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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

Popish party THere hath been a great complaint of late that men are turned Atheists and surely not without cause but let us sadly inquire into the reason The Socinians doe deny Christ to be God to the glory of God the Father as they use to say and I beleeve God the Father hath taken it so unkindly at their hands that he hath given them over to that cursed Atheisme which reignes in the heart of every man by nature and is much strengthened by the profane wits of this latter age I remember a story of reverend Amphilochius who had been an importunate suter to Theodosius the Emperour that the Arians might not vent their blasphemies so freely against the Son of God because he was as God equall to his Father but he could not obtaine his request at last the good old man pitched upon this course he comes to the palace of Theodosius the great and salutes the Emperour with all due acknowledgements and accustomed reverence but as for Arcadius the son of Theodosius who was created Co-emperour with his Father Amphilochius passed him by without any respect or reverence at all at last very familiarly stroakes the young Emperour upon the head as if it had been some ordinary boy and cryed God save thee good child At which the Emperour was extreamly enraged and commanded them to turne Amphilochius out of doores but this reverend man replyed I beseech your Majesty to consider that if you are so much incensed against them who doe not honour your Son as they honour your self what wil God the Father think of them who deny equall honour to Iesus Christ his Son who is equall to his Father in nature and power The Emperour who was wavering before was much confirmed in his faith by this seasonable Admonition and presently forbad the Arians to dispute any more against the Godhead of Christ You may read the story at large in Sozomen's Ecclesiasticall History Now can we imagine that God the Father should take it lesse unkindly at the hands of the Socinians and all who admire their acute blasphemies that they deny Jesus Christ to be God and what punishment is fitter for such blasphemers then that Rom. 1. Professing themselves wise they should become fooles and denying the Godhead of Christ and the holy Ghost they should be given over not only to deny the power of godlinesse but to deny that there is any God at all because they did not like to retaine the knowledge of God 1. The Scriptures doe clearly shew that God the Father is no more God then Jesus Christ But say the Socinians Jesus Christ is not God Who sees not what conclusion will follow ergo if they said true there would be no God at all 2. The Socinians doe not worship the same God with the Protestants for we worship the Trinity in unity that is all the three Persons as one God they say it is repugnant to common sense to hold that the three Persons are one and the same God and therefore they may when they please leave it to common sense to determine whether there be any God at all 3. The Socinians proceed in a destructive way now destroy all Religion and Atheisme will be embraced in stead of Religion Mr. Chillingworth hath cleared that point sufficiently that Popery leads men to flat Atheisme and it is plaine and evident that if Papists must beleeve neither more or lesse then the Pope thinkes fit the Pope may lead them all into Atheisme when he pleases And how pleasing Atheisme hath been to some Popes I need not stand to declare the Papists themselves have spoke plaine enough The Papists have extolled the Pope above all that is called God and therefore the dullest Papist that can but see that the Pope is not God will be ready to question whether there be any God at all If the Pope have more Authority then God then the conclusion will be easie but according to the Romanists the Pope hath more Authority then God for the Church is above the Scripture the Pope above the Church he is the head of it Let Papists though our enemies frame the conclusion They who maintaine the Popes infallibility and yet cannot but see how he takes upon him to correct Gods own Institutions will conclude that it is possible for God to be deceived and then I am sure he is no God and whether the Pope be God let the Papists judge What practises there have been by the Popish party for the promoting of the Socinian heresies I could shew at large if it were not too manifest to be proved Faustus Socinus writ a most pestilent book de ss. Scriptura Authoritate and this book he did privatly send about in writing to his friends Dominicus Lopez a Jesuite it seemes was a great friend of his and the book comming to his hand he thought fit to publish it for the common good I need say nothing of Petavius his notes in Epiphan. Haeres 69. Cardinall Perron his reply to King James lib. 3. his book of the Eucharist lib. 2. cap. 7. Mr. Fisher or Mr. Floyd How easily the Racovian and Romane Antichrists would be reconciled at least so far as to joyn against the Calvinists is evident to any understanding man And Mr. Webberly in the Appendix or sixth Book of his Translation shews that the two great Articles which offend the Romanists and Racovians are 1. The totall exclusion of all kinde of good workes from justifying a man before God and 2. The totall negation of mans Freewill in doing good They are enemies to the grace of God in justifying sinners freely by faith alone in Christ and to the powerfull and efctuall grace of God in converting and sanctifying our souls This is the grand quarrell the Socinians deny Christ to be God that so they may deny that the bloud of Christ did fully satisfy for our sins these errours strike directly at the Covenant of Grace which is the foundation of all our comfort and if once we undermine the foundation and reject the principles of Christianity it is then an easie matter to be an Atheist for if the Protestant religion be deserted there is nothing in any other religion to keep a man back from being an Atheist for Popery to speak strictly is Antichristianisme and I have said enough of Socinianisme Iudaisme and Turcisme are too neer of kin to Socinianisme let any man that doubts of this truth read Doctour Calovius his Decas Dissertationum Vedelius de Deo Synagogae and he may receive satisfaction without reading others And for the Arminian Atheisme I referre you to Vedelius his book de Arcanis Arminian Anabaptists are justly complained of but from whence did they suck their poyson I mean the Anabaptists of the last edition the men so much complained of but from the Arminians Socinians and Papists from the Arminians they received their doctrine about the Fall and Free-will of man are they not pure

