Those who
believed universal redemption had no desire to separate, &c.--Wesley's
_Works_, vol. viii. p. 335.]
[Footnote 725: 'If there be a law,' he wrote in 1761, 'that a minister
of Christ who is not suffered to preach the Gospel in church should not
preach it elsewhere, or a law that forbids Christian people to hear the
Gospel of Christ out of their parish church when they cannot hear it
therein, I judge that law to be absolutely sinful, and that it is sinful
to obey it.']
[Footnote 726: See Tyerman's _Life of Wesley_, ii. 545.]
[Footnote 727: See Tyerman's _Life of Wesley_, ii. 334.]
[Footnote 728: Southey, ii. 71. In 1780 Wesley wrote, 'You seem not to
have well considered the rules of a helper or the rise of Methodism. It
pleased God by me to awaken first my brother, then a few others, who
severally desired of me as a favour to direct them in all things. I drew
up a few plain rules (observe there was no Conference in being) and
permitted them to join me on these conditions. Whoever, therefore,
violates these conditions does _ipso facto_ disjoin himself from me.
This Brother Macnab has done, but he cannot see that he has done amiss.
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