Wesley Corpus

He speaks plain and downright: “Seeming strictness of behaviour will not justify those who forget, ‘There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; but the end thereof is the way of death.” (Page 46.) Again: “What claim can he have to genuine Christianity, whose professed experience gives God the lie? “Say I these things as a man, or saith not the law the same also ?’ It is a deadly charity that flatters men with a persuasion that they are in the way of life, whom the Scripture pronounces in a way of destruction.” Dr. E.'s charity is of another kind It is Mr. Sandi man’s charity It reminds me of the charity of an Antinomian in London; one, I mean, who was newly recovered from that delusion: “Sir,” said she, “last week I would not have been content to kill you, if I could not have damned you too.” I pray God to deliver me from such charity ! charity, cruel as the gravel But what right have I to complain of Dr. E. ? He has no obligation to me. My speaking of him everywhere as I have done, was a point of justice, not of friendship. I had only the desire, but not the power, of doing him any kindness. I could not say to him, “Nevertheless thou owest me thine own soul also.” I have it not under Dr. E.'s hand, as I have under Mr. Hervey's, “Shall I call you my father, or my friend? You have been both to me.” If those related to me by so near, so tender, ties, thus furiously rise up against me, how much more may a stranger,-one of another nation? “O Absalom, my son, my son 1’’ IN his twenty-first page, Dr. E. says, “How far Mr. Wesley’s Letter was an answer to anything material in the Preface, the reader will best judge by perusing it.” I have annexed it here, that the reader may judge, whether it is not an answer to one very material thing, namely, the charge of “concealing my sentiments,” for which Dr. E. condemns me in the keenest manner, and on which very account he makes no scruple to pronounce me “a thief and a robber.” I need only premise, that I wrote it not out of fear, (as perhaps Dr. E.