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Most of those who gave him this title did not distinguish between a…
Quote byJohn Wesley · 1703–1791
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to the Editor of the Gentleman's Magazine (24 December 1785), quoted in John Telford (ed.), The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M. Vol. VII: March 23, 1780, to July 24, 1787 (Epworth Press, 1960), p. 305.
English (original)
Most of those who gave him this title did not distinguish between a Jacobite and a Tory; whereby I mean ‘one that believes God, not the people, to be the origin of all civil power.’ In this sense he was a Tory; so was my father; so am I. But I am no more a Jacobite than I am a Turk; neither was my brother. I have heard him over and over disclaim that character.
— John Wesley
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