Logica Wesleiensis: or, the Farrago double distilled. With an heroic Poem in Praise of Mr. John Wesley …

London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly … J. Matthews … and W. Harris … 1773.

8vo., pp. 63, [1]; a good copy in modern stiff paper wrappers; contemporary ownership inscription ‘Charlotte Jones’s’ to title-page.

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First and only edition, a somewhat eccentric reproof of Wesley’s increasingly strident attacks on Calvinism (and on Hill himself).

Hill had converted to evangelical Christianity in 1758, when he began to attend Methodist meetings in Oxford; his first work of religious controversy was published in defence of six students expelled for Calvinist beliefs. Within the Methodist movement he aligned himself with Calvinism of Whitefield rather than the Arminian beliefs of Wesley, and in 1772-3 things came to a head when he published a critical Review of all the Doctrines taught by the Rev. Mr. John Wesley (1772). Wesley’s response was vehement, and is quoted by Hill here: ‘Mr. Hill is a bigot in grain – a blunderer …’.

The ‘heroic poem’ on pp. 46-51 is largely composed of phrases stitched together from Wesley’s hymns and Remarks; the rest of the pamphlet comprises a side-by-side exposition of the places where Wesley contradicts himself over doctrine. Wesley published a further reply, Some Remarks on Mr. Hill’s Farrago double-distilled (1773), but they eventually decided to bury the hatchet, and in 1774 they met and shook hands after a service conducted by Thomas Pentycross.

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