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teckum was answered by Dr . John Owen , then Dean of Christ Church , and animadverted upon by Maresiu $ f before-mentioned , ( p . 349 , ) in his preface to the reader , before his second tome of Hydra Socinianismi , * and by
Nich . Arnold us , f Prqfessor of Divinity in Franeker , in West-Frisen , in the latter end of his preface to the reader , before his book , entituled , Religio Sociniana , sen Catechesis Racoviana major , &c . % As for Maresius , he is very large against him , and deplores
the sad condition of England , that after all the contests that it hath had against the hierarchy , Arminianism , Popery , and I know not what , should at length be overwhelmed with Socinianism , all sorttof sectaries , Atheism , &c «; which character , as falling from the pen of a person well known to be no friend
to episcopacy , seems to be a considerable argument to prove , ( even in his persuasion , ) that the pretended strictness and severity of the then established church government , was not so an effectual remedy against all litwertism in opinions and practice , as was the episcoparian government then lately thrown out of doors .
After Biddle had cotitinned prisoner , not without improvement as to , and in , his opinion , to the beginning of the year 1658 , he , by the intercession of many friends , was conveyed from
St . Mary ' s Castle , by habeas corpus , to the Upper Bench , at Westminster , where appearing without any thing laid to Ins charge , was set at liberty by the Lord Chief Justice Jo . Glynn . S
? Edit . Groniog-. 1664 , 4 to . ( WJ \ A native of Lesna , who died in 16 S 0 , aged 0 $ , J Edit . Amstel . 1654 , 4 to . ( WJ See TheRacovian Catechism ^ by Dr . Thomas Hees , Hist . Introd . lxxxv .
§ " In this exile he continued about tbree years , notwithstanding all endeavours of his friends tor his liberty , and his own letters , both to the Protector and to Mr , Calamy ( an eminent Presbyterian minister ) , to reason them into compassion . At length , tlirough the importunity of friends , and other occurrences , the Protector suffered
a . writ of habeas corpus to be granted out of the Upper Benoh Court , ( as it was then sailed , ) and to be obeyed by the Governor oFSciily , whereby the prisoner w * sbrought tlience , and by that court set at liberty * as finding no legal cause of detaining him /* Shori Account * p . B .
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While be was in prison , ( where the Protector allowed him a hundred crowns I per annum for his subsistence , ) he solely gave himself tfp to the studying of several intricate matters , and of the various opinions concerning the beast in the Apocalypse , Antichrist , and the personal reign of Christ on earth \ * which being digested according to his mind , he explained them after his return , in conventicles , held every Sunday in the afternoon , before his disciples . Which being done , he
published them with this , or the like title , " Learned Notes on some of the Chapters of the Apocalypse ; ' * or thus : "An Ess ^ y to the explaining of the Revelation . " When , or where printed , or in what volume , I Know not , for I have not yet seen them or it . After Olivers death , and Richard
set in the throne , a Parliament was called , mostly consisting of Presb y * terians , whom , of all men , he . most dreaded . Whereupon , by the advice of a noble friend then in authority , he caused Biddle ( fop whom he had it respect ) to be conveyed away privately into the country ; . where r& maining till that Parliament was dis *
* Now although this banishment drew with it many inconveniences , yet , through the g-qodaess of God , it was tempered n ^ itli mercies . Here the prisoner enjoyed much divine comfort , from the heavenly concern ? plations which his retirement ^ gave _ hio
opportunity for : here lie had sweet ^ m munion with tne Father , and hjs Son JTesi | $ Christ , ^ ittd attained a clearer understanding of the Divine oracles in many par ^ cul ^ rt Her $ 9 ' whilst he was more abundantly con * firmed in the doctrines of his confession of
faith , Sec * , yet lie seems , notwithstanding * , to Bare become more doubtful about some other points , w ^ ich ^ li ^ rjad formerly held , as a ^ peW ^ owa Hja , E ? aaj to the expjaiu * ing of the Revelation , which he wrote after his return thence ; which shews that he still maintained a free and unprejudiced
mind . And here we must not forget to do the Protector this right , as to tell the world , that after some time he was pleased to allow bis prisoner a hundred crowns per annum for his subsistence , to wit , lest being removed far from his friends and employments , . he should want necessaries . This
banishment seems also to haye been bene * ficial to him on this account , that it was a means to prevent another of tlie Protector ' s Parliaments fromdecreeing any thing mor « rigid against hini , being now absent and out of their way /* Short Account , » , 8 .
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Life of John Biddle , by Anthony Wood * 417
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vol . xm . 3 h
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1818, page 417, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2478/page/9/
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