[334]. Toplady’s “Posthumous Works,” 1780, p. 343.
[335]. Toplady’s “Historic Proof of the Doctrinal Calvinism of the Church of England;” published, in two volumes, in 1774.
[336]. In “A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Toplady, occasioned by his late Letter to Mr. Wesley. By Thomas Olivers, 1771.” 12mo, 60 pp.
[337]. “Mr. Toplady calls them ‘the decrees of God;’ and it is an axiom among Calvinists, that ‘God’s decrees are God Himself.’”
[338]. This Essay had been published, in Edinburgh, some years before.
[339]. Query? Thomas Olivers, corrector of the press for Wesley.
[340]. Query? John Atlay, the book-steward.
[341]. Wesley was more than seventy!
[342]. In this, and in all the foregoing extracts, the spelling of words is literally given.—L. T.
[343]. In the same year, another edition was published in “Dublin: Printed for W. Whitestone, No. 33, Skinner Row.”