Excerpt from A Letter to Rev. Edward B. Pusey, D. D: Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford, Being a Vindication of the Tenets and Character of Wesleyan Methodists, Against His Misrepresentations and Censures Rev. Sir, - Occupying as you do an office of high distinction in one of the first universi ties in the world, and having acquired no com mon celebrity as one of the principal leaders of a great ecclesiastical movement, it will per haps excite your surprise to be thus publicly ad dressed by a plain Methodist preacher. Should any one blame me for engaging in a public controversy which you have been the first to excite, I can only say, Is there not a cause? In the third edition of your Letter to the Arch bishop of Canterbury you have seen it good to assail, in no measured terms of censure, the tenets and character of the Wesleyan body; and it is in defence of my brethren and\of my self that I appear as your opponent. Great as is the disparity between us, I venture to with stand you to the face because I conceive you are to be blamed for statements which are. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.