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uniformity of faith and worship . He remarks , C 4 how divers ways God scourged and plagued many of them—miserably put to death in divers places , as well for their
monstrous and damnable heresies , as for many mischiefs and outrages which they committed . " Soon follows a marvellous tale which Bishop " Cyril hath
recorded to . us , of his own knowledge , '' concerning u one Sabi . jrianus , a perverse and blasphemous fellow , that denied the distinction of persons in the Trinity , and affirmed the Father , the Son , and the Holy Ghost , to be but one indistinct person . * ' This
shrewd heretic , it seems , < c wrote a book and fathered it upon Saint Jerome , now dead . " To confute him , " Silvanus , the Bishop of Nazaren , made this bargain with Sabinianus , that if St . Jerome , the next day , did not by some miracle testify the falseness of his cause , he would offer his throat to the hangman , and abide death :
but if he did , that then he should die . Now the day was passed , and no miracle appeared , so that Silvanus was commanded to yield his neck to that punishment which himself was author of . " The
orthodox Bishop was , however , soon released from his perilous situation , for " behold an image , Jike unto St . Jerome in shew , appeared , and stayed the hangman ' s hand—and vanishing forthwith , another miracle succeeded , Sabinianus ' s head fell from his shoulders , no man striking at it . "
With such wonderful testimonies against the Unitarian Doctrine how could the Christian world fail to becotme Trinitarian , especially under the powerful patronage of the . magistrate . \ Tet he
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sometimes overacted his part * Thus we learn that " Anastasius * Emperor of Constantinople , being corrupted with the heresy of ErU-r tiches , published an edict , wherein all men were commanded to
worship God not under three persons , as a Trinity , but as a quatcrnity , containing in it four persons . " For this anecdote there is no marginal authority , nor do we learn the name or quality of
the fourth person . The unassuming Mary the mother of Jesus /' raised by the schools to the rank of" mother of God / ' has been , I think , by some theologians
admitted to that partnership in Deity which they have substituted for the " One God and Father of all ' ' the object of apostolic reverence .
I shall conclude the extracts from this Chapter of Heretikes with a passage which inculcates a doctrine of most pernicious tendency , though I dare say not so understood by Thomas Beard * He describes " Justinus the lid "
as a man of exceeding pride and cruelty , in avarice insatiate , contemning poverty , and murdering
the nobility for the most part 2 notwithstanding all this , he prosrpered well enough until he fell into the heresy of Pelagius , soon after which the Lord bereft him
of his wits , and shortly after ofc his life . " How different was the judgment of Tillotson , " that the greatest heresy in the world is a wicked life . "—S . 34 . V . 1 .
In Chapter 21 . Ct Of conjuring and enchanters '( p . 114 ) we are told , as might be expected , from the then low condition of scriptural inquiry , that u a witch caused a devil to appear and speak unto Saul in the shape of Samuel /' The following account of a jmore
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Bdok . Worm . No . XII . 115
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 115, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/43/
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