Charles Wesley was a great hymn writer, that isn't to be debated, and yet his hymns are popular in both Arminian and Reformed circles. What are we to think of him? One stanza in "And Can it Be that I Should Gain" seems to hint at him believing that it is God who gives us the ability to believe:<br><br>Long my imprisoned spirit lay,<br>Fast bound in sin and nature’s night;<br>Thine eye diffused a quickening ray—<br>I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;<br>My chains fell off, my heart was free,<br>I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.<br><br>On a similar, um, note there is an interesting anecdote I've heard about John Wesley and George Whitefield. After Whitefield's death, a woman asked Wesley whether or not he would see Whitefield in Heaven. When Wesley replied "no", the woman said she was afraid he would say that. Then, Wesley replied that Whitefield would be so close to the throne of God that Wesley wouldn't be able to see him from the back.

True godliness is a sincere feeling which loves God as Father as much as it fears and reverences Him as Lord, embraces His righteousness, and dreads offending Him worse than death~ Calvin