Wesley Corpus

My enemies have accused me of both, and of everything besides.” (Remarks, p. 402.) Is this “denying that ever I was accused of incon sistency either by friends or foes.” * This quotation from Horace is thus translated by Boscawen : “Not half so justly match'd engage Bithus and Bacchius on the stage.”-EDIT. + Two thunderbolts of war.-EDIT. 4.38 REMARKs on MR. HILL’s I do still deny, that Mr. Delamotte spoke to me “of my wavering, unsettled disposition.” (Farrago, p. 43.) But “he spoke to you,” says Mr. Hill, “of something else.” It is very likely he might. 40. Mr. W. is equally self-inconsistent “with regard to the Mystics. These, he tells us, he had once in great vene ration,” (I had, two or three and forty years ago) “as the best explainers of the gospel of Christ. Yet afterwards he declares, he looks upon them as one great Antichrist.” (Page 14.) I did look upon them as such thirty years ago. But in my “Remarks” I say, “I retract this. It is far too strong. But observe, I never contradicted it till now.” But how does this agree with Mr. W.'s saying, “I never was in the way of Mysticism at all?” Perfectly well: I admired the Mystic writers. But I never was in their way; leaving off the outward means. “But why did Mr. W. let the expression stand, ‘Solomon is the chief of the Mystics?’” Perhaps because I thought it an harmless one, and capable of a good meaning. But I Dbserve again: Mr. H. takes it for granted, that I have the Xorrection of Mr. Fletcher’s books. This is a mistake: Of some I have; of others I have not. 41. Now comes the capital instance of self-inconsistency: “In 1770, Mr. W. esteems the Minutes the standard of orthodoxy. In 1771, he signs a paper, owning them to be unguarded. In 1772, he tells us, he does not know but it would have been better, not to have signed that paper at all !” (Page 13.) Suppose all this true, what will it prove? Only that I made a concession which was made an ill use of. But “Mr. F.’s defence makes poor Mr. W. appear more and more inconsistent. Mr. W. declares the Minutes to be unguarded:” (That is, “not enough guarded” against cavil lers:) “Mr. F.