He adhered to the theosophic and alchemistic doctrines of a somewhat earlier epoch, and was an admirer of the dogmatic pseudo-philosophy of Paracelsus.
"Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery"
Robert Means Lawrence
A person who gathered his ideas of William Law from Wesley's critique would probably turn with impatience, and something like aversion, from one who could use upon the gravest subjects what might seem a strange jargon compounded out of Gnostic cosmogonies and alchemistic fancies.
"The English Church in the Eighteenth Century"
Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton