JUNE 6
Labour to be serious, earnest, edifying in your daily conversations.
Letter, 10th August, 1779
The Methodists in general, my Lord, are members of the Church of England. They hold all her doctrines, attend her Service, and partake of her Sacraments. … For what reasonable end would your Lordship drive these people out of the Church? Are they not as quiet, as inoffensive, nay, as pious, as any of their neighbours, except perhaps here and there a hair-brained man who knows not what he is about? … Is it a Christian, yea, a Protestant Bishop, that so persecutes his own flock?
to Dr. Tomline, Bishop of Lincoln, 1790
