Excerpt from Passages From the Diary of an Early Methodist
On the other hand, who that knows Methodism, past or present, fails ito recognize the typical Saunders? Very desirous  using the Methodist vernacular to ?ee from the wrath to come, as being, even to a worldly mind, an issue much to be deprecated yet, in the very same spirit, a devout worshipper of Mammon provoked to transitory love and occasional good works by ceaseless counsels from the brethren, and the steady influence of a good wife never daring to renounce his connection even with the sect everywhere spoken against; but inconstant, shabby, mean, and grasping.