a fine eulogy for him on November 18 in London. Opponents carped at Wesley’s spin on Whitefield. A theological crash was waiting to happen; when the collision did come, neither side wanted to leave the scene of the accident. All hell broke loose after the publication of the Conference Minutes of 1770, in which the Methodists openly spoke of good works as remotely or indirectly essential to salvation. The Calvinists interpreted this move as diluting the place of God’s action in salvation. The debate,
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