But most of them who that relation plead
Are such ungracious youths as wish you dead;
They gape at rich revenues which you hold,
And fain would nibble at your grandame gold.
ibid.
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SECTS AND PROFESSIONS IN RELIGION.
Sects and Professions in Religion are numerous and successive - General effect of false Zeal - Deists - Fanatical Idea of Church Reformers - The Church of Rome - Baptists - Swedenborgians - Univerbalists - Jews - Methodists of two Kinds: Calvinistic and Arminian - The Preaching of a Calvinistic Enthusiast - His contempt of Learning - Dislike to sound Morality: why - His Ideas of Conversion - His Success and Pretensions to Humility. The Arminian Teacher of the older Flock - Their Notions of the operations and power of Satan - Description of his Devices - Their opinion of regular Ministers - Comparison of these with the Preacher himself - A Rebuke to his Hearers; introduces a description of the powerful Effects of the Word in the early and awakening Days of Methodism.
“SECTS in Religion?” - Yes of every race
We nurse some portion in our favour’d place;