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Vtine'ttft hV represen t * a * fcquajly obnoxious with th 6 s £ of the above fcterfetie . I should be glad if any
of your traders Could give some information concefnipg the editor &hd translator of this book , whom I suspect to be Df . South , by 'whom a most bitter controvers y
was carried on about that tinife <> rt the subject of the Trinity , with l ^) r . Sherlock . It would also be gratifying , if any one could supply a more particular and impartial
account of this persecuted man . In more tharn one placfe the author refers to Calvin . In a note , p . 9 , he fcays , * See Calvin ' s Narrative of Gentiliti * in bis Opttscula *
p . 764 . " If the following abstract of the above work should produce any further information about the , subject , of it of in any degree pro - rriote an abhorrence of persectiition for religious opinion , my end will be answered , who am
A friend to Universal Liberty of Conscience . The title of the above work , is as follows . A short History of Valentines Gen-Tins , the TilltHEIST , trytd , cbndemnedy and put to death by the Protestant JR / formed City and Church of Bern , in SwiTZ ^ RI-AtfO , for asserting the Thtee Divine Persons of the Trinity % t * he Three distinct eternal Spirits , lifts Wrote in Latin hy Benedictus ArttiriSy * Divine of that Cburtb ; and now translated into Mnglisb for the use of Jbr . Sherlock . Humbly tendered to the
Consideration of the Arch-bishop * and Bishops of this Gburcb and Kingdom . London . Printed and Sold by E . Whitlock , near Stationer ' s Hall , x 6 o 6 . . After this general title t 6 .. fthe . £ pgli * h edition , there follows a dedication to the archbishops and bishops of the church of . ^ ng fand ^ Hn which the translator ijxpresses his xfet&tatiqn of the doctrine 4 > f three . distinci splits in tfte \ D ity , a $ maintained by some clergymen in that church , particularly Dr , Sherlock % " in
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Hir pret £ nde * d ? indication of the doctrine of the ever-blessed Trinity , A . t > . 16 90 ^ whom he scruples not to pronounce a lYitheist , and far Whdfri he giv ^ s pretty broad intiniaiions of his ^ obd wishes , that he might share the honours of mar * , tyrdom with V . feentilis .
| n an advertisement "which follows , the Editor - says , «« 1 dhi Hot here cdncerned to make an exact parallel betwetfi the heresie of # ^ . Gentilh and the opinion of Dr . J > her loci 9 33 to all circumstances , it being enough for my purpose that they agree as tb the rnain , Viz .-the assertion of three eternal \ spirits % Ac . > But
my chief design is to shew -the noble concern of a Protestant city an 4 senate , in vindicating so high an article as , that of the ^ trinit ^ y against this Heretical , Trjtheistical innovatiOn ^ u . ^ orCi . t , V ^ and I cannot but , in kdn&ur t ^ thim ^ wis h that all Christian governors would snew
the same niagnanimous zeal and courage in the defence of their faith , though I confess , I wish not that they should db it the same way . " We have then the title of the
original work : —A brief auount of Valtntinus Gent His ; containing some passages of hu ' life' And just Execution j together tvith an , orthodox defence bf the a Hide of the boly Trinity against bis blasphemies . TSext follows , the author ' s dedication " the most honourable and noblf
lords , Nicholas a Dieubacby Nicholas a Orajfcnried ) treasurer , -and Petermannus ah Erlacby most worthy senators of the republic of Bern , and his most honoured lords and patrons ; Health through Jesus Christ" In this curions dedication is the following passage
concerning the propef meihod of maintaining the truth against heretics . Having spoken of a parcel of ambitious men risen up , who , laying no restraint on their wild fancies , made a very ill use of the simplicity of the scripture , and began to affix new interpretations to
texts , " he * says * * to keep these fellows within bounds , and to shew that their opinions were contrary to scripture , it was necessary that better men sh&uld limit the sense af things in OTHER words . *' The book is divided into twentf
chapters , of which the titles are given in a table of contents prefixed . Some of the principal of them are the following . —How and where V . Gentilis fell into those new opinions , and what great mischief he did by spreading them—• Upon what account he was broug ht
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 310, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/18/
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