ABSTRACT

First published in The Examiner, I, 8 May 1808, pp. 301–3. This is the first in a series of essays: see The Examiner, I, 15 May 1808, pp. 317–19; 22 May 1808, pp. 334–5; 29 May 1808, pp. 348–9; 12 June 1808, pp. 380–2; 10 July 1808, pp. 444–6; 17 July 1808, pp. 459–61; and 25 December 1808, pp. 826–9. Collected and reprinted as An attempt to shew the folly and danger of Methodism: in a series of essays, first published in the weekly paper called The Examiner, and now enlarged with a preface and additional notes (London: John Hunt, 1809); Hunt prints the new preface in The Examiner, IV, 27 October 1811, pp. 695–7.