"ENTHUSIASM is that temper of mind, in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. In this disordered state of things, enthusiasm, when it happens to be turned upon religious matters, becomes FANATICISM: and this, in its extreme, begets the fancy of our being the particular favourites of Heaven. Now, everyone sees that SPIRITUAL PRIDE is the cause, and not the effect of the disorder."
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William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated (1737–1741), Vol. II, Book V, Appendix. London: Thomas Tegg and Son, 1837, Vol. II, p. 360.
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