There were three sects among the Jews--the Pharisees, Sadducees, and the Essenes.
There are a thousand differentsects quarreling about the meaning of the "inspired scriptures.
The Bible the Battle Ground of Sects Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man.
There is still a vast difference of opinion as to what Christianity really is, although many wavering sects have been discussing that question, with fire and sword through centuries of creed and crime.
Is it right that they should be disturbed with the religious differences and theological subtleties which have already divided into innumerable sects the universal family of Christians whom God made one?
But some of the Dissenting sects had an additional cause of discontent in the words of the marriage service, which gave a religious character to the ceremony, while they regarded it as a civil contract.
Before the Rebellion no one was excluded from the English Parliament on account of his religion, whether he was a Roman Catholic, a Presbyterian, or a member of any other of the varioussects which were gradually arising in the country.
The restrictions thus imposed on the Presbyterians and other Protestant sects had, as we have seen, been gradually relaxed by a periodical act of indemnity.
But this inestimable privilege was soon violated; with the knowledge of truth, the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects which dissented from the Catholic church were afflicted and oppressed by the triumph of Christianity.
The evening came, and the church was crammed with all sects and parties.
Eggleston, Beginners of a Nation (1897), gives interesting and unfamiliar details of the religious sects in England.
Thus while the southern provinces set their feet in the path of a return to Roman Catholic uniformity, the northern provinces pledged themselves to toleration of Catholics and of allsects of Protestants alike.
The Internal Crisis: The Gnostic And Other Heretical Sects In the second century the Church passed through an internal crisis even more trying than the great persecutions of the following centuries and with results far more momentous.
The general fate of sects is to obtain a high reputation for sanctity while they are oppressed, and to lose it as soon as they become powerful: and the reason is obvious.
Book I, The practice of reckoning the population by sects was long fashionable.
About the same time King William the Third was desirous to ascertain the comparative strength of the religious sects into which the community was divided.
Rival nations and hostile sects have agreed in canonising him.
He learned by rote those commonplaces which all sectsrepeat so fluently when they are enduring oppression, and forget so easily when they are able to retaliate it.
He hated the Puritan sects with a manifold hatred, theological and political, hereditary and personal.
It is also to be noticed that during the civil troubles several sects had sprung into existence, whose eccentricities surpassed anything that had before been seen in England.
Gulliver says of the King of Brobdignag; "He laughed at my odd arithmetic, as he was pleased to call it, in reckoning the numbers of our people by a computation drawn from the several sects among us in religion and politics.
He may well be excused for hating them; since, even at this day, the mention of their names excites the disgust and horror of all sects and parties.
The various sects are only different entrances to the one city.
All the sects acknowledge this theoretically; what Clement and Origen wanted to show, among other things, was that only a Christian was a true philosopher in practice.
Beside, Saul found her torn in pieces by religious sects which had in these latter times fastened to the body of Judaism, as parasitical plants stick to the trunk of an old tree.
Knowing something of these divisions in Japan it was natural to ask on coming into contact with Korean Buddhism whatsects they have.
Every student of Buddhism in Japan knows the fundamental differences upon which the dozen or more Japanese Buddhist sects are based.
This was said everywhere, but I cannot see that there is anything in Korean Buddhism like the sects of Japan.
The ministers of the various sects contradict and refute one another, opposing revelations to revelations and miracles to miracles, until they render it evident that they are all deceived or deceivers.
At the ceremony of Upaseyda, which the Guru holds, disputants of various sects put forth the claims of their respective religions.
There was no such sharp antagonism of sects and creeds.
The sects shall be sifted, the honest-in-heart brought out and the priests left in the midst of their corruption.
The Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists and other religious sects were very energetic and obtained many converts.
Moreover, based as they were upon opposition to the existing organisation, the doctrines of the various sects had much in common.
And though we might logically maintain that these sects are unorthodox, yet it does not appear that Hindus excommunicate them.
Even in the most modernsects the descendants of the founder often receive special reverence.
But even here the parallel with Christian sectsis imperfect.
The Krishnaite sectsare emotional, and their favourite doctrine that the relation between God and the soul is typified by passionate love has led to dubious moral results.
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Japanese Buddhism showed great vitality, transforming old sects and creating new ones.
But the existence of all sects and priesthoods depends on their power to satisfy the religious instinct with ceremonial or some better method of putting the soul in communication with the divine.
Early Indian Buddhism is said to have been divided into eighteen sects or schools, which have long ceased to exist and must not be confounded with any existing denominations.
The decennial census never fails to record the rise of new sects and the sudden growth of others which had been obscure and minute.
They say (or rather their several sects say) that they each not only possess the truth but that all other creeds and rites are wrong.
The Hinayanists are like those Protestant sects which still profess not to go beyond the Bible.
Not so successful, therefore, if successful at all, was the fight of the Greek Church against the hereticalsects even in the Balkan Peninsula, where they were so numerous and so powerful.
No country perhaps has been so much torn by religious discussions andsects as Russia.
The weapons used by the Catholic Church in its persecution of heretical sects are, almost every one of them, borrowed from the Greek armoury.
The oldest Fathers of the Church made use of this Physiologus in their homilies, and the other sectshave no doubt done the same.
They have come by these intermediaries of the religious sects from Syria and the Balkans.
The quarrels between Catholic and Protestant came to an end, but the disputes between the different Protestant sects continued as bitterly as ever before.
This seemed unfair to the othersects and the police discouraged such utterances.
The vow which he had made as a young man, that he would eradicate all sects and all heresies from his domains, Ferdinand kept to the best of his ability.
But it insisted that the different sects keep the peace among themselves and obey the wise rule of "live and let live.
This individualism accounts for the many sects found among the Dutch Reformed.
There is not, however, much animosity between the two sects at the present time, neither making a strong point of dogma, but both giving a prominent place to the demands of Christian practice.
It may be said that a State founded on this basis would be fairly inclusivethat all Christian sects and many deists could find a place in it.
During the eighteenth century a relatively tolerant spirit prevailed among the Christian sectsand new sects were founded.
It extended only to the Lutheran and Reformed sects and the communities of the Greek Church which had entered into union with Rome, and it was of a limited kind.
It is interesting to see a non-Christian of this age teaching the Christian sectsthat they should suffer one another.
For a long time the Socinians and those who came under their influence when, driven from Poland, they passed into Germany and Holland, were the only sects which advocated toleration.
He was led into free thinking by the large number of learned men of all denominations and sects that came from various countries to his court.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sects" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
