what you are not able to perform; you have spoken rashly and unadvisedly; you have gone much too far, far beyond the bounds of wisdom as well as of love. 16. Nay, but “I will go one step farther yet: I defy Mr. Wesley to bring me twenty lines out of the above tracts, by Preston, Sibbs, Owen, and Beveridge, which he now believes.” Is it possible, that Mr. Hill should believe himself, while he is talking at this rate? Or does he expect that any one else should believe him, unless he be drunk with passion or prejudice? Was ever anything so wild? But I accept of this challenge, and that with more seriousness than it deserves. I will go no farther than the twenty lines cited above: All these I “now believe.” And I believe, as I said before, not only the whole treatise from which those words are taken, but the tenor of the whole “Christian Library.” Meantime, it has been acknowledged again and again, 422 REMARKs on MR. Hill's that several sentences stand therein which I had put out, in my usual manner, by drawing my pen through them. Be it observed, therefore, once more, that those passages prove nothing but the carelessness of the correctors; consequently, all the pains bestowed to collect them together, whether by Mr. Hill or his coadjutors, is absolutely lost labour, and never can prove that I contradict myself. 17. The case is nearly the same with regard to those other tracts which I published many years ago,-Mr. Baxter's Aphorisms on Justification, and John Goodwin’s tract on the same subject. I have lately read them both over with all the attention I am capable of; and I still believe they contain the true Scripture doctrine concerning justification by faith: But it does not follow, that I am accountable for every sentence contained in either of those treatises.