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Swaddlers
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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an absurd nickname given by the Irish Roman Catholics to the early Methodists. It is said to have originated from John Cennick preaching a sermon on the Babe "wrapped in swaddling-clothes," the ignorant Roman Catholics who heard it or heard of it supposing the "swaddling-clothes" to be an invention of the Protestants. In the year 1738 a ballad-singer named Butler actually raised riots in Dublin and elsewhere to the cry of "Five pounds for the head of a swaddler!" and he and his allies called themselves "Antiswaddlers."
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Swaddlers'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/s/swaddlers.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Swaddlers'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/s/swaddlers.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
