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Socinmn works ; f of his free use of which , tfatces nfriy be found in bis own incomparable books . nothing strott of a justification , of Protestaatism couki have satisfied him to take up bis rest ia a Protestant communion .
Smith » the first English translator of Daille , says , m the advertisement to hilt work , printed in London , 4 to , 1651 > * f JTbr £ ra&slati&a of this tract Iiath b $ en often attempted , and oftener desired by many noble personages of this
afld dther nations : amotJg others by Sh ? - Lucius Canpyiate Lord Viscount Falkland , who with his deer friend , Mir , X ?^ ill ^ ngworth naade very much use of It m all their writings against the litflfumisV *?'
*< Bj ?* rfofd has the following reflect ^ n $ upou , the t « rn given to the JRomi ^ . c ^ t ro ^ ers y fyr . J& » Paille , and upon Uie aia furnished by his book . to m ^ Cifititegkikihi « Afiet a prodigknifc waste of * mki # try lend erudition , a learned ifbreigner , at length shewed the inutilty and foily of pursuing the
contest any further . In a well-consi - dered discourse , Oil the iLse of the Fathers , he clearly ¦" ¦ -evinced that their authority was much less than was generally supposed , in all points of religious cdrltroversy ; and that their judgment
wa ^ especially incompetent in those points Which 'Were agfoatetl by the two patftie 8 . He evinced this conclusion by a variety of unanswerable arguments > and chiefly b y shewing that the matters in debatie were * ? ot ^ the most part such as had never entered into the heads of
thoeo iold writers , being indeed of much later gK > p | h » and , having first sprung 'up in the barbarous ages . They could not ther ^ fbte decide on question © , -which ihtey ^ had no occarsiofc to consider , and hsrf ^ r in fact ; never considered ; howcv ^^ bcir careless or figurative expression might be made to look that way by the dextrous management of the
controversialists . ** TJbi » discovery bad great effects . It opeip ^ d ^ hc * yt& of the more candid and i ^ ScttigSntji ioi ^ uircrs ; Aod u ur inoomparable < hit lingwortht vt itii some others ( i . oH Falkland , J ^ ord Dig by , f > r . J 0 r . Taylor , 4 ic . ) rook the a < ivantage of it to « nt the c ^ ot < ov « csy with the GhOr ^ K ^ f . R © me oa < 3 « nwr « , on it * j > roper foot ; and to ciublUh for ever , the old prin-
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One of Chillingwofth ' s first-acu on his return to the Protestant faitli was to write a reply to tlie motives for embracing Popery ^ which he had formerly penned :
this paper is losi . He was dovt drawn into controversy with the advocates of the Church of Rome , and his defences of Protestari tisd ^ appeared in quick succession : the titles and dates of these kftall be
given at the end of the Memoir . But it was not possible that this great man should confine his iri-. ' ciple , That the Bjbli , and that only ( interpreted by our best reason ) , IS THE RELIGION OT PROTKSXANTS * Introduction to Prophecies , 4 th fCd . 3776 . Vol . II . pp . % 15 , 217 .
f The Socinian works alluded to are particularly two , translations of which ate inserted in the Phema > r 1 7 08 , Vol . II . ftad both of which are there wrongly ascribed to Mr . John Hales . Thp &rs ^ is the Brevis Disoitisitio : or a brief In ~
quiry toicching a letter way thanks cam * morUy made u&e of to refute Papists , £ cc / written by Joachim S-tegman ( See 6 « n ~ dii Bib . Antitrin , p . 132 , 133 ); the second is the Dissertatio de Pace , £ cc . or
a Discourse touching the Peace and Concord of the Churchy written 4 > y Przipcavius ( See Sandius , p . J ^ a ^ and abroad attributed to Episcopius , as at home to Mr . Hales . Consult Des Maizeauj ? Hist . and CriL Account vf the Lift and Writings of the ever-memorabUs Jlfn John Hales . 8 vo . 1719 . p . 4 > ^ . c . and Note B .
Of Hales Tract on Schism , the following curious account it given by Anthony Wood- " All or moit or thi » pamphlet was taken , as 'tis said , fnuu Sodnusy and written about the year , 1636 , paitly as some think out of dia- » content , that he had no prefermear conferred on him , partly as others say
for the encouragemci | t oC soqic great rn astcrs of wit and reason tp dispute the authority of the Church , and partly at the request ol hi » friend H \ . Chillingivorih % Who de » ii ^ ed 9 ome such matter - o 4 to , he u ^ c 4 b yp him , in the c ^ mppr sitioaof his book , jntit . The H ^ lisJUm , of . i ^ Mfosf'&k"' jiihm . Oxw * y ^ II . CoL $ 3 . sadDot MdiasoaiiK ul > , sup . p 9 . Note C .
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Brief Memoir of Mr . Chittingworth . t
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/7/
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