Wesley Corpus

For he absolutely denies, not only that he ever was unsettled in his principles, but that he was ever accused of being so, either by friends or foes.” (Pages 39, 40.) Either by friends or foes / I will rest the whole cause upon this. If this be true, I am out of my wits. If it be false, what is Mr. Hill? An honest, upright, sensible man; but a little too warm, and therefore not seeing so clearly in this as in other things. My words are: “My friends have oftener accused me of being too stiff in my opinions, than too flexible. My enemies have accused me of both, and of everything besides.” (Remarks, p. 402.) Is this “denying that ever I was accused of incon sistency either by friends or foes.” * This quotation from Horace is thus translated by Boscawen : “Not half so justly match'd engage Bithus and Bacchius on the stage.”-EDIT. + Two thunderbolts of war.-EDIT. 4.38 REMARKs on MR. HILL’s I do still deny, that Mr. Delamotte spoke to me “of my wavering, unsettled disposition.” (Farrago, p. 43.) But “he spoke to you,” says Mr. Hill, “of something else.” It is very likely he might. 40. Mr. W. is equally self-inconsistent “with regard to the Mystics. These, he tells us, he had once in great vene ration,” (I had, two or three and forty years ago) “as the best explainers of the gospel of Christ. Yet afterwards he declares, he looks upon them as one great Antichrist.” (Page 14.) I did look upon them as such thirty years ago. But in my “Remarks” I say, “I retract this. It is far too strong. But observe, I never contradicted it till now.” But how does this agree with Mr. W.'s saying, “I never was in the way of Mysticism at all?” Perfectly well: I admired the Mystic writers. But I never was in their way; leaving off the outward means. “But why did Mr. W. let the expression stand, ‘Solomon is the chief of the Mystics?’” Perhaps because I thought it an harmless one, and capable of a good meaning. But I Dbserve again: Mr. H. takes it for granted, that I have the Xorrection of Mr. Fletcher’s books. This is a mistake: Of some I have; of others I have not. 41. Now comes the capital instance of self-inconsistency: “In 1770, Mr. W.