ABSTRACT
Wesley had acquired some knowledge of Hebrew under his brother Samuel’s tuition, before he went to the university. The treatise De Imitatione appears to have offended Wesley’s reason, as well as the instincts of hilarity and youth. But the impression which this writer failed to make, was produced by the work of a far more powerful intellect, and an imagination infinitely more fervent—Jeremy Taylor’s Rules of Holy Living and Dying. Servitorships are more in the spirit of a Roman Catholic than of an English establishment. Among the Catholics religious poverty is made respectable, because it is accounted a virtue; and humiliation is an essential part of monastic discipline. The good intentions of Wesley and his associates could not be questioned; but they were now running fast into fanaticism; and a meeting was held at Christ Church, by the Seniors of the College, to consult in what manner the evil might be checked.
