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These prefatory remarks shall be lengthened by only one more observation , which is , that Cheynell was an active member of that Assembly of Divines , who composed the creed which the rialviuistic Dissenters still
regard as the standard of orthodoxy : such being the workman , what was to be expected from the work ? " The Rise , Growth and Danger of Socinianisme . "Together with a plaine discovery of a desperate designe of corrupting the Protestant Religion ,
whereby it appears that the Religion which hath been so violently contended for ( by the Archbishop of Canterbury and his adherents ) is not the tme , pure Protestant Religion , but an Hotchpotch of Atminianisme ? Socinianisme and Popery . It is likewise made evident * that the
Atheists , Anabaptists , and Sectaries so much complained of , have been raised or encouraged by the doctrines and practices of the Arndnian , Socinian and Popish Party . JBy Fr . Cheynell , late Fellow of Merton College . London .
Printed for Samuel Gellibrand , at the j&razen Serpent in PauVs Church Yard . 1643 . " 4 to . pp . 76 . and Ep . DecS . pp . 8 . The work is dedicated " To the
Right Honourable ihe Lord Viscount Say and SeaJe , " whom Cheyneli compliments on his government of Oxford , which the Parliament had put under his charge . This leads the writer to introduce himself , and to
vindicate his proceedings in an affair which we should be glad to have more fully explained . " When I was commanded by special 1 warrant to attend your Honour , ( deputed by both houses of Parliament for the service of King and Parliament , to settle peace anrf truth in the Universit y of Oxford , and to
reduce the said University to its ancient order , right discipline and to restore its former priviledges and liberties ) there was notice given of a pestilent book , very prejudiciall both to truth and peace , and upon search made , the book was found in the chamber of
Mr , Webberly , who had translated this Socinian MasUr-pecce into English , for liis private use , as he pretended ; to which vain excuse 1 reply ed , that I made no question but he understood the book in Latine , and therefore had he intended it only for his own privateuse , he might have saved the pains of translating it , Besides , the Frontis-
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pice of the book , under Mr . Webber lie ' s own hand , did testify to his / ace that it was translated into Kitg . lish for the benefit of this nation . Moreover there was an Epistle to the Reader prefixed before the booke ; ( I never heard of any man yet that wrote an epistle tohimselfe ) and
therefore sure he intended to print it . Finally , he submits all to the consideration of these times of Reformation , and the Reformers have thought fit that it shou'd be answered and published . 1 desired , at the first intimation , to decline the service , because it wwc better to confute Socinianisme in Latine ; but I have since considered that
1 . " The opinions of Abailardus , Servetus , Socinus , are already published in English , in a book entitled Mr . Wot toils Defence against Mr . Walker ( See Mr . Gataker ' s Defence of Mr . Wotton ) , and therefore if thig treatise liad been suppressed , their opinions would not be unknown , for they are already divulged .
2 . " The opinions being published in English without a confutation , it is very requisite that there should be some refutation of the errours published also , for it is not fit that a Bed lam should goe abroad without a keeper .
3 . " If there be just suspition of a designe to introduce dam ? yible heresies , it is requisite that the grounds of suspition should be manifested , especially if it be such a pestilent heresy as Socinianisme is , ( which corrupts the very vitalls of church and state ) it is fit the heresy should be early discovered , lest both church and state be
ruined by it , 4 . " The Parliament is much blamed for imprisoning the Trunslatour without cause : and it is much wondered at that his chamber should fie searched by officers : now the cause of both will
appear . The Translatour and his work were so fatnpus , that there was notice given of his good service intended to this nation , upon notice given there was a search made , now upon search mud& the book being found , and the Translatonr apprehended , the Parliament « rather guilty of his release than of his
'imprisonment * 5 . " The Translatour cannot complain of the publishing of it ; because ( as hatfi been shewn ) he himself in * tended to publish it , he submits all to these times of Reformation , and so doe
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S £ CheynelVs " Rise , Growth and Danger of Socinianisme ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1815, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1757/page/18/
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