It is not I then who ruin and starve that family; it is _you_; _you_ who call yourself a _protestant_! _You_ who cry out against the _persecuting_ spirit of the _Papists_! Ye fools and blind! What are ye better then they? Why, _Edmund Bonner_ would have _starved_ the hereticks in _prison_: whereas _you starve_ them in their _own houses_. *And all this time you talk of _liberty of conscience_! Yes, liberty for such a conscience as your own: a conscience _past feeling_; (for sure it had some once) a conscience _seared with a hot iron_. Liberty to serve the devil, according to your poor, hardened conscience, you allow; but not liberty to serve God. *Nay, and what marvel? Whosoever thou art that readest this, and feelest in thy heart a real desire to serve God, I warn thee, expect no liberty for thy conscience, from him that hath no conscience at all. All ungodly, unthankful, unholy men; all villains of whatever denomination, will have liberty indeed all the world over, as long as their master is _God of this world_. But expect not liberty to worship God in spirit and in truth, to practise pure and undefiled religion (unless the Lord should work a new thing in the earth) from any but those who themselves love and serve God. 9. “However, ’tis plain, you make men idle. And this tends to beggar their families.” This objection having been continually urged for some years, I will trace it from the foundation. Two or three years after my return from _America_, one Captain _Robert Williams_ of _Bristol_, made affidavit before the (then) mayor of the city, that “it was a common report in _Georgia_, Mr. _Wesley_ took people off from their work and _made them idle_, by preaching so much.” The fact stood thus: at my first coming to _Savannah_, the generality of the people rose at seven or eight in the morning. And that part of them who were accustomed to work, usually worked till six in the evening. A few of them sometimes worked till seven; which is the time of sun-set there at Midsummer. I immediately began reading prayers and expounded the second lesson, both in the morning and evening. The morning service began at five, and ended at, or before six: the evening service began at seven. Now supposing all the grown persons in the town, had been present every morning and evening, would this have _made them idle_? Would they hereby have had _less_, or considerably _more time for working_? 10. The same rule I follow now, both at _London_, _Bristol_ and _Newcastle-upon-Tyne_: concluding the service at every place, winter and summer, before six in the morning: and not ordinarily beginning to preach, till near seven in the evening. Now do you, who make this objection, work longer, throughout the year, than from six to six? Do you desire, that the generality of people should? Or, can you count them idle, that work so long?