"For the Bodys of the Prophets, in their State of Prophecy, being not in their own power, but (as they say themselves) mere passive Organs, actuated by an exterior Force, have nothing natural, or resembling real Life, in any of their Sounds or Motions: so that how aukardly soever a Puppet-Shew may imitate other Actions, it must needs represent this Passion to the Life."
A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, To My Lord ***** [collected in Characteristics]
At least 10 entries in ESTC (1708, 1711, 1714, 1733, 1744, 1751, 1757, 1758, 1773, 1790). Letter dated September, 1707; printed the following year.<br>
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See <u>A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, To My Lord *****</u> (London: J. Morphew, 1708). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T4501">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=yigJAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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See also "A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm" in <u>Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. In Three Volumes.</u> (London: John Darby, 1711). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T30440">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Some text drawn from EEBO and ECCO, most from Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury. <u>Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times</u>, ed. Lawrence E. Klein (Cambridge: CUP, 2001). Klein's text is based on the British Library's copy of the second edition of 1714. [Texts to be collated.]