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REFUTATION OF MR. WESLEY’S FALSE REPORTS. 143
of those doctrines : it therefore is not to be wondered at,
if Mr. Wesley at last took the most decisive steps to
check their further extension among his flock.
"The above appears to me to be a fair and highly
probable account of the progress, on this subject, of Mr.
Wesley’s mind. It is not, however, here offered with the
view of casting any imputation on his memory. I have
little doubt, that, though some erroneous sentiments con
firmed in his understanding prevented him from accepting,
in this world, the doctrines of the New Church, his
intentions were upright, and there was a principle of real
good in his heart, which, in the other life would throw off
the errors that obscured it, and enable him to receive the
truth. This, it is probable, was seen by Swedenborg, and
was the reason of his inviting him to an interview : and
thus, I trust, though Mr. Wesley acted chiefly as an
opponent to him while on earth, he may now be asso
ciated with him in heaven. Let it, also, be remembered,
that for the alleged facts published by Mr. Wesley, Mr.
Wesley himself is not responsible : he was herein im
posed upon by Mathesius. Let not, then, his followers
still confirm themselves against Swedenborg’s testimony
by what Mr. Wesley published against him : let them
rather weigh, without Mr. Wesley’s prejudices, the
reasons he had, and might have had, for coming to a
finally favourable conclusion ; and let them accept the
sentiments which, we may hope, Mr. Wesley now holds,
instead of adhering to those which he, in all probability,
has rejected. "
REFUTATION OF THE FALSE REPORTS
PROPAGATED BY
THE REV . MR. WESLEY.
"It has given much pain (says Mr. Noble in the same
work, p. 243, ) to the receivers of the doctrines com
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