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A79465	Anti-Socinianism, or, A brief explication of some places of holy Scripture, for the confutation of certain gross errours, and Socinian heresies, lately published by William Pynchion, Gent. in a dialogue of his, called, The meritorious price of our redemption, concerning 1. Christ's suffering the wrath of God due to the elect. 2. God's imputation of sin to Christ. 3. The nature of the true mediatorial obedience of Christ. 4. The justification of a sinner. Also a brief description of the lives, and a true relation of the death, of the authors, promoters, propagators, and chief disseminators of this Socinian heresie, how it sprung up, by what means it spread, and when and by whom it was first brought into England, that so we be not deceived by it. / By N. Chewney, M.A. and minister of God's Word.	Chewney, Nicholas, 1609 or 10-1685.	1656 (1656)	Wing C3804; Thomason E888_1; ESTC R207357	149,812	257

enjoyned to perform Such execrable blasphemies are therein contained which without inevitable danger of contagion may not be suffered to passe among Christians being no small disparagement to their holy profession and an high measure of despight done to the Spirit of Grace Which things being so we are in hope your Honors will wisely and speedily take a course that these men which have brought in and dispersed abroad these cursed writings and books may not long abide with you or remain within your coasts and also that the writings and books themselves may not come into the hands of any to whom they may be a snare either through simplicity or curiosity Renowned Lords we beseech God that he would bestow upon you more and more the Spirit of truth and wisedome and would be present with you from Heaven in all your affairs and especially in this great and weighty cause which pertains so much to establishing of the truth of God and the common salvation of his people that those things which are pious holy and just may be seasonably provided for by you and perfected in the Lord That those things also which have any tincture of errour or heresy may be wholly extirpated by you Dated at Leyden the 12. of August 1598. An extract of the Resolution of the Lords States General of the United Princes March and September 1598. taken out of the Registry THE States General of the United Provinces being informed that there are certain books found with and in the possession of two Persons here present at the Hague which came lately from the Kingdome of Polonia into these united Provinces the one named Christopher Ostorrodus the other Andraeas Voidovius which books being examined in Leyden by the faculty of Divines there are divers things therein found to agree with the Doctrine or religion of the Turks denying the Divinity both of the Son of God and of the Holy Ghost And that the foresaid persons openly professing the same Doctrine came purposely into these Provinces that they might publish the same herein and so disturb the present State and quiet of the Church hereby We therefore be●ng willing to prevent ●n time the ensuing mischief hereof for the maintaining of the honour of God together with the profit and commodity of the United Provinces which like Democritus Twins do laugh and cry l●ve and dye together have decreed that the foresaid books in the presence of the foresaid persons shall openly be burnt to morrow before noon opposite to our Chamber of General meeting A●ter that the aforesaid two persons shall be charged and straitly commanded as by these presen●s they are charged and commanded that within the space of ten dayes next to come they shall depart out of these united Provinces under the penalty of such punishment as shall be inflicted on them according to discretion if afterwards they be found or taken herein All which we thought fit to ordain for the peace and quiet of the Church of Christ and for the benefit and commodity of the united Provinces Conceiving it also very necessary for the better and more due accomplishing hereof that all the Provinces should be admonished of th●s and a Copy of this Attestation be conveyed to them which is above written and subscribed by the faculty of Divines at Leyden concerning the foresaid books that the foresaid persons be not suffered to tarry or abide longer in these Provinces then the time limitted for them and that their abominable Doctrine may be expelled hence also Mar. 1599. What better course could have been taken for the dispatch of these Brethren in evill with all their trumpery with them out of these parts But what are good and wholesome Laws without execution even like a body without a soul for as a body without a soul doth quickly perish and come to nothing So the best Laws that can be made without due execution do dye in the very letter For notwithstanding this decree made and published with so much strictness and good intention on the States part there was some connivence in the matter by which these persons thus proscribed were yet retained and secured If it be true which John Uytenbogardus saith who wrote the story they remained still in Friesland and there privily drew up an Apologie to the decree of the States General which they printed and published both in the Latine and high Dutch tongues I cannot but wonder at the mad folly or foolish madness of those that professe either reason or religion that they should be so far transported with the novell Doctrines of the●e half Lunatick Teachers that they should keep them and secure them within their own bosoms who watch all opportunities to destroy them Yet a new fashion