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A32802	The rise, growth, and danger of Socinianisme together with a plaine discovery of a desperate designe of corrupting the Protestant religion, whereby it appeares that the religion which hath been so violently contended for (by the Archbishop of Canterbury and his adherents) is not the true pure Protestant religion, but an hotchpotch of Arminianisme, Socinianisme and popery : it is likewise made evident, that the atheists, Anabaptists, and sectaries so much complained of, have been raised or encouraged by the doctrines and practises of the Arminian, Socinian and popish party / by Fr. Cheynell ...	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.	1643 (1643)	Wing C3815; ESTC R16168	87,143	88

had taught but would have quite faln off to Popery againe as he conceived for the people had a great opinion of his doctrine though he was neither Doctour nor Pastor in the Church Neve tandem divina veritas ab eo praedicata quineque Pastoris neque Doctoris officio in Ecclesia fungeretur ob auctoris non parvam I beleeve it should be though 't is printed magnā auctoritatē magna Christiani orbis detrimento passim rejiceretur Faustus Disp de Christi natura pag. 6. It was therefore Laelius his master-plot to propound doubts questions to such famous men as Calvin others in the Reformed Churches as if he intended to gain some farther light when indeed he sought for further advantage by their determinations Quod tamen ut omnem offensionem vitaret addiscendi tantum studio a se fieri dicebat qua tamen ratione ab initio idem vere ab eo factum fuisse verisimile est quare etiam Discipulum semper se nunquam autem Doctorem profitebatur Faustus ubi supra Master Calvin did easily perceive his subtilty and therefore gave him a faire but sharp admonition about the Calends of January 1552. as the Polonian Knight doth confesse Si tibi per aereas illas speculationes saith Calvin volitare libet sine me quae so humilem Christi Discipulum ea meditari quae ad fidei meae aedificationem faciunt Quod pridem testatus sum serio iterum moneo nisi hunc quaerendi Pruritum mature corrigas metuendum esse ne tibi gravia tormenta accersas Faustus saith that his Uncle was snatched away by an untimely death non sine Dei consilio that so those great mysteries which God had revealed to none but Laelius might be made known unto the world Cùm statim fere post mortem ejus eorum quae ipse palam docere non audebat pars aliqua literis consignari passim divulgari est coepta id quod eo vivente nunquam fortasse contigisset amicis ex iis quae ipse scripserat non adhuc plene edoctis adversus praeceptoris voluntatem aliquid eorum quae ab ipso didicerant in vulgus prodere minime audentibus Hac scilicet ratione Deus quae illi uni patefecerat omnibus manifesta esse voluit Faustus ubi supra pag. 6. 7. I am at this great paines of transcribing because Socinian bookes are so deare every man will not pay a groat a sheete the price that I am forced to onely that I may declare the truth so much for Laelius Faustus Socinus the Nephew of Laelius was borne in the yeare 1539 two houres and three quarters before Sun-rising on the fift of December so scrupulous are some in calculating the nativity of this monster and he himselfe tooke notice of it in his Epistle Ad excellentissimum quendam virum He was of no meane parentage his father was by name Alexander Socinus and for his Policie Subtilitatum princeps as he was deservedly stiled his mother was nobly descended the Polonian Knight hath shewen her descent Matrem habuit Agnetem Burgesii Petruccii Senenfis quondam Reipub. Principis ac Victoriae Piccolomineae filiam He studied the Lawes till he was about three and twenty yeares of age and then hee betooke himselfe to the great Duke of Hetruria his Court where he spent twelve yeares onely he had so much leisure at Court as to write a booke about the authority of the Scripture in which he doth slily pervert the Scriptures and lay a ground for all his hereticall blasphemies This is all the account that can be given of him for 35. yeares I doe not heare of any great brags though the Socinians doe make loud brags of him of his Logique Philosophy Schoole-divinity the learned tongues onely he spent some two or three yeares in digesting his Uncles Notes and then thought he had learning enough to contradict all the Fathers and Councels and undertooke to censure all the Reformed Churches and to dispute with the greatest Scholars in the world the presumption of his wit besides the badnesse of his cause did betray him to his adversaries especially in the first prizes he played and he was so subtile as to seeme ingenuous in