Wesley Collected Works Vol 9
| Author | John Wesley |
|---|---|
| Type | treatise |
| Year | None |
| Passage ID | jw-wesley-collected-works-vol-9-072 |
| Words | 375 |
He never offered any rudeness to any maid of mine. I never
saw or knew any harm of him: But a man told me once, (who
I was told was a Methodist Preacher,) that I should be damned
if I did not know my sins were forgiven.’”
Your Lordship replies, “I neither sent word that I would
dine at their house, nor did I send for Mrs. Morgan; every
word that passed between us was at her own house at Mitchel.”
(Page 7.) I believe it; and consequently, that the want of
exactness in this point rests on Mrs. Morgan, not on your
Lordship. Your Lordship adds, “The following attestations will suffi
ciently clear me from any imputation, or even suspicion, of
having published a falsehood.” I apprehend otherwise; to
wave what is past, if the facts now published by your Lordship,
or any part of them, be not true, then certainly your Lordship
will lie under more than a “suspicion of having published a
falsehood.”
The attestations your Lordship produces are, First, those
of your Lordship's Chancellor and Archdeacon: Secondly,
those of Mr. Bennet. The former attests, that in June or July, 1748, Mrs. Mor
gan did say those things to your Lordship. (Page 8.) I believe
she did, and therefore acquit your Lordship of being the in
ventor of those falsehoods. Mr. Bennet avers, that, in January last, Mrs. Morgan re
peated to him what she had before said to your Lordship. (Page 11.) Probably she might; having said those things
once, I do not wonder if she said them again. Nevertheless, before Mr. Trembath and Mr. Haime she
denied every word of it. To get over this difficulty, your Lordship publishes a
Second Letter from Mr. Bennet, wherein he says, “On
March 4th, last, Mrs. Morgan said, ‘I was told by my ser
vant, that I was wanted above stairs; where, when I came,
the chamber door being open, I found them” (Mr. Wesley
and others) ‘round the table on their knees.’” He adds,
“That Mrs. Morgan owned one circumstance in it was true;
but as to the other parts of Mr. Wesley's letter to the Bishop,
she declares it is all false.”
I believe Mrs. Morgan did say this to Mr.