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PIETISTS

Volume 8 · 54 words · 1778 Edition

a religious sect sprung up among the Protestants of Germany, seeming to be a kind of mean between the Quakers of England, and the Quietists of the Roman church.

They despise all sorts of ecclesiastical polity, all school theology, and all forms and ceremonies, and give themselves up to contemplation and the mystic theology.