The fifth book of wonders

Townley and Underwood would assist in such a deception—one that would inevitably come to a disgraceful end. I am now answered regarding my decision to publish the substance of my will as follows:

“I have led you in darkness to bring to light the ignorance of foolish men. It was for this reason that I influenced you to make your will at a time when you expected death. Now I have ordered you to publish it to shame and confound your infamous accusers. Greater infamy could never be invented, and blacker crimes could not be committed, than those they claimed you, Townley, and Underwood would conspire to do to mock both God and man.”

Here I have answered the false claims of certain men. But, as Solomon observed, men have sought out many schemes; therefore, I shall next address what one Besley, a printer in South Street, Exeter, has said in two handbills he printed against me and against the Spirit that visits me. Because he mocks the millennium and calls Brice—the printer of my first book—a man of good sense (whom he admits is a Deist A person who believes in a creator God but rejects organized religion and divine revelation.), I can only judge from such expressions that he holds the same opinions as Brice did. Therefore, I shall not enter into scriptural arguments with such men. Instead, I shall challenge Besley on his own grounds to show him his folly, so that he stands condemned by his own words.

He says, “I am told her followers have become numerous, that she has a respectable establishment, and a chapel built solely for the use of her disciples.”

I acknowledge this information to be true, for I am very comfortably situated. I have a number of respectable and worthy friends, and there is