Wesley Corpus

Whitefield's. If you forbid your students to preach for the one, and offer them to preach for the other; and if a Master is discarded for believing that Christ died for all; then prejudice reigns, charity is cruelly wounded, and party-spirit shouts, prevails, triumphs.” 15. “Two days after,” continues Mr. Benson, “he writes, ‘I am determined to stand or fall with the liberty of the College. As I entered it a free place, I must quit it the moment it is an harbour for party-spirit.” “This he was soon constrained to do, as appears from the following letter, wrote about two months after -- “‘ON my arrival at the College, I found all very quiet, I LIFE OF MIR, FLETCn Elt. 299 fear through the enemy’s keeping his goods in peace. While I preached the next day I found myself as much shackled as ever I was in my life. And after private prayer, I concluded I was not in my place. The same day, I resigned my office to my Lady, and on Wednesday, to the students and the Lord. “‘Mr. Shirley has sent my Lady a copy of part of the Minutes of the last Conference, viz., of the year 1770. They were called horrible and abominable. My Lady told me, she must burn against them ; and that whoever did not fully dis avow them must quit the College. She accordingly ordered the Master and all the students to write their sentiments upon them without reserve. I did so; explained them according to Mr. Wesley’s sentiments; and approved the doctrine, though not cautiously worded. I concluded by observing, that as, after such a step on my part, and such a declaration on my Lady’s, I could no longer, as an honest man, stay in the College, I took my leave of it; wishing my Lady might find a Minister to preside over it less insufficient than 16. “These were his reasons for resigning his charge at Trevecka. As the Circular Letter now went abroad, under the name of Mr. Shirley, inviting the Clergy of all denomina tions to assemble in a body at Bristol to oppose you and the Preachers met in Conference, and oblige you to revoke the dreadful heresies contained in those Minutes; and as Mr.