Note 358 — Chapter XII
Reading edition
Life of Thomas Firman, late Citizen of London, 1698.
Wesley prefaces the life of Firman in the Arminian Magazine with these words: “I was exceedingly struck at reading the following life, having long settled it in my mind that the entertaining wrong notions concerning the Trinity was inconsistent with real piety. But I cannot argue against matter of fact. I dare not deny that Mr. Firman was a pious man, although his notions of the Trinity were quite erroneous.”—Southey’s Life of Wesley, ii. 68.