IR-Rev. John Wesley an Anti-Calvinists Says Rev. Toplady in a letter dated 26 Mar 1770. Mr. Toplady says of the Arminian,"You complain, I am told, that the evangelical clergy are leaviug no stone unturned `to raise John Calvin's ghost, in all quarters of the land." If you think the doctrines of that eminent and blessed reformer to be formidable as a ghost, you are welcome to do all you can towards laying them. Begin your incantations as soon as you please. The press is open, and you never had a fairer opportunity of trying your strength upon John Calvin than at present. Only take care that you do not, with all your skill in theological magic, get yourself into a circle, out of which you may find it difficult to retreat. And, a little to mitigate your wrath against the raisers of Calvin's ghost, remember that you yourself have heen a great ghost-raiser in your time. Who raised the ghosts of John Goodwin, the Arminian regicide; and Thomas Grantham, the Arminian baptist? Who raised the ghost of Monsieur n DeRenty, the French Papist; and of many other Romish enthusiasts; by translating their lives into English, for the edification of Protestant readers?
Should you take any notice of this letter, I have three requests to make; or rather, there are three particulars on which I have a right to insist:
1. Do not quote unfairly.
2. Do not answer evasively.
3. Do not print clandestinely."
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