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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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Miscellaneous Communications.
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ANECDOTES OT THE LATE REV . J 0 II 5 WESLEY .
To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Sm , I recollect Mr . J . Wesley re . lating in conversation an anecdote , which very forcibly illustrates the cause of teachers not
being able to explain the dogmas on which they insist , and of their pupils appearing to acquiesce in the truth of assertions that they do not understand .
During his residence at Lincoln College , m Oxford , one of the tutors , I forget whether the Logical or the Mathematical , used to be in fhe practice , at the
conclusion of bis lecture , of saying individually , to the students who encircled him , * with reference to the subject that 4 iad been treat . L d , " Sir , do you conceive ? > And , u Sir , do ya « conceive ? " " To save trouble , the inquiry had long been answered by the gentlemen in tbe affirmative . One day , however , by mutual
consent , it was determined that it should be answered in the negative . When , therefore , the usual question was put , the first gentleman s&uh 4 i No , Sir f—
the -second gentleman ai&wered , u , Sir ;*'—the third gentleman was in the same tone , and so they said all . The tutor-confused , pensively applied his hand to his forehead , and after a moment ' s
pause , exclaimed , C / think I do not conceive myself I ' A respectable preacher , in the Wedeyan connection , informed me , tbat tbe Rev . J . WesJey , in the Jatter part x > f his life , remark
ed , that he had long token notice of the distinctive mode respecting the object of address in prayer ^ ki young and premature Christians and aged and mature Christians . The former , said the Oracle of Methodism , are the most in the
hs . b \ t of praying to the Son of God , Jesus Christ ; and the 4 atter of praying to the Father . There is jjo need to expatiate on the weight of this testimony to the propriety of the Unitarian mode of worship .
The aversion of Mr . J . Wesley to Calvinism was extreme , and even beyond that which he had to Anti ~ trinitananism .- ~ - About the
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No . LX . DECEMBER . [ Vol . V-
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY or Theology and General Literature .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1810, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2411/page/1/
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