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bahly then on the reserve as to his ur ^ orthodox opinions . It appears also frqni Rynier ' s Feed . ( # y , 342 ) that the Church of the Augustine Friars in London was granted , 24 July , 1550 , to the Germans . John a Lasco , a Polish
nobleman , being the first minister and superintendent . Such were , no doubt , the persons designed by Strype , ( Cran . p . 234 ) who " fled over hither to escape the persecutions that were in those times very violently set on foot in their
respective countries , and to enjoy the liberty of their consciences and the free profession of their religion . The King ' s Letters Patent to John a Lasco and the
German Congregation ^ as preserved by Burnett , ( ii . Rec . 185 ) not only express compassion for expatriated foreigners , but declare his zeal to preserve in its original liberty the church which he had contributed to deliver from the
tyranny of the Pope . Tp these foreigners a considerrable latitude was permitted as to forras . This appears from a complaint of Burnett , ( ii . 146 ) that V A Lasco did not carry himself
fcitn that decency which became a ^ r # nger who W 4 s so kindly re * ceived j for he wrote against the orders of this churchy both in the mutter of the habits , and about the posture in the sacrament , being
fpr sitting rather than kneeling . " A later historian , Mr . Carte ,. ( iii . 254 ) is larger upon , , . this point . He says , " John a Lasco had been eduea ^ ed fa Poland * a country overrun
with Ariam and Socjr ^ ans ^ who , d ^ uyiRgAhe divinjiy pf qu * Savioury , treated him in a m ^ nn ^ r its fei r pqpal ; b y [ tmtif \ g wMb l * iin at * ta ^ le , ^ n d publishing & Jbopk , ^• WW * % wmteP ^ , * MUng
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at the holy communion contrary to the laudable usage and express direction of the Church of England . " This church of the strangers , zealous against a heresv which
they had not themselves entertain * ed , perhaps grateful for the license allowed them , but certainly forgetful of those claims to Christian liberty under which they had sought a refuge in England , now
proceeded to excommunicate one of their / number . That this persecuted church presently became abettors of persecution , and performed the first act of the tragedy we are about to witness , appears clearly from the following entry
in King Edward ' s Journal " 1551 , April 7- A certain Arrian ^ of the strangers , a Dutch Man , being excommunicated by the congregation of his countrymen ^ was , after long disputation , condemned to the fire . "
This Unitarian , here called an Arian , more probably agreed in sentiment with L . Socinus , who , as appears by your volume V . p . 170 , was also about this time in England . The stranger ' s narne was George
Van Parris , a native or inhabitant of Mentz , called by Fox a G « rman , ( Germ anus Moguntinus ) which was then synonimous with Dutchman . Fox also hints at hit having been one of John a Lasco ' s
congregation . In * W present age it would &carcft \ yv . deserve praise , but , be a ojily an avoidance of just reprQ 8 . ch , A da justice to the morfil character of a theological
opponenl ; . Yet in tJiie « ige of , Eox it was singularly iafccral to commeroprate t the , virt «^ of jt wn whose ^ principl ^ s he , in ust Ji « v ^ abhQi ;^^ Of George Van Ps ^ d s , Fox d ^ p ^ i re ? thai hte . &onptmmm
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Sketch of English Protestant Persecutio n * —Letter V . 4 S #
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 439, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/31/
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