Genevensis a Friend’s inconsistency blames

Genevensis[1] a Friend’s inconsistency blames
For running with Paul, and yet holding with James,
This as knavish he notes in a free-willing brother,
Saying one thing to us, and intending another:
But how often have we at their honesty wondred,
We cry MERCY for all, and mean One in an hundred!

[1] This epigram is in response to John Fletcher’s Logica Genevensis; or a Fourth Check to Antinomianism: In which St. James’s Pure Religion is defended against the charges, and established upon the Concessions of Mr. Richard and Mr. Rowland Hill, in a Series of Letters to those Gentlemen (Bristol: W. Pine, 1772).

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Epigram.” This loose-leaf manuscript is held by the Methodist Archive and Research Centre, The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester. Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School.
Publishing: Public Domain