Chapter XXI: Letter IV: Sects and Professions in Religion

... But cast your eyes again,
And view those errors which new sects maintain,
Or which of old disturb'd the [Church's] peaceful reign:
And we can point each period of the time
When they began and who begat the crime;
Can calculate how long th' eclipse endured;
Who interposed; what digits were obscured;
Of all which are already pass'd away,
We [know] the rise, the progress, and decay.

_Dryden.--Hind and Panther_, Part II.

[Ah!] said the Hind, how many sons have you
Who call you mother, whom you never knew?
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.

_Hind and Panther_ [Part III].

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--Universalists--Jews.

Methodists of two Kinds; Calvinistic and Arminian.

The Preaching of a Calvinistic Enthusiast--His Contempt of
Learning--Dislike to sound Morality: why--His Idea 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.