If corruption and sin work so powerfully and sensibly in the hearts of the unregenerate, we may, without deserving the name of enthusiasts, affirm that the regenerate are sensible of the powerful effects of Divine grace in their souls; or, to use the words of our Seventeenth Article, we may say, ‘They feel in themselves the workings of the Spirit of Christ.’” When it is added that the doctrines, from which these inferences are drawn, are plainly stated, and fully proved, a good general idea of Fletcher’s book will be given. His “Concluding Address to the Serious Reader, who inquires, What must I do to be saved?” has been read by myriads, and cannot be read too much. The last two paragraphs of his treatise must be quoted:— “_This_ book is chiefly recommended to disbelieving moralists, who deride the doctrine of salvation by grace _through faith_ in the day of conversion, merely because they are not properly acquainted with our fallen and lost estate. And the _Checks_ are chiefly designed for disbelieving Antinomians, who rise against the doctrine of a believer’s salvation by grace _through the works_ of faith in the great day, merely because they do not consider the indispensable necessity of evangelical obedience, and the nature of the day of judgment. “In the _Appeal_, the careless, self-conceited sinner is awakened and humbled. In the _Address_, the serious, humbled sinner is raised up and comforted. And in the _Checks_, the foolish virgin is re-awakened, the Laodicean believer reproved, the prodigal son lashed back to his father’s house, and the upright believer animated to mend his pace in the way of _faith working by love_, and to _perfect holiness in the fear of God_.” Such is Fletcher’s own accurate account of the important works he had hitherto committed to the press. CHAPTER XIII. _WESLEY’S DESIGNATED SUCCESSOR: THE PENITENT THIEF: A DREADFUL PHENOMENON, ETC., ETC._ 1773. TO preserve chronological order, another chapter must be interjected before the history of the Calvinian controversy is resumed.