ABSTRACT
The straight answer to that straight question seems to put Piette absolutely in the right. Moreover, when Wesley attempted to explain what he meant by “reformation” in relation to the “infamous, scandalous rabble rout [of the mid-1740s] roaring and raging as if they were just broke loose with their Captain Apollyon from the bottomless pit”, it was “the bringing them back (not to this or that set of opinions, or to this or that set of rites and ceremonies, how decent and significant soever) but to the calm love of God and one another; and to an uniform practice of justice, mercy and truth”.5
