Nigidius
observed upon this Passage, that the
Latin
Words which terminate in
osus
generally imply vicious Characters, and the having of any Quality to an Excess
.
An Enthusiast in Religion is like an obstinate Clown, a Superstitious Man like an insipid Courtier. Enthusiasm has something in it of Madness, Superstition of Folly. Most of the Sects that fall short of the Church of
England