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    " Some later authours" fall under the lash j as Dr . Francis White , who was ** countenanced by the Archbishop to write against the sabbath , " and who in an Epistle Dedicatory to his grace , " saitji that we are beholding to the testimony of the Bishops ,

    for the weightiest matters in religion , and amongst the rest , " ( which is true enough !) " for the eternal ! Deity of the blessed Saviour j" and the author of " that little pamphlet about -Schisme * " the ever-memorable Mr . John Hales , of whom Cheynell says that he was " credibly informed that

    when he was asked by a great person in this kingdome , what he thought of the Soeinians , he answered , If you could secure my life , I would tell you what I think /'

    Cheynell next turna to Laud ' s own book , the Relation of a Conference with Fisher , the Jesuit , first printed in 1 | 524 and reprinted 1639 , and pretends to trace by the alterations in the

    second edition " how much his grace had altered his religion in those fifteen yeares . " «• These / 1 he says , " I call very suspicious passages , you must not expect demonstrations in this point ,

    for I know the Archbishop was too wise to speak plain , though some of these passage * are plain enough . And I must professe that L doe not believe the Archbishop ever intended to bring in all points of Armimanisme , Soeini * amsine or Popery , but to pick out

    such points as might stand with the great designe ; he was to humour all these three factions , that all three might join him to suppress Gal vinisme and then admire him as the Apostolike Patriarch , Pope of this other world of Britain . "

    True , the Archbishop calls Socinianisme " an horrid monster of al ! heresies , " but this does not satisfy Cheynell , for he suffered Socinians to live . A rebuke worthy of attention

    was passed upon these heretics by our fierce polemic : " It is observable , that our English Arminians and Sociriiang are nothing so true to their own principles , as the ringleaders of these factions are beyond the seas . '

    Having done with Laud , Cheynell proceeds : " This may suffice for a taste of the Archbishpp ' s divinity : nor the young students could not . but take notice of such passages , and therefore whet their wits to maintain those opinions which his Grace countenanced .

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    There was a great scholar who asked one of the Canterburian faction , what he thought of the Primate of Ireland ' s treatise concerning Christ ' s Incarnation , in which he demonstrates that the word was made flesh and that therefore Christ is God and Man : the

    Canterburian answered that , indeed there was as much produced upon that argument as could be said upon it , but under correction , saith he , ' I conceive the Primate hath not cleared thepoint which he undertook to prove , ' The men of this strain when they were

    at their height , began to vary their expressions , they called Christ their great Master , or our Lord and Master , at the highest , so that you could scarce tell by their prayers whether

    they did respect Christ or their patrone tnost , for the Chaplaines styled their Patrone their very good Lord and Master . Dr . Taylour in his Epistle Dedicatory to the Archbishop before the sermon on the Gunpowder

    Treason , seems to affect that * expression of calling Christ our great Master : the Socinians \ vill bear them company in such gene rail expressions , and some have til ought of composing such a Liturgy as might give no offence to Arminians or Socinians : that would

    be an inoffensive Liturgy indeed , and they may doe well to enlarge their charity * and inake their Liturgy inoffensive to the Turkes and Jews as well as the Spcinians ; for any Liturgy

    which will please one that is a thorow Socinian , will please Turkes and Jews also , if it be but warily compoffcd , and they will keep themselves in such generall expressions as some doe too

    much affect /' This is an amusing passage . Professor Marsh appears not to be original in his objections to " generalized Christianity . " . In the conclusion of this chap ter , Cheynell returns to Mr . Webberly " But of all that I have met with ,

    none comes neer Mr . Webbeny , Batchelour of Divinity find Fellow of Lincoln Colledge , who hath trans lated a Socinian Book into Eiigl » sh ' for the benefit of this pation , and prepared it for thepress . Now they thin * they may own the business , they aw * appeare in their proper colours an blaspheme Christ in plain language * But because some palls of Sociniaai «» strike directly at the . superst ition o Rome so highly extolled in our dayes ,

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    49 s CheynclVs " Rise , Growth and Danger of Socinianisme"

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 498, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/34/