does not more take a proud Lady nor a new Tavern a drunkard nor a new drug an Emperick then a new opinion does those that are affected to heresy be it never so divelish and blasphemous And I beleeve they made a great I cannot say a good reurn of them For I have heard of above thirty Sects and sorts of Religion in one Town in those parts so that come will you be of our Church was a solicitation as frequent as the ordinary salutation one to another of good morrow or good even To be w●lling to be seduced hath given occasion to divers to attempt it which otherwise had never been attempted so did these Hereticks play with and play upon those that gave them entertainment This Ostorrodus was a notable factour for the Devil deceiving many with his cousening trash For besides that disputation against Tradelius which he had concerning the Deity of Christ which was the mark they all shot at the Deity also of the blessed Spirit to deny which I take to be an high degree of the sin against the holy Ghost the expiation of our sins the imputatio● of sin to Christ the satisfaction he made to Divine Justice paying the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of our redemption that it stood not with the freeness of Gods mercy in pardoning sin to require satisfaction for it by which and many other damnable opinions destructive to the very essence of Religion he drew many away after him to the liking and embracing of his Socinian tenets He wrote also certain institutions of the cheif Articles and principal points of Christian he would he should have said Socinian Religion which have perverted divers yet are learnedly opposed and confuted by Iacobus ad Portum that excellent instrument of Gods glory and painful labourer in his vineyard Jacobus Palaeologus Graius Si quaeras cur iste Pal'ologus igne crematur In promptu causa est haeresiarcha fuit TO be loose in the main joynts of Religion is very bad and gives the Devil and his instruments great advantage against us we may see the truth of this in the example here set before us Jacob Palaeologus of the ancient and Jmperial family of the Graecian Palaeologi came from his own country to Rome

confidence as if Orpheus like he meant to charm all to follow him that did but once vouchsafe to hear him Spiritual arrogance is so much more mischievous as the soul is beyond all earthly pelf For when we are once come to advance and admire our own judgments we are at first apt to hugge our own inventions then to esteem them too precious to be smothered within our own closets the World must know of how happy an issue we are delivered and must applaud it to or else abide a contestation So that the Wiseman well noteth Prov. 13.10 only by Pride cometh contention So Puccius grew so high in the in-step by reason of this new-light which only he had discovered and these new opinions which he broaching defended that there grew some trouble thereby in the City of London for which he as the ring-leader was clapt up into prison Out of which being again delivered and perceiving that this was not a place for his purpose he again crossed the Seas being before crossed by Land and betook himself to Bavau From hence he sent divers times to solicite Socinus to a conference about their mutual opinions certain conditions were agreed upon and Moderators appointed to that end Socinus returns answer that he was in a readinesse to make his appearance there and to accomplish whatsoever should in reason be requested or required of him But Puccius either in confidence of his own ability or else induced by some other weighty argument takes a journey on purpose by way of prevention For he which for Socinus his sake came to Basil to meet him comes now for his sake also to Cracovia in Polonia where after they had met and had had divers disputations between them and could not agree for it is next to a wonder to see hereticks though never so neerly linkt together to agree in all things unlesse it be in the opposition of truth he returning from thence became a companion of some that studied magick with whom he came to Prague and there like an Apostate as he was fell to his old superstitious devotion again of cringing and crouching to every stock and joyned in Communion with the Church of Rome whom he had openly renounced and defyed as the whore of Babylon We see here the inconstancy of mans nature even in that wherein he should be most constant and that is religion Apostacy of manners cannot but be dangerous of faith deadly together with truth it looseth shame and not seldom swells up to the sin against the Holy Ghost for which there is no forgiveness in Heaven because there can be no remorse on earth This is a most perilous effect of spiritual pride which bears such sway in the heart of man that neither he himself is nor shall the Church of God be if he can help it at any quiet through his misgrounded novelty and most dangerous heresy to which he stands extreamly affected Can it be any other then an height of pride for a man to think himself wiser then the whole Church of God upon earth wiser then the Church of God that hath bin upon earth ever since the Apostles of Christ inclusively in all successions to this present time It was this pride that undid Puccius and brought him back with shame to that religion which he had disclaimed And many such examples have we of divers who have strayed from the truth to the Samosatenian or Socinian assemblies ye tat length have foully miscarryed either returning back to Popery from whence at first they took their flight or else to Iudaisme or Turcisme which is worst of all That Spirit which