acknowledging such oversights as he could not possibly conceale Quod vero ais saith Faustus to Puccius supellectilem meam Hebraeam Graeeam teipsum latere non potest ejusmodi meam supellectilem non valde curtam modò sed propemodum nullum esse Graecos enim fontes ut egomet omnibus dico leviter admodum degus●avi Hebraeos vix dum attigi c. Socin. Resp. ad Def. Puccii pag. 49. And he confesses that he made a great flourish in the world before he had any Logick hee had vapoured against Puccius Palaeologus Volanus and divers others he had composed a Commentary on the first part of the first Chapter of S. Iohn and on the seventh to the Romans his Animadversions in Theses Posn de Trino uno Deo alia quaedam Imperfecta as he saith cum nondum Dialecticae ullam operam dedissem ut post hac non mireris si in meis scriptis multa deprehenderis minus rectè tradita ac conclusa Epist. ad excellentissimum quendam virum It was no wonder indeed if a man that understood neither Greek nor Hebrew nor Logick should give many interpretations and draw many Conclusions which will not hold Now whether after the delicacies of the Court and 35. yeares of his age mis-spent he was so apt to mould his stiffe braines and new-cast them into a Logicall forme let the world judge Socinus then was not the greatest Scholar in the world though hee thought himselfe able to teach all the Church and all the world The Polonian Knight acknowledges that he was of an hasty cholerique disposition praecipitem ad Bilem natura formaverat but it seemes his heat did evaporate at Court In vita a●licâ deferbuisse juvenilem illum Socini astum qui plerumque magna in magnos lapsus pr●cipitat ingenia and yet Marcellus Squarcialupus Socinus his good friend doth often complaine of him for his rashnesse c. as Calovius shewes at large you may reade plentifull testimonies cited at length Consid. Th. Socin. pag. 13. 15. to him therefore I referre you Faustus then had more subtilty then learning when he was not able to prove his opinions he told his Auditours Haec si vera non sint verisimilia saltem probabilia deprehendetis He was of a ma●ignant wit hee knew how to disgrace truth by scoffes and slanders he thought to affright weake spirited men from the Protestant Religion by telling them that they held opinions in particular that Christ is God which made Christian Religion ridiculous to Iewes and Turkes Et exteris denique omnibus but names none else Haecque hujusmodi alia quaedam quorum ansam illis dedit graeca vox *

ex quâ infoelici haeresi postmodum Mahumetismus ortus esse perhibetur Others call the Socinians Samosatenians and therefore Thalyaeus calles his booke in which he answers the arguments of Socinus Eniedinus Ostorodius and Smalcius Anatome Samosatenianismi in which he shews that the Socinian glosses are of the same colour with Turkish and Iewish blasphemies the four Professors of the Theologicall Faculty at Leiden have given a large commendation of Thalyaeus in their approbation printed before the book and signed with the hands of all the Professors in which they with one voice vote Socinianisme to be Recoct Samosatenianisme Impiam Pauli Samosateni sententiam melior sanctior Ecclesia sub Cruce adhuc militans ut enata fuit exhorruit eaque mox publico Episcoporum judicio execrata est Scriptum illud conscriptum contra renatum ab infausto illo Socino ejusque asseclis recoctum Samosatenianismum censemus pie docte solide c. The Samosatenians did borrow their name from Paulus Samosatenus Bishop of the Church of Antioch and therefore his practises were the more abominable because he poysoned that Church in which Disciples were first called Christians with Hereticall blasphemies against the Lord Christ as reverend Beza observes I find in Augustine that Artimonius did first broach this heresy and Paulus Samosatenus did revive it but I need say no more of the Samosatenians having said enough already of the Photinians for Photinus did confirm that heresie which Samosatenus did revive and therefore the followers of Paulus Samosatenus were more commonly called Photinians then Paulians or Samosatenians And though Philaster reckon Samosatenus his heresy by it self Photinus his heresie by it self yet to shew that they were not different heresies he saith Photinus did in all things follow Paulus Samosatenus I do not reckon up all the disorderly Heretikes in order take them as it happens Nestorius denyed that the self same person was God and man he would not acknowledge that the Word was made flesh only the Word was with that flesh by an effectuall Presence which was taken of the substance of the Virgin Affirmabat enim {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} illi