“We look upon ourselves, not as the authors or ringleaders
of a particular sect or party—it is the farthest thing from our thoughts—but as
messengers of God, to those who are Christians in name but heathens in heart
and life, to call them back to that from which they are fallen, to real,
genuine Christianity.”
—John Wesley in A
Preservative Against Unsettled Notions of Religion, (1758), quoted in John Wesley ed. By Albert C. Outler,
Oxford University Press, 1964, p. 20
