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 Both classes of the Seceders, and the Relief Kirk, including, in 1811, abont three hundred ministers in Scotland, are strict Presbyterians, not-withstanding their secession or dissent from the Scotch establishment.

8ECUNDIANS, the foUow- ers of Secundus, a disciple of Valentine. See Vakntiinians.

SEEEJIRS, a denomination which arose in the year 1645. They dtanred their name from their maintaining that the true churchy ministry 9 scriptnrey and ordinances were lost* for which they were Mefein^. They taught tliat the scriptures were ohscure and doubtful — ^that present mi- racles were necessary to war- rant faith-— 4hat the ministry of modem times is without author- ity — and their worship vain and useless.*

^SEEKSy a religious sect at Patiia iu India, being a sort of Hindoo deists— differing from iHitli the Mahometans and the worshipped of Brahma. Mr. Wilkins describes them as a very harmless people, founded bv one Naneek Sak, about four rcnturies ago. He wrote a book of his principles in verse, inculcating the doctrines of one supremo omnipresent Being, and of a future state of rewards ami punishments. It enjoins all the moift! virtues, particu- lai'ly philanthropy and hospi-

taltty; Thegr Imto a Uiri <<f chapel, in which iKe friMM chant tinrir Mtargy, witbi4Hi« and cy mbaby the pedpte jMnMf in resjponasB. Hwyhmreftm of love feast conife(^0A^'')iliWl their worship, cowflii fii i y ^of sweetmeats md sugaiifMiM Their language i»a lUMfliriH the Persian, Arabic, wii/tf4iMf sent, grafted on tto^ M tif i i f tongue. Theterm SMklN^ffMI a word signifying Isam Mij j intimates tiiat they are MMifV era after truth. TKey^dWUPi ten confounded with ttomlni of fiWto, in Laliore.t ^ »ti-*jti« SELEUCIANS, ^ hrf gc i* Seleucus, a pbilosophe^w^Al' latia, who, abodt'the'^^yltf 380, adopted the senfiMMlM Hermogenes* See "'JtoHMMF

SEMBIANI, s6 cliD#«<Mif Sembianus, their leader|*'ilH{ it is said, condemned idl iliie^ wine as evil in itsel& ed that wine was apiioMf of satan and the earth'; the resurrection, and miMfPP most of the books of fne^Si testament.^: ■ »*-*^

SEMI-ARIANS, so calHr because they held flie efriniMP of the Arians in pari; onhr^^lBf lowing to Christ the "W '^ rank next to Grod tiie Fa] The orthodox contnidefl "thiHf the Son was •fi9wH%ii^ of^ttw ^amt substance with theFMher f the Semi-arians that he

• Calan^y's Abridgment of Baxter's History, vol. i. p. tlCL

t Asiatic Researches. Ency. Perthen. Brou^iton, vol. ii.p. 559.

+ Hislorroftteligion, vol iv.

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