3. Force of enthusiasm, in which reason is taken away.
Upon this occasion I shall take the liberty to consider a
third ground of assent, which with some men has the same authority, and is as confidently relied on as either faith
or reason; I mean enthusiasm: which, laying by reason, would set up revelation without it. Whereby in effect it
takes away both reason and revelation, and substitutes in the room of them the ungrounded fancies of a man's own
brain, and assumes them for a foundation both of opinion and conduct.