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    the end , ih # t alUhMgs may g <\ on . ' t $ tiu ^ honour of the Church of England ; " he presumes upon Chillingworth ' s acquiescence in any alterations the Professor and his associates might point out ; aiid he concludes with a

    wi&h-that the book thus guarded and perfected might have the Imprimatur of the licenser > * and indeed that all books hereafter printed * at the University should have the same ^ tapop of approbation and authori ty *

    ChilUngworth was not in a condition * npr Prideaux and his Oxford brethren in a temper , to re . fus $ coojpliaac ^ with the arehiepiscppal inat&l ^ te * The book

    vv ^ s ,, exarmo ?< l ; the examiners teiqg ,, the ; Prq ^ s&ory just named , Dr . Bay lie ,. Vice- Chancellor , and Drf . Fell ,, L ^ d y Margaret ' s Pro * fessor ; who ^ severally prefixed their testimony of approbation to it , fcefore it . issued from the press which was in the latter end of the year 1637 , in small folio , under tM t nh ' of— " The Religipn of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation : or an Answer to a

    Booke entitled , 4 Mercy and Truth > or Chanty maintained by CajHoljcjiiea / < which pretends to prove the contrary * By William ChilHngworttiy Master of Arts of th £ University ofOxford . "

    CitiillijRgwortb r himself says * th&fc his book h ^ d * ' passed the fiery trial bf the ^ xatt censures of many understanding judges . *' In a pamphlet ^ to be hereafter mentioned * Knatt states from report -thai the censors made so

    roa'fiy alterations in it that " it fe c ^ i ite janother thiog from the fi rjst plattormc which he diew and put info their hands . ' * Nay , accords

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    iijgnto Anthony Wood ) one of its approvers , Dr . Prideaux , repented afterwards of having given his sanction to the work , likening it among his friends to u an unwholsome lamprey , by having a poisonous sting of Socinianism throughout it , and tending in some places to plain infidelity and atheisme . ^ f Implicit reliance cannot be placed on an au- * thor like Wood , where such a

    man as Chillingworth and such a cause as religious liberty is

    + Athen . Oxon . Vol . it . c . £ 2 . Wood possessed the microscopic soul of afl antiquary , and was utterly unable to comprehend a mind of such breadth as Chillingworth ' s . He had too a

    Roman Catholic leaning , and if he had spoken out would probably have confessed with the late Wm . Cole , of King ' s C © llege Cambridge , the idol df the Gentleman ' s Magaz in& > that he could not help regretting that the Reformation had taken place . The story in

    question he borrowed from a Presbyterian fanatic , Cheynell , of ivnom wfe shall see more hereafter , who introduced it in a pamphlet ( " A Discussion of Mr . Joh . Fry ' s tencnts lately condemned in Parliament , * ' ) published several years after Mr . Chilling worth ' s death : Wood ' s contempt for Cheynell and his party cannot nnd expressions * strong enough , but the authority of such a njaa is sufficient ground for the defamation of a Protestant on the true principle .

    Fuller takes notice of the same story , but relates it in milder terms , and < H& »* misses it without credit . u In testimony of his true conversion , ( says \ ie ^ Worthies ^ p . 339 * 340 , ) Mr . Chillingworth- wrote a book entituled , * The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation ^ against Mr . Knott the J «> - suit : I will not say , mala nodo main *

    qucerendus est cuneus but affirm no per ion better qualified than this author * with all necessary acconiplislirnents < , % o encounter a Jesuit . Jt is cdmmonljr Reported tiaat Dr . Prideaux compared

    his book to a lamprey , fit for 'foo <| lif the vfcnoraous sting were taken out of the t > a ^ k thereof : ^ passage ia tny *> pti nion inconsistent with the doctor ' a apV probation prefixed in the beginning <> € hi » book . * -

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1814, page 143, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2438/page/7/