Wesley Corpus

O, for a plain reason,-to make it look like two instances of enthusiasm, otherwise it could have made but one at the most. But you cannot make out one, till you have proved that these directions were by immediate revelation. I never affirmed they were. I now affirm they were not. Now, Sir, make your best of them. You add, “Let me mention a few directions coming by way of command: Mr. Wesley says, “I came to Mr. Dela motte's, where I expected a cool reception; but God had pre BISHOP LAVINGTON. l I pared the way before me.’” (Page 69.) What, by a com mand to Mr. Delamotte P Who told you so P Not I, nor any one else, only your own fruitful imagination. 27. Your next discovery is more curious still: That “itinerants order what they want at a public-house, and then tell the landlord that he will be damned if he takes anything of them.” (Page 69.) I was beating my brain to find out what itinerant this should be; as I could not but imagine, some silly man or other, probably styling himself a Methodist, must somewhere or other have given some ground for a story so punctually delivered. In the midst of this, a letter from Cornwall informed me, it was I: I myself was the very man, and ac quainted me with the place, and the person to whom I said it. But as there are some particulars in that letter (sent without a name) which I did not well understand, I transcribe a few words of it, in hopes that the author will give me fuller information : “As to the Bishop's declaring what the landlord of Mitchel says, in respect to your behaviour, I do not at all wonder at the story.” The Bishop's declaring ! Whom can he mean? Surely not the Right Reverend Dr. George Lavington, Lord Bishop of Exeter ! When, or to whom, did he declare it? at Truro in Cornwall? or in Plymouth, at his Visitation ? to all the Clergy who were assembled before God to receive his pastoral instructions? His Lordship of Exeter must cer tainly have more regard to the dignity of the episcopal office! 28.