Wesley And Methodism
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Such is enthusiasm as understood hj enthusiasts.
MIRACLES AND MYSTERIES 163 Wesley, however, leant, on the ground of usage, to the worst construction of the term as the more common.
He speaks of " the dreadful effects of that many-headed monster Enthusiasm," and he liked it no better than the soberest of his contemporaries. Where eighteenth- century writers used the word enthusiasm, we should generally say " fanaticism." We cannot help ourselves, for now " enthusiasm " is hardly ever employed e...xcept in a good sense. Voltaire explains the difference as follows : " Fanaticism is to superstition what a delirium is to a fever, and fury to anger. He who has ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities, and his imaginations for prophecies, is an enthusiast ; and he who sticks not at supporting his folly by murder is a fanatic. Bartholomew Diaz, a fugitive at Nuremberg, who was firmly convinced that the pope is the Antichrist in the Revelations, was only an en- thusiast, whereas his brother, who set out from Rome with the godly intention of murdering him, and who actually did murder him for God's sake, was one of the most execrable fanatics superstition could form." In his sermon on Enthusiasm, Wesley describes as enthusiasts persons " who imagine that they either do or shall receive particular directions from God, not only in points of importance, but in things of no moment, in the most trifling circumstances of life.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Such is enthusiasm as understood hj enthusiasts.
MIRACLES AND MYSTERIES 163 Wesley, however, leant, on the ground of usage, to the worst construction of the term as the more common.
He speaks of " the dreadful effects of that many-headed monster Enthusiasm," and he liked it no better than the soberest of his contemporaries. Where eighteenth- century writers used the word enthusiasm, we should generally say " fanaticism." We cannot help ourselves, for now " enthusiasm " is hardly ever employed e...xcept in a good sense. Voltaire explains the difference as follows : " Fanaticism is to superstition what a delirium is to a fever, and fury to anger. He who has ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities, and his imaginations for prophecies, is an enthusiast ; and he who sticks not at supporting his folly by murder is a fanatic. Bartholomew Diaz, a fugitive at Nuremberg, who was firmly convinced that the pope is the Antichrist in the Revelations, was only an en- thusiast, whereas his brother, who set out from Rome with the godly intention of murdering him, and who actually did murder him for God's sake, was one of the most execrable fanatics superstition could form." In his sermon on Enthusiasm, Wesley describes as enthusiasts persons " who imagine that they either do or shall receive particular directions from God, not only in points of importance, but in things of no moment, in the most trifling circumstances of life.
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