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; Jfagejp 573-4 J (> ne qf the topic ^ qi ceQsu re jupop Wesley from Kjs p ^ lyinfstic ^ opponents was , ajv opinion which he had brice
hazarded , that an anti-satisfactionigt iplght possibly be saved . E ( e liafd somewhere , probably in fiis JcyuriiiaXs ? r | ecdrcJed his musings in the Norwich stage-coa ^ h , dur-4 pff- which ^ in the following eharitinle climax , he enquired , 1 st . if a man might be saved who delued ^ ttei word atonement , and
liext , if he denied ih & thing 9 and inclined to the affirmative in both . Th § aversion between Wesley And tlie Calvihi ^ ts was reciprocal , though displayed by the latter with peculiar rancour . They permitted him to preach the "f uneral sermon for Whitfield , in
3770 , according to a mutual promise made in their youth ; but presently attacked it as containing no gospel . Toplady , who had put on the armour of South ,
ot wittily abusive fame , now led on a furious combat against the free-mlters , in which the odium theologicum was remarkably exhibite d * Speaking of Wesley and liis preachers , and occasional write r£ * he uses this Christian
language . * *« Xethfafr nrit fight by proxy . Let Mis «* bftri to ^ p to tiieir stalls . Let his tinkers mcni ^ thcir brazen vessels . Let ilia , b # rhtri CQijfine themselves to their fcJocks aqcl basops . Let his hah & s stand | 6 i & iit kneading boughs . Let his tfacltikirbsblcm more suitable coals than of
^ iosc ctontroversy , Every map in his < wn epAeCf * Shoiild ^ ^ Jlowevcr ^ j any of l 4 r * Wcdey ' s lifc-g « ardn S ^ en , ^ w ^ ictli ^ r Sf b ^ rtoc ^ or ^ rdn ^ - ^ wii" tor English , sttep fbt & i ' Hb their tottering master ^ ^& keti 2 iL * lo & i * cuu . i ¦ : , s- u-.. \\ > -. ; -. - V / l yh- * : 7 . f >^ M ; ¦ " ,: ' . ^ -. : ¦ ¦ . [¦¦ iJ . ' 07 ,
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l » sym ^ di ^^ s 9 spf & Mirtj ^ $ m tit fire : t t LfAeBgyptV tnsi $ is frif * the intid ^ f NUc ^ I shall probably not so much ai give them the reading /* Hist . Kroof . ii . 734 . Th 6 Swiss Bfe-gu ^ fdf ti ait was ^ no doubt , designed for Mr . Fie * cher , a clefgjinzix of exemplary life and no mean talehts as a
writer , allowing him the principles common f o hini and his opponent si " Mr . Richard Hill , ' *» after ^ wards the parliarnentary barone ^ dipped his pen in gall upon this occasion . Toplady atti-ibtites to
him " two ^ masterly pamphlets—A Review of the D act rims taught by Mt . John Wtshy , with a FatH rago annexed , and LogicaWesleitu sis or theFarrago double distilled ' . "
Another of that family , as re * markabie for the benevolence of his ^ life , as for the eccentrteities of his clerical character , sought renown in these combats . To
this gentleman was attributed 1 hope unjustly , even as a jtiVeniie indiscrejtiolt , A Tete a Tete between Satan and John Wesley , which is to be found in one of the volumes of the Gospel Magazine from 1770 to 1780 . The Devil having inadvertently complimented W . in this expression .
u You finally # hall ferstwer "* is presently reproved ia the following couplet : Hold , cries John , I ferceive joumaiatain a connection With the crocodile crcvy that believe in election .
!> ataji having p ^ id another compliment in more guarded language , the poem closes with a itetiotitMg alhisWh td the old iage of Mr . Wesley , who ha < f now passed th£ ee ^ fc & re 2 y€ & t £ and teri ^ J ohn stroked his grey hairs » and nc * « r ^ IP ^^ :
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1810, page 638, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1708/page/18/
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