sects

• Suffice it here to say that the mutual hatred of the two contending sects, the zeal of their respective adherents, their professed love of God and devotion to Christ's service, were chiefly signalized by the sword, the ax, and the stake. —  Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
• The Quakers and Pietistic German sects were anti-dogmatic. —  The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography
• But the seventeenth century was an age of sects, that is of fads; and the Filmerites made a fad of divine right. —  A Short History of England
• I told him this had always been the case with new sects, and that, to put a stop to such abuse, I imagin'd it might be well to publish the articles of their belief, and the rules of their discipline. —  Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• Too much favorable legislation and patronizing from a foreign proprietary government, too arrogant a tone of superiority on the part of official friends, attempts to enforce conformity by imposing disabilities on other sects--these were among the chief occasions of the continual collision between the people and the colonial governments, which culminated in the struggle for independence. —  A History of American Christianity

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