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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

beastly soever it be Servetus being now a Divine in repute but a Devil in practise raketh up and reviveth many wicked and desperate opinions among the rest that damnable heresie against the blessed Trinity in which he was so deeply rooted that he left no stone unturned whither by preaching or writing to overthrow the Article of the Christian faith concerning the same invading it with many execrable blasphemies thereby endeavouring to corrupt the faith of others and divert them from the the truth The fire of dissention which had some time now laine raked up in the embers of oblivion began to break out again and to flame about the eares of the Churches in those parts which for the present was somewhat smothered but could never be wholly quenched unto this day For this Factor for Hell being taken had deserved punishment inflicted on him being publickly burnt at Geneva to the example of all those that were seduced by him But this fact was heynously token of those that were his friends and adversaries to Calvin who to work him a spIght did publish it abroad for truth that that slaughter as they called it was long before plotted and contrived by him and at last cruelty effected by his only means when as indeed the Councel of Geneva did nothing in the busines without the judgment and approbation of the Senates of Bernen Zuring Basil and Schaffuse the advise also of many Cities and Churches of Christ being required and received How ever these friends of his and adversaries of the truth have censured the fact and opened their mouths wide to condemne it yet other un-by assed men of as great ability and more integrity then they have highly approved of it Melancthon in his Ep●stle to Bullenger writeth thus concerning it I have read saith he your answers to the blasphemies of Servetus and I Commonly your piety and judgment Also I suppose the Senate of Geneva hath done w●ll and performed a noble act in taking away that obstinate wretch who was resolved never to cease blaspheming so long as he had here a being But I wonder that any should accuse them of severity in inflicting just vengeance on a person guilty of so much impiety Also famous Rivet Alexander More Jacob Trigland with divers others do commend the zeale of that Senate in this very matter Yet farther to cleer Calvin from this false imputation that it was not his malice but Servetus just desert that brought him to that shameful and painful end may evidently appear by that great endeavour which he used to reduce this blasphemous monster to a better mind but when he saw it would not do nor any gentle and fair perswasions prevaile with him he sought to mitigate the rigour as he then thought of that Sentence which was past upon him And sure there was something more then ordinary in it that he who was alwayes severe towards other offenders of a far lower form should be so courteous and gentle towards such a monster of mankind so blasphemous an heretick and such a disturber of the peace both of Church and Common-weal as he declared himself to be He wrote some books but so stuft with impiety and detestable blasphemy that they are not without danger and horrour to be received and read among us Beza writing to Andrew Dudithius of whom we shall speak hereafter doth thus expostulate with him Who hath bewitched thee my dear Brother that thou shouldest take so desperate a course and be led away by such damnable opinions what hath Servetus that Arch-heretick done it Who maketh the very substance of God to be mutable and teacheth that he is part of all things who denies the eternity of the Son of God and taketh away the Hypostatical Union of the two natures in him who gain saies the substance and Divinity of the blessed Spirit of God who often terms obstupui steteranque comae c. I tremble to rehearse it the Father Son and Holy Ghost the three-headed Cerberus of Hell who affirmeth the Soul to be mortal calling Moses a ridiculous Imposter the Ancient Church of the Jews an heard of Swine maintaining Cata-baptisme denying redemption by Christ and thirty years and more hath never ceased to blaspheme the living God What wilt thou be ruled and over-ruled b● such an one as he Can any Christian say yet some there are that do affirm that he was burnt for Religion a●d not ra●her for his horrible impiety and execrable blasphemy By the good opinion which they had of this man his piety and holiness they would fain make a Martyr of him but it will be but a stinking one when all his done Well neither better nor worse burnt he is but indeed too late who if it had bin the good pleasure of God I would had never b●n borne to poyson the Church and seduce so many poor Souls from the truth with his pestoferous and damnable Doctrines Calvin then whom no man was more diligent in the perusal of his blasphemous writings which he published and commended to his seduced Disciples in the confutation hereof doth testifie that in more th●n an 100 several places he impiously calls the Holy and ever blessed Trinity the three headed Cerberus a Diabolical phansie the