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abuse and insult , especially when what he choosjes to call ^ Irianism and So cin ianisnf arc concerned . The fourth clause in tfce ! 29 th section of tfafenGeneraL Minutes ( Rules of Conference ) , expressly provides .
that ' No person ( among the Methodists ) shall caL another heretic ^ bigot , or any othe . disrespectful na ? ne > . on any account fora difference in sentiment ? And in the third clause of Addenda . to the 2 , 6 th of
section ,, called ' a ^ an , General Pacification , * it is said , . « Vfc ( t : he JVfethoclist preachers ) £ all agree , tfeit the pulpit shall not be made tfie Vehicle of abuse . * These identical / fules and 1 prohibitions
are signed , Th o m 4 s , Go k £ > Secretary 111 As some extenuation ; . however , of die pious and consistent' fooctor ' s conduct , I must not forget to infortn ^ rou , that Arianism is . expressly mentioned in t ^ ese
Minutes , ; . as being a pernicious doctripe 1 and tjiat the 4 £ istJ ^ ymn , in the IJarge Hymn Bock > contains the following ver * y literal and pious petitiohs : * 6 ! might the / blocjd ' of sprinkling' crv , For those who spurn' the sprinkled blood : . " -- ¦ ¦ f
Assert thy glorious Deity * j ¦< - : i . Stretch out thy . ar m , £ hou Triune Cod / The Uniteriah-tLend i $ ipel > Arid chase his doctrine back to hell / So that , every tKinj ^ considered , ' the goodjpoctor is n 6 t sd ' nigtil ^ eu ' lpdblc : as one * m ! ^ ht at , the- first imagine . '" And he no doubt tjvnks fi $ i ( p dping , ^|> 4 ^ eryi i Ce , by thus damniag . the ppbr Unitafian * . This being the cage , 1 do not expect that the excellent Letter , r ( £ . d&rc § sc 8 . to nithi
by the J ^ ev . Job David , 'bf Taunton , will feavc any salutary effec ^ 'V < The founded . of M ) qtl > odiftnv rnakes a conspicuous figpre in th ^|\ york ? anfl he .. was ezit | t ] pd to attention . His J ^ istory is h © fe detailed from the period of ) ii ^
writing l ° ve jpers . es . at Oxfordj down tolbis inteirrq ^ t , bchiqd the phapel in the City-ljpad , whpre hei tad been exhibited for seyqraJ days in his gown an ^ ban tf , to lpujtiglides who , no cj [ oub | ? ig ^^ d at tl * is holy spectacle with the profaqpc M } - ^ rc
est ndir ^ ratipn ! Tcfc , di ^ d h ?> 1791 , in ^ hq 83 th year ^; his Sgg | and in . the 65 th of his ' p ^ WJC piinistr ^ . ' Of bis character Mr .
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N . thus speaks with great impar " tiality—and it is ajtair specimen of the spirit in which the work is executed . li Various have been the attempts to delineate the character of the late Re * v . John Wesley ¦ , and thes « unifo . rmly bear testimony to his patient-lridustry , great zeal and moral worth . That drawn by Mr ,
Hampson in his l , ife of ; ! jVTr- \ Vesley is , perhaps , the , most jijstand impartial of any that lias yet appearedf . Most others are too much in' the sickening style of fulsome panegyric , an ^ same few ; are found g | p have been too severe upon Afe . \ Vesll 3 ps fpibleg , for foible § hacertaif ^ h ^ d , and those at times ;' rather gWnig ;
but his excellencies outshone all his errors , and his . name and ; character must con « tinue to be resj > ecte $ l w ^ ile the ^ hunaanv niin 4 retains its inherent Jovc o ^ , virtue and order . He was j ^ bhest , punctual , and regular ; cheerful , Hvarni , and ge ~ ne ^ rous ; l > ut credulousy ambitious ^ - and
entbusiqstical . SGfne ^ eople have thought t | iat , , b fp character ^ ha ^ spn ^ ejhinjj of cunning in it , and indeed his affair with tffeiatc ^ Dr ' . - Calefc Evttris vvhiHH I mentioned iii'a former I ^ etter / . seems ^ to J u ^ ify such an opinion , but ; it should be ^ memiejedj ttyj&r-t « 5 ' ^« placed in a . very critical situation . ^ His private principles might sbmdMme * le at ^ 'yatit . net wiih the general ^ goo d of ) ! hfe
soqleiies > arid this , lft * $ r cp ^^ i ^ er ^ tipn ouweighed every otjier wi . th , hincu In sucii ca u ses it is hard to withstand the r ^ rrrptattpns to pious fraud and to the doing oflevil that gdo& > may d « m& v |^ therefore Mr . Wesley was at any time ,
tfye 8 | avc , 9 ^ circu ^ n ^ ances-, sm thj « , dupe 6 t otKers , great cnarltyjouglit to be exej-clsed * towards h * lmr . JPerhaps not another * nian then Hvifag ^ could have been fcuni , who wouid fe ^ vqj acquit ted } i inise ) f ¦ with g ^ eater cre 4 it to his own chafdctcj | and to the qause , in which lie was eh ¥ ajgcd than ^ id the Rev . fohti WesSy . In controversy he was
iomc-UUV ^^ Pgm ^ tiqal ia a very high ; degffee , ? M ^ P : H c ^ cew ^ d my ? ^ ¥ ? people in danger of being drawnasid « froyn hi ^ Cohim ^ nibn , lie would interpose in a metier tBatf bore the- a | * pfeai » anc ^ of muthj $ elffconfideijcc « n 4 | &iithority ^ . Upon $ m i ^ vievy ^ oiMetko 4 ism mai ^ y rem a in s pctiwx&A to u * # but we teft ^ ( bffUiii » HignQt reader to l ] is oww reflections . E .
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Review . —Nig Jrfingale ? s Portraiture of Methodism . 103
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1808, page 103, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2389/page/47/
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