Wesley Corpus

For gay apparel. 68. “To make it a point of conscience to differ from others (as the Quakers do) in the shape or colour of their apparel, is mere superstition.” Against gay apparel. “Let a single intention to please God prescribe both what clothing you should buy, and the manner wherein it shall be made.” (Ibid.) This I stand to. So I advise; but I do not “Wear nothi g of a glaring “make it a point of con colour, or made in the very science.” So here is no height of the fashion.” contradiction still. Against tea. For tea. 69. “Mr. W. published a I did set them an example tract against drinking tea, and told the tea-drinkers, he for twelve years. Then, at the close of a consumption, would set them an example in by Dr. Fothergill's direction, that piece of self-denial.” I used it again. But must not a man be sadly in want of argument who stoops so low as this? For baptism by sprinkling. 70. “As there is no clear proof of dipping in Scripture, so there is very probable proof to the contrary.” 71. “Christ nowhere, as far as I can find, requires dipping, but only baptizing; which word signifies to pour on, or sprinkle, as well as to dip.” Against baptism by sprink ling. “When Mr. W. baptized Mrs. L. S., he held her so long under water, that her friends screamed out, thinking she had been drowned.” When ? Where ? I never heard of it before. “Why then did you at Sa vannah baptize all children by immersion, unless the parents certified they were weak?” Not because I had any scruple, but in obedience to the Rubric. So here is no self-inconsistency. Mr. W. never adopted Mr. Mr. W. highly approved of Law’s scheme. Mr. Law. These propositions are not contradictory. I might highly approve of him, and yet not adopt his scheme. How will Mr. H. prove that I did? or that I contradict myself on this head? Why thus:-- 72. “I had been eight years at Oxford before I read any of Mr. Law’s writings. And when I did, I was so far from making them my creed, that I had objections to almost every page.” (Page 135.) True; but neither does this prove that I adopted his scheme.