Wesley. His Majesty has pardoned whatever you may be informed of concerning me of that nature. I am not here on that account.
Bishop. I expected you not.
Wesley. Your lordship sent your desire by two or three messengers. Had I been refractory, I need not have come; but I would give no just cause of offence. I think the old Nonconformists were none of his Majesty’s enemies.
Bishop. They were traitors. They began the war. Knox and Buchanan in Scotland, and those like them in England.
Wesley. I have read the protestation of owning the king’s supremacy.
Bishop. They did it in hypocrisy.
Wesley. You used to tax the poor Independents for judging folks’ hearts. Who doth it now?
Bishop. I did not; for they pretended one thing and acted another. Do not I know them better than you?
Wesley. I know them by their works, as they have therein delivered us their hearts.
Bishop. Well, then, you will justify your preaching, will you, without ordination according to the law?