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Excerpt from Anti-Methodist Publications Issued During the Eighteenth Century: A Chronologically Arranged and Annotated Bibliography of All Known Books and Pamphlets Written in Opposition to the Methodist Revival During the Life of Wesley; Together With an Account of Replies to Them, and of Some Other Publications Samples of the misrepresentation and abuse Wesley com plains of are-easy to select: let this one suffice Imposture and fanaticism still hang upon the skirts of religion. Weak minds were seduced by the delusions of a superstition, styled Methodism, raised upon the affectation of superior sanctity, and pretensions to divine illumination. Many thousands were infected with this enthusiasm by the endeavours of a few obscure preachers, such as Whitefield, and the two Wesleys, who found means to lay the whole kingdom under contribution. Smollett, Hist. Of England, xv. 121, 122. Well might Wesley exclaim poor Dr. Smollett thus to transmit to all succeeding generations a whole heap of notorious falsehoods Works, iv. 148. Soon after Wesley's death controversy sprang up within the circle of the Methodist Societies. The literature relating to that controversy, and to the divisions of Methodism which followed, I have, with the exceptions above referred to, purposely omitted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.