is to prove all Dissenters, from the Puritans of the 16th century to the Methodists of the 19th, republicans and rebels."

Before we proceed to this point I must observe, the Preface itselt is too curious to be passed over. Here the Methodists are compared to the Nicolaitans, Carpocrations, Nazarites, Aschtohytæ, Donatists, Gnosimachic, Taudenians, Petrobrussians, Waldenses, Pseudo-Apostoli, Antinomians, Brownists, Familists, Theaureau John's Sect, and lastly (as worst of all) the Independents. From this list it is sufficiently evident what company our author keeps, for the catalogue is evidently a popish one. Some of these heretics, the Waldenses for instance, were the witnesses of truth: Bishop Newton calls them the Protestants of their age*." But it is curious to observe that the notions attributed to the new sect are not only various, but opposite. They are compared to one sect, because they were haters of knowledge--to another, because they held faith only-and to a third, because they were guided by their own rea

son !

The peculiarities of some of these strange sects is strangely, and even humorously described: the Pseudoapostoli, for instance, held dark meetings, and held it lawful to pray in "a hog-stye”—a most enormous heresy no doubt!-and the sagacity of this discovery, as it respects the modern Pseudo-apostoli, i. e. the Methodists, leads one to suppose this author might be the clergyman, who but a few years since visited a Methodist meeting with a dark lantern in his pocket:-but to his great mortification the Methodists smoked the parson, and would not put out the candles till the people were all gone; which is, I believe, so generally the case, that even Mr. Owen with his dark lantern has never been able to find out one of these dark-meetings, or I think he would have had the benevolence to inform us. Lastly, these Methodists are "most like to the Independents, who were the spawn of the Puritans, and murdered in cold blood the good king Charles," which is no obscure insinuation of what he supposes the Methodists would do to good king George." That the Independants, however, were the murder

*On the Prophecies, Diss. xxiv. ch. 11.

ers of king Charles is so far from proved, that it does not appear that more than two or three of that party approved of it, while many petitioned and protested against it at the time,

as well as afterwards declared their abhorrence of it. The truth is as stated by Dr. Du Moulin, Prebendary of Canterbury, who says, "that no party of men, as a religious body, were the actors in this tragedy; but that it was the contrivance of an army, which, like that of king David, was a medley, or collection of all parties that were discontented, some Courtiers, some Presbyterians, some Episcopalians, few of any sect, but most of none, or else the religion of Thomas Hobbes (the Atheist) and Dr. Scarborough; not to mention the Papists, who had the greatest hand in it of all.”

But not to detain your readers longer on these prefatory insinuations, we proceed to the extracts which form the body of this abusive pamphlet, briefly noticing as we run through them, the credit of the authorities quoted-the authenticity of the facts and the justness of the compiler's inferences

The first extracts I shall notice are from the History of England by various hands-Vol. III. Archbishop Laud's Report with king Charles's

notes.

“P. 80. Ann. 1636. Archbishop's Report. How this part came to be so infected with such a humour of separation, I know not, unless it were by too much connivance at their first beginning: neither do I see any remedy like to be, unless some of their chief seducers be made to abjure the kingdom. The King wrote thus in the margin-C. R. Inform me of the particulars and I shall command the Judges to make them abjure.

"P. 81. Ann. 1636. Archbishop's Report. The third misdemeanour, which my Lord of London complains of, is the late spreading and dispersing of some factious and malicious pamphlets, against the Bishops, and Government of the Church of England. If the High-Commission Court shall not have power enough, because one of those libels contains seditious matter in it, and that which is very little short of treason, (if any thing at all); then I humbly crave and desire that your Majesty will call it into a higher Court, if you find cause: since I see no likelihood but that these

troubles in the Church, if they be permitted, will break out into some sedition in the Commonwealth-to which the King answered in the margin-C. R. What the High-Commission Court cannot do in this, I shall supply as I see cause, in a more powerful way. "P. 81. Ann. 1636. Archbishop's Report. For my part I think it very fit the beneficed men were punctually commanded to reside upon their cures ; and for the rest, your Majesty's instructions allow none to keep Chaplains, but such as are qualified by law. (The King wrote thus: I approve your judgment in this, I only add, that care must be taken that even thofe qualified by law, keep none but conformable men.)

"P. 87. Ann. 1637. Archbishop's Report. The Separatists continue to hold their Conventicles. They are all of the poorer sort, and very simple, so that I am utterly to seek what to do with them. Brewer slipt out of prison, and went to Rochester, and other parts of Kent, and held Conventicles, and put a great many simple people, especially women, in great distempers against the Church. He is taken again; and was called before the High Commission, where he stood silent, but in such a jeering, scornful manner, as I scarce ever saw the like: so in prison he remains. (To which the King put this note: Keep those particular persons fast, until ye think what to do with the rest)

"P. 87. Ann. 1637. Archbishop's Report. At Biddenden I have suspended Richard Warren, the schoolmaster, for refusing the oaths of allegiance and canonical obedience, and to subscribe to the Articles. Besides, this precise man will read nothing but divinity to his scholars; no, not so much as the Grammar schools, unless Mars, Bacchus, Apollo, and Pol. depol, may be plotted out.

"P. 90. Ann. 1638. Archbishop's Report. The Separatists about Ashford are very busy, miserably poor, and, out of that, bold against all church censure; so that, without some temporal assistance from the Judges, we know not what to do; and this I have often and humbly represented.-C. R. Demand their, (i. e. the Judges) help, and if they refufe I shall make them assist you.'

