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A52291	An answer to an heretical book called The naked Gospel which was condemned and ordered to be publickly burnt by the convocation of the University of Oxford, Aug. 19, 1690 : with some reflections on Dr. Bury's new edition of that book : to which is added a short history of Socinianism / by William Nicholls.	Nicholls, William, 1664-1712.; Bury, Arthur, 1624-1713. Naked Gospel.	1691 (1691)	Wing N1091; ESTC R28145	124,983	144

the Orthodox Tritheites and Athanasius Tritheitarum Antesignanum He got a great sum of Money by his Practice in the Polish Court but was at last as a signal Example of God's Vengeance murdered in his Bed by his Nephew whom he designed to make his Heir Paulus Alicatus who was the intimate Friend of Blandrata and a busy Vnitarian of this time was born at Millain a Souldier by Profession a Man of fiery Zeal for his Opinions as appears by those blasphemous Expressions he used against the Trinity For Calvin relates that he was wont to say That we worshipped in our Trinity three Devils worse than all the Idols of the Papists So that the Divine Judgment was very Remarkable in suffering him to fall away into the Mahometan Infidelity after so great Impiety Franciscus Stancarus a Mantuan was now likewise a violent asserter of the same kind of Heresy who tho' he began his Heterodoxy at first by denying only Christ's Mediatorship as to his Divine Nature yet he proceeded at last to deny the Persons of the Trinity and with Sabellius to make God only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one Person under three Names He was as Zanchius says a Learned Man but only unquiet and proud and too curious which lead him into these Errors Franciscus Lismaninus was another Heretick of this time of the same stamp he was Doctor of Divinity and formerly a Franciscan Monk who after a pertinacious spreading of his Opinions died mad Bernardus Ochinus was another promoter of the Anti-trinitarian Doctrine who as Beza says of him was something cunninger than the rest of the Vnitarians and like the Academicks would seem rather to doubt of than to define any thing For in his Dialogues against the Trinity he makes his other Collocutor to oppose the Trinity and himself to defend it tho' by such mean Arguments as always gave away the Victory to his Antagonist He was a favourer of Polygamy too as appears by his 21 Dialogue which has this Title thus made up of mirth and prophaneness To all Husbands that complain of their Wives and all Wives that complain of their Husbands Bernardus Ochinus wishes patience in Christ Jesus In which Dialogue he lets his Antagonist Telipolygamus strenuously make good his point against himself Franciscus Davidis was another very Famous one of these Hereticks who assisted Blandrata in his Book against Major he was Superintendent or Bishop as Sandius says of the Vnitarians in Transylvania but tho' he agreed with the rest of the Vnitarians in denying the Divinity of our Saviour yet he dissented from most of them about the Invocation of him and did to his Death maintain that as he was not God so he was not to be worshipped There were besides these several others that were fore-runners to Socinus or else contemporaries with him who did not agree to all the System of his Heresy which now the Vnitarians do generally maintain Such as were Nicolaus Parula an Italian a great Friend of Laelius Socinus Andreas Tricicius Modrevius a Polish Knight Adam Pastor who had several Disputes with the Anabaptists Gregorius Paulus who was first a Tritheite and afterwards an Vnitarian Petrus Statorius formerly Beza's Scholar Paulus Latomirskius and Simon Budnaeus a violent man afterwards in the anti-adoration Faction with several others But however these at best were but Labourers or Coadjutors in the building up the Socinian Heresy but the two great Master-builders were Laelius and Faustus Socinus of whom now we come to speak Laelius Socinus was born A. D. 1525. at Siena in Tuscany of a Noble Family his Fathers Names was Marianus Junior a famous Lawyer in Italy at that time his Mothers Name was Camilla the Daughter of Paulus Salvettus He was an Auditor of Servetus when he was in Italy and before he was of Age he began to model a New System of Divinity upon the Vnitarian Principles He as the Author of the Life says reading the Scriptures chiefly to further him in the Study of the Laws and relying only upon his own Judgment finds many of the Doctrines of the Church contrary to the Divine Testimony as he thought and therefore explains them without farther search according to his own Judgment He having thus for a considerable time been laying the Grounds of his Heresie travelling into England France Holland Germany he fixed his seat at last at Zurick in Helvetia yet not so but that after this he goes twice into Poland A. D. 1551 and again 1557 where he infected many of the Polish Nobility He infected also his own Brothers Celsus Cornelius and Camillus and Faustus his Brother Alexander's Son And Zanchius in his Preface to his Book de Tribus Elohim further says He for many Years pursued the Samosetanian Heresie and drew as many as he could into the same Errour and those were not a few He endeavoured likewise by many Temptations to pervert me into the same Errour and to involve me in the same eternal Destruction with himself Whilst he lived at Zurick or in his Travels he contracted some Familiarity with Melancton Brentius Musculus Bullinger and Calvin and therefore Calvin when he heard of his audacious Curiosity in Divinity wrote to him to dissuade him from it Si tibi per aëreas illas Speculationes volitare libet sine me quaeso humilem Christi discipulum ea meditari quae ad fidei meae aedificationem faciunt You may if you please fly through these aereal Speculations but suffer me an humble Disciple of Christ to meditate upon those things which serve to the Edification of my Faith And now so many of the Family of the Socinus's being perverted by Laelius the whole Family began to be suspected for Heresie which brought a storm upon all the House so that as the Authour of the Life says the Harvest was spoil'd in the springing Blade Cornelius being imprisoned and the rest being either forced to fly or afraid to profess their Opinion This Fear drove young Faustus being now but Twenty Years old not only from his place of abode but from Italy who went to live for some time at Lyons in France in the same Year in which the Magistrates of Basil digged up the Body of David George after he had been dead Three Years and burned it Laelius continued still to study at Zurick till he died which was in the Year 1562. on the 16th of May. He was the first that brought to light that notion of the Person of Christ and his Sufferings c. which the Socinians do since maintain and was forming some great Designs for the furthering his Heresie but did not live to perfect them The only Books that he published were the Dialogue between Calvin and Vaticanus against the persecution of Hereticks upon the occasion of Servet's execution in which he makes Calvin a great Instrument which Book was reprinted in Holland by some of the Remonstrant Party 1612. and has