Wesley Collected Works Vol 10
| Author | John Wesley |
|---|---|
| Type | treatise |
| Year | None |
| Passage ID | jw-wesley-collected-works-vol-10-478 |
| Words | 360 |
may be credited, the ‘Farrago’ is all true; part of it being
taken out of his own ‘Christian Library, in the preface of
which he tells us that the contents are ‘all true, all agreeable
to the oracles of God.” Therefore, every single word of it is
his own, either by birth or adoption.” (Farrago, p. 12.) No ;
I never adopted, I could not adopt, “every single word” of
the “Christian Library.” It was impossible I should have
such a thought, for the reasons above mentioned. But “there is very great evasion,” says Mr. H., “in
Mr. W.’s saying that though he believes “every tract to be
true, yet he will not be answerable for “every sentence
or expression in the Christian Library;” whereas the matter
by no means rests upon a few sentences or expressions, but
upon whole treatises, which are diametrically opposite to
Mr. W.’s present tenets; particularly the treatises of Dr. Sibbs, Dr. Preston, Bishop Beveridge, and Dr. Owen on
indwelling sin.” (Page 16.)
13. Just before, Mr. H. affirmed, “Every single word in
the ‘Christian Library’ is his own.” Beaten out of this
hold, he retreats to another; but it is as untenable as the
former: “The matter,” he says, “does not rest on a few
sentences; whole treatises are diametrically opposite to his
present tenets.” He instances in the works of Dr. Sibbs,
Preston, Beveridge, and a treatise of Dr. Owen’s. I join issue with him on this point. Here I pin him down. The works of Dr. Preston and Sibbs are in the ninth and
tenth volumes of the Library; that treatise of Dr. Owen's in
the seventeenth; that of Bishop Beveridge in the forty
seventh. Take which of them you please; suppose the last,
Bishop Beveridge’s “Thoughts upon Religion.” Is this whole
treatise “ diametrically opposite to my present tenets?” The
420 REMARKS ON MR. HILL’s
“Resolutions” take up the greatest part of the book; every
sentence of which exactly agrees with my present judgment;
as do at least nine parts in ten of the preceding “Thoughts,”
on which those Resolutions are formed. Now, what could
possibly induce a person of Mr.