I earnestly intreat your grace, to review my own account of it, as it stands in any of my former writings; or to consider the short account which is given in this. And if you can thence make good any one of those propositions, I do hereby promise before God and the world, that I will never preach more. At present I do not well understand what your grace means by “An enthusiastic ardor.” Surely you do not mean, the love of God! No, not though a poor, pardoned sinner should _carry it so far_, as to love the Lord his God, with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength! But this alone is the _ardor_ which I _preach up_, as the foundation of _the true and only Christianity_. I pray God so to fill your whole heart therewith, that you may praise him for ever and ever. But why should your grace believe, that the love of God, _can be attained by very few_? Or, that it _can be understood by very few_? All who attain it, understand it well. And did not he who is loving to every man design, that every man should attain true love? O that all would know in this their day, the things that make for their peace! And _cannot_ the love both of God and our neighbour _be practised, without breaking in upon the common duties of life_? Nay, can any of the common duties of life, be rightly practised without them? I apprehend not. I apprehend I am then laying the true, the only foundation for all those duties, when I preach _Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy neighbour as thyself_. 2. With this letter was sent (I believe to every clergyman in the diocese) the pamphlet intitled, _Observations on the conduct and behaviour of a certain sect, usually distinguished by the name of Methodists_. It has been generally supposed to be wrote by a person, who is every way my superior. Perhaps one reason why he did not inscribe his name was, that his greatness might not make me afraid: and that I might have liberty to stand, as it were, on even ground, while I answer for myself. In considering, therefore, such parts of these _observations_, as naturally fall in my way, I will take that method which, I believe, the author desires, using no ceremony at all: but speaking as to an equal, that it may the more easily be discerned, where the truth lies. The first query relating to doctrine, is this.