.']

[Footnote 709: He was, however, sometimes tempted to use unseemly
language of the clergy. See extracts from his journals quoted in
Warburton's _Doctrine of Grace_.]

[Footnote 710: 'Remarks on the Life and Character of John Wesley,' by
Alexander Knox, printed at the close of Southey's _Life of Wesley_, vol.
iii. p. 319.]

[Footnote 711: In the Minutes of Conference, 1747, 'What instance or
ground is there in the New Testament for a "_national_" Church? We know
none at all,' &c. 'The greatest blow,' he said, 'Christianity ever
received was when Constantine the Great called himself a Christian and
poured in a flood of riches, honour, and power upon the Christians, more
especially upon the clergy.' 'If, as my Lady says, all outward
establishments are Babel, so is this establishment. Let it stand for me.
I neither set it up nor pull it down.... Let us build the city of God.']

[Footnote 712: But he asserts the rights of the civil power in things
indifferent, and reminds a correspondent that allegiance to a national
Church in no way affects allegiance to Christ.--(Letter in answer to
Toogood's _Dissent Justified_, 1752. _Works_, x. 503-6.)]

[Footnote 713: See Bogue and Bennett's _History of Dissenters_, vol. i.
p. 73.]

[Footnote 714: Bishop Horsley, in his first Charge to the Diocese of St.
David's, 1790, expressly distinguishes between a High Churchman in the
sense of 'a bigot to the secular rights of the priesthood,' which he
declares he is not, and a High Churchman in the sense of an 'upholder of
the spiritual authority of the priesthood,' which he owns that he is;
and he adds, 'We are more than mere hired servants of the State or
laity.']

[Footnote 715: To the same effect in 1777.]

[Footnote 716: So late as 1780 he wrote, 'If I come into any new house,
and see men and women together, I will immediately go out.' This was,
therefore, no youthful High Church prejudice, which wore off with
years.]

[Footnote 717: See Southey's _Life of Wesley_, ii. 85.]

[Footnote 718: Id. 101.]

[Footnote 719: _John Wesley's Place in Church History_, by R. Denny
Urlin, p. 70.]

[Footnote 720: 'You have often,' said Wesley to the Moravians in Fetter
Lane, 'affirmed that to search the Scripture, to pray, or to communicate
before we have faith, is to seek salvation by works, and that till these
works are laid aside no man can have faith. I believe these assertions
to be flatly contrary to the word of God. I have warned