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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76698	The apostolical and true opinion concerning the Holy Trinity, revived and asserted partly by twelve arguments levied against the traditional and false opinion about the Godhead of the Holy Spirit. Partly by a confession of faith touching the Three Persons. Both which having been formerly set forth, were much altered and augmented, with explications of Scripture, and with reasons: and finally, with testimonies of the Fathers, and of others. All reprinted, anno 1653. By John Bidle, M.A. And now again with the life of the author prefixed, anno Dom. 1691.	Biddle, John, 1615-1662.; Irenaeus, Saint, Bishop of Lyon.	1691 (1691)	Wing B2868B; ESTC R211856	15,790	16

Knowledg in the sense of Holy Scriptures that instead of losing he gained much Credit both to himself and his Cause as even the Gentlemen of Dr. Gunning's Party some of them had the ingenuity to acknowledg After this Dr. Gunning comes again at unawares and hears J. Biddle arguing against the Satisfaction of Punitive Justice by the Death of Christ which the Doctor with great vigour defends but found the Opponent no less skilful and dextrous in this conflict than in the former which the Doctor himself had the Generosity afterward to confess In December following he was brought to the Bar of the Commons House of Parliament conveen'd by Oliver Cromwel the Protector and there asked If he was the Author of that Two-fold Scripture Catechism wherein all the Questions are answered in the words of Scripture at large He answered by asking Whether it seem'd reasonable that one brought before a Judgment-Seat as a Criminal should accuse himself And they presently committed him a close Prisoner to the Gatehouse Decemb. 3. prohibiting him the use of Pen Ink and Paper or the access of any Visitant and commanded his Books to be burnt by the common Executioner In this case nothing less than capital Punishment could be expected which notwithstanding the Prisoner bare a composed and chearful Mind hoping in God whose Cause he suffer'd for for a happy Event Neither did this Hope deceive him for the Protector for Reasons of his own Interest dissolv'd that Parliament and the Prisoner after about six Months Imprisonment obtain'd his Liberty at the Court of the Kings or Vpper Bench May 28. by due Course of Law Neither was he any whit discouraged by these Dangers and Sufferings but betook himself to his former Exercises for propagating Truth and the Honour of Almighty God concern'd therein But scarce a Year was expired when another no less formidable Danger overtook him which was thus There was a considerable number of a Congregation of those called Anabaptists who began to entertain J. Bidel's Sentiments concerning the Trinity The Pastor one Griffin thinking it should seem to reduce them to their former Opinion and to put a stop to the spreading of this Gangreen as he esteemed it challenges Mr. Bidle to a publick Disputation at his Meeting place at St. Paul's upon the Subject of Christ's Supream Deity which he would have declin'd as knowing Mr. Griffin to be far inferior to him in Learning c. but at length he accepted it And being met in the midst of a numerous Auditory among whom not a few of J. Bidle's inveterate and fiery Adversaries especially some Booksellers Mr. Griffin either imprudently or to prejudice the Hearers against his Antagonist or for some worse End repeating the Question asks If any Man there did deny that Christ was God most High To which our Bidle resolutely and conscientiously answers I do deny it By which generous Profession he gave his Adversaries occasion of a positive and clear Accusation which they soon laid hold of For though John Griffin was not in the Judgment of all Judicious Hearers able to cope with John Bidle yet he had the confidence to consent to another Meeting when J. Bidle should take his turn of proving the Negative of the Question between them But before that Day came he was cast into the Prison first of the Compter then of Newgate London July 3. 1655. and tried for his Life the next Sessions upon that obsolete and abrogated Ordinance against Blasphemy and Heresy of May 2. 1648. mention'd before To the Indictment hereupon he prays Counsel might be allow'd him to plead the illegality of it Which being denied him by the Judges and the Sentence of a Mute threatned he at length gave into Court his Exceptions ingrossed in Parchment and with much strugling had Counsel allow'd him but the Trial was deferr'd to the next Day But the Protector well knowing it was not for the Interest of his Government either to have him Condemn'd or Absolv'd takes him out of the Hands of the Law and sends him away to the Isle of Scilly Octob. 5. 1655. For on the one Hand the Presbyterians and all Enemies to Liberty of Religion of which there appear'd a great number at his Trial would be offended at his Release and all that were for Liberty among whom many Congregations of Anabaptists especially had petition'd the Protector for his discharge from prosecution upon that Ordinance by which all their Liberties were threatned and condemned and the Capital Article of the Protector 's Government infringed which run thus That such as profess Faith in God by Jesus Christ though differing in Judgment from the Doctrine Worship or Discipline publickly held forth shall not be restrained from but shall he protected c. Art 37. That all Laws Statutes Ordinances c. to the contrary of the aforesaid Liberty shall be esteemed as Null and Void Art 38. Now although this Banishment drew with it many Inconveniences yet through the Goodness of God it was temper'd with Mercies Here the Prisoner enjoy'd much Divine Comfort from the Heavenly Contemplations which his Retirement gave him opportunity for Here he had sweet Communion with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ and attained a clearer Understanding of the Divine Oracles in many particulars Here whilst he was more abundantly confirm'd in the Doctrines of his Confession of Faith c. yet he seems notwithstanding to have become more doubtful about some other Points which he had formerly held as appears from his Essay to the Explaining of the Revelation which he wrote after his return thence which shews that he still maintain'd 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 his Prisoner a Hundred Crowns per Annum for his subsistance to wit lest being removed far from his Friends and Imployments he should want Necessaries This Banishment seems also to have been beneficial to him on this Account that it was a means to prevent another of the Protector 's Parliaments from decreeing any thing more rigid against him being now absent and out of their way In this Exile he continued about three Years notwithstanding all Endeavours of his Friends for 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 through the Importunity of Friends and other Occurrences the Protector suffer'd a Writ of Habeas Corpus to be granted out of the Vpper-Bench Court as it was then called and to be obeyed by the Governour of Scilly whereby the Prisoner was brought thence and by that Court set at liberty as finding no legal Cause of detaining him And now notwithstanding all these Persecutions Sufferings and Dangers he had hitherto underwent he was not terrified from what he counted his Duty to Christ in propagating the true knowledg of the only true God and of Jesus