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    which you have given ( p . 412 . c . 1 ) , brought to my recollection a scene which I witnessed on gratifying my curiosity , one evening , by attending a meeting of the Protestant Association , at Coach-maker ' s Hall , Noble Street . It must have been about the date of

    1779 . The Hall was crowded , arid Lord George Gordon in the chair . One of thecompany rose and stated , that there were many persons desirous of signing the petition against the toleration of Papists , who were unable to write their names . He therefore proposed that such should be invited to make

    their marks . This proposal was carried by acclamation , not without the expression of high approbation by the the chairman , whose ardent , or rather inflammatory declamations , and the unqualified applause which followed

    them , prepared me to behold , with less surprise , those scenes of depredation which , a few months after , disgraced the name of Protestant . I remain , Sir , yours , J . T \ RUTT .

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    modestly , hath been too patient , being so deeply charged by Knot for his inclining towards some Socinian tenets : no man , in St . Jerome ' s opinion , ought to be patient in such a case , and sure no innocent man would be patient—The reformed churches abroad wonder that we could find no better a champion amongst all our worthies ; they who travailed hither out of forrain parts blessed themselves when they saw so

    much froath and grounds , so much Arminianisme and vanity in Master Chillingworth ' s admired peece : what doth it advantage the Protestant cause , if the Pope be deposed from his infallible chair , and Reason enthroned that

    Socinianisme may be advanced . " Dr . Potter is involved in the same indictment with Chillingworth . " That these two great champions , " ( pleads our attorney-general of Calvinism ) " doe vent Arminian principles , is manifest to any man that hath but peeped

    into their books ; now that Arminianisme is a fair step to Socinianisme , hath been sufficiently proved by Bodecherus , ( though he hath been derided , he hath not been answered , ) Peltius , Vedelius and others , so that I need say no more in that point . " .

    Cheynell takes up the complaint of the church of Scotland against Laud , for protecting Wederburn , ** when he fled from Scotland , for fear of church censures , because this Wederburn had poysoned the young students in divinity with Arminianisme in the New

    College at St . Andrews . " In Ireland too , L < iiud was spreading the Arminian poison : " Besides , his Grace had two Scouts in Ireland , the Bishop of Derry and Dr . Chappell : Behold three kingdoms infected at once with this deadly disease by the pestilent subtilty of one archbishop . "

    A near approach to Socinianisme was made , according to CheynelJ , by reprinting Acontius ( Stratagemata Satanse ) at Oxford . " They might as well have printed Bonfiiiius ;—they were both sneaking Socinians ; they followed Socinus just as Nicodemus

    followed Christ , by stealth and in the dark . ' The proof of their Socinianisme is , that they say , dangerous men I " that nothing is fundamentally necessary to , salvation , but only faith or obedience to the commands of Christ , for they make faith and obedience all one . "

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    Cheynelts " Rise , Growth and Danger of Socinianisme . " 407

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    Some Account of CheynelVs € C Rise , Growth and Danger of Socinianisme . " ( Concluded from p . 365 . )

    AFTER the curious Canon framed by Laud ( p . 365 ) , the reader may be surprised that he should have been taxed with " Socinianisme : " but he was an Arminian , and Arminianism

    m the judgment of the Assembly of Divines was a compound of all heresy * A puritan writer once attempted to shew that it was a direct breach of all the Ten Commandments . *

    "It is well known , " says Cheynell , ch . iv . " that the Archbishop did highly favour and frequently employ fnen shrewdly suspected for Socinianisme . Master Chillingworth , to speak

    * Arminiaus make a divinity of men ' s power , and so are guilty of idolatry . The

    second command is broke by bowingdown to this idol . The third is broke by fpeakitig > of ineffectual grace , for to do this ls to take God ' s name in vain . —Arminians heak the seventh by committing adultery wi

    W | this idol , the work of their own hands . " ^ Aad they break the tenth hy coveting-Jneir aeighbour ' s interest in God and Urist . Hussey's Glory of Christ , p . 526 -quoted in Robinson ' s Claude , i ; 125 . ? ot . X . 3 s

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 497, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/33/