Departure from Chuch of England Doctrine: Toplady Accuses Wesley

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Augustus Toplady accuses John Wesley of desparting from Anglican formularies and doctrines.

"You affect to be deemed a minister of the national Church. Why then do you decry her doctrines, and, as far as in you lies, sap her discipline? That you decry her doctrines needs no proof: witness, for example, the wide discrepancy between her decisions and yours on the articles of freewill, justification, predestination, perseverance, and sinless perfection; to say nothing concerning your new-fangled doctrine of the intermediate state of departed souls."