One thing more I infer, “That we are not _enthusiasts_.” This accusation has been considered at large; and the main arguments hitherto brought to support it, have been weighed in the balance and found wanting: Particularly this, “That none but _enthusiasts_ suppose either that _promise_ of the Comforter¹ or _the witness of the Spirit_², or _that unutterable prayer_³, or _the unction from the Holy One_⁴, to belong, in common, to all Christians.” O my Lord, how deeply have you condemned the generation of God’s children! Whom you have represented as rank, dreaming _enthusiasts_? As either _deluded_ or _designing_ men? Not only bishop _Pearson_, a man hitherto accounted both sound in heart, and of good understanding: but likewise archbishop _Cranmer_, bishop _Ridley_, bishop _Latimer_, bishop _Hooper_! and all the venerable compilers of our liturgy and homilies: All the members of both the houses of convocation, by whom they were revised and approved: Yea, king _Edward_, and all his lords and commons together, by whose authority they were established! And, with these _modern enthusiasts_, _Origen_, _Chrysostom_, and _Athanasius_ are comprehended in the same censure! ¹ _John xiv. 16, 26. xvi. 13._ ² _Romans viii. 15, 16._ ³ _Romans viii. 26, 27._ ⁴ _1 John ii. 20, 27._ I grant a deist might rank both us and them, in the number of _religious madmen_: Nay, ought so to do, on _his_ supposition, that the gospel is but a _cunningly-devised fable_. And on this ground, some of them have done so in fact. One of them was asking me, some years since, “What! are _you_ one of the knight-errants? How, I pray, got this quixotism into _your_ head? You want nothing: you have a good provision for life; and are in a fair way of preferment. And must _you_ leave all, to fight windmills; to convert savages in _America_?” I could only reply, “Sir, if the bible is a lie, I am as very a madman as you can conceive. But if it be true, I am in my senses. I am neither a madman nor _enthusiast_. _For there is no man who hath left father, or mother, or wife, or house, or land, for the gospel’s sake; but he shall receive an hundred fold, in this world, with persecutions, and in the world to come, eternal life._” Nominal, outside Christians too, men of form, may pass the same judgment. For we give up all our pretensions to what they account happiness, for what they (with the deists) believe to be a mere dream. We expect, therefore, to pass for _enthusiasts_, with these also. _But wisdom is justified of all her children._