Ward these are apples and oranges and you know it I think:>) Wesley 1st of all speaks in the past tense..man was made in God's image..we know that Wesley no longer believes that we are made in God's image because He told us so in Chapter 5
The argument Wesley makes here is one to support his theology..that there remains enough of God's image ( call it prevenient grace)so that man can make a free choice..
Wesley is NOT saying that man is still made in God's image..He is defending his theology here..that somehow the fall was not totally deadly the dead man could still breath a little bit.
This is NO argument that man is still made in God's image!
It's nice that you know what Wesley was saying. What's he saying here?
All the blessings which God hath bestowed upon man are of his mere grace, bounty, or favour; his free, undeserved favour; favour altogether undeserved; man having no claim to the least of his mercies. It was free grace that "formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into him a living soul," and stamped on that soul the image of God, and "put all things under his feet." The same free grace continues to us, at this day, life, and breath, and all things. For there is nothing we are, or have, or do, which can deserve the least thing at God's hand. "All our works, Thou, O God, hast wrought in us." These, therefore, are so many more instances of free mercy: and whatever righteousness may be found in man, this is also the gift of God. Salvation by Faith
Of course he's saying that to defend his theology. Just as you're defending your own.