Wesley Corpus

addresses directly to me:-- (1.) “Did not you, in administering the sacrament, a few years ago, to a perfect society in West-Street chapel, leave out the Confession ?” Yes, and many times since. When I am straitened for time, (as I generally am there on a Monday,) I begin the Communion-service at, “We do not presume to come to this thy table.” One Monday, Mr. Madan desired to stay. Here, I suppose, is “the fountain-head of this intelligence.” (2.) “Did not one of the enthusiasts then say, he had heard a voice telling him, he was all holiness to the Lord?” Possibly so; but I remember nothing of it. (3.) “Did not a second declare the same thing?” Not that I remember. (4) “Did not George Bell say, he should never die?” He often did, if not then. (5) “Did not one present confirm it?” Not unlikely ; but I do not remember it. (6.) “Did not another perfect brother say, he believed the millennium was near; for there had been more Constables sworn in that year than heretofore?” Are you sure he was a perfect brother; that is, one that professed so to be As for me, I can say nothing about it; for I neither remember the man nor the words. “This I have put down verbatim from the mouth of a judicious friend then present; but from that time he has been heartily sick of sinless perfection.” Say of “perfect love.” Is it only from that time that Mr. Madan has been sick of it? Was he not sick of it before? And did he then, or at any time since, say one word to me of any of these things? No; but he treasured them up for ten years; and then tells Mr. Hill, that he might tell them to all the world. (7) “Do not you know a Clergvman, once closely connected with you, who refused a great witness for perfection the sacrament, because he had been detected in bed with a perfect sister?” No; I never heard of it before. Surely Mr. M d is not fallen so low, as to invent such a tale as this ! I need not say anything to your last anecdote, since you (for once 1) put a candid construction upon my words.