_Wesley._ His Majesty has pardoned whatever you may be informed of concerning me of that nature. I am not here on that account. _Bishop._ I expected you not. _Wesley._ Your lordship sent your desire by two or three messengers. Had I been refractory, I need not have come; but I would give no just cause of offence. I think the old Nonconformists were none of his Majesty’s enemies. _Bishop._ They were traitors. They began the war. Knox and Buchanan in Scotland, and those like them in England. _Wesley._ I have read the protestation of owning the king’s supremacy. _Bishop._ They did it in hypocrisy. _Wesley._ You used to tax the poor Independents for judging folks’ hearts. Who doth it now? _Bishop._ I did not; for they pretended one thing and acted another. Do not I know them better than _you_? _Wesley._ I know them by their works, as they have therein delivered us their hearts. _Bishop._ Well, then, you will justify your preaching, will you, without ordination according to the law? _Wesley._ All these things laid together are satisfactory to me, for my procedure therein. _Bishop._ They are not enough. _Wesley._ There has been more written in proof of preaching of gifted persons, with such approbation, than has been answered by any one yet. _Bishop._ Have you anything more to say to me, Mr Wesley? _Wesley._ Nothing. Your lordship sent for me. _Bishop._ I am glad I heard this from your own mouth. You will stand to your principles, you say? _Wesley._ I intend it, through the grace of God; and to be faithful to the king’s majesty, however you deal with me. _Bishop._ I will not meddle with you. _Wesley._ Farewell to you, sir. _Bishop._ Farewell, good Mr Wesley. This is a long conversation, but it is instructive and useful, (1.) as casting light upon Church and State affairs, immediately after the restoration of Charles; and (2.) as furnishing several interesting facts in the history of Samuel Wesley’s father. Passing over the first, we learn that John Wesley, like his grandson of the same name, was a man of sound sense and pluck. He adhered to the parliament and to the Commonwealth to the last moment; but when he saw that the Commonwealth was doomed, and that the nation was resolved to restore the Monarchy, like a man of sense, he laid aside his sword and quietly submitted. His continued firm adherence to the cause of the Commonwealth—“to the last gasp,” as the bishop put it—brought him into trouble after the king’s return; but royal clemency was properly exercised towards him, and there was an end of the affair. He had preferred another kind of government; but now that Charles, by the voice of the nation, was seated upon the throne, Wesley took the oath of allegiance, and faithfully kept it.