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1 , let the Reformers judge . This book belongs to your Honour , because it is Dut a Prodromus or Forerunner to make way for a full answer to Master Webberlies Translation , and therefore I present it to you , not only because
Master Weoberlres book was seized on by your Lordship ' s warrant , but because I know your Honour hath ever patronized the true Protestant religion . " Mr . Wehberly is stated in p . 46 , to be " a Batchelour of Divinity and fellow of Lincoln Colledge . " What the book was which he had translated
does not appear from Cheynell ; wat it the Racovian Catechism ? Abelard was commonly reckoned an anti-trinitarian in CheynelFs time . ( See C ^ ewwy ^ AIPESIAPXAI , or , a Cage of Unclean Birds , containing the Authors , Promoters , Propagators and chief Disseminators of this damnable Socinian Heresie , added to his
Anti-Socinianism . 4 to . 1656 ; p . 135 , &c . ) Of Anthony Wotton Chewney says , " This is the last perverse publisher of this damnable heresie , that we shall think fit to name ; and who
first openly professed it in England , and by manuscript pamphlets and printed books dispersed it in London ; a place as much adicted to and taken with novelty , as any other whatsoever . For let the doctrine he what it
will , if it smell not of novelty , it hath there , for the most part , no better entertainment than Christ among the Gadarens , they regard it not ; from thence it was carried as a discovery of some new truth , into several places of the country , and this about forty years ago" ( Idem . p . 230 . )
Having denominated the Papists Philistines , Cheynell thus proceeds , * ' But there are other Philistines , namely , Arminian and Socinian Philistines , by which church and state are much endangered , and it is the businesse now in hand to lay open
their mystery of iniquity to the pub-Jique view . Wee may say to these pestilent Ileretiques , as wi \\ as to malignant statesmen , lta nati estis ut niala vestra ad Ilempub . pertiiieaut
'or . there are no greater statesmen in the world than the English Arminians « nd Popish Socinians / for such mongers hath England nourished as are n » t to be found in all Africa . Herod and Pilate , the Uoinane and the Rahman Antichrist , are made friend * in
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England , all the Grand-malignant .:, Arminians , Papists and Socinians are of one . confederacy , all united under one head the Archbishop of Canterbury , the Patriarch or Pope of this British world . "
Archbishop Laud appears in rather a singular character as the patron of Sociuianism ! We apprehend that the prelate would have been equally ready with the presbyter , had opportunity
offered , to prove his orthodoxy , by breaking into the houses , rifling the manuscripts and securing- the person * of Unitarians , haling them and committing them to prison .
At the end of the Epistle Dedicatory , which is dated , " Aprill 18 1643 , " there is this parliamentary Imprimatur : " It is ordered this eighteenth day of April , 164 S , by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament
concerning printing , that this book intituled , The R ise , &c . &c . be printed , John White . " ( To he continued . )
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W . J . on the Atonement . gg
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Sir WAS glad to learn in your last I Number , that the doctrine of the Atonement , as it has been called , is to be examined in your next volume , and 1 hope that your learned theological correspondents will not be backward to favour your readers with the
result of their inquiries on this important quest ion . Before a subject like this can be properly discussed , it is necessary that tfie doctrine itself should be stated in the most unobjectionable manner . This is particularly necessary on the present occasion , because the advocates
of this doctrine have not , especially of late , been agreed in their notions concerning it y and , consequently , different schemes , as the expression has been used , of this doctrine have been proposed . The advocates of reputed orthodoxy have , likewise , frequently eluded their opponents' arguments ,
by representing them ; is giving an unfair view of the question , and opposing what none , but the uninformed and over zealous , hmvc either stated or defended . For these and other reasons , it is necessary , as RutHnus recommended in your last Number , that 1 he doctrine be stated correctly and fairlv , after the best authorities *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1815, page 83, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1757/page/19/
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