Wesley. I am not satisfied in my spirit therein.
Bishop. Not satisfied in your spirit! You have more new-coined phrases than ever were heard of! You mean your conscience, do you not?
Wesley. Spirit is no new phrase. We read of being “sanctified in body, soul, and spirit,” but, if your lordship like it not so, then I say, I am not satisfied in my conscience, touching the ordination you speak of.
Bishop. Conscience argues science, science supposes judgment, and judgment reason. What reason have you that you will not be thus ordained?
Wesley. I came not this day to dispute with your lordship; my own ability would forbid me to do so.
Bishop. No, no; but give me your reason.
Wesley. I am not called to office, and therefore cannot be ordained.
Bishop. Why, then, have you preached all this while?
Wesley. I was called to the work of the ministry, though not to the office. There is, as we believe, vocatio ad opus, et ad munus.
Bishop. Why may you not have the office of the ministry? You have so many new distinctions! oh, how you are deluded!