It is a gross and impudent delusion to call a Book his authority, which he receives only so far as it is an echo of his own convictions.

I defy him to adduce one single article of his whole faith, (creed rather) which he really derives from the Scripture.

Even the arguments for the Resurrection are and must be extraneous: for the very proofs of the facts are (as every 'tyro' in theology must know) the proofs of the authenticity of the Books in which they are contained.
This question I would press upon him:--Suppose we possessed the Fathers only with the Ecclesiastical and Pagan historians, and that not a page remained of the New Testament,--what article of his creed would it alter?
Ib.p.

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If the creed of Calvinistic Methodism is really more productive of conversions than the religion of Christianity, let them openly and at once say so.
But Calvinistic Methodism?
Why Calvinistic Methodism?
Not one in a hundred of the Methodists are Calvinists.

Not to mention the impudence of this crow in his abuse of black feathers! Is it worse in a Methodist to oppose Socinianism to Christianity, that is, to the doctrines of Wesley or even Whitfield, which are the same as those of all the Reformed Churches of Christendom, and differ only wherein the most celebrated divines of the same churches have differed with each other,--than for the Barrister to oppose Methodism to Christianity (his Christianity)--that is, to Socinianism, which in every peculiar doctrine of Christianity differs from all divines of all Churches of all ages?
For the one tenet in which the Calvinist differs from the majority of Christians, are there not ten in which the Socinian differs from all?
To what purpose then this windy declamation about John Calvin?
How many Methodists, does the Barrister think, ever saw, much less read, a work of Calvin's?
If he scorns the name of Socinus as his authority, and appeals to Scripture, do not the Methodists the same?
When do they refer to Calvin?
In what work do they quote him?
This page is therefore mere dust in the eyes of the public.