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    tichrist , " which eye a in the apostles time led " Cerinthiits and Ebion to blasp heme Christ . ' The divine , who as one of the famous Assembly was empowered to determine the standard of orthodoxy for nations and ages , was

    so little versed ii \ ecclesiastical history as to believe that the founder of the Ebionites was a teacher of tlie name of Ebion * Ostorodus , whom he quotes in the following sentence , might have set him right , if he had been capable of learning either truth or history , in

    what relates to " Socinianisme : "— , « Ostorodus would not have the name of Ebionites imposed upon the Socinimis , quiet vox Ebon Hebraice egtnum dgnificat . Prsef . lust . pag . 10 , 11 ; it seemes they would not be counted mean-conditioned men : and there are

    some indeed , arid those no beggers ( unlesse it be at court ) who are too much addicted to Socinian fancies : and yet if tjiat be true which Ostorodus cites out of Eusebius , that the

    Ebionites were so called because they bad a mean and beggarly opinion of Christ , sure the Socinians might be well called Ebionites , for none have baser and cheaper thoughts of Christ , than they . "

    After specifying and stigmatizing Arians , Fhotinians , Samosatenian t * , Eutychiaus , &c- down to ^ Sadducees , Papists , Anabaptists , Schwenckefeldians , Antinomians , " with all of whom the Sociqians are represented as

    agreeing in their worst heresies , Cheynell adds , " But I must not in my haste forget Abelairdus , or as Platina calls him , Baliardus , -as Bernard , Abaikrdus , his name in our English tongue may be Balard ; he flourished

    about the year 1140 ; he had a very ready discoursing ivit , and is bvsome y oiced to be the first founder of schoole-diviaity ; whether he maintained all those heresies which

    Berwrd layes to his charge I shall not now stand to dispute , there is some cause of doubt ; Abeilard lived to m his apology , and if it was but an honest recantation , he hath made some amends '' *

    Uieynell next takes notice of Pos-*« w , though he says , he " shall not a him so much honour as to take

    For an account of Abelard , see the 22 > P-1 W , &c . from Turner ' s History of Enfflaiid .

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    notice of him j" and " as for ^ Servetus . '' he adds , * ' I Will not staine rny paper with his blasphemies . " " It is much questioned , " he allows , ** whether the Senate of Geneva did not deale too

    severely with hinV * but he quotes Beza to shew that considering his heresy , his admonitions by Calvin and others , and his ohstinacy , he was put to death most justly . Such was the spirit of this member of the Assembly of divines who had a chief hand in

    settling the creed of our self-named orthodox brethren of the present day ! " The Senate of Geneva / 1 lie further says , " were in good hope by this exemplary punishment upon Servetus to crush this cockatrice ' s egg and kill the viper ; but for all thjs some

    underhand and others more boldly and im * . pudently did seduce the people . " jLn the trae temper of a persecutor , Cheynell expatiates with savage joy on the melancholy history of Valei * - tiirus Gentilis , who was burnt for heresy at Berne , in 1566 : t he even

    abuses the Papists because they had before this event forgiven and released Gentilis , when he ? was in their power . He next pursues the two Socinuses through several pages . Having quoted a passage from the works of Faustus Soeinus concerning his uncle Lcelius ,

    he says , — " I am at this great paines of transcribing , because Socinian boohs are so dear , every mail will not pay a groat a slieete , the price that lam forced to 9 onely that I may declare the truth , " Amongst" the tricks aiui 1

    devices' of Faustus Soeinus , he reckons this , that he " pretended , just as our translator here" ( alluding to Mr . Webbetly ) " to be a Reformer of the Reformers , nay , of the Reformation itselfb . " He describes a book of

    Socinns > s which he confesses he never , saw , as a pestilent one , " in which he hath most cunningly vented his poison , " viz ,. De S . Scripture Authoritate * which , Cheynell goes on to say , " Calovius tels us is one of his most

    subtile pieces ,, and seemes to be one of his first Essay es : Dominions Lopez a Jesuit , ^ was so takeu or mistaken with it , as to print it in the yeare 1588 . " Dominic us Lopez is not the only Trinitarian who has been taken ,

    * See an account of this murder , M Repos . iii . 309- —312 , in an article'fin uished by the late Rev . S . Palmer .

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    V DheyneW *** Rise , Growth and Danger of Socinianisme" 16 &

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1815, page 163, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/35/