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Enthusiasm described and caution'd against. A sermon preach'd at the Old Brick Meeting-House in Boston, the Lord's Day after the commencement, 1742. : With a letter to the Reverend Mr. James Davenport. / By Charles Chauncy, D.D. one of the Pastors of the First Church in said town. ; [Twenty lines from Luther]

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Enthusiasm described and caution'd against. A sermon preach'd at the Old Brick Meeting-House in Boston, the Lord's Day after the commencement, 1742. : With a letter to the Reverend Mr. James Davenport. / By Charles Chauncy, D.D. one of the Pastors of the First Church in said town. ; [Twenty lines from Luther]
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Chauncy, Charles, 1705-1787.
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Boston: :: Printed by J. Draper, for S. Eliot in Cornhill, and J. Blanchard at the Bible and Crown on Dock Square.,
MDCCXLII. [1742]
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Enthusiasm.
Great Awakening.
Sermons -- 1742.
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"Enthusiasm described and caution'd against. A sermon preach'd at the Old Brick Meeting-House in Boston, the Lord's Day after the commencement, 1742. : With a letter to the Reverend Mr. James Davenport. / By Charles Chauncy, D.D. one of the Pastors of the First Church in said town. ; [Twenty lines from Luther]." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N03978.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 25, 2025.

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ENTHUSIASM described and caution'd against. A SERMON Preach'd at the Old Brick Meeting-House in Boston, the LORD's DAY after the COMMENCEMENT, 1742. With a Letter to the Reverend Mr. JAMES DAVENPORT.

By Charles Chauncy, D.D One of the Pastors of the first Church in said Town.

—Non sum idoneus ad habenda, aut interpretanda somnia, neque eam facultatem aut scientiam mihi expeto; et pactum feci cum Domino Deo meo, ne vel visiones, vel somnia, vel etiam angelos mihi mittat. Contentus enim sum hoc dono, quòd habeo scripturam sanctam, quae abunde docet, et suppedi|tat omnia, quae sunt necessaria cum ad hanc, tum ad futuram vitam. Huic credo, et acquiesco, ac certus sum, me non posse falli.—Moveor infinita illa multitudine illusionum, praesti|giarum, imposturarum, quibus mund•••• horribiliter sub papatu, longo tempore, deceptus est per sathanan••: Deinde sufficientia scripturae sanctae, cui si non adhibuero fidem, profectò nec angelo, nec visioni, nec somnio facile credam.

Lutherus, in Comment, in Gen. 37. fol. 6. Edit. An. 1554.

—Multi enim fanatici spiritus me adorti sunt, quorum alius somnia, alius visiones, alius revelationes jactabat, quibus nite|bantur me erudire. Sed respondi, me non expetere ejusmodi revelationes; et si quae offerentur, me iis non habiturum fidem. Idque ardentibus votis precatus sum, ut daret mihi Deus cer|tam sensum et intellectum scripturae sanctae. Si enim verbum habeo, scio me recta via ingredi, nec facile falli aut errare posse. Haec mea sententia est, quam non muto.

Ibid ad Cap. 40. fol. 61.

BOSTON: Printed by J. DRAPER, for S. ELIOT in Cornhill, and J. BLAN|CHARD, at the Bible and Crown on Dock Square. MDCCXLII.

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