“And you, my remonstrant brethren, permit me to offer you some seasonable advices. 1. More than ever, let us confirm our love to our Calvinist brethren. If our arguments gall them, let us not envenom the sore by maliciously triumphing over them. Nothing is more likely to provoke their displeasure, and drive them from what we believe to be the truth. 2. Do not rejoice in the _mistakes_ of our opponents, but in the _detection_ of error. Desire not that _we_, but that _truth_ may prevail. Let us not only be willing that our brethren should win the day if they have _truth_ on their side; but let us make it matter of solemn, earnest, and constant prayer. 3. Let us strictly observe the rules of decency and kindness, taking care not to treat any of our opponents in the same manner that they have treated Mr. Wesley. The men of the world sometimes hint that he is a papist, and a Jesuit; but good, mistaken men have gone much farther in the present controversy. They have published to the world, that they _verily believe his principles are too rotten for even a papist to rest upon_; that he _wades through the quagmires of Pelagianism_, deals in _inconsistencies, manifest contradictions, and strange prevarications_; that if _a contrast were drawn from his various assertions upon the doctrine of sinless perfection, a little piece might extend into a folio volume_; and that they are _more than ever convinced of his prevaricating disposition_. Not satisfied with going to a Benedictine monk, in Paris, for help against his _dreadful heresy_, they have wittily extracted an argument, _ad hominem_, from _the comfortable dish of tea he drinks with Mrs. Wesley_; and, to complete the demonstration of their respect for that grey-headed, laborious minister of Christ, they have brought him upon the stage of controversy in a dress of their own contriving, and made him declare to the world, that, _whenever he and fifty-three of his fellow-labourers say one thing, they mean quite another_. And what has he done to deserve this usage at _their_ hands? Which of _them_ has he treated unjustly or unkindly? Even in the course of this controversy, has he injured any man? May he not say to this hour, _Tu pugnas; ego vapulo tantum_? Let us avoid this warmth, my brethren; remembering that personal reflections will never pass for convincing arguments with the judicious and humane. “I have endeavoured to follow this advice with regard to Dr. Crisp; nevertheless, lest you should rank him with _practical_ Antinomians, I once more gladly protest my belief that he was a _good_ man; and desire that none of you would condemn _all_ his sermons, much less his _character_, on account of his unguarded antinomian propositions.