A brief account of the deluded Dutartres; extracted from a sermom [sic], preached by the Rev. Mr. Alexander Garden, A.M., at Charlestown, in... (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

"_THE DUTARTRES were a Family of French Extraction, consisting of the two Parents and eight Children, four Sons and four Daughters, settled in Orange-Quarter, in this Province. § They were always in low Circumstances in Life, but of honest Repute; and for many Years behaved themselves regularly and blameless in all outward Instances of religious and moral Duty. But some Years before the fatal Period, came hither a certain strolling Moravian, Dutch or Swiss Enthusiast, named CHRISTIAN GEORGE; who partly by Conversation, and partly by the Writings of JACOB BEHMEN, &c. soon filled their Heads with many wild and fantastic Notions. In a Year or two's Time, they began to withdraw or separate from public Worship, and all outward Ordinances of God in his Church, and from all Conversation with the World as much as possible; and strongly to conceit that they were the alone Family upon Earth who had the true Knowledge and Worship of God, and whom he vouchsafed to instruct and direct either by the immediate Impulses of his Holy Spirit, or by Signs and Tokens which he gave them. Finally, it came to open Visions and Revelations. They imagined that God had raised up a Prophet..." This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.