Sabellians, 125 Sadducees, 202 Sanctification, Views on, 278 Sandemanians, 126 Sandeman, Robert, 396 Satanians, 243 Saybrook Platform, 48 Seabury, Samuel, 33, 398 Schools, Theological, 432 Scottish Missions, 346, 347 Se-Baptists, 281 Sectarians, 20 Seekers, 247 Servetus, Michael, 371 Seventh-Day Baptists, 191, 312, 345 Shakers, 75 Simonians, 233 Six-Principle Baptists, 192 Skeptics, 245 Socinius, Faustus, 372 Socinians, 19 Southcotters, 255 Spinoza, Benedict, 380 Statistics of Churches, 311 of Missions, 333 Succession of Bishops, 315 Supralapsarians, 243 Swedenborg, 150 Swedenborgians, 150, 330 Tao-Se, 282 Taylor’s (Dr.) Views, 142 Theological Schools, 432 Tillotson, John, 402 Transcendentalists, 301 Trinitarians, 290 Tunkers, or Tumblers, 55 Unitarians, 196, 331 United Brethren, 49 United Society of Believers, 75 Universalists, 95, 331 Waldenses, 279 Water-Drinkers, 168 Watts, Isaac, 418 Wesley, John, 390 Wesleyan Missions, 343 Westminster Catechism, 141 Whippers, 167 Whitefield, George, 393 Whitefield Methodists, 293 Wickliffe, John, 350 Wickliffites, 245 Wilhelminians, 247 Wilkinsonians, 167 Williams, Roger, 386 Winchester, Elhanan, 425 Worshippers of the Devil, 285 Xavier, Francis, 161, 372 Yezidees, or Worshippers of the Devil, 285 Zanchius, Jerome, 366 Zinzendorf, Count, 383 Zuinglius, Ulricus, 359 Zuinglians, 246 LUTHERANS, OR, THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH. This denomination adheres to the opinions of Martin Luther, the celebrated reformer. The Lutherans, of all Protestants, are those who differ least from the Romish church, as they affirm that the body and blood of Christ are materially present in the sacrament of the Lord’s supper, though in an incomprehensible manner: this they term _consubstantiation_. They likewise represent some rites and institutions, as the use of images in churches, the vestments of the clergy, the private confession of sins, the use of wafers in the administration of the Lord’s supper, the form of exorcism in the celebration of baptism, and other ceremonies of the like nature, as tolerable, and some of them useful. The Lutherans maintain, with regard to the divine decrees, that they respect the salvation or misery of men in consequence of a previous knowledge of their sentiments and characters, and not as founded on the mere will of God. See _Augsburg Confession of Faith_. Towards the close of the last century, the Lutherans began to entertain a greater liberality of sentiment than they had before adopted, though in many places they persevered longer in despotic principles than other Protestant churches. Their public teachers now enjoy an unbounded liberty of dissenting from the decisions of those symbols of creeds which were once deemed almost infallible rules of faith and practice, and of declaring their dissent in the manner they judge most expedient. The capital articles which Luther maintained are as follow:—