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in their cursed errors. For this I do affirm, their errors are so shameless, that no man, acquainting himself with them and the Bible, will be deceived by them.
Second Letter to the Arminian Priest.
"Sir—Having wrote you some time ago, setting before you that divine injunction, which calls upon every God-fearing man to be ready always to give an answer to every man asking him a reason of the hope in him, with meekness and fear; this I wished the more to have from you, that I know you to belong to the Arminian Methodists, and that as you had brought forward none of their errors in my hearing, such as their denial of the electing love of God in choosing the elect in Christ to salvation, before the foundation of the world, as in Eph. i. 4, affirming they would rather be Atheists than believe he did so; such as their denial of the efficacious atonement of Christ's blood in behoof of his chosen people, in losing none of them, as in John vi. 39, affirming that he who was redeemed by the blood of Christ, and thereby put in his hand a child of grace and saint to-day, may, by the power of sin and Satan, be plucked out of that hand, and in hell to-morrow.
"These, Sir, are the damnable doctrines of Arminian Methodists, which I was in hopes, by reason of your youth, and omission in the discourse I heard, that you might be either ignorant of them, or opposed to them, and that your respect for the injunction of God's word I set before you in my Letter, would have determined you to answer it; the neglect of which forces the conclusion upon me, that you are neither ignorant nor opposed to the above errors, nor respectful of God's injunction,
