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they ordered , on the 6 th of September 1647 , that the said book , blasphemous agaitist the deity of Christ , be called in and burnt by the hand of the com * moo hangman , and that the author
fo » examined by the committee of plundered ministers : both wMch were done , viz * the book burnt on the 8 th of the same month , and he examined . While these things were in doing , the book vended so fast , that tfee same
year it was printed again m 8 vo . and afterwards answered by Matthew Poole , M . A ., of Eman . Coll . in Cam * bridge , in tirs Plea for the Godhead of ike Holy f &wst , £ cc , t
Soon after , or at the same time , was published of Biddle ' s writing , u Confession of Faith touching the Holy Triiiity according to the Scrip * ture . " Lond . l 64 S , Svo . It consists of seven articles , each of which is
confirmed all along by subjoined proo&and reasonings © n them ; which , for the most part , tend to disprove the deity of our Saviour , Before the said Confession is put a Preface againat the Holy Trinity ; and about the same time came out . of our Authors com *
position , " The Testimonies of Irenietfe , Jus * tin Martyr , Tertulhan * NovaHanus , Theophiius , Origen , ( who lived in the two first centime * mftdr Christ was born * or thereabouts , ) us alto of
* Sec Whitelocke ' s Mem . 168 £ , pp . 270 , $ xt . ¦ .. » . . ., ¦¦¦ f " Matthew f » 6 te or fVfctfte , St A ., of jBmanuel College . He toss minister of St . Mfc 1 iaer « in Lfe Qnerme , in London , Tram vrh&ncey being ejected for nonconformity , * m 1662 , he set himself t& the Writing * F tboweadmirable njitl useful books , entitled
* Synopsis Criticornm Bibhoram / ^ cc . Th ^ t wo first voltimes of wh ich were prin ted at London , W 69 9 aad ihiee more afterwards ^ besides one in Eegii&h , all in folio . He liath also written , ' The Blespbemer
slain With tl | e Syord of the Spirit ; or a Flea tor the Godhead of the Holy Ghost , ¦ whe rein the l > eity of th « Spirit i « proved & £ &in * t thiK cavils of John B ? ddfe . Lt ^ ttd . WMil ^ mo : ** AtheH O ^ NWt . If . VM .
' Wood lAentkins another oppoiwent of Btelte , " WtHifcni Kiitsef , ed neat erf in tb * grratnniar school of Wotton-under-edge /* who , ^ became master of the Public Collefcte Sciiood ,- " in tlie rity of GioncfesterJ * Ha puWisbed ^^ Aa ^^^ r ^^ fhe ttoly Ghost Vindicated . 8 r » , WriCtea airainst John Bidtflo- ^ Ibid . IJ . J-60 .
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Amobius , Lactantius , &c , y [ Emebius , Hilkry and Brightroan , ] concerning that one God aod the Persons of tte Hoi ; Trinity , together with observations on the same . " Printed in Svo . *
Upbn tiie coining out of which things , the Assembly of Divines , silting at Westminster , made their endeavours to the Parliament , that he might suffer death in the month of May , 1648 , but what hindered it I cannot tdl
unless it was the great dissension that was then in the . said Parliament : t however , bis confinement was made close . Sorae time after the publiratioc of Biddies first book , it ham ened that
John < "loppenburch , D . D . and Professor iii tte University of JFrism , [ Frietsland , ] was at JSristow , in Eng «> fat y d , where meeting with William Bamtltotiy a Scot , lately Fellow of Alls . Coli . in Oxon . the « aid William
did not only then Airnvsh him with a copy of that toook * bat defeated the controversy with him . Afferwurds upon the return of doppenburoh $ 4 his own C 5 ountry > be did excellently well answer it iu Latin , which he had translated ( bo much as lie answered ) in a small treatise , entitled " Vindicia pro JOeitate Spiritus Sancti , adversus Pnenrmatvmaehimt Jvhcvn . Bidelhcm Anplttfitf % printed nkFraneker * 105 $ ,
* The whole of tbeee Tracts were * b ~ printed 1691 . See Unit . Tr-ect * , Voi . f . f " The Assembly of Presbyterian Divines—solicit the JVIlaiac-irt * in wlw $ hands waa the wyirerae |> ower at that time , and procure dDroconick ordiimoee ( M * tr $ »
164 B ) roar uidi < 5 ti « g the punithinent of 46 aih upon tliose that faeW opinions contrary to the Pimsbyteriao points mhnut ike Ttimty aod other doctrines , whom they named UiaK * phen »« rg aj ) d h ^ retic « and severe penuJftief upon Uia « e that dii ^ r « d in tcs «<» r maitersu This seemed a damoator ^ aent&ucte agminst Mr . £ iddl # | which Ui ^ rr was no cfcap * from * But it piemed the < Afought * to
make wmy for him , hj a difisepAH ^ i in the Parlia trout itceJf ; to tha be tier p # « t wher « df the army joined il « power , a « ft > r otfe ^ r reafojijB , « o for | hat there w ^ re ia it many , both odERuerB anil * old \ ex * > liahk » to tbm severities of that meotfon ^ d ^ diiMUHHS whicti , th # refi >*^ from tliatftMMe A > r dMra yeaft lay unre ^^ jded . ^ 5 ^ rr ^ cc # im ^ pp . 6 6 .
1 Tha tk ^ jrof 4 * Ho | « pfrtl f iiidi . £ « M 5 « g « i * ft that Spiril-o ^ po * er # JtaJm Biddle , an Englishmaa .
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849 life of J * h * Bidilt , * y Antii # ny Wt > o& .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 348, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/4/
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