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merely secular and local s vohich may as readily favour and dites as frequently support error as truth ; the grossest superstition or the wildest fanaticism , as the purest and must reasonable worship . I
mean , then , by the zeal of Sectarism in any person , that ardour , which , attending chiefly to party distinctions , seeks to increase the
number of retainers to that sect , established by law or unestahlisked , ( the word is applicable to both , ) to which he himself happens to be attached . Sermon before the Synod of Aberdeen . April , 9 , 1771 .
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No . CI . The Fanatic . The Fanatic considers himself as Heaven ' s favourite ; and believes thrs to be either his peculiar prerogative , or at least a privilege he enjoys in common with a
few . Hence a contempt of the far greater part of his species : and as those of this stamp are ever ready to canonize their own wildest reveries as divine illuminations , and to consider their own
decisions as the oracles of God ; on finding that they are not implicitly received as such by others , their pride instantly takes the alarm . And what shall serve to restrain its
fury , when conscience and religion , the natural checks of passion , are corrupted and silenced ? nay , which is worse , when falbe religion and a misinformed conscience are made to declare in its favour ? Opposition then is branded with the name of impiety , and
contradiction with that of blasphemy . Their own revenge on the contrary , they dignify with the title of zeal ; and rnattce agaijist the person of an mntagoni-st they call love to Ms
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No . CIIL Extracts from Mr . Matt . Henry ' s Diary . 1704 . May 25 . In the even , ing Mr . Evans was with me ; one Mr . Bernard a Dissenting Minister at Lewis , in Sussex , called on me this evening , coming from Ireland : how many good men are in the world and good Ministers , that I know nothing of ; and what a glorious day will it be , when we shall see them all together !
June . When I lose time at home , I wish I was abroad preaching ; when time abroad is not filled up as it should he , I wish myself at home studying ; God ty his grace help me to fill up ' time . Nov , 12 . This night , after many thoughts of heart and many prayers concerning it , I began my notes on the Old Testament . M is not likely I should live to finish
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480 Gleanings *
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soul . Dr . Campbell ' s Strmoit before the Synod of Aberdeen , April 9 , 1771 .
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No . C 1 I . Stveet Incense . The efficacy of inward devotion , as contrasted with external offerings , is recommended with powerful simplicity , in n specimen of early English poetry , as old as the time of Queen Elizabeth , preserved in the Travels of 4 t Certaine Englishmen intt > farre court .
tries , " printed in 160 $ . It is the end of a Latin inscription in th £ Church at Cologne ( on the Offerings of the three Kings , ) translated into English : " For Gold present a perfect heart ; * For Myrrh admit him tears ; <{ For Frankincense , powie from thy brest " A fume of humble praiers ! "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 480, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/32/
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