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quarto . It must also be noted , that upon the publishing of the said book of Biddle , ( I mean hi * Twelve Ques tions , ) Samuel Maresius , D * D * * awl chief professor of that faculty at
Groniugen , did take occasion ( in his Epiut . Ded . before his first vol . priuted at Groiling , an . l 651 # quarto , entitled Hydra Socinianumi , written against Joh . Volktlius and Jo . Crellius , ) to give this account of the growth of
Socinianism : Vigesimus jam prmtenit cnrius ex quo pestUentissima Ti&c nutrix , viz * Socinianismus in Sarmaticis paludibits primum nata , eaput erexii , el per Germaniam , ac Belgium nostram sibilis et halitn fcedissimo grassata ,
etiam tetrnm siium virus sttpertiio oceano intulit in Angiitirn , in quti truti hot tempore dicilur incredibiles proyressns fecisse , &c . f As for the Confession of Faith , &c , before-taen .-tievned , it was examined arid confuted
by Nkh . Estviicfc , Rector of Warkfoti , in Northamptonshire , in a book published by lum in quarto , an . 1656 : which being dedicated to Edward Lord Montague , of Botighton , he takes occasion to say , that ** Biddies
writings hare not been enclosed within the confines of ow nation , but Imve taken their wings and have fted be-3 ^ ond the seas , to the thsrcptstatiott of otir dear country ^ in the Reformed Churches , insomuch that Maresiws ,
Professor of Dlirihiity irt Gfonitigen , is bold to avouch , { Icwwlt tiay € fithtrr truly or ctiarTt « bly ^) that Sociniai ? * m hath ijx ^ 4 its seat here in England , and displayed opMily the banners of its impiety . The said Estwfck also
had , some j ^ ars before , hteW forth an antidote aeaitist th ^ poison of Bidd ! e s 44 Twelve A r ^ ttfttcn t 8 against the Deity of the Holy Gbo * tr Sltice which , as it k usual in deceivers , ( so Evtwick words it , ) Biddie grew worse and
? &amuvi ties &farmts > triio died in 1673 , ag-ed 74 . He wrote tigfeindt Catholics , So * ifti * i »« « Wd Qtotitis . See Nouv , XHct . 1778 , IV . 346 w Biofr . Ito * . IX , 68 .
t Twenty years have m > w passetl since that foul nurse of pestilence , Socinittm ^ m ^ bornift the Sarmatian marshes reared its head , and prowling through Germany ; and otor ftel giaj with it » liisscs ^ and naKiooa br ^ atlh , tsoftreyed Ae niisciiWvomi poifaii o > tjr « Me ira into Knfrlttna ^ < rh 4 ra ft tbeto * ** n & **** it ftetftM to htfv % ttmtfe hi&M ^ N
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woTse , and levied his forces against tlie htff TrM * 5 v * nd published , notwithstanding , other matters replenished with Socinian tenets . , . ¦ Our author Bid die contieued y « t m restraint , and none of the Asst * nib ! y
durst venture to give him a visit * either out of charity or to convince him of h ) s errors ; nor indeed ain $ divine of note of fhe other p * rtyf ox > ly Mr . Peter G unning , ? who had several friendly conferences with him . At length , some of the laity of London , and others of the country would come
fa him , either to see or converse with him } who , being taken with his religious discourse and saint-like conversation , a certain justice of peace of Stafibrdstire prevailed so far with hi > kieeper , that , upon Kecurity given for
his appearance upon the least sum * mons , he should be surrendered up to him . Whereupon he was conveyed into Staffordshire , and not piiiy made by him liis chaplain , but also preacher of a church there , t
These matters soon after being known at London , John Bradshaw , President of the Council of State * bin capital enemy , sent a messenger for > arid committed him more close than before . Scion afterthe said justice of peace died , and left Bid rile a considerable
1 egaty , but in a shoft tinie devou red by 4 h « frequent paying of the faes of a prisoner . | So that being hi a manwer netluced lo great indig&tee , he ww employed by Roger Obth ^ I , a printer of London , tetorr « ct the Gree * Version « F the S ^ ptuagint of the Old
Testament , which he was about most accurately to publish : and this he did , know hi g full well that Biddte wai an exact Grecian ; and had rime enough to folloW it . Which employ ment , and another in private , did gain him , for a time , a comfortable subsistence , ^ ( To be continued . )
? He became Bishop of Tliy , and died 1684 . See Short Account , p . 6 . + M > i 4 . J M He spent even mH& % \ u MilwttHic ^ it ** soHiuch tliat i 08 te « il » f * n ordinary for refftst , which be eou \ 4 mot pay ifbc , lye ^ nu of
glad of th « ck « a |>« r feM ^ fftft drinking % dtauzht of milk from ih&Qew * im > tiii «| r ana ev * nu > t £ ~ Joid ~ > V ^ B ^ I nugr also mot ae < uytqbJg to J . ! bidJttL $ ec * # kii lii « delight was i « the law 0 f € kM !> HIM .
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Life of John Biddle , hy Anthony Wood . $ * 9
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 349, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/5/
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