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BOGOMILI

Volume 1 · 105 words · 1771 Edition

or BOGARMITÆ, in church-history, a sect of heretics, which sprung up about the year 1179. They thought that but seven books of the scripture are to be received, that the use of churches, of the sacrament of the Lord's supper, and all prayer, except the Lord's prayer, ought to be abolished; that the baptism of Catholics is imperfect; that the persons of the Trinity are unequal, and that they often-times made themselves visible to those of their sect. They said, that devils dwelt in the churches, and that Satan had resided in the temple of Solomon from the destruction of Jerusalem to their own time.