70. This only we confess, that “we preach _inward_ salvation, _now_ attainable by faith.” And _for preaching this_, (for _no other crime_ was _then_ so much as pretended) we were forbid to preach any more in those churches, where, till then, we were gladly received. This is a notorious fact. Being thus hindered from preaching in the places we should first have chosen, we now declare the _grace of God which bringeth salvation, in all places of his dominion_: as well knowing, that God dwelleth not only in temples made with hands. This is the real, and it is the only real ground of complaint against us. And this we avow before all mankind, we do preach this salvation by faith. And not being suffered to preach it in the usual places, we declare it ♦wherever a door is opened, either _on a mountain_, or _a plain_, or _by a river side_, (for all which we conceive we have sufficient precedent) or in prison, or, as it were, _in the house of Justus_, or _the school of one Tyrannus_. Nor dare we refrain. _A dispensation of the gospel is committed to me; and woe is me, if I preach not the gospel._ ♦ “whereever” replaced with “wherever” 71. Here we allow the fact, but deny the guilt. But in every other point alleged, we deny the fact, and call upon the world to prove it, if they can. More especially we call upon those who for many years saw our manner of life at _Oxford_. These well know, that _after the straitest sect of our religion, we lived Pharisees_: and that the grand objection to us for all those years, was the being _righteous overmuch_: the reading, fasting, praying, denying ourselves; the going to church, to the Lord’s table; the relieving the poor, visiting those that were sick and in prison; instructing the ignorant, and labouring to reclaim the wicked,――more than was necessary for salvation. These were our open, flagrant crimes, from the year 1729 to the year 1737; touching which our Lord shall judge in that day.