ABSTRACT
Some of the queries savour of supererogatory righteousness, and as they contain no allusion either to the wild heretical fancies which are deducible from Count Zinzendorf’s writings, nor to his execrable language, it is evident that Wesley must have been ignorant of both. Many societies had by this time been formed in London, but the central place of meeting was a large room in Fetter-lane. Whitefield had none of that ambition which formed so prominent a part of Wesley’s character: but he had a great longing to be persecuted. When the Church is firmly established, and richly endowed with wealth or influence, or both, indolence and jealousy of commencing or apprehended rivalry join in inducing an infrequency and virtual discouragement of doctrinal sermons; and the Church is ruined, or brought to the verge of ruin by preaching morality, i.e. first Platonic, then Stoic, and lastly Epicurean Ethics, under the usurped names first of real substantial holiness.
