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The truth is that Wesley wrote many hymns which are not generally known as his hymns are "hand picked" for the respective hymnals of each denomination. There are not a few that Reformed churches would not sing as they are clearly based upon Arminian theology. [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin[/img] Don't discount the fact, either, that Wesley's Arminianism was in some ways far more conservative and amiable to Calvinism than modern Arminianism, which is more akin to semi-Pelagianism. Some of his hymns were far more inline with Calvinism than some modern professing Calvinists. [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/rolleyes.gif" alt="rolleyes" title="rolleyes[/img]<br><br>I do believe that the quote concerning Wesley seeing Whitefield in heaven is backward. It was Whitefield who said that about Wesley and not the other way round.<br><br>In His Grace,