ir Art resign,
And lose the _Quack_ in the _Divine_; ...
Of a _New-birth_ they prate, and prate
While _Midwifry_ is out of Date (pp. 30-31).

He combines the language of tradesmen with the language of mythology and
theology to suggest, rather wittily and effectively, that disorder can be
commonplace and cosmic simultaneously:

The _Bricklay'r_ throws his _Trowel_ by,
And now _builds Mansions in the Sky_; ...
The _Waterman_ forgets his _Wherry_,
And opens a _celestial Ferry_; ...
The _Fishermen_ no longer set
For _Fish_ the Meshes of their Net,
But catch, like _Peter_, _Men of Sin_,
For _catching_ is to _take them in_ (pp. 32-34).

This spreading confusion is, however, not just a passing social problem
but one that results from many breasts being "tainted" and many hearts
"infected" (p. 34). The corruption is almost universal and results in
Wesley (as he actually did) selling "Powders, Draughts, and Pills." Madan
"the springs of Health _unlocks_,/ And by his Preaching cures the
_P_[_ox_]," (he was Chaplain of Lock Hospital) and Romaine:

Pulls you by _Gravity up-Hill_, ...
By your _bad Deeds_ your _Faith_ you shew,
'Tis but _believe_, and _up You go_ (p. 36).

Lloyd treats the confusion between sexual desire and religious fervor
as another aspect of general human depravity, extending the satire
beyond the crude accusation of hypocrisy or cynicism. He argues that
the confusion is a part of the human condition, allowed to go out of
control by a religion that puts passion before reason. The Countess of
Huntingdon, "cloy'd with _carnal_ Bliss," longs "to taste how _Spirits_
kiss." In his all-inclusive catalogue of "_Knaves_/ That crawl on
_Earth_" Lloyd includes "_Prudes_ that crowd to _Pews_,/ While their
_Thoughts_ ramble to the _Stews_" (p. 48).

What makes Lloyd interesting, in spite of his many derivative ideas and
techniques, is inadvertently pointed out by the _Critical Review_, which
complains that "the author outmethodizes even Methodism itself."[5] That
the brutal tone of _The Methodist_ went beyond the license usually
permitted the satirists was recognized by Lloyd himself. At the
conclusion of the satire he asks God to halt the Methodist movement
by getting to its source:

Quench the hot flame, O God, that Burns
And _Piety_ to _Phrenzy_ turns!

And then, after a few lines, he applies the same terms to himself:

But soft----my _Mu