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‘ecives to be infuperable.  It-is mot, he fays, sirens to the 
rules of criticif{m to affign, without any evidence from ufe, a 
x to a concrete term which does not fuit the fenfe of 
‘Asics is the abltract, cfsgeloxog the concrete. 
Tf cses01; could be fhewn, in any inflance, to mean the pro- 
feffion and Bee ihan of opinions aot believed by him who 
profeffes and propagates them, it might be admitted that 
enote the profeffor or propagator ue fuch 
Pp it is not pretended that ot<o1:, in any cafe, 
icriptural, claffical, or ecclefiaftical, ever bore that Readies ; 
there is, therefore, a ver ftrong probability againit the 
fenfe given by Fotter, &c. to the word digehnxo;. Befides, this 
avord, ‘though it occurs but once in festa: i is very common 
in ancient Chriltian writers, but has never been faid, in any 
one of them, to bear the meaning which Dr. Fofter has 
affixed to it. Moreover, the apoftolical precept explained 
in this way is of little or no ufe. Who know whether 
a man’s belief in the opinions which he profeffes be fincere 
or hypocrit itical? Titus, it may be faid, had the gift of 
difcerning fpirits, and, therefore, might know. Was t 
a after his life-time, to be of no fervice in the church? 
This feems to be incredible, efpecially as there is no other 
’ SeeAtion i in the chapter, or even in the Epiftle, me re- 
quires a fupernatural gift to enable men to follow 
what purpof io = a be | - 
cannot affirm, that fuch a fpecies of hypocrify as Potter 
makes effential to the character has never appeared, it m 
be prefumed, that it very rarely appears. It is the natural 
tendency of vanity and ambition to make a man exert him- 
felf in gaining profelytes to his own notions, however 
trifling, and however rafhly adopted. But it is not a na- 
tural effec of this paflion to be zealous in promoting opi- 
pions which the promoter does not believe, and to the pro- 
pagation of which he has no previous inducement from 
intereft.. It is fufficient to vindicate the application of ‘the 
term. aailonalanstios, or felf-condemned, that a factious or tur- 
bulent t emper, like any other vicious difpofition, can never 
Be ae d with Jeune of mind, but, in {pite of all the 
influence of falf deceit, which is not greater in regard to 
this than in regard to other vices, muft, on account of the 
mortal wounds it gives to peace and love, a be difquieted 
by the ftings of confcience. In fhort, the digcixo:, when 
that term is applied to a perfon profiting Chritianity, § is 
the man w i from pride, or from motives of am: 
bition or intereit, is led to violate the important precepts of 
our pages re corded Matt. xxiii. 8. ro. ema he re ube 
e further, tha 
bei uxOS Wis Cae 
alwa d (as the word heretic is in modern ufe) to 
thofe tho: under fome form or other, profefs Chrifianity. 
t pr pepent we invariably dittinguifh the Seretic from the 
Tecond, a deel: ared eerie’ of that dodtrine, and, confe- 
sey ae an enemy ; whe in the times’ above referre 
t oie of a fadtion in in “pie or in ethics (for the 
fe c ed at firft to the inferior 
in the ancient ap 
Teck os Th ari icy wed by ecclefiattical 
‘Shitorians. Thus Dofitheus, Simon Magus, Menander, 
of the word, it has 
HER 
ot poe with ours. 
Veen ee Es we son eat i the heretics; whom. 
the New Teitament, we are direét 0 
the humble, -modelt, and Satie Fa. creoneae 
Chriflians, who adhered to the authority of Chrift , and de. 
fired to know and do his will; but the ‘proud, pragmatic 
turbulent party-men, who difturbed and divided the chur 
Ag their impotfitions and innovations, on the terms of ee 
therly affection and Chriftian communion, and | by affuming 
an authority over their fellow Chriftians. He erefy, in the 
fenfe of f{cripture, doth not confift in fimple ae A nor! 
were thofe heretics who were anathematized and perfecuted 5 
but only thofe who anathematized and perfecuted niles: 
refufing to acknowledge them for true Chatiag | on account 
of their fuppofed or real miftakes; agreeably to this fenle 
of the appellation, it is obferved by Me Hallet, that all 
heretics are feétaries ; that no do€trine a 
a perfon a heretic ; and that the pope is ce mee heres 
in the world, See Hallet’s Notes, &c. vol, ii. difc, 1x. 
P- 390. Furneaux’s Letters to Judge Bla 
A. real heretic is properly he who pales a Lie opt. 
nion, out of a fpirit of obitinacy, faction, or hy pocrily, 
A_ heretic makes profeffion of i ee brs which he is 
pusogsihes from, a an pemdel, Jew, a Id dolat 
ckftone, p. 30. 
SSREBTeTE to the Sbalbian sis, Bi by a thi, dilin- 
£ © an opinion oppolite 
to toma article of the Chiiftian faith, Ww i it mee ” 
culation or Be 
have erred in Seen ale or 
greateft importance. TER 
The feéts of berelics, who have at different times, dil- 
turbed the church, are innumer 
he emperor } Maximus, who uf al the throne from Gra- 
tian, was ee firft that decreed the pains of death to heretics. 
own law, | eretics were anciently to be burnt 5 and 
there was a writ, De Haretico Comburendo, which lay for 
that pu a) 
ETOCHS, among our Saxon Ance, Ors, fignified the 
fame with dukes or duces, denoting the commanders or leaders 
of ae at See 
It appears, from Edward he Confeffoy’ rite that the 
initheay force of th as in the hands of the dukes 
or heretochs, ate were Ratieted through every province 
county in the kingdom, being feleGed out of the prin- 
cipal nobility, and fuch as were. moft remarkable for being 
SA, cong ea a & animefi, Their duty was to Jead and re- 
gulate Englifh armies, with a very unlimited power 3 
and Bieaath of their great power they were eleéted by the 
af or folkmote, in the fame mas 
people in their full 
ner as fheriffs were 
HERICO 
man of learnin 
himfelf m lige 
pied 
