“To this hour, is this Scripture true. And I therein rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. Blessed be God, I enjoy the reproach of Christ! O may you also be vile, exceeding vile for His sake! God forbid that you should ever be other than generally scandalous; I had almost said universally. If any man tell you, there is a new way of following Christ ‘he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.’
“John Wesley.”
FOOTNOTES
[1] Wesley’s Works, vol. viii., p. 334.
[2] Autobiography of Mrs. Delany, vol. i., p. 586.
[3] “Poems on Several Occasions,” by Samuel Wesley, A.M., 1736, p. 107.
[4] Two villages in Bedfordshire.
[5] Probably the mother of the wife of Wesley’s brother Samuel.
[6] Wesley’s Works, vol. i., p. 8.
[7] Wesley’s Works, vol. i., p. 9.