To the authority of these extracts 1 make no objection, and on their contents no remark is necessary.

They certainly give the true characters of Laud and his royal master. And in the sequel of these extracts we have encomiums on the Conventicle Act, the Oxford Act, and the other persecuting laws of this reign, which filled the nation with contusion and with crimes: with a strong recommendation of their renewal in the present times!

The next authors extracted from are Bishops Lavington and Warburton, who relate some private slanders on the character of Mr. John Wesley, founded on the tittle tattle evidence of two or three old women; with which I beg leave to class the idle tale in page 17, relative to another poor woman who had been turned out of a Methodist society, probably for some cause she did not chuse to name, and who told a gentleman, who told our author, who has told it to the public, that she was turned out "because she would not admit that the confession of her sins to the minister rendered her completely innocent" -a very likely story truly!

Our author next gives some copious extracts from the Abbe Baruel's History of Jacobinism, and Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy,in order to prove, i suppose, that the old women at the Foundry and the Tabernacle were in league with the German Illuminati. The connection is only to be seen, however, in two or three notes upon the extracts, which are too curious to be passed by in silence. In a note, p. 44. The editor says, "I do maintain," with "truly initiated" Methodists "religion is a mere cloak for sedition; and that their end and aim are the same with those of the Illuminées and Jacobins, viz. liberty and equality."-Now who will dare dispute such authority as this Welsh Rector's ipse dixit? Again, p. 48, note (y)-Mr. O. tells us, what indeed, if it were true, "it is fit the world should know, that in the houses of those Methodists, who can afford it, there is placed, by the Society, a person who is stiled a pray-er; but who is, in fact, little less than a spy put there to observe, and of course to report, all the transactions which occur in the family." Credat Judeus Appella! -P. 50, note (a). This sagacious writer finds out a wonderful coincidence between the Illuminati and the Methodists. A printer of the latter persuasion refused to print for me,

for no other reason than that I write in defence of the Church. This is systematic opposition." Wonderful indeed! that a conscientious Methodist should refuse to print a bitter attack on his own principles (though he might possibly have another reason) and wonderful too that this should make the Methodists like the Illuminati! But is it not more wonderful that this reverend author, after denouncing all Methodists (in his "Hints to Heads of Families") as improper to be employed even in the most menial capacity, should himself wish to employ a Methodist ?

But to proceed, we have now a tribe of witnesses to confront. First enters Mr. Polwhele, who gives us the definition of a Methodist-as one who is "methodically and ostentatiously religious, and more than ordinarily zealous in the work of proselytism; (p. 52.) crimes of which neither Mr. O. or Mr. P. will easily be convicted.

W. H. Reid. This gentleman is a sort of king's evidence, and knows that the surest method to find out a plot is to make one. He was, by his own_account, an active member of the London Corresponding Society, among whom he heard the most horrid ravings of infidelity, and this he endeavours to connect with Methodism, by giving a list of Methodist preachers of the lower order; but what is this to the purpose? he does not name one individual, who, like himself, visited these nefarious clubs, ridiculing the Bible and Christianity. We pass on to this worthy gentleman's compeer: the Rev. David Rivers (par nobile fratrum !) next mounts the stool of evidence. Were this gentleman to be brought into a court of judicature, a few of the usual questions on such occasions would probably soon determine the fate of his evidence: Such as-" What are you Sir? Where do you live, Sir?" -but a truce to such questions-let us dive into no family secrets. Let us hear his evidence." The parents of Mr. Wilkes were Dissenters"therefore all Dissenters were Wilkites. "A Dissenter and a Wilkite were synonimous terms." Query, What were the parents of Mr. D. Rivers? Again, Drs. Price and Priestley were republicans-ergo, all Dissenters are republicans.

Thomas Hardy the "acquitted felon," was a Dissenter-therefore all

Dissenters are-what? acquitted 'felons !-Might we not as well argue, Thomas Hardy was a shoemakerergo, all Dissenters are shoemakers? -But enough of this nonsense, and of the portraits of Bonaparte and Thomas Paine, &c. I shall notice only one more charge. "The Dissenters are almost exclusively purchasers of the jacobin prints-the Morning Chronicle and the Courier."-Who can prove this? do they carry a mark upon their foreheads?

"A Country Parson's Address to his Flock"-has met with a complete answer from "A Lover of his Country and a Friend to Truth"-I will only add, that the facts there alledged, as far as relates to political circumstances, have to my knowledge been fully enquired into by government, and by the vigilant Bishop of that dioceseand the gentleman there accused completely justified, while "the country parson" has been clothed with shame.

We pass on to that constellation of moral beauties the Anti-jacobin Review: but as these gentlemen have lately been so handsomely dressed by Mr. Hard, and in your and some other periodical works, in "sheer mercy" I shall pass them by; observing only, that the ridiculous slander upon Mr. Haldane has been publicly recanted by Professor Robison, though not with that openness and candour which would have redeemed his credibility.

A few other extracts are given from the newspapers and other equally respectable authorities; but nothing. occurs that deserves the name of evidence, or would be admitted as such in any court in the kingdom, even upon the most trifling cause. It is admitted, that here and there an individual may have been faulty, but is it not so in all denominations? Have no members of the Church of England discovered marks of disaffection? Why then attempt to fix an odium on a whole body of peaceful subjects for the disaffection or indiscretion of a few-It is easy to guess of the motives of these scribblers-but the public ought to be cautioned against the malicious designs of men, who delight in slander, and strive to again enkindle the flames of persecution.

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