JOHN WESLEY IN COMPANY WITH HIGH CHURCHMEN. BY AN OLD METHODIST. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. "If it be posible, for one hour lay prejudice aside; give what is advanced a fair LONDON: CHURCH PRESS COMPANY, 13, BURLEIGH STREET, STRAND. 1870. All rights reserved.] INTRODUCTION. THE circumstances of the day encourage an old Methodist to contribute his mite towards determining the opinions, and allaying the scruples, of many men of sober minds, who wish, apart from prejudice and misrepresentation, to know what to think about the many matters of Doctrine, and Ritual, which now engage so large a share of the public attention. Mr. Wesley's principles and religious convictions are so little known by professed Churchmen, and even by "the people called Methodists," as to make any careful statement of them of considerable interest, especially as he lived in a day when these points came before him unattended by "the din of controversy and the strife of tongues," and were calmly considered in the light of Holy Scripture, and, as he professes, "the purest ages of the Church." This fact alone, that the conclusions he arrived at were after most careful study of the Holy Scriptures and their best Comment, the Practice and Records of the Apostolic Churches, and without prejudice (except, considering the age and nation, so far as it was adverse), together with his known integrity, and pure zeal for Apostolic Christianity must, for a large portion of the religious public, give to them and the pages in which they are embodied a peculiar claim to candid consideration. This is the Author's hope; and also that others who entertain the same principles and religious convictions, and A |