1. Can Universal Salvation be more explicitly asserted, than it is in these words :

"By this his Name, All can and shall obtain life and salvation." Sixteen Discourses, p. 30. This must include all men, at least; and may include all devils too.

Again; "The name of the wicked will not be so much as I mentioned on the Great Day." Seven Discourses, p. 22. And if they are not so much as mentioned, they cannot be condemned.

2. How can * Antinomianism, i. e. making void the law through faith, be more expressly taught than it is in these words.

"To believe certainly, that Christ suffered death for us— This is the true means to be saved at once:

"We want no more. For the History of Jesus, coming into the world, is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth: the bare historical knowledge of this." Sixteen Disc. p. 57.

"There is but one duty, which is that of believing."

Ibid. p. 193. "From any demand of the law, no man is obliged now, to go one step, to give away one farthing, to eat or omit one morsel." Seven Disc. p. 11.

"What did our Lord do with the law? He abolished Ibid. p. 33.

it."

"Here one may think, this is a fine sort of Christianity, where nothing good is commanded, and nothing bad is forbid. But thus it is."

"So one ought to speak now. bitions are unfit for our times."

Ibid. p. 34.

All commands and prohi

Ibid.

3. Is not the very essence of Quietism (though in a new shape) contained in these words:

"The whole matter lies in this, that we should suffer ourselves to be relieved.” Sixteen Disc. p. 17.

N. B. I speak of Antinomian doctrine, abstracted from practice good

or bad.

"One must do nothing, but quietly attend the voice of the Lord." Ibid. p. 29. "To tell men who have not experienced the power of grace, what they should do, and how they ought to behave, is as if you should send a lame man upon an errand.”

Ibid. p. 70.

"The beginning is not to be made with doing what our Saviour has commanded. For whosoever will begin with doing, when he is dead, he can do nothing at all: but whatever he doth in his own activity, is but a cobweb, i. e. good for nothing." Ibid. p. 72, 81.

"As soon as we remain passive before him as the wood which a table is to be made from, then something comes of us." Seven Disc. p. 22.

O my brethren, let me conjure you yet again, in the name of our common Lord, if there be any consolation of love, if any bowels and mercies, remove the fly out of the pot of ointment, separate the precious from the vile!· Review, I beseech you, your whole work, and see if Satan hath gained no advantage over you. Very excellent things have been spoken of thee, O thou City of God. But may not He who hath the sharp sword with two edges, say, Yet I have a few things against thee. O that ye would repent of these, that ye might be a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing!

Three things above all permit me, even me, to press upon you, with all the earnestness of love. First, with regard to your doctrine, that ye purge out from among you, the leaven of Antinomianism, wherewith you are so deeply infected, and no longer make void the law through faith: Secondly, with regard to your discipline, that ye call no man Rabbi, Master, Lord of your faith upon earth. Subordination, I know, is needful, and I can shew you such a subordination, as in fact answers all Christian purposes; and is yet as widely distant from that among you, as the heavens are from the earth. Thirdly, with regard to your practice, that ye renounce all craft, cunning, subtlety, dissimulation; wis

dom, falsely so called; that ye put away all disguise, all guile out of your mouth: that in all simplicity and godly sincerity, ye have your conversation in this world: That ye use great plainness of speech to all, whatever ye suffer thereby; seeking only, by manifestation of the truth, to commend yourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

June 24, 1744.

AN

EXTRACT

OF THE

REV. JOHN WESLEY'S

JOURNAL,

No. V.

FROM SEPTEMBER 6, 1741, TO OCTOBER 27, 1743.

NUNDAY, Sept. 6, 1741, observing some, who were

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beginning to use their liberty as a cloak for licentiousness, I enforced in the morning those words of St. Paul, (worthy to be written in the heart of every believer) All things are lawful for me; but all things are not expedient. And in the evening that necessary advice of our Lord, That men ought always to pray, and not to faint.

Monday 7, I visited a young man in St. Thomas's Hospital, who in strong pain, was praising God continually. At the desire of many of the patients, I spent a short time with them, in exhortation and prayer. O what a harvest might there be, if any lover of souls, who has time upon his hands, would constantly attend these places of distress, and with tenderness and meekness of wisdom, instruct and exhort those on whom God has laid his hands, to know and improve the day of their visitation !

Wednesday 9, I expounded in Greyhound-lane, Whitechapel, part of the 107th Psalm. And they did rejoice whom the Lord had redeemed and delivered from the hand of the enemy.

(now Mrs. Whitefield) received us gladly as she had done aforetime. But we could not procure even two or three to join with us in the evening beside those of her own household. Sunday 4, I had an unexpected opportunity of receiving the Holy Communion. In the afternoon we had a plain, useful sermon, on the Pharisee and the Publican praying in the temple: which I explained at large in the evening, to the best dressed congregation I have ever yet seen in Wales. Two persons came to me afterwards, who were (it seemed) convinced of sin and groaning for deliverance.

Monday 5, I preached in the morning at Ponty-pool, to a small, but deeply attentive congregation. Mr. Price conducted us from hence to his house at Watford. After resting here an hour, we hastened on and came to Fonmon, where I explained and enforced those words, What must I do to be saved? Many seemed quite amazed, while I shewed them the nature of salvation, and the gospel-way of attaining it.

Tuesday 6, I read prayers and preached in Porth-kerry church. My next text was, By grace ye are saved, through faith. In the evening at Cardiff I expounded Zechariah iv. 7, Who art thou, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain. The next morning we set out, and in the evening praised God, with our brethren, in Bristol.

Thursday 8, I dined with CT-, greatly praising God for having done his own wise and holy will, in taking away the desire of his eyes: in the evening I preached on Looking unto Jesus. And many were filled with consolation.

Friday 9, The same spirit helped our infirmities at the hour of Intercession: and again at Kingswood in the evening. I was just laid down, when one came and told me, Howel Harris desired to speak with me at Bristol, being just come from London, and having appointed to set out for Wales at three in the morning. I went, and found him with Mr. Humphreys and Mr. S. They immediately fell upon their favourite subject: on which when we had