beareth rule in the hearts of the Children of disobedience bringeth them about with such a giddiness of mind that without Gods special preventing grace there is no help for them And no marvel they are so ready to turn Turcks or Jews that are once entred into the Socinian Doctrines For they are so like that there is not a pin to chuse Christophorꝰ Ostorrodus Smiglensis caetus Minister Ecclesiae pacem quis conturbavit amaenam Ostorrodus erat Daemonis arte potens CHristopher Ostorrodus a Germane Minister of the Socinian congregation at Smiglen is another of this heretical crew who did mightily infest the Churches of God in divers parts And sure the trouble that befell his Master Socinus in the University of Cracovia where by the rising of the Students for the suppressing of his heresies he was hardly entreated insomuch that he scarce escaped from thence with life was the cause of the travail and dispersing abroad of many of his most intimate disciples and followers and the coming of Ostorrodus into Holland and Friesland Who with Andraeas Voivodius a companion of his and fellow-Socinian brought thither their Masters book de Christo Servatore printed and divers others of the same kind both manuscripts and printed books prepared and provided for that very purpose to propagate the Socinian heresie in those parts also hoping to build their nest there and to settle themselves with more quiet and advantage then they could in Polonia But their project being discovered and their close underminings of the peace and tranquillity of the Churches by Gods good providence timely detected divers copyes of their pestiferous books were taken and brought before the States General of the United Provinces by whose especial command they were exhibited to the faculty of Divines in the University of Leyden whose Rescript together with the States decree which I conceived both necessary and worthy to be inserted I have here presented to the Reader A true Copy of the Rescript REnowned Lords the Copies of those books which ye commanded to be sent unto us we have now thorrowly perused some part whereof we have seen before and have found out by diligent search divers others of the same argument That we may not be tedeous to your Lordships we judge those writings to come neer to Turcisme endeavouring to overthrow the true and eternal Deity of Jesus Christ the Son of the living God and also of the Holy Ghost the office of Christ his saving benefits satisfaction redemption justification c. the institution of Holy Baptism and our religious duty to Christ consisting in prayer and invocation which they deny to be due unto him not being God and true Creator of the World with many other grosse errours As for example in the book de Servatore are these very words That the Justice of God could not require that our sins should be punished Also that Christ by his death and sufferings did not satisfie the Justice of God for our sins yea that Christ could not satisfy Divine Justice for us by undergoing those punishments in our place and steed which by the Law of God we were liable to have undergone Lastly though there be many more to this purpose that Christ could not satisfie the Justice of God for us by performing those things in our place and stead which we by the Law were

only the contingent effect thereof Reconciliation with God arising from true justification without which man must necessarily even unto all eternity have remained under and at all times bin lyable to the wrath of God is that whereby God for the Satisfaction of Christ pardoning all his sins doth freely admit and receive him into favour Or else more plainly d Emphasis vocis reconciliationem dissidentium per emptâ mutuâ dissentione importat It is a setting at one those who by reason of some discord between or hatred toward one another were exceedingly divided and separated one from the other This and the word Atonement which the Dialogue doth so often make use of are meer Synonima's no more but two several expressions of one and the same thing yet admitting of not different but divers denominations For being referred to wrath it is called a pacification or an appeasing either with a gift prepared as Jacob did his brother Esau e Gen. 32.20 or by compensation made for some wrong or injury done as David did the Gibeonites f 2 Sam. 21.3 and having reference to sin it signifies to expiate or purge with Sacrifice whence the day of Atonement is called g Lev. 16.30 a day of expiation and sometimes it is used for pardon and remission of sins as h Psal 78.38 he being full of compassion forgave their iniquity in which sense the Dialogue takes it and spends it self in the most part of that which remains to make his Reader believe it namely that this very atonement or reconciliation is our very righteousness and justification But this cannot be for this likewise were to confound the effect with the cause as before in remission of sins Atonement or Reconciliation being but the necessary effect or consequent of a sinners justification before God Thus you see being driven to their shifts they fly from one thing to another and are at no certainty among themselves into what a labyrinth then would they bring their perplexed Readers In this work of reconciliation or atonement Christ is to be considered after a two-fold manner or under a double notion either in respect of his essential Deity and Divinity or in respect of his Mediatorial office and Priestly performance in respect of his essential Deity common to himself with the Father and the Holy Ghost he by the same right whereby the Father and the Holy Ghost