“I am, with love to sister Lowes, dear Matthew, your affectionate brother, “J. WESLEY.” “_December 29, 1770._ “MY DEAR SISTER,--When we had an opportunity of spending a day or two together, you convinced me that you fear and love God, and desire to enjoy all His promises. And I found you less prejudiced, than I expected, against the doctrine of Christian perfection. I only want you to experience this: to be ‘all faith, all gentleness, all love.’ Labour to be wise, and yet simple! To steer between the extremes of neglecting to cultivate your understanding, which is right; and _leaning_ to it, which is fatally wrong. And be free and open with, my dear Nancy, your affectionate brother, “J. WESLEY.” Little more, in reference to 1770, remains to be related. To a great extent, mob violence was ended; but Wesley was still the target at which literary malice shot its shafts. The aid of the Muses was again invoked, and some unknown poetaster issued an octavo pamphlet of 39 pages, entitled, “The Perfections of God,--a standing Rule to try all Doctrines and Experience. A Poem humbly offered to the consideration of Mr. John Wesley and his followers.” This was evidently the production of one of his Calvinistic friends. Hence the following-- “Shall Wesley sow his hurtful tares, And scatter round a thousand snares, Telling how God from wrath may turn, And love the soul He thought to burn, And how again His mind may move, To hate, where He has vowed to love, How all mankind He fain would save, Yet longs for what He cannot have, Industrious thus to sound abroad A disappointed, changing God?” Again, in reference to the “Hymn on God’s Everlasting Love,” we have the following choice _morceau_. “Blush Wesley, blush, be filled with shame, Doom thy vile poem to the flame; What tongue thy horrid crime can tell? Put saints to sing the song of hell! Haste hence to Rome, thy proper place; Why should we share in thy disgrace? We need no greater proof to see, Thy blasphemies with hers agree.” In addition to the above, there was published a sermon of 32 pages, 8vo, entitled “Methodistical Deceit: a Sermon preached in the parish church of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green, by Haddon Smith, curate of the said church.”