Capitolo 54
I CAPITULATE XVIII.
A PEN OF THE POWER.
I lend in the new year of 1771 the happy to relationships Fletcher and
Wesley with the Countess of Huntingdon was smashed from unlucky
the differences in theology, the Mr. Fletcher, held by the certain expressions of
Wesley against Calvinistic doctrine, finding himself/herself/itself, accordingly,
forced to resign himself/herself/themselves his/her Presidency of the university of Trevecca. Circumstances,
repented alone the most greater part of, it drew Fletcher in a long Calvinian
controversy, and to the publication of his "famous Controls to
Antinomianism", and extraordinary claim and from near-reasoned of the
doctrines from which he contained, while abounding more clearly in the of simple discourse.
The controversy of Calvinian was long and bitter, having succeeded from a
Controversy Unitary that became equally prominent. Both
troubles were productive of a lot of discussion, of many brochures of
"Claims", and "Answered", and "Circular", and "Letters." In
this word-war Fletcher was drawn a lot against his/her his/her own preference, but
when once the struggle had been entered on, it was almost impossible
for him to disentangle himself/herself/themselves as long as against him fights out.
"What a world!" he wrote to Benson; "methinks that I dream when I reflect
what I have written on controversy; the last subject that I have thought me
you/he/she would be had to involve with. I expect me to intelligently be taken available and
beaten tastily for him. God, prepares me for him, and for everything
that can make to stop me from man, and, above all, from Your unworthy
servant."
Hostile there was, not some of what it rejoiced to an opportunity
the abuse that launches to a good man--some of the acute ones and prickly things
they said amounted to actual calumny. To know how acute it was the struggle,
how bitterness and provoking the done attacks, one has to read the
correspondence and brochures published then; but in his mean everybody
Wesley was able to write of his/her friend:--
"I not only rejoice me in the abilities, but in the temperament, of Mr.