Note 373 — Chapter XIII
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He describes himself as passing through strange states of extasy, (Journal, i. 144) and even claims gifts of prophecy and miracle, (i. 219.) He had a habit of comparing sinners to different sorts of animals, Journal, i. 190, &c. A curious parallel to this is found in Athanasius, who describes heretics in a similar way. Comp. Athan. Orat. iii. contra Arianos. Athanasius's Treatises against Arianism, p. ii. 484, Oxf. Edit.
For authorities respecting Quakerism see a good note in Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History, 846.