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W. published a tract against drinking tea, and told the tea-drinkers he would set them an example in that piece of self-denial.” (Farrago, p. 41.) “I did set them an example for twelve years. Then, at the close of a consumption, by Dr. Fothergill’s direction, I used it again.” (Remarks, p. 393.) “Why then did Mr. W. re-publish this tract, making the world believe it brought a paralytic disorder upon him?” Before I was twenty years old, it made my hand shake, so that I could hardly write. “Is it not strange then, that Dr. Fothergill should advise Mr. W. to use what had before thrown him into the palsy ?” I did not say so. I never had the palsy yet; though my hand shook, which is a “paralytic disorder.” But be it strange or not, so Dr. F. advised; if you believe not me, you may inquire of himself. The low wit that follows, I do not meddle with ; I leave it with the gentle reader. * O rare Wesleyan Logic teacher.--EDIT. He who is clear in making distinctions is an able Of Baptism. 38. “Mr. W. says, “As there is no clear proof for dip ping in Scripture, so there is very probable proof to the contrary.’ “Why then did you at Savannah baptize all children by immersion, unless the parents certified they were weak?” (Farrago, p. 42.) I answered: “Not because I had any scruple, but in obedience to the Rubric.” Mr. H., according to custom, repeats the objection, without taking the least notice of the answer. As to the story of half drowning Mrs. L. S., let her aver it to my face, and I shall say more. Only observe, Mr. Toplady is not “my friend.” He is all your own; your friend, ally, and fellow soldier:-- Ut non Compositus melius cum Bitho Bacchius ! * You are in truth, duo fulmina belli.t. It is not strange if their thunder should quite drown the sound of my “poor pop-guns.” 39. “But what surpasses everything else is, that Mr. W. cannot even speak of his contradictions, without contradicting himself afresh. For he absolutely denies, not only that he ever was unsettled in his principles, but that he was ever accused of being so, either by friends or foes.” (Pages 39, 40.) Either by friends or foes / I will rest the whole cause upon this.