[186]. Myles’ “Chronological History of the Methodists.”
[187]. Wesleyan Methodist Magazine, 1856, p. 38.
[188]. Wesleyan Methodist Magazine, 1856, p. 41.
[189]. Wesley’s Works, vol. xiii., p. 43.
[190]. Wesley’s Works, vol. xiii. p. 41.
[191]. Probably Romaine, who was at Berwick, near Shrewsbury, on September 9, 1769, and wrote a letter full of his strongest Calvinism. (See Romaine’s Works, vol. vi., p. 330. Edition 1813.)
[192]. Elisha Coles, a clerk to the East India Company, who died in 1688. His “Practical Discourse of God’s Sovereignty,” here referred to, was answered by Sellon a year or two afterwards.
[193]. The Synod of Dort, held at Dort in 1618 and 1619, and consisting of thirty-eight Dutch and Walloon divines, five professors of the Dutch Universities, and twenty-one Lay-elders; besides twenty-eight foreign divines, from England and other countries. At this celebrated Synod, the five points of difference between the Calvinists and Arminians were decided in favour of the former. Sellon, in his able book, controverts this decision, at all events so far as the doctrine of predestination is concerned.
[194]. Fletcher’s Works, vol. viii., p. 205.
[195]. Letters, 1791, p. 208.