You have belonged to a very religious sect, I think I have heard you say,--a sect not unfamiliar to me; a sect to which great crime is very rarely known?
There is no party or sect which have not employed it in their most serious controversies: the grave part of mankind protest against it, often at the moment they have been directing it for their own purpose.
That the sect spread abroad, as well as at home, is told us by Lord Clarendon, in the preface to his "Survey of the Leviathan.
The peasant rising in Germany had produced great dread of the teaching of the Anabaptists; and, after the peasants had been crushed, many of this sect had fled to Bohemia to escape persecution.
They therefore offered such steady resistance to the proposed Confession, that they at last induced the Lutherans to consent to a petition to the King and the Assembly asking them to recognise each sect as a separate organisation.
Thereupon Amos of S̆tekna and his followers revolted from the Brotherhood, and founded a new sect which was called, after its founder, the Amosites.
This sect denied the spiritual existence that they were living, and taught that there was no such a thing as the spirit, but that all was matter.
It was the tenets of this sect that Gud espoused, for he admired the faith of these mere ghosts who had never sensed matter, and yet had lifted up their eyes in the hope of material life.
His accession drove many of the rival sect to Mexico, and he thus aided, involuntarily, in building up the new power.
He even seems to have added the name of Quetzalcoatl to his other royal and pontifical titles, or possibly had this title before his coronation, as high-priest of the sect at Culhuacan.
Far from so doing, every sectof Christianity forgot their own disagreements and united themselves against the Mormons with the same feeling of reprobation.
There are also none of those monks clad in varied gowns, all jealous of each other; quarrelling over pilgrims and religious resorts for the greater glory of their sect or order.
This sect was known as the Essenes, who in spite of claims to the highest antiquity really were founded during the first century B.
Philo founded a sect based upon the doctrine that the soul's union with the body is to be regarded as a punishment from which man should free himself, for his soul's sake.
Among them, however, must be recorded those of the mother of Rhea, those of Sebazios, and those of Mithras, all of which were finally collected by the sect of Orpheans.
This Sect was very early among the Mahometans, for it had its Name from Abu Hanifah Al Nooman, who was born,in the 80 year of Hegira, or according to others in the 70.
Or else the Hanifitick Sect and the Mahometan Religion may signifie the same thing, because Abraham, (whose Religion the Mahometans pretend to follow) is called in the Alcoran Hanif.
Then Asâl told him that this Sect was superiour to all other sorts of Men in Knowledge and Sagacity; and that if he could not work upon them, there were much lesser Hopes of doing any Good upon the Vulgar.
The most probable Interpretation of it is from the Arabick word Sûph, which signifies Wool, because those that followed this Sect refused to wear Silk, and Cloathed themselves only with Wool.
He was educated amongst the most learned sect of the Jews, and by one of their principal doctors.
There was indeed a sect of Theosophists at the end of the eighteenth century, but it was very obscure.
Mr Robert Hyslop was an orthodox Calvinist; he belonged to the small, very strict sect of Associate Presbyterians and refused to join the United Presbyterian Church in 1858.
They are, too, for the most part Sunnites, whereas the latter profess everywhere the principles of the rival sect of the Shiites.
It is generally supposed that the Turkoman plunders the Persian because the latter belongs to the detested sect of the Shiites.
Later experience, too, convinced me that the greater number of the slaves in Central Asia belong to the religious sect of the Sunnites.
They have, however, lived to see that the dissolution of the union between Church and State in Connecticut, as in Virginia, was to the favoured sect as "life from the dead.
The kingdom known to Europe by the name of Persia is styled by its inhabitants Irân, though I doubt whether a Persian subject belonging to a particular tribe or sect would call himself Irâni.
Asoka elevated, so Mr. Smith has said, a sect of Hinduism to the rank of a world-religion.
The Sikhs are a sect of Hindus who belong exclusively to the Punjab.
He returned to the subject in his message in 1880, saying: "Polygamy can only be suppressed by taking away the political power of the sect which encourages and sustains it .
A natural reason for this may be found in the strength which always comes to a religious sect with age, if it survives the period of its infancy.
Don't flatter yourself for a moment that your particular little sect or your particular little dogma is going to survive the gentle cataclysm any more than my particular little sect or my particular little dogma.
A follower of Robert Browne, founder of the Brownists, whence sprang the sect of Independents, he brought upon himself, by his zeal and imprudence, a vengeance which his wary leader contrived to evade.
Throughout the terrestrial branch of our sect no one is eligible for parentage who does not possess it.
The sect embraced many couples of wealth and position, and, as was to be expected, at the start there had been a rush among the unborn for millionaire parents.
It is replete with such Biblical references as are sure to have a wholesome effect upon a religious sect like the Society of Friends.
After securing toleration for their sectin the inhospitable New World they began to think seriously of others whose lot was unfortunate.
My mother's mother was the daughter of Elder John Harriman, well known in New Hampshire as the occasional traveling companion of Lorenzo Dow, but more particularly as the founder of a sect called the 'New Light Christian Baptists.
One day I heard that a strange sect were preaching in Boylston Hall, they professed to believe in the same Gospel as taught by Jesus Christ and the ancient Apostles.
And from the antagonistic aspect which each sect bears to another, and the centralized organization which it has within itself, this spirit may have a fierce and powerful operation.
If a creed in spirit or expression be necessary to the constitution of a sect, those then are no sect with whom I would desire to hold communion.
The characteristic Gospel of the sect (under its frequent title “Gospel according to the Hebrews”) was used by the Hebrew Christians generally.
There is no other sect to which coldness in Religion could be so fatal.
Another similar sect was the Adamites, who argued that nudity was the law of nature, and that clothes were an abomination in the sight of God.
