“The Brethren’s Church has, at present, an illustrious nobleman both for her Advocate and Ordinary; and most of the hard imputations cast upon her by her antagonists are levelled against him, and either arise from or imply a misunderstanding of his true character. He is an _extraordinary_ person or genius, and, as such, requires to be looked at in a particular point of view, if one will avoid error. I will, therefore, do nothing else but set down to that end some remarks which occur to me, from ten or eleven years’ acquaintance with him.” “Count Zinzendorf has in him something unlike other people. But what is it? A very tender and deep-rooted _love to our blessed Redeemer_, and the highest and most _honourable conceptions of His atonement_. He willingly believes, as the New Testament supposes, that the bitter sufferings of the Saviour are alone able to _enervate_, as well as atone for sin; and the contemplation and influence of His tormented person, to effect our _sanctification_ in all its branches. And all the hearty expressions to the honour of Jesus, that are found in ancient Hymns, or Meditations of pious Divines, (which, because mankind do not always keep up to the same strain of truth, are unjustly looked upon as flights and raptures), are with him serious principles.” “Some have censured him for introducing, or suffering to be introduced, some new _Phrases_, and delivering assertions which have the look of _Paradoxes_; but these Phrases and Paradoxes, when examined to the bottom, are orthodox; and, if not _verbatim_ used in former ages, are, at least, parallel to the always received theological language; and, upon some occasions, are necessary, and happily effectual, to set people a-thinking, and to recover in their minds the full idea belonging to many terms and sayings over which they, by frequent repetition, have fallen asleep, and forgot the force and import of them. In the same view, he also likes very much to translate the Scriptures in a free, round manner, and in modern words.”