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and prosperity , with zealous friends about him , in the present promising state of Unitarianism , to blame those that have gone before him for their supposed remissness in doing their
duty ; and to insinuate how much more he himself would have done , if he had been in their place . But it is not easy for any man to know how he would have felt and acted with an
education different from his own , in a station that he never occupied , and at a period of time in which he did not exist . Our venerable fathers , whom he reflects upon , perhaps did
almost all that could reasonably be expected from men in their very trying situations , though not all that we conceive they might possibly have done , and much less all that we wish they had done .
I also beg leave to observe here , that probably many hearts that were cheered by the establishment of the Unitarian Fund , will henceforth be discouraged by seeing no rational
ground of hope of support , in advanced life , if they , by preaching all they know , should deprive themselves of their present situation and support . We , however , appeal to a higher tribunal than that of Bereus for our
integrity , and if we eannot trust even Unitarians in so tender and trying a case , I hope it will excite us to cease more from man , and to fix our depen dance more on him , who hath said , " I will never leave thee nor forsake thee . " I know nothing either of Scrutator nor Bereus ; nor blessed be God , am I in want .
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Sir , July 1 , 1815 . AM glad to observe recorded in I your Work , ( p . 365 ) that curious historical document , the " Canon against Socinianisin , " which in 1640 occasioned the proscribed opinion to be mentioned , probably for the first time , in the House of Commons . The
manner of its introduction you may deem worthy of notice . 1 have a volume in small 4 to published in 1641 , and entitled "Speeches and Passages of this great and happy Parliament , from the 3 rd of
November , 1640 , to this instant , June 1641 . " At p . 49 is " A Speech of the Honourable Nathaniel Fiennes , second son to the Right Honourable the Lord Say , touching the subject ' s liberty against the late Canons and
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the new Oath . " The passage of thi speech to which 1 refer is as follows" For the 4 th Canon against So . cinianism , therein also these Canoumakers have assumed to themselves a parliament power , in determining a Heresy not determined by law which is expressly reserved to the
determination of a Parliament . It \ s true they say it is a complication of many heresies condemned in the four first Councils , but they do not say what those heresies are , and it is not possible that Socinianism should be formally condemned in those councils , for it is sprung up , but of late .
Therefore they have taken upon them to determine and damn a heresy , and that so generally , as that it may be of very dangerous consequence . For condemning Socinianis ? n for a heresy , and not declaring what is Socinianism , it is left in their breasts whom thev
will judge and call a Socinian . I would not have any thing that I have said to be interpreted as if I had spoken it in favour of Socinianisnu which , if it be such as I apprehend it to be , is indeed a most vile and damnable heresy . "
In " the Parliamentary History , ' ( ix , 122 ) it is stated , that " on the 14 th December , the House entered into debate concerning the new Canons made by the late Convocation , " and that " Sir Edward Deering , Sir
Benjamin Rudyard , and Mr . Nathaniel Fiennes spoke warmly against them , " but there is no further account of the speeches . Mr . N . Fiennes was member for Banbury . He took the covenant , and was one of the secluded members in December , 1648 .
To refer to another article m yo " last Number , if George Enjedin ( p ; 359 ) " extorted something like praise ' from Father Simon , a passage in h » s work excited the rancour of an orthodox Protestant Critic . Blackball ,
after having declared " Father Simo » guilty of scandalous bigotry , when he speaks against the perspicuity of the sacred writers , " thus cites E tvje&n as an example " of bold and conceited Socinians ^ " Qeorya Enjedin speaks with an insufferable licentiousness and scon ' ful disdain of a writer divinely-inspired ; famed for his familiarity ^ clearness of style . * If , ' says this pr cious commentator , ' a co ncise , ^ J j obsaurity , inconsistent with itself *
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430 Canon against Socinianism . — Enjedin ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 430, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/30/
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