The artillery of vengeance was pointed at methodism for thirty years; but, fixed as a rock, it could never be beaten down, and its professors now enjoy their sentiments in quiet.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
It must be borne in mind, however, that these similarities of expression are natural enough when one considers that Dinah is a type of the same old-fashioned kind of methodism to which Mrs. Evans belonged.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
Crabbe meanwhile believed in Pope, and had a sturdy solid contempt for methodism.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen