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you, yet all that cannot satisfy me that I am discharged from that duty. Having heard of your frequent attendance on the Methodist Preacher, Mr. Mc, nay, of your exhortation of others to attend him, it fills me with horror at your conduct, when I consider their damnable errors, and hear of their open avowed vindication of these in private: such as, they would rather be Jews, Turks, Deists, or even Atheists, than be a Calvinist, to believe that God chose his elect in Christ before the foundation of the world, as in Eph. i. 4—that Christ came to seek and to save all those only, as his lost sheep, as Matt. xv. 24, John xvii. 9, show to every man not fearfully hardened against Scripture evidence.
"If you have any care either for yourself or others, to attend to these words, Proverbs xix. 27, you may read in the works of Wesley and Fletcher, standard Methodists, they hold the holy law of God as an anti-evangelic law, and that there is an evangelic law of love opposed to that holy law of God, whereby Methodists have a power and freedom of will, not only to obtain life, but even in this life to attain to sinless perfection. For confirmation of this, sec Wesley's Christian Perfection, page 223: 'Mistakes and infirmities that flow from the corruptible body, are not contrary to this law of love, and therefore are no sin. The truth is, in a state of perfection every desire is in subjection to the obedience of Christ. The will is entirely subject to the will of God, and the affections wholly fixed on him.'—Page 239. I judge it is as impossible this man should be deceived herein, as that God should lie!
"Were you to condescend to answer my Letter, you would, no doubt, say, you hear no such doctrine from Mr. Mc, neither will you receive it.
