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Answ. Here is wisdom! The nominative is'It is impossible for an artist to imitate nature in shape and motion:' but when the artist has done this impossible work of imitating nature, and has produced an automaton figure, in imitation of nature both in shape and motion, then Tim. avers, that to give such an image life, and an appetite for food, only an Almighty Jehovah can do this. How wickedly and scandalously does this novice bring in the sacred name of Jehovah, in talking of almighty power giving life and appetite to an image, possibly carved and made by the impossible. skill of an artist!

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Satan can imitate the work of God. Answ. It is plain he tries at it by this wretched Looking-glass; for surely the devil never worked more in order to imitate God's work, and deceive the simple, than in the dictating this book. Nevertheless, his cloven foot is not hid, for it appears in every page. Blessed be God, we are not ignorant of Satan's devices; for there is no more imitation or comparison between the regenerating work of God upon the soul, and the account of it in this book by Timothy Priestley, than between light and darkness, Christ and Belial. Satan is no more hid under the gown and wig of Timothy Priestley, than he was under the petticoat of the witch of Endor. The devil is the devil still, whether he comes in long clothing, a rough garment to deceive, or in the attire of an harlot. Yea, the scripture character of him appears in this very

book. It is his business to draw ignorant souls into sin, and then to father it upon the instruments instead of himself; and it is verified in this Looking-glass: Timothy Priestley's name stands affixed to it, whereas any discerning Christian may see, with half an eye, that the devil, and none but the devil, was the sole and whole author of it. Thus are the sons of men ensnared in an evil time. The penman of this book may be pitied; but as for the principal Author, who can recommend him to mercy? None but Mr. Winchester.

Quot. But Satan cannot give a man an appetite for spiritual food.

Answ. This is verified in the Canaanitish woman, who begged for a crumb of the children's bread that fell from their master's table, her daughter being grievously vexed with the devil. And I think that, if our Timothy and his Christian were vexed in the like manner, they would be driven to hunger, and to seek the bread and water of life with as much earnestness as the rich man tormented in hell begged for a drop of water to cool his tongue. A sinner, sensibly in the tormenting hands of the devil, can no more fill his belly with Timothy's doctrine, which is nothing but the east wind, than the man in hell could satisfy his drought with devouring flames.

Quot. The love of fame has done surprising things; and such things may be done without any principle of grace in the heart.

Answ. This is verified in our Timothy. Fame

and money have produced all the surprising things that he has held forth in the pulpit, and published to the world. I am not alone in my judgment: Tim's conscience is on my side, and is of the same opinion with me. Paul, knowing the terrors of the Lord, persuaded men; which terrors, Timothy says, leave a man worse than they found him. The love of Christ constrained Paul; but God is love. And nothing which is essentially divine, or divine essence, can be communicated! Therefore our Tim. is neither drove to persuade by terror, nor constrained by love. Hence I conclude, from Timothy's own premises, that love of fame, of idleness, and the love of money, are the only weights and springs that keep him in motion; and that when these fail, all his wheels will be motionless; "And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?" Job xxiv. 22. Our Tim. has got a son training up for the same business with himself, which cannot spring, I think, from a principle of grace. For even I, who am declared, and that by divines, even such as Timothy Priestley himself, to be of a bad spirit, which is far enough from a principle of grace, would sooner put a child of mine to a chimneysweeper, a nightman, to a peter-boat, or even a hangman; yea, would sooner see them in a pillory, than I would see them in a pulpit mocking their Maker, destroying of souls, and exposing themselves to a treble damnation, by thrusting them, or permitting them to thrust themselves, into the

priest's office for a morsel of bread. And if a man of a bad spirit has such fear and feeling, what proof of a principle of grace does our Tim. give, who does such things?

POSTSCRIPT.

I HAVE gone as far as an Eighteen-penny pamphlet will let me go. There is, I find, a second part of this glass to be published. By the time that that work is a fortnight old, the second part of the Barber may be expected, if God spares my life. Till then I must take my leave of my Reader, after adding the following hints: The first is, that if my Reader thinks that I should have quoted the whole of this glass, my answer is, that then the book had been completed without any reply of mine, and I should have been only the reviser and republisher of lies and falsehood. But if my Reader will undertake to prove any one page in all this whole Looking-glass to be either true or sound, I will undertake to prove it to be both false and rotten. If I am become thine enemy because I tell thee the truth, the fault and loss is thine own; but if I had gained thine esteem by flattering thee, the fault and loss would be mine. I say, arise and depart, Reader; for Tim's Looking-glass is not thy rest nor thy mirror, Make not lies thy refuge, nor hide thyself under

falsehood; for into the heavenly Jerusalem shall nothing enter that loveth or maketh a lie. Remember, I have admonished thee this day.

Thine, in the Truth of the Gospel,

Winchester Row, Paddington,

January 4, 1791.

W. H.

IF Timothy Priestley should imagine, that this my answer springs from any prejudice against him, on account of his good old Lady's commissioning him to proclaim Mr. Huntington, 'That justly exceptionable man,' in the public assembly at Birmingham, he is entirely mistaken. The Lord had a great while ago made me manifest in the consciences of many of that assembly; and Tim's Lady has long since made herself so. I am no friend to disobedience or unfaithfulness. I delivered to the above-mentioned assembly what I had learned of God; and you deliver what your Mistress taught you. By the rule of God's word, I was right; and, by the rules of human policy, you was. Let my Lord's servants, and the Lady's lacquies, both be found faithful. The sole cause of my reply to yours, is, because what you have struck at in your deceitful glass, and blind guide, as marks peculiar to the hypocrite, is to be found in bible saints; and what you have advanced and applied as peculiar evidences of saints, are all to be found in ancient hypocrites. Yea, all the undoubted criterions of your Christian are palpable falsehoods, and damnable deceptions; and every scripture

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