[1] When I use the words fanaticism and enthusiasm in this or
any of these discourses--I do not mean to have implied in
the most distant manner any censure or dislike of the warm
and rational fervours of Piety, or deep and serious
engagedness about the all important concerns of Religion.
This is sometimes the implication. When it is; a real
injury is done to the cause of God and truth.--On this
point, I am much pleased with the following remark of
Archbishop SECKER, Vol. 1. Sermon x. page 228. "It is an
extensively mischievous practice, when men join in loose
harangues against enthusiasm and superstition, without
putting in due cautions to distinguish them from the most
rational feelings of love and marks of respect to our
Maker, Redeemer, and sanctifier which Christianity hath
enjoined."