Wesley Corpus

20. “He exerts all his art to irritate the civil powers against all the people of God.” (Page 30.) “He says, the Dissenters revile and lightly esteem the sacred person of the King.” I answer, (1.) Are the Dissenters, are the Calvin ists, “all the people of God?” (2.) If you think they are, do all these defend the American rebels? Who affirms it? I hope not a quarter, not a tenth part, of them. (3.) Do I say, all the Dissenters revile the King? I neither say so, nor think so. Those that do, are guilty of what you impute to me. They “irritate the civil powers” against themselves. 21. “He says he will no more continue in fellowship with Calvinists than with thieves, drunkards, or common swearers.” No; I say I will have no fellowship with those who rail at their governors, (be they Calvinists or Arminians,) who speak all manner of evil of them in private, if not in public too. “Such is the character he gives of the Calvinistic Method ists.” (Page 31.) I do not; no more than of the Arminians. But I know there have been such among them: If they are 452 ANswer. To MR. RowLAND HILL’s wiser now, I am glad. In the mean time let him wear the cap whom it fits, be it Mr. Wilkes or Mr. Hill himself. 22. “This apostate miscreant” (civil!) “invites the King and his ministers to fall upon”--whom ? those who “rail at their governors, who speak all manner of evil of them, in private, if not in public too.” I am glad they cry out, though before they are hurt; and I hope they will cease to speak evil of dignities, before those who bear not the sword in vain fall upon them, not for their opinion, but their evil practices. 23. “He says, Calvinists and all Dissenters are rebels.” (Page 32.) I never said or thought so. “But a few years ago, he himself thought the Americans were in the right.” I did; for then I thought that they sought nothing but legal liberty: But as soon as I was convinced they sought independency, I knew they were in the wrong. Mr. Evans's low and scurrilous tracts have been confuted over and over. 24.