“As a _Follower of Christ_, I hope I have learned to disregard my dearest friends for my Heavenly Prophet; or, to speak the language of our Lord, I hope I have learned to _forsake father, mother, and brothers for Christ’s sake, and the Gospel’s_. “As a _Disputant_, I have learned that solid arguments, and plain Scriptures, make no more impression upon bigotry, than the charmer’s voice does upon the deaf adder; and, by that means, I hope, I depend less upon the powers of reason, the letter of the Scriptures, and the candour of professors, than I formerly did. “As a _Believer_, I have been brought to see and feel that the power of the Spirit of truth, which teaches men to be _of one heart, and of one mind_, and makes them _think and speak the same_, is at a very low ebb in the religious world. “As a _Member of the Church of England_, I have learned to be pleased with our holy Mother, for giving us floods of pure morality to wash away the few remaining Calvinian freckles that remain upon her face. “As a _Christian_, I hope I have learned, in some degree, to exercise that charity, which teaches us boldly to oppose a dangerous error without ceasing to honour and love its abettors, so far as they resemble our Lord. “And, lastly, as a _Writer_, I have learned to feel the truth of Solomon’s observation, ‘_Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh: Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments; for this is the whole duty of man_;’ and the sum of the _Anti-Solifidian_ truth, which I endeavour to vindicate. “I do not say that I have learned any of these lessons as I should have done; but I hope I have learned so much of them as to say that, in these respects, my controversial toil has not been altogether in vain in the Lord.” The reader must excuse these long extracts; for there seems to be no better way of giving a correct and full idea of Fletcher’s views and character. At the end of the first edition of his pamphlet, Fletcher inserted the following “Advertisement”:— “Mr. Hill’s ‘_Creed for Arminians_’ is followed by his plea for the _inbred man of sin_. This indirect and witty plea he calls, ‘_A Creed for Perfectionists_.’ But, as that part of his performance has no immediate connection with the doctrines vindicated in the preceding pages, I design to make my remarks upon it in a separate Tract.” This “Tract,” as Fletcher calls it, seems to have been already written, for it was forthwith published, and entitled, “The Last Check to Antinomianism. A Polemical Essay on the Twin Doctrines of Christian Imperfection and a Death Purgatory,” By the Author of the Checks. London: 1775. 12mo., 328 pp.