They are perfectly aware how little ground there can be to hope that men may be reasoned out of their errours, when in fact they were never reasoned into them, but adopted them from prejudice, passion, or policy.

Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) American minister, preacher, abolitionist

Sermon (1823-10-15), “The Faith Once Delivered to the Saints,” Worcester, Massachusetts
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At the ordination of Rev. Loammi Ives Hoadly, to the Pastoral Office over the Calvinistic Church and Society

See Swift (1720), also Smith (c. 1800).