"The Tinman, mov'd by warmth within,
Hammers the gospel juft like tin;
Weavers infpir'd, their buttles leave,
Sermons and flimfy hymns to weave;
"Barbers unreap'd will leave the chin,
"'To trim, and fhave the man within ;
"The Waterman forgets his wherry,
"And opens a celeftial ferry;

"The Brewer, bit by frenzy's grub,
"The mashing for the preaching tub
66 Refigns, thofe waters to explore,
"Which if you drink, you thirst no more;
"The Gardner, weary of his trade,
"Tir'd of the mattock and the fpade,

"Chang'd to Apollos in a trice,
"Waters the plants of paradife;
"The Fishermen no longer fet
"For fif the meshes of their net,
"But catch, like Peter, men of fin,
"For catching is to take them in.

I now take a final leave of methodism, with affuring you, that in giving a general idea of the tenets and practices of a numerous fect who have excited much public attention, I have invariably had in view to "speak of them as they are, nothing to extenuate, nor fet down aught in malice." Should you wish to see the errors of the methodists par

ticularly

ticularly expofed, you may read Bishop Lavington's "Enthusiasm of the methodists and baptists compared." It is esteemed a very good work, it will amufe as well as instruct you. In my next, I intended to have refumed the account of my own affairs; but an extraordinary publication, will tempt me to add, one letter more on the methodists.

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1 am,

Dear Friend,

Yours.

LETTER

ALTHOUGH I was many

years in connexion with Mr. Wesley's people, it feems, according to a pamphlet published a few months after the first edition of my Memoirs, that I was but fuperficially acquainted with Mr. Wesley and his preachers. The pamphlet is entitled, "A Letter to the Rev. T. Coke, LL.D. and Mr. H. Moore." To which is added, " An Appeal and Remonftrance to the People called Methodists, by an old Member of the Society." This old member informs us, that he has been acquainted

quainted with the methodists twenty-eight years, and if their preachers are but half as bad as he has drawn them, they are a deteftable set of fly deceiving villains. The letter was occafioned by Dr. Coke and Mr. Moore's propofals for publishing Mr. Wefley's Life, in oppofition to that advertised (under the fanction of the executors) to be written by Dr. Whitehead.

And we are informed that after Mr. Welley's manufcripts and private papers had been given up to Dr. Whitehead, and the Doctor appointed to write his Life, and this Life announced to the public by the executors as the only authentic work, on a misunderstanding taking place between Dr. Whitehead and the preachers, because the Doctor would not fubmit his work to be infpected, altered, &c. and alfo because the Doctor would not confent to give to the preachers at the conference, nearly the whole of the profits derived from his labours, they then fent a circular letS

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ter figned by nine of their head preachers, to all their focieties, and advise them to return the fubfcriptions that they had taken for Doctor Whitehead's Life of Mr. Wesley, and to procure all the fubfcriptions in their power for another Life of Mr. Wefley, to be written by Dr. Coke and Mr. Moore.

The following quotations I think will please you, page 8, &c. "That Mr. Wesley was a great man is an undeniable truth; that is comparitively :-Great amongst little people."

Nothing can exhibit his character as an ambitious man, more than the following anecdote, which I can give from the most authentic authority. When a boy he was in the Charter-House fchool; the Rev. A. Tooke, the author of the Pantheon, was then mafter, and obferving that his pupil, who was remarkably forward in his ftudies, yet he conftantly affociated with the inferior claffes, and it was his cuftom to be furrounded by a number of the little boys, haranguing them, Mr. Tooke, once accidentally broke in upon him when in the middle of an oration, and interrupted him, by defiring him to follow him to the parlour. Mr. Wefley, offended by being thus abruptly de