Mr. Hill, in the Eleventh Article of his “Fictitious Creed,” had made Fletcher, Wesley, and Walter Sellon, not only deny “The Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England,” which they had “solemnly subscribed,” but also the _truthful_ teaching of four Apostolical writers in the New Testament. With excessively bad taste, he had represented them as saying, “Let Peter, Paul, James, and John say what they will, and let the Reformers and Martyrs join their syren-song, their eyes were at best but half opened, for want of a little Foundery eye-salve.” Accordingly, the fifth and five following sections of Fletcher’s book are devoted to a refutation of this scandalous and almost profane slander. A large number of texts, from the Epistles of these four inspired writers, are most ably examined and explained,—texts incontestably proving that the doctrine of Christian Perfection was a doctrine taught by “Peter, Paul, James, and John.” In the eleventh section of his book, Fletcher triumphantly answers the objections, founded upon certain texts in the writings of Solomon, Isaiah, and Job; and in the twelfth he adduces “a variety of arguments to prove the _absurdity_ of the twin doctrines of _Christian Imperfection_ and a _Death-Purgatory_.” In this, he furnishes a definition of Christian Perfection worthy of being quoted, namely:— “_Christian Perfection_ is nothing but the _depth_ of evangelical repentance, the _full_ assurance of faith, and the _pure_ love of God and man shed abroad in a _faithful_ believer’s heart, by the Holy Ghost given unto him, to cleanse him, and to keep him clean, _from all filthiness of the flesh and Spirit_; and to enable him to _fulfil the law of Christ_ according to the talents he is entrusted with, and the circumstances in which he is placed in _this_ world.” In the next section (the thirteenth) Fletcher dwells upon “the _mischievousness_ of the doctrines of _Christian Imperfection, and a Death Purgatory_.” He concludes his scathing arguments on this subject as follows:—