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that *> f a ppn ^ . ta ^ gmh it roa&a > fc ascertained ^ J ?||« bPong ? t | % pnvileged religion . Independently of this the general adoption of the doctrine of DavKUs , woiiia hare placedrHJiiiSarianisnr in so marked a contrast with other religious ^ sects , as would probably have fed to its proscription . The worship of Christ may be explained
away by one who wishes to appear heterodox , into an apostrophe of p iety and gratitude , while one who wishes to appear orthodox may place himself by means of it , upon a level with the most orthodox , especially when it is joined with the ascription of the titles
of Divinity to our Saviour . The wish of Blandrafca , therefore , to prevent the spread of the opinions of Davidis was the result of policy rather than bigotry ;
and , as a piece of policy , the subsequent history of the Unitarians in Transyl vania will justify him . Their existence has been precarious , and they have always found it advisable to represent
the difference between themselves and other sects of Christians as being as small as possible . Davidis had been the first Superintendent of the Unita rians , coid after his death this office was conferred upon Demetrius Huny ades . It was his first care to restore
the unity of the Church ; which the doctrines of Davidis had disturbed , by drawing up a Confession of Faith ana re-establishing the use of Infant Baptism , which had been for two years neglected . Some add that the Lord ' s
Supper had equally fallen info disuse , ( Watch ' s Neueste Religions-geschichte , W 1729 ) but this is probably a mistake . Benko ( Tra % Jkara » , lib . iv . C . kvi ) spe&ks only of baptism , the neglect of jvlu £ h is easil y accounted * for by the ^ pitudns . which Socinus fe known to Jiwe h , eld on , thia subject . The confession of-Hunvadi recognizes the rkrht
of Christ to the title of God and to worship * although not of the same kind as the Father . He died in IJS 9 Q , ¦ 0 ^ : ^ wm ^^^ 0 ^ b y the celebrated . Geoiig : e ? Bc ^^; r ^ vho filled the office of Sup € irinttt | id (^ t tillii 597- About sixty yeara a # » # m digging a grave in Clau-8 ^ ui ^; ao t ( U ^ l « < i o £ &x > ritas was found mtban inaeriptioiilBJietters of gdldf whVdiapihMtta to bare stood upon his \ m ( $ md , \ 'V'Hic smuttturi jflceti ^ orpiis eTOditione ,, Htf ^ 8 tthtilitat ^ eMpiafate ^ toftdentia ^ lesWuro ; pWfW&
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Patrem et rmtMMPCBRB ^ tentram , qui scholiic ^ per s&semlum , ecclesias panter sex annis , fideliter magno cum fhictik administravit . Tau dem colicS . passione corr ^ ptus , anno aetatis suae 42 e ^ tinctua e » t , A . D , 1597 , die 24 Nov . hork 4 . " . His work ,
" Explicationes Eoc . S& Vet . et Nov . ex quibus Trinitatis dogma stabUiri soiet / ' is an enlai ^ ement of an unpublished treatise of Stephen Basilu above mentioned ; " Responsiones in Loca V ; et N . Testt . quibus fides de SS . Triadevadstruitur . ' * The woA df
Enyedi was published without date or name of place , and the circumstances attending the first edition of it are almost wholly unknown . The Unitarians had at first a press of their own , but it was taken frotoi them in the year 1588 , and given to the Jesuits by their zealous patron , Christopher Bathory . Siebenburgische Quartal schrift , 17 & 5 .
I find nothing particular recorded of the history of the Unitarian Church under its next Superintendents , John Kosa , Matthew Torotskai , Valentine Radecius and Paul Csanadi ; it is
evident , however , that the opinions of Davidis Were yery far from being rootd out by" the violence of Blandrata towards him , a ^ id the introduction of a more orthodox confession . On the
contrary , the numbers of the adherents to them constantly increased ; a diet which was * held in the year 1618 , in the reign of Gabriel Bethlen , decreed that those who refiised to worship Christ should be deprived of their priiiSS ^ 1 » n <* many it them we | e
con-^ Mentl y excluded from comffipMSO ; bpheir respective churches , by , which they lost their political rights 5 aiid they would probabhr have been more hardly dealt mth , had not th ^ prince been so much occupied in war > a ^ id nianr of the Magnates been : inyclined to their In the
opinions [ Walcb ; p . 1 ^ 81 . year 1638 ,, however , in the feign of George JRaffolzkiL , a violent disp « e among the Umtlo'miB tta | emfeeliresy 'brought them into danger of losing their brivijegf Matt ^^ Riwoj ^ , an UnitanU ni ^ ter , son of ^^ tor of the first rant , ' in hi ? iUMf 9 tW ^ Wyy ^' irat ^ fflfe ^* SuM ^ S ^ r b ^ te to prewl ^ g v ^ SmBml 0 ^ - vM ^ m ^^
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194 Mr . Kenrick on the Histoty and actual Condition
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1820, page 194, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2487/page/2/
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