ABSTRACT
The Calvinistic Methodists in England were forcing on the separation which Whitefield deprecated, while Whitefield from America was thus exhorting to forbearance from controversy. Whitefield was then in England, and at his desire the publication was for a while suppressed; but it was sent into the world soon after his departure for America. The rising sect was thus disturbed by a question which had so often carried discord into the schools of theology, which had unhappily divided the Protestant world, and which when it had risen in the bosom of the Catholic church. A letter from Charles Wesley to Whitefield makes it evident that this zealous man was bestowing his property as well as his time in the service of Methodism.