was exceedingly offended with and highly provoked to indignation against us by reason of our sins in respect of his Mediatorial offic● by the common consent and councel of the whole Trinity receding from his most just right took upon him our flesh that he might fully perform the part of a mercifull Mediatour between God and man In the transaction of this great husiness of mediation reconciliation or atonement for they are one in effect though they differ in terms there are six distinct things to be performed by Christ The first is Discretion o● Dijudication of the cause he takes notice of the state and condition of his Church and chosen Secondly he doth report the will of his Father the covenant and agreement with God unto them Thirdly he makes intercession to God for them Fourthly he fully satisfies the wrath and Justice of God provoked against them and freely delivers them from the eternal punishment which they had justly deserved should be inflicted on them Fiftly he mercifully applies that satisfaction to them And finally he everlastingly conserves them in this state of reconciliation into which he hath brought them And thus we dispose of these things thus wonderfully and mercifully performed by him Discretion and Relation pertain properly to the Prophetical office of Christ Intercession and Satisfaction to his Priest-hood Application and Conservation to his Regal office and that Kingly power which he exerciseth in and over his beloved ones So that whole Christ God-man in both natures in all his offices is employed in and for the effecting this high and glorious work of the Fathers mercifull atonement and reconciliation which is no small comfort being brought home and seasonably applied to the heart of a Christian Thus have we set down the true nature of Atonement or Reconciliation with God But as for the Dialogues Atonement it is nothing else but a vain idle imaginary and illusory thing a meer fiction which he having fancied and framed out to himself would fain obtrude upon others without the least colour of testimony from the Word of God For that which the Scripture presents unto us under the name and notio● of the word Atonement is an effect of our righteousness and not a part much lesse the whole as he would have it concerning which ne speaks much as being perhaps delighted in and affected with his own expressions but proves nothing of what is expected from him many times crossing and confounding himself much more his unwary and over-confident Reader To conclude then for I hope by this time the good and intelligent Reader doth plainly discover what the drift and purpose of the Dialogue is together with the rest of the Socinian faction namely to raze if they could the very foundation of our Religion which we have built upon the Rock that so we might erect a new structure on the sand but they shall not prevail yet let every one of us take heed that we build not thereon For other foundation can no man lay and expect comfort in or continuance of the building then that is laid the Prophets and Apostles Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone These under specious pretences and new coyned phrases endeavour to betray us that they may have whereby as they think to glory over us We know that offences to and oppositions against the Truth especially in these latter times must needs come that those which are firm and constant may be made manifest But wo unto them by whom such offences and oppositions do come From henc it comes to passe that such th●ngs as were never handled by the Scriptures are now hand over head urged and maintained from the Scriptures and such questions as were never dreamed of among the Apostles are stoutly yet strangely defended by the Apostles By these means our Pulpits ring our Presses groane and our eares are filled with the confused noise thereof such loud lies such lawlesse arguments such naked collections such backward conclusions such an Ocean of tempestuous sequels such a legend of unsound and unseasoned Non-sequitur's such upstart heresyes and such high strain'd blasphemies that the common Adversary scorneth at our follies and all the Devils in Hell as it were keeping holy-day do rejoyce at our forwardness to run and destroy not only the bodies but even the souls too one of another bringing hereby our selves into derision abroad an the Scriptures themselves into suspition at home Thus are many too many God knows poor single hearted men misled although by a contrary course yet to the same gulf running their

are believed and esteemed to be the saving axiomes of Christian Religion which he presumptuously takes upon him to demonstrate to be very dangerous and pernicious errours and would fain shape us out a form of Religion according to his own fancy as if the Doctrine of Christ and the true Religion stood in need of such a tricker and trimmer of it to make it saleable This disputation was after printed and published by a friend and follower of Socinus Elias Arcissevius a Polonian with the Authours name to it which was never done before in any of his other writings which is so magnified by this beastly merchant on purpose to prostitute it to every customer and of which he doth so exceedingly boast that he is not ashamed to say that there is so much knowledge of Christ and his office contained in it as could possible be desired when as on the contrary it may be more truly said of it that there is so much perversion of the Doctrine of Christ and his offices as could be imagined and more then ever was before published Before Socinus could fi●●sh his book de Servatore he was