Wesley Corpus

John; ” (polite ) “and probably in a much better manner. Erase half a dozen lines, and I defy any one to discover whether the lying apostle of the Foundery be a Jew, a Papist, a Pagan, or a Turk.” (Page 4.) “Else I should have treated his trumpery with the silence and contempt it deserves. But to see Mr. Whitefield scratched out of his grave by the claws of this designing wolf.” (there is a metaphor for you!) “is enough to make the very stones cry out, or (which would be a greater miracle still) redden even a Wesley's forehead with a blush.” (Page 5.) I think it would be a greater miracle still to make a wolf blush. “The dictatorial Mr. John lyingly maintains argument enough for the gaping dupes whom he leads by the nose.” (Page 6.) “He and his lay lubbers go forth to poison the minds of men.” (Page 11.) Are not then the lay lubbers and the gaping dupes just fit for each other? But who are these lay lubbers? They are “Wesley's ragged legion of preaching tinkers, scavengers, draymen, and chimney-sweepers.” (Page 21.) 3. “No man would do this, unless he were as unprincipled as a rook, and as silly as a jackdaw.” y“His own people say, ‘He is a very poor preacher;’ and that most of his laymen, raw and ignorant as they are, preach much more to the purpose. Indeed, the old gentleman has lost his teeth. But should he not then cease mumbling with his gums?” (Page 25.) “Why do they not keep the shatter-brained old gentleman locked up in a garret?” (Page 36) 4. “I doubt not but for profit' sake he would profess himself a stanch Calvinist.” (Page 16.) “The Rev. Mr. John, Mr. Whitefield’s quondam under strapper.” (Ibid.) How sadly then did he mistake, when he so often subscribed himself, “Your dutiful, your obliged and affectionate, son l’’ 454 ANswer. To MR. RowLAND HILL's IMPosTURE, &c. “Mark the venom that now distils from his graceless pen.” “The venomous quill of this gray-headed enemy to all righteousness.” (Pages 17, 19.) 5.