“With respect to Mr. Hill’s arguments, they are the same which he advanced in his ‘_Finishing Stroke_;’ nor need we wonder at his not scrupling to produce them _over again_, just as if they had been overlooked by his opponent, for in the first page of his book he says, ‘_I have not read a single page which treats on the subject since I wrote_ my FINISHING STROKE.’ “As Mr. Hill’s arguments are the same, so are also his personal charges. After passing some compliments upon me as an ‘_able defender_ of Mr. Wesley’s principles,’ he continues to represent me as ‘_prostituting noble endowments to the advancing of a party_.’ He affirms, without shadow of proof, that he has ‘_detected many misrepresentations of facts throughout_’ my ‘_publications_.’ He accuses me of using ‘_unbecoming artifices, much declamation, chicanery, and evasion_;’ and says, ‘_upon these accounts I really cannot, with any degree of satisfaction, read the works of one who, I am in continual suspicion_, is _endeavouring to mislead me by false glosses and pious frauds_.’ “I cannot but still love and honour Mr. Hill on _many_, _very_ many, accounts. Though his warm attachment to what _he_ calls ‘the doctrines of grace,’ and what _we_ call ‘the doctrines of _limited_ grace and _free wrath_,’ robs him from time to time of _part_ of the moderation, patience, and meekness of wisdom which adorn the _complete_ Christian character, I cannot but consider him as a very valuable person. I do not doubt but when the paroxysm of his Calvinistic zeal shall be over, he will be as great an ornament to the Church of England in the capacity of a gentleman, as he is to civil society in the capacity of a magistrate. And justice, as well as love, obliges me to say that in the mean time he is, in several respects, a pattern for all gentlemen of fortune; few equalling him in devoting a large fortune to the relief of the poor, and their leisure hours to the support of what they esteem the truth. Happy would it be for him, and for the peace of the Church, if to all his good qualities he always added _the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit_; and if he so far suspected his orthodoxy as to condescend to weigh himself in the ‘_Scripture Scales_.’” Fletcher’s preface to his “Scripture Scales” is “humbly addressed to the true Protestants in Great Britain and Ireland.”