[336]. The value of the Epworth living, during the time that Mr Wesley held it, was never more than £200 per annum. Mr Kirk states that the same living is now worth £952 per annum.
[337]. Wesley Family, vol. i. p. 239.
[338]. Wesley Family.
[339]. Wesley Family.
[340]. “This letter was written during a controversy with Secker, respecting the doctrine of the witness of the Spirit.”—Wesley’s Works, vol. xii. p. 93.
[341]. Wesley’s Works, vol. vii. p. 475.
[342]. From this, good old Henry Moore deduced the inference that he now, for the first time, received the witness of the Spirit; and that, until now, “this good man had laboured in the fear of God through a long legal night of nearly seventy years.” Absurd nonsense!
[343]. Strange words these, and gloriously fulfilled.
[344]. Another remarkable utterance, remarkably fulfilled.
[345]. Original Letters, published by Priestley, p. 55.