L. Name and thing.
THere is a new word Coyned within few moneths called FANATICKS, which by the close stickling thereof seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signifie what is meant thereby, even the Sectaries of our Age.
Mixt contemplations in better times by Thomas Fuller ...
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- Title
- Mixt contemplations in better times by Thomas Fuller ...
- Author
- Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by R.D. for Iohn Williams ...,
- 1660.
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- Subject terms
- Meditations.
- Devotional exercises.
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"Mixt contemplations in better times by Thomas Fuller ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40678.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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Page 78
Some (most forcedly) will have it Hebrew derived from the word to see or face one, importing such whose Pi∣ety consisteth chiefly in Visage, looks & outward shewes; Others will have it Gerek from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, to shew and appear; their Meteor Pietie consisting onely in short blazing the forerunner of their extinction. But most certainly the word is Latin from Fanum a Temple, and FANATICI were such who living in or attending thereabouts were frighted with Spectra or Appari∣tions, which they either saw or fan∣cied themselves to have seen. These People in their fits and wild raptures pretended to strange predictions;
—ut fanaticus oestro Percussus Bellonatuo, divinat & in∣gens Omen habes, inquit, magni clarique triumphi. Juven. Sat. 4. Ut mala quem scabies & morbus re∣gius urget, Aut fanaticus error. Hor. in Poet.
Page 79
It will be said we have already (more then a Good) many Nick∣names of parties already, which doth but inflame the difference, and make the breach the wider betwixt us. 'Tis confess't, but withall it is promised that when they withdraw the thing we will substract the name. Let them leave off their wild Fancies inconsi∣stent with Scripture, Antiquity and Reason it self, and then we will endea∣vour to burie the FANATICK and all other names in perpetuall o∣blivion.
Notes
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〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 vidit.