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The subject may at least be submit ted to the consideration of our late advocate Mr . Smith , by those who , from situation , have access to him 3 since , when there shall be any probability of success , no person is better qualified to bring it forward and pursue it to its completion .
In the meau time , as these ere only introductory hints , it may continue to he the subject of friendly tfiid peaceable discussion among- Protestant Disneuters in general , and this particularly in your valuable Repository $ to
which , Mr . Editor , no one mere ardently wishes a still increasing circulation and still greater success , than Sir , your constant Reader , A Member of the Kent and Sussex Unitarian Association .
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living of Pet worth in Sussex . He attended the JBai-1 of Essex , in one at least of his campaigns , and is said to have displayed great perspnal courage . In 1646 , he was sent down on an evangelical mission to Oxford , whither also he went ii \ the character of
Visitor , in 1647 ; in which capacity he shewed more zeal than moderation , some of his own decrees and acts tending to his ^ statement in the Margaret professorship , and the presidentship of St . John ' s College . lie manifested conscientiousness in refusing the engagement to Cromwell , and in
resigning in consequence these lucrative preferments . On his resignation , he withdrew to his living of Petworth , where lie continued till the
Restoration , when he was ejected . After his deprivation , lie lived at a small village near Chich ester , upon a paternal estate , till his death , which happened in
1665-It is singular that Johnson should have written the life of so zealous a Presbyterian , and still more singular that he should have written it with much coolness and with an evident
respect for the hero of his tale . Palmer , indeed , says [ Noncon . Mem . Sd . ed . Vol . iii . p . 325 . ] ' that the " narrative is a satire both upon Dr . Chey-1
nell and the times , ' and this petulant remark is extracted , without censure , into the last edition of NeaTs History of Puritans ( iv . 420 ) - The reader will probably judge that no great tenderness was clue to the author of
" 'The Rise , Growth and Danger of Sociuianisme" and of" Chillingworthi Novissima . " Dr . Kippis says truly and justly , " Cheynells conduct wx $ replete with bigotry . He was one of those violent Presbyterians and Calvinists of the last a * r e , who knew but
httlc of the true principles of toleration and candour . ' ( Biog . Britt . Vol . iii . p . 517- c . 2 . ) An apology is made by Calamy for CheynelFs violence on theground of his
occasional insanity ; but what apology can be made for his party , who encouraged his mad bigotry , whilst it served their purposes ? It is very convenient to an intolerant sect to have
an advocate with an irregular mind like Cheynell ' s ; they profit by his insane abuse , and when its ferocity draws down shame arid contempt , the plea of non compos mentis is put forth as a shield for the re viler and his abettors .
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Some Account of CheynelVs " Rise , Growth and Danger of Sociniunisnie . " OF Cheynell and his pamphlets we promised some account in the Memoirs of Chillingworth ( ix . 211 ) . We proceed to fulfil the promise .
Cheynell ' s name is preserved chiefly by its being conjoined with that of the great man above-mentioned ; for , as Dr . Johnson remarks , " there is always this advantage in contending with illustrious adversaries that the combatant is equally immortalized by conquest or defeat . " This remark
introduces the life of Cheynell by Johnson ; first printed in a periodical work , intitled The Student , 1 751 , and since collected into Johnson ' s Works , 8 vo , Vol . xii . p . ISO , Jfcc . Francis Cheynell was born in l 60 £ at Oxford , where his father practised physic . He himself entered the
University at that place very early ; be came a probationer and then a fellow of Merton College : took the degree of Master of Arts , was admitted to orders , and held a curacy near Oxford , together with his fellowship . He grew into notice 1641 , when he
attempted to take his degree of Bachelor of Divinity , but was denied his grace for disputing- concerning * predestination , contrary to the Kings '"junctions . In the subsequent convulsions of the state , Cheynell declared for the Parliament and
Prestytery , embraced the Covenant , was made one of the Assembly of Divjues and frequently preached before the P arliament , by whose ordinance he was put into possession of the valuable
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C heynelVs Rise , Growth and Danger of Socinianisme . " 81
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1815, page 81, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1757/page/17/
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