Superintendent of those new perverted Proselytes in Transylvania did lay some rubs in the way of Faustus Socinus for this Franciscus desired to know why Christ should bee worshipped or prayed unto any longer if hee were not God Blandrate and Faustus did lay their heads together to answer this Quere but this same Franciscus Davidis maintained stoutly that Invocation and Adoration were parts of divine honour due to God alone This hapned about the yeare 1578. some twenty yeares after the stirres which were in the Italian Church at Geneva ut supra But Faustus and Blandrate could not compose the tumults or answer the objections which Franciscus had raised in Transylvania and so Faustus Socinus was forced to returne with shame enough into Poland But when Faustus could not doe what he would he seemed to be content to joyne with the Davidians as they were called from Franciscus Davidis as farre as they would goe hand in hand with him in opposing the Reformed Churches and he did prevaile very much in a Synod about the yeare 1588. in other points also which hee did cunningly winde in and they greedily swallow and he prevailed very farre the next yeare in another Synod and within a matter of foure yeares as Calovius saith he brought over all them whom he had wrought upon to deny the Godhead of Christ to subscribe to the whole body of Socinianisme and no marvaile for though there are many parts of Socinianisme which have no rationall dependance upon the deniall of the Godhead of Christ yet when once men come to be sofar blinded as to deny that glorious truth which shines so clearly in the Gospell it is no wonder if they see nothing at all Besides he was so wise as to strike in with the Nobles and the Courtiers with the most youthfull and sharp witted Pastors and not only with subtile disputants but smooth Popular Oratours men more able to corrupt the people witnesse Petrus Steinius or Statorius by whose unhappy eloquence the sublimest subtilties of Socinus which transcended vulgar capacities were so explained and smoothed in a popular but plausible way that the most refined notions were made familiar to the common people Infoelici Steinii suadâ subtiles à rudiorum captu remotiores Socini sensus populari ratione tradere flexanimae orationis genio cunctis probare poterat c. This blasphemous wretch did travaile ab extremâ Silesiae or a in intimam Lithuaniam that he might spread his errors though he did thereby often endanger his life he lived a long time he was about 66. years of age when he died though it was long ere he began to seduce as hath been shewn yet he had 30. years time to infect a people that were too willing to be infected he died as Calovius informs me in the yeare 1604. Tandem anno etatis quinto ultra sexagesimum blasphemam exhalat animam Aerae Christianae 1604. Vitaque cum gemitu fugit indignata sub umbras CHAP. III. The Danger of Socinianisme LEarned Grotius may remember that there was a time when he himselfe thought Socini●nisme to be very dangerous Cum haeresis sit venenum ecclesiae quidem praesentissimum sed tamen haereseos aliqui sint gradus ut sit hac illâ nocentior priorem aliam non reperiri haresi Socini ad cujus etiam mentionem pii omnes exhorreant in his speech to the States called H. G. Pietas Certain all pious men may well tremble at the very mention of Socinianisme at the very repeating of their basphemies For my part I dare not call them Christians because they deny the Godhead and satisfaction of Christ they will not be baptized in the name of the Trinity they labour to pluck up Christianity by the roots and to overthrow the very foundation of Religion I cannot but blot out Smalcius his name out of the white roll of Christians if it were but for that one blasphemy Christianus esse potest qui divinam Christi essentiam negat Smal contr. nova monstra An errour that takes away all Prayer to Christ and worship of him doth utterly destroy Christian religion but the denyall of the Godhead of Christ doth take away all prayer to Christ and worship of him ergo This argument was urged by Franciscus Davidis and Simon Budnaeus but Fanstus Socinus ut supra was not able to give any satisfying answer to this triumphing Reason The Socinians are mad with reason if they conceive it reasonable to give Divine honour to any save God alone None pretend to be greater enemies to Idolatry then the Socinians and yet they doe clearly maintain this Idolatrous principle namely that divine Honour may be given to one whom they conceive to be a meer man Christ blessed for ever The Socinian Errour is Fundamentall they deny Christs satisfaction and so overthrow the foundation of our faith the foundation of our Justification they deny the Holy Trinity and so take away the very Object of our Faith they deny the Resurrection of these Bodies and so take away the foundation of our hope they deny originall sinne and so take away the ground of our Humiliation and indeed the necessity of regeneration they advance the power of Nature and destroy the efficacy of Grace It is an Antichristian errour because it takes away the very Essence and Person of Iesus Christ for they deny him to be God and so take away his Essence they deny him to be the second Person in the Trinity and so destroy his very person also They doe in effect rob him of all his offices for if Christ be not God he is not that great Prophet foretold by Moses who is Prince and Author of life Act. 3. 15. 22. ad finem Act. 7. 37 38. Nor can he be a Priest able to save by the offering of himself because the merit of his sacrifice depends upon the dignity of his person the offering of a meer man cannot satisfy for so many thousands of men and therefore the Socinians having denyed the Godhead of Christ deny that he hath given God full satisfaction Nor can Christ be a King who hath an heavenly and eternall kingdome by nature if he be not God It is an Anti-spirituall errour for they deny the Nature and Person of the holy Ghost the speciall grace and saving efficacy of the holy Ghost they say we can understand the deepest mysteries of faith and beleeve in Christ without the speciall assistance of the holy Ghost They overthrow the very nature of Faith for they confound faith and workes Obedience to Gods commands is faith it selfe or the very substance and Forme of faith Fides quâ justificamur obedientiam pr●ceptorum Dei non quidem ut effectum sed ut suam substantiam formam continet Socin. Miscl p. 162. They destroy the Morall Law which was delivered by Moses by saying that is imperfect Christ came to fulfill