Wesley Corpus

5. You next " take the pains to lay before the reader an instance or two of confusion," &c. The first I read thus : -- " While we were at the room, Mrs. J., sitting at home, took the Bible to read ; but on a sudden threw it away, saying, ' I am good enough. I will never read or pray more.' She was in the same mind when I came; often repeating, ' I used to think I was full of sin, and that I sinned in every thing I did. But now I know better.; I am a good Christian; I never did any harm in my life ; I do not desire to be any better than I am.' She spake many things to tlie same effect, plainly showing that the spirit of pride and of lies had the full dominion over her. I asked, ' Do you desire to be healed ?' She said, ' I am whole.' * But do you desire to be saved ?' She replied, * I am saved, I ail nothing, I am happy.' " This is one of the fruits of the present salvation and smless perfection taught by you among the weak and ignorant." (p. 11.) I should wonder if the scarecrow of sinless perfection was not brought in some way or other. But to the point: You here repeat a relation aa from me, and that " in confirmation," you say, " of your own veracity,* and yet leave out both the beginning of that relation, part of the middle, and the end of it. I begin thus: ** Sun. 11. -- I met widi a surprising instance of the power of the devil." (Vol. iii, p. 200.) These woiids, of all other8» should not have been lefl out, being a key to all that follows. In the middle of the relation, inm:iediately after the words, ** I am happy," I add, *' Yet it was easy to discern she was in the most violent ag<my both of body and mind; sweating exceedingly, noth withstanding die severe frost, and not continuing in the same posture a moment :" -- a plain proof that this was no instance of presumption, nor a natural fruit of any teaching whatever.