Wesley Corpus

13. “The following is an exact copy of all that is material in a letter he wrote to me, in consequence of my dismission from the office I had been in : “‘DEAR SIR, June 7, 1771. “‘THE same post brought me yours, and two from my Lady, and one from Mr. Williams, the new Master. Those contained no charges but general ones, which with me go for nothing. If the procedure you mention is fact, and your letter is a fair account of the transaction and words relative to your discharge, a false step has been taken. I write this post to her Ladyship on the affair, with all possible plainness. If the plan of the College is overthrown, I have nothing more to say to it. I will keep to my text, for one. I trust I shall ever be a servant of all: The confined tool of any one party I never was, and never will be. If the blow that should have been struck at the dead spirit, is struck (contrary to the granted liberty of sentiment) at dead Arminius, or absent Mr. Wesley; if a Master is turned away without any fault; it is time for me to stand up with firmness, or to withdraw.” 14. “The following paragraphs are transcribed from Mr. Fletcher's letter to my Lady : “‘Mr. Benson made a very just defence when he said, he did hold with me the possibility of salvation for all men. If this is what you call Mr. Wesley’s opinion and Arminianism, and if every Arminian must quit the College, I am actually discharged. For in my present view of things, I must hold that sentiment, if I believe that the Bible is true, and that God is love. “‘For my part, I am no party-man. In the Lord I am your servant, and that of your every student. But I cannot give up the honour of being connected with my old friends, who, notwithstanding their failings, are entitled to my respect, gratitude, and affection. Mr. Wesley shall always be welcome to my pulpit, and I shall gladly bear my testimony in his as well as Mr. Whitefield's.