But why, in the name of common sense, all this endless whoop and hubbub against the Calvinistic Methodists?
I had understood that the Arminian Methodists, or Wesleyans, are the more numerous body by far.

Has there been any union lately?
Have the followers of Wesley abjured the doctrines of their founder on this head?
Ib.p.

16.
We are told by our new spiritual teachers, that reason is not to be applied to the inquiry into the truth or falsehood of their doctrines; they are spiritually discerned, and carnal reason has no concern with them.
Even under this aversion to reason, as applied to religious grounds, a very important truth lurks: and the mistake (a very dangerous one I admit,) lies in the confounding two very different faculties of the mind under one and the same name;--the pure reason or 'vis scientifica'; and the discourse, or prudential power, the proper objects of which are the 'phaenomena' of sensuous experience.

The greatest loss which modern philosophy has through wilful scorn sustained, is the grand distinction of the ancient philosophers between the [Greek: noumena], and [Greek: phainomena].

This gives the true sense of Pliny--'venerare Deos' (that is, their statues, and the like,) 'et numina Deorum', that is, those spiritual influences which are represented by the images and persons of Apollo, Minerva, and the rest.
Ib.p.