CHAPTER VI.

How preachers and theologians indulge their fancies on religion.--John Wesley.--His resolution to be a man of one book.--What came of his resolution.--His sermon on God's approbation of His works,--unscriptural and unphilosophical throughout.--Illustrations and proofs.--And Wesley was one of the best and wisest, one of the most honest and single-minded of our theologians.--What then may we expect of others?--Evils of theological trifling.--Mischievous effects of mixing human fictions with Divine revelations, 55