Wesley Corpus

Some Remarks on Mr. Hill's Review Source: The Works of John Wesley, Volume 10 (Zondervan) Author: John Wesley --- 1. M.R. HILL has an immense advantage over me: He abounds in time, and I in business. I cannot therefore undertake to write page for page; I have not leisure, if I had inclination. And indeed it is not needful: For a full con futation of whatsoever is cited from the Eleven Letters commonly ascribed to Mr. Hervey, I need only refer to Mr. Sellon; who has not only answered every shadow of an argu ment contained in that poor piece of low invective, but even the reproaches; which indeed he could not pass over, without passing over great part of the book. If Mr. H. is afraid to read that answer, I am sorry for it. And for whatever he advances on particular redemption, or any of the points connected therewith, I refer everyone who is not afraid of the light, to those three tracts of Mr. Sellon,--“The Arguments against General Redemption answered,” “God’s Sovereignty vindicated against Elisha Coles,” and “The Church of England vindicated from the Charge of Calvinism.” I believe, if Mr. Hill had given this last a fair reading, he would know the Seventeenth Article is nothing to his purpose. 2. With regard to his objections to Mr. Fletcher, I refer all candid men to his own writings; his Letters, entitled, “A First, Second, and Third Check to Antinomianism;” the rather, because there are very few of his arguments which Mr. H. even attempts to answer. It is true, he promises “a full and particular answer to Mr. F.'s ‘Second Check to Antinomianism.’” But it will puzzle anyone to find where that answer is, except in the title-page. And if anything more is needful to be done, Mr. F. is still able to answer for himself. But if he does, I would recommend to his consideration the advice formerly given by a wise man to his friend: “See that you humble not yourself to that man; it would hurt both him and the cause of God.” It is pity but he had considered it sooner, and he might have escaped some keen reflections. But he did not; he imagined, when he spoke or wrote in the simplicity of his heart, that his opponents would have received his words in the same spirit wherein they were spoken.