Wesley Corpus

This renewed the concern I felt some time since, when I was informed (in letters which I have still by me) of your * Thus translated by Gifford: “Again Crispinus comes!”-EDIT. Lordship's publishing this account, both at Plymouth in Devonshire, and at Truro in Cornwall, before the Clergy assembled from all parts of those counties, at the solemn season of your Lordship’s visiting your diocese. But I was not informed that your Lordship showed a deep concern for the honour of God, which you supposed to be so dreadfully violated, or a tender compassion for a Presbyter whom you believed to be rushing into everlasting destruction. 3. In order to be more fully informed, on Saturday, August 25, 1750, Mr. Trembath, of St. Ginnys, Mr. Haime, of Shaftes bury, and I, called at Mr. Morgan's, at Mitchel. The servant telling me her master was not at home, I desired to speak with her mistress, the “honest, sensible woman.” I imme diately asked, “Did I ever tell you or your husband that you would be damned if you took any money of me?” (So the story ran in the first part of the “Comparison; ” it has now undergone a very considerable alteration.) “Or did you or he ever affirm,” (another circumstance related at Truro,) “that I was rude with your maid?” She replied, vehemently, “Sir, I never said you was, or that you said any such thing. And I do not suppose my husband did. But we have been belied as well as our neighbours.” She added, “When the Bishop came down last, he sent us word that he would dine at our house; but he did not, being invited to a neighbouring gentle man's. He sent for me thither, and said, ‘Good woman, do you know these people that go up and down? Do you know Mr. Wesley? Did not he tell you, you would be damned if you took any money of him? And did not he offer rudeness to your maid?' I told him, ‘No, my Lord; he never said any such thing to me, nor to my husband that I know of He never offered any rudeness to any maid of mine.