carni ex Mariâ prognatae nonnisi {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} adfuisse as learned Beza declares it in brief If any man desire to be further acquainted with the opinion and the desputes about it let him reade S. Cyril and peruse the famous and Orthodoxe not the spurious and surreptitious Ephesine Councell and he may receive full satisfaction The Socinians are farre worse then Nestorius for they do not onely deny that the selfe same person who was borne of the Virgin is the second person in the Trinity but they utterly deny that there is any second Person or third Person which is Consubstantiall with the Father Having mentioned Nestorius I must not skippe over Eutyches who in opposition to Nestorius his dividing of the Person of Christ did vainely imagine that the natures of Christ were mingled and so he confounded both natures and their Essentiall properties Yet the Eutychians did grant that there were two natures in Christ which the Socinians deny The time would faile me or at least the Readers patience should I shew how the Socinians agree with the Noetians who maintained that there was but one person in the Godhead with Macedonius who denied the Holy Ghost to be a Person with the Pelagians concerning their deniall of the Image of God in Adam before his Fall and their maintaining of Free-will and denyall of originall sinne since the Fall In a word how they agree with the Valentinians Marcionites Cerdonians Manichees Apollinarists Sabellius the Donatists Sadducees Papists Anabaptists Schwenckefeldians Antinomians and I know not how many more of the like stampe hath beene shewen by others already and the manifestation of their errors in the ensuing Treatise will sufficiently declare I will passe over many things very observable because I would willingly discourse at large of some later passages and subtile inventions by which Socinianisme was introduced into forraine parts and in some parts established by the suffrage and subscription of too many eminent wits and great Scholars But I must not in my haste forget Abeilardus or as Platina cals him Baliardus as Bernard Abailardus his name in our English tongue may be Balard he flourished about the yeare 1140. he had a very ready discoursing wit and is by some voiced to be the first founder of Schoole-divinity whether he maintained all those heresies which Bernard layes to his charge I shall not now stand to dispute there is some cause of doubt Abeilard lived to make his Apology and if it was but an honest Recantation he hath made some amends Learned Mr. Gataker in his Post-script to Mr. Wottons Defence pag. 40. 41. will direct you to Authors from whom you may receive better satisfaction then I can for the present give unlesse I were furnished with a better Library I shall not doe Postellus so much honour as to take notice of him as for Servetus I will not staine my paper with his blasphemies Mr. Gataker hath shewen his chiefe assertions in the booke forecited from the 42. to the 47. page it is much questioned whether the Senate of Geneva did not deale too severely with him Samosatenus Arius and Eutyches did all revive in that Cerberus he was both admonished and refuted by three learned Divines of that age Oecolampadius Melanchthon Calvin he had time enough given him to recant hee did stubbornely maintaine his cursed blasphemies for thirty yeares together as Beza shewes Ob triginta annorum blasphemias execrabiles indomitam pervicaciam ex Senatus Genevensis sententiâ justissimo supplici● affectum quis non tandem nisi planè furiosus excors abominetur The Senate of Geneva were in good hope by this exemplary punishment upon Servetus to crush this Cockatrices egge and kill the Viper but for all this some under hand and others more boldly and impudently did seduce the people Bernardine Ochin seemed to be an Academik a meere Sceptik in Religion he questioned all things and determined nothing Lalius Socinus carried the matter with such a cleanly conveyance that he was scarse taken notice of though he received some checks and admonitions yet most men thought charitably of him during his life his black designes were not fully discovered till after his death this is the Grandfather of the Socinians but I will say no more of him yet till I have shewen what pra●kes were played by those bold fellowes who acted those tragedies openly upon the Stage which Lelius composed behinde the Curtaine Valentinus Gentilis practised at Geneva George Blandrate a Physitian in Poland and Transylvania Give mee leave to make but two or three observations by the way and I shall open the practises of these impudent Hereticks more fully to you First the