Hannah Adams

“ If France rejected tlic Victims, Grod would take away its provinces; he would raise up a strange prince to devastate and enslave it. She pretended to foresee that the Spanish nation was to be the in- strument of Grod's vengeance. Great calamities would then fall upon the capital; the cler- gy, secular as well as regular, would be humbled; the sanctu- aries would be abolished, in or- der to punish those who ought to have been their ornaments
and glory, .Tbign^vapttbliah- ed in 1791. ”

“ Some of '< thepopularpreach** ers," as they were called, had taught that it was of the es- sence of faith, to believe that Christ is ours : but Mr. San^ deman contended, that that which is believed in true faith is the truth, and what would have been the truth, though we had never believed it They invited sinners to repent and believe in Christ in order to forgiveness; but he maintain- ed, that the gospel contained no offer but that of evidence j but that it was merely a re- cord or testimony to be credit- ed. ”

“ That maU ter is also undcrived and eter- nal, and by the powerful energy of the Deity impressed with motion and form. That though God and matter subsisted from eternity, the present I'egular frame of natui*e had a begin-
ning, and will have an end. Tliat the element of fire will, at last, by an univei'sal confla- gration, i-cduce the world to its pristine stat/. That at this period all material fonns will be lost in one chaotic mass; and all animated nature be re- united to the Deity. ”

“ They expect ^ future happy life An the sun, '^vhcre they shall feast on bread- ftniit, and meat which requires "tio dressing : and they direct their prayers to the supreme di- vinity, or Eatooa-Rahau
The name Eatooa admits a very great latitude in its inter- pretation. Each of the islands Las a tutelar deity, which is al- ways the divinity, to whom the high priest of the isle addresses bis prayer, at the grand morai of the prince. The great deity, or Rntma-Mahtih they consider
as the primary cause of all di- vine and human beings ”

“ France, which had been the first chris- tian kingdom, and which had distinguished itself by the puri- ty of its faith, and its piety tow- ards the holy virgin, would be the cradle of this new people, if its perversity did not deprive it of ■ this benefit. ”

“ The Samaritans celebrate the first day of the passover at mid<- night; a sheep is killed in the synagogue, i*oasted and eateii there. Since the year 1788 they have not been able to repair to mount Gerizim for worsh^; but have nfiered their sacrificed in the city Naplouse, whichf. they say, << is comprised in the chosen place." According to their account, there are no Sar maritans in the East, excepting at Naplouse and Jaffa. ”

“ The white dlb*gy must be married before they can be ordained, but must not marry a second time : but are at liberty then to enter among the black clergy, and a way is thus oix'.n- ed for their accession to the higher orders. ”

“ For the
doctrines of this communion, see the Greek Church : and for theprinciples of dissenters from it, see RaskolnikB.*
Sabbatarians, a de-
nomination of christians, who keep the seventh day as the . Sabbath, and are to be found {irincipaily, if not wholly among the baptists. The thi*ee fol- lowing propositions contain a summary of the grounds of their practice. 1. That Grod has re- quired the observance of the seventh, or last day in eveiy week, to be observed by man- kind universally for the week- ly Sabbath. ”

“ In the fourtli galcric of Elias, tho author assei^ts, <* The victims are of the greatest im- portance. They are devoted fifir every crime, and each of them bears different parts in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Tliis character will make them kniown to the Gentiles. ”

“ SERVERlANS,asmall par- ty of Gnostics, in the second century; so called from Ser- vcrus, who is said to have taught that the world was made by principalities and powei*s; a?id that the devil is the son of the great prince of the princi- pal ities.f SERVERTTES,apartyof the Monophysites, called after Scr- verus, a monk of Palestine; the same (or nearly so,) as the .^71- gelites* in the fifth century.
SERVETIANS, a name vrhich in the sixteenth century distinguished the followers of Michael Servetus, a very learn- ”

“ The people ai*c at present described as wholly illiterate; but their predecessoi*s are said to have written many books on philosophy and religion. They believe in one God, the maker of all things; but they think tiiathe pays no attention to the affairs of men, leaving the gov- OTiment of th.e world to iidJeri-
our beings, to whom, thei*efore, all their devotions are address- ed. ”

“ But though they have goddesses, as well as gods, they do not be- lieve that they are married. These spirits, they suppose, ap- pear to their priests in the foi-m of bears, serpents, or owls; and on this account they have a particular respect for those an- imals.
<< Besides these deities of a iiatui^ superiour to man, the Siberians worship the jnanss of their ancestors, and especially of the settlers of coh>nies, whom they I'egard as demi-gods. ”

“ This denominatioh asserts, that the day of judgment is past, and consider their testimony as a new dispensation, which tihey call Ckrist^s second appearance^ In which they are not to be guid- ed so much by the scriptures, as by the influences of the Holy Spirit. They pretend to have the power imparted to them of working miracles ”

“ As late as l&UB, we learn fnim authentic docu- ments,"^ that they still c<^sh of animals, killed by one of their own sect^ and with certain formalities. They are separated fi-om the Jews, Turks and Christians, and form no alliances with them. If they are forced in their employment to touch a sti'an^r, or his gar- ment, they purify themselves as soon as possible. The dead are ”

“ Ttiis fiftme they acknowledge to be proper. Fop say thcy^ « The work which Git>d' promised to accomplish in the latter day, was vtiiinently marked out by the prophets to be a worl^ of Shak- ing; and hence the name (though by the world intended for deris- ion) was very properly applied to the peopte; who were both the subjects and instruments of the work of God in the latter day/'
The work went on under Wardley, tffl the year 1770, when a new impulse wa» given to the society by Anne Leese, who became a distinguished leader of this denomination. ”

“ When the Roman Ca- 'fbelics acquired sufficient pow- ir, they began to persecute; iiM established the Inquisition at Goa,:|: as the cruel instru- ment of their power; an insti- tution which subsisted lately Wider the protection of the !|ftritish government. At the -fioman Catholic Synod of Di- %iilpor, the Syrian clergy were
accused of the fidlowing taas and heresies : ^< That they had married wives; that they own* ed but two sacramants, baptismi and the Lord's sapper ”

“ That alter the revolu- tion of the great year all thiugs will bo re8toi*ed, and the mce of men will return to life. SoBie imagined that each indiyidual would return to its fenBcr body, while others siiKioaed that similar souls woOld -be placed in similar bodies. ”