“This _new dispensation_ is a _composition_ of _enthusiasm_, _superstition_, and _imposture_. When the blood and spirits run _high_, inflaming the brain and imagination, it is most properly _enthusiasm_, which is _religion run mad_; when _low and dejected_, causing groundless terrors, or the placing of the _great duty of man_ in little observances, it is _superstition_, which is _religion scared out of its senses_; when any fraudulent dealings are made use of, and any wrong projects carried on under the mask of piety, it is _imposture_, and may be termed religion turned _hypocrite_.” The title of Whitefield’s answer was as follows: “Some Remarks on a Pamphlet, entitled, ‘The Enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists compared;’ wherein several mistakes in some parts of his past writings and conduct are acknowledged, and his present sentiments concerning the Methodists explained. In a letter to the Author. By George Whitefield, late of Pembroke College, Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Countess of Huntingdon. ‘Out of the eater came forth meat’ (Judges xiv. 4). London: printed by W. Strahan, 1749.” (8vo. 48 pp.) The title-page indicates the contents of Whitefield’s pamphlet. He honestly acknowledges his errors by inserting the letter already given, under the date of “June 24, 1748,” and which, with very little alteration, had been published in Scotland, before Lavington’s malignant ridicule had been committed to the press. Three brief extracts, from Whitefield’s “Remarks,” will be enough. In reply to the accusation of claiming to be inspired and infallible, Whitefield says:―― “No, sir, my mistakes have been too many, and my blunders too frequent, to make me set up for _infallibility_. I came soon into the world; I have carried high sail, whilst running through a whole torrent of popularity and contempt; and, by this means, I have sometimes been in danger of oversetting; but many and frequent as my mistakes have been, or may be, as soon as I am _made sensible of them_, they shall be _publicly acknowledged and retracted_.” Again, having stated what are the doctrines of the Methodists, Whitefield writes:―― “These are doctrines as diametrically opposite to the Church of Rome, as light to darkness. They are the very doctrines for which Ridley, Latimer, Cranmer, and so many of our first reformers burnt at the stake. And, I will venture to say, they are doctrines which, when attended with a divine energy, always have made, and, maugre all opposition, always will make, their way through the world, however weak the instruments, who deliver them, may be.” Then, again, the object at which Whitefield and his friends were aiming is thus described:――