interrupted with sickness and by his absence from the City for all his treasure namely the writings of his uncle Laelius out of which as himself confesseth he was principally instructed concerning the matter in controversie was conteined within the Walls of Basil from whence he was constrained to absent himself by reason of the plague vvhich vvas there begun so that he could make no progresse in his intended purpose That God which d●d for a time retard could have wholly hindered and prevented the comming forth of this pestiferous book but he often permitteth such things to be for the glo●y of h●s name in bringing good out of evil and that those which are stedfast might be made manifest Besides we see what a Doctor Faustus was who was able to do nothing of h●mself without the help and directions of his Uncles writings h●s confidence was more then his ab●lity otherwise he had never waded so far into these great and mysterious matters by which he hath cast away him●elf and all that follow him While he remained at Tigurum he had another disputat●o● with Francis Puccius a Florentine concerning whom more hereafter of the state of the fi●st man wherein it was debated whether Adam in his fi●st estate were mortal or no What and how necessary such questions as these are to salvation let any man judge yet such curious questions as these were commonly the subject of all his disputations whereas indeed matters of a far lower stra●n would better have sorted with the indifferency both of his arts and parts to discusse them Q●aeries that are too nice rather torment the understanding then inform it and are more apt to puzzle our judgment then to rectifie it Subtilty of questio●s I know not whether it hath more convinced or begotten errour or improved us in our knowledge or staggered us And hence I suppose was the substance of the Apostles advice to the Romans cap. 14.1 He that is weak in faith receive you but not to doubtfull disputations Curiosity of questio●s have ever b n the very engines and stales to heresie and therefore to be avoyed by us He wrote many and divers things and so far he went that at last he brought this heresy into a more perfect form and raised as he thought a goodly structure on that foundation which was laid by Laelius following that rule which Architecture layes before us the higher we build the deeper to lay our foundation laying the foundation of t●is his monstrous religion even in the depth of Hell that he might raise if possible this his Babylonical structure up to Heaven What others have done or attempted to do by peece-meale he hath effected as it were at once upon the very body of religion For there is almost no article of our religion to which he hath not offered some violence and hath as much as ●n him lay endeavoured either utterly to overthrow it or to pluck it up by the very roots thinking it worth the while by defacing or turning off the old to bring in another form of religion under his own name and according to his own liking He was a man of a crafty and quick wit but insufferably audacious and petulant specie formâ magis quàm virtute religiosus sed gloriae novitatis improbe cupidus as Ruffinus saith of Arius In vertue not so much refined as in the depor●ment of the outward man which promised some gravity though no truth of religion violently th●rsting and pursuing a●ter honour and novelty He was guilty o● very much levity being drawn partly from the nature of the Country where he was borne partly from the family out of which he sprung and partly from the Court in which he was bred Insomuch that he was constant in nothing but inconstancy which yet was not in any thing so pernicious as in those sacred mysteries with which he above measure desired to be tampering and into which diving though he drowned himself therein For he had but a light tincture of learning as the writer of his life affirms and he himself is not ashamed to confesse what exquisite judgment saith he or deep understanding in these kind of Philosophical Theological and hard disputes could be expected from me a man who neither learned Philosophy nor at any time could attain to the knowledge and understanding of that Divinity which they call Scholastick nor tasted but o●ly of the rudiments of Logick and that very late to And ●n his Epistles pag. 587. he complains that he spent a great part of his time in Italy his native country but yet the very seat of idleness and va●ity and therefore it was no wonder if he came short in the knowledge both of humane and Divine mat●ers So that he ●oared up to those sacred mysteries meerly upon the confidence or his own wit having not had time for the laying of any solid f●undation T●at height of Spirit which he had either gotten or augmented while he was a Courtier he ever afterwards retained and often declared in overturning and demollishing the very foundations of all Catholick Antiquity and Christian Religion As also in curbing and subduing those which were his companions or had yeilded themselves up to be guided by his crooked direction He must be chief among them and Lord over them or else it is no bargain He was indeed very proud and high minded scorning to receive ●nstruction from any being in his own judgment inferiour to none Trimness and court-like gaudiness was strongly riveted to him and deeply rooted in him his apparel and deportment much unbeseeming such a man as he professed himself to be like unto those ancient Arians of whom Hilarie speaks that were rather Bishops of the Court then of the Church Of all those books which he wrote and truly there are many under his name and the names