Excerpt from The History of Modern Enthusiasm: From the Reformation to the Present Times I thought I had fufiiciently guarded my Meaning againfl any forced Inference: in being particular in the Time fpecified, by the Expreflion, Wben tbe Church was pulled down, viz. In the Time of the Long Parlia ment and Ouvan's Ufurpation: But notwithftanding, as explicit as lam, my Gentleman Critick (and, no doubt, by the Approbation of the reft of the learned Society) charges me roundly, that I lump all Difl'enters, without Diftinetion, from firft to laft, as a Spawn of the bottomlefs Pit -anow this is a direet Calumny That is no Afl'ertion of mine; far from it; and is by no means a Conclufion from the Premifes, but a fall]? Inuendo of the over-weening Cenfor. All that I fay is this, That in thofe Times of Anarchy and Confufion, when the Church was perfecuted, Epifcopacy abo lilhed, the Liturgy laid afide as a Relift of Popery; when all that was Sacred was trampled upon; tben indeed there was fach an Inunclation of the molt vile and monftrous Herefies, that it feemed as ifhell had broke 10093, when all Manner of Blafphemies were broached with Impunity.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.