A LETTER
TO THE
REVEREND DR. HORNE.

OCCASIONED BY HIS LATE SERMON, PREACHED BEFORE
THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, ABOUT 1762.

Reverend Sir,

When you spoke of "heresies making their periodical revolutions," of "Antinomianism rampant among us," and, immediately after, of "the new lights at the Tabernacle and Foundry," must not your hearers naturally think that Mr. Whitefield and I were reviving those heresies? But do you know the persons of whom you speak? Have you ever conversed with them? Have you read their writings? If not, is it kind, is it just, to pass so severe a censure upon them? Had you only taken the trouble of reading one tract, the "Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion," you would have seen that a great part of what you affirm is what I never denied. To put this beyond dispute, I beg leave to transcribe some passages from that treatise; which will show not only what I teach now, but what I have taught for many years. I will afterward simply and plainly declare wherein I as yet differ from you: And the rather, that if I err therein, you may, by God’s assistance, convince me of it.