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...was a reworking of an earlier engraving titled Enthusiasm Delineated

The two books beneath the thermometer are Wesley's Sermons and Glanvill on Witches.

The "Poors Box" that has grown cobwebs shows Hogarth's view that the Methodists are disregarding good works by emphasizing faith so strongly.

...possibly representing George Whitefield

...Cunnuculari.

Around the sides of the pulpit hang three puppets or dolls representing Mrs. Margaret Veal (immortalized by Daniel Defoe in A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day after her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September, 1705), Julius Caesar, and Sir George Villiers.

The globe above the congregation is a globe of Hell, with the inscriptions "A New and Correct Globe of Hell by Romaine" (possibly referring to William Romaine ), "Molten Lead Lake", "Pitch & Tar Rivers", "Horrid Zone", "The Brimstone Ocean", and "Eternal Damnation Gulf". One man below the globe is terrified when a preacher next to him, possibly John Wesley, points it out to him.

A man, possibly a Turk, watches in amazement through a window. He represents the "rational, enlightened part of mankind looking down on Christian fanatics with surprise and disgust".

Beneath the engraving Hogarth quotes 1 John 4:1, "Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world."