~ 
is 
greater occafion for its aids. 
Herefordthire returns eight members to parliament: viz. 
two for the county, two for’the city, two for Leomintter, | 
and two for Weobly. Ledbury, Rofs, and Bromyard, 
were formerly privileged to fend reprefentatives, but were 
excufed on a petition of inability to fupport them. This 
county is included in the diocefe of Herefor Duncumb’s 
* Collections je ie ie sng and Antiquities of the 
County of Her 804. * General View of the 
Agriculture of Tterefordthive: * by John Duncumbe, M. A. 
vo. 
HEREGELD, in our - i rijers, a tribute or tax 
vied for the maintenahce of an army. See SuBsIDY. 
HEREN.. See Haran. 
HERENTHALS, in Geography, x town of France, in 
the department of the T'wo Nethes, and chief place of a 
- anton, inthe diftri& of Tarnhout ; 16 miles E. of Antwerp. 
The place contains 2541, and the canton 13 9305 serge 
ona territory o 2674 kilometres, in F3 conith 
HERE ESIARCH. Arch-heretic, the fade or euicolene 
of a- herefy, or a chief and ring-leader of a feét of heretics. 
The word isGreek, + agervapyen's Soma of cipzor:, herefis, 
herefy, a » and BEX princeps, prince: 
Phas Arius and Socinus are called herefiatchs; as being 
the founders and pacriarchs of the Arians and Socinians. 
Simon Magus is recorded as the a herefiarch under the 
hew law, 
-HERESY, an error in fome itt —. of Chrifian 
faith, maiatained with obftinacy, and difingen 
It is properly the Rate?! that conititutes ee charaGter 
ef herefy, not the When a man is humble and in- 
genuous, ready aa Bolas to receive farther light and 
infruGion, and when he gives every thing urged againft 
its due weight, he is not guilty of herefy. “ Errare 
sea ia hereticus-.effe nolo,’” is a celebrated maxini of St. 
uguaftin 
Pertullign, 3 in his treatife Of Preferiptions, cotaee herefy 
‘By choice , agreeably to the etymology ef the word. A 
heretic, i inthis fenfe, is one who, knowingly sd of his own 
ice, propo eS or ever embraces, any new dogma or 
article of faith. 
i 
is fowned of the Greek ageos, from apex, T 
: among the — had nothing ef that 
odious fignification attached to it by ecclefiaftical w riters of 
fater times. [t only ie ood apeculiar opinion, dogma, or 
without ing any reproach ; fince: it was in- 
ao ufed, citer - a party seem or of one nae 
Be. ‘See Ady . 17. ch. xv. oc xxiv. 5: ch. 
XVI. 22. 
_ Inthe two former of the paffages above cited term 
soecle 8 eikincton's rs 
t 
is. _adopted- b the hiftorian 
without: the: fea ; 
ath : to give their fyitem hte sine tee to every 
itn of Fadaifin, woes in foundnefs af dott rine, and 
[aes bs Adis, xxive.5) there 1 seetdainnilios 
sr, 
convey ¢! 
or blame. In Adis, ee z; re ‘in his ed 
HER 
z= fomething ne rain : meant to be conveyed under 
But we fhould have had no reafon for 
imi that any part of the obloquy lay in the applica- 
on of tie word laft mentioned, id it h ad not bee — the 
wor is rendered one way in the clare ota sent ond 
umfelf, T 
yet nothing ca appear mo 
the two verfions above-mentioned, 
defend himfelf againft crimes, of which he is not accuf 
Tn both places, therefore, the word onglit to have been 
tranflated inthe fame manner, whether‘ herefy’” or *¢ feét.”’ 
The laft term eigen to be the only proper one ;‘for the word 
modern: ‘acceptation, never fuitethe i import 
of thie bg se Aer _as ufed in a. But, if we 
time, 
to | 
art fect; for in this way iy con nfidered’ 
Chrifti baie whom vat reproachfully n: Nazarenes. 
The natural confequence of this charge, prt one who un- 
derftood fo = of eae affairs as Felix, was, to make him 
look upon e prifoner as an apoftate from Judaifm, and, 
therefore, es ia entitled to be protected, or-even tolerat ted, 
on the feore of religion. Againtt a danger ‘of this ki _ it 
was of the utmoft importance to ourvapottle to defen 
felf. edettingly: the apollle, witht great phere izes 
the charge of having rosdited from the religious inflitutions 
of Mofes, and, at the fame time, is fo far from Geclehesigs 
that he genet in the name of a follower of Chritt. 4 
Upon the whole, in the hiflorical part of the New Tela 
ment, we find the word ds: employed fea denote “ fea” 
i 
or “party,” indifcriminately, w 
word  fe&,’’ however, among 
application, entirely coincident with the fame. 
b he fub-divifions fubfit 
feparate communro I a a es 
another in et — 
which, in what rds public Se they confine them- 
felves; the feveral denomina =-men 
in 
"eas (ie we except shee = Samaritans) there 
were attended aiike re e 
<2 ty. Sadd Nay pote se sGcpib eins. 
minations in. the Sanhedrim,.and even. in the gene 