monstrous Geryon of whom the Poets of old had strang fictions and by some strang mysterie of Philos●●hy they feigned to have three bodies Good God! what pains did this man take to out-doe all the hereticks that went before him and to un-doe both himself and all those who by his strang delusious should follow after him or be led by him But what shall we say negamus potius hor●emus vocem Errours that are so insolent are to be exploded not di●puted to be spit at rather then con●r●u'd Confutat●on bears no rule no sway here it is Authority that must do it And therefore the State did well to rid the Church of such a violent enemy to the truth of her profession Melanchion wrote an excellent and pithy admonition to the States of Venice wherein he adviseth them to take special heed and beware of the blasp●mous errours and heresies of Servetus which to omit those which he had drawn out of the works of others are briefly these 1. He denied and opposed the eternity of the Son of God affirming that he might be the Son of the eternal God but not the eternal Son of God 2. He denied the power of Original sin that we are not lyable to it nor to be punished for it with divers others of the same kind Thus this wretched Man having consulted with Jews Turks with all manner of Hereticks his Predecessours was taken with their heresies and justly punished for them Valentinus Gentilis Campanus Csentinus Gentili falso nulli impietate secundo Supplicie capitis digna ruina fuit THE Church of God having by those excellent instruments of Gods glory the Senators of Geneva rid her hands of blasphemous Servetus could not rid her self of those blasphemies which were

let all the people say AMEN FINIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR A CAGE OF Unclean Birds Containing the Authors Promoters Propagators and chief Disseminators of this damnable Socinian Heresie Together with a brief description of their Lives and a true relation of their deaths Collected Composed and Published for the Glory of God and the convincing of those that are in any measure Infected herewith By NICH. CHEVVNEY M.A. and M●nister of the Word of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tit. 2.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Joan. 1.1 Aequè peccarunt qui blasphemarunt Christum regnantem in Coelis quàm qui eum crucifixerunt ambulantem in terris LONDON Printed by J. M. for H. Tw●ford and T. Dring and are to be sold in Vine-Court Middle-Temple and at the George in Fleetstreet neer Cliffords Inn. 1656. To the Right Worshipful Sr Nicholas Crisp Kn t of Queax in the Isle of Thannet SIR WHere I stand engaged in a Just Service and would Publish it I less fear the censure of Vain-Glory then of Ingratitude I know the Age is very severe in her Paraphrase on those who appear for Truth when as others pass uncensured Yet I am resolved rather to hazard the imputation of a Weak-man then to be accounted one Unthankful He that doth but Tacitely acknowledge the Favours of a Noble Friend doth in a manner Bury them when as he that Proclaims them hath in a part requited he hath repaid His Honour and therefore Him and so hath satisfied though not restored I desire not so much to expose my Labours to the World as to express my acknowledgements of your Worth and Goodness The Ancient of Days multiply your Days here upon Earth and at last take you to that place where there shall be no Night So Praying rests Sir Yours to be commanded in the Lord. N. C. To my once Beloved Charge the Inhabitants of St nicholas at Wade in the Isle of Thannet Beloved IT is not unknown to you that I voluntarily left a very loving people and a more beneficial place to come among you and reside with you expecting and not without reason a more then ordinary success of my poor labours with a retaliation of affection from you But through the malicious subtilty of some abroad and the notorious hypocrisie of others at home I have been strangely frustrate in my expectation Yet I hope there are among you some who will give me cause to say I have not laboured in vain God the Searcher of all hearts shall witness for me that I have not ceas'd to declare unto you while I was with you even the whole counsel of God especially by those Doctrines which I conceived to be most needful and necessary for you And being now departing from you I commend this poor Piece as a lasting monument of my Affection to you Therefore I pray accept this free will Offering with the same hand and heart it is tendered to you I have not wrote any thing to the prejudice of the person of the Author of the D●alogue whose Christian Moderation in many things is kn●wn to many whose holy conversation may be a pattern to most yet I am not willing that Truth should suffer by the hand of any whatsoever much less be wounded by those that pretend to be her best friends and make an escape in a croud without any notice taken of it I do not cannot look to escape censures abroad no more then St Paul did perils and among the rest especially by false Brethren who are possessed with such a spirit of Pride and Bitterness that scorning and reviling the works of others how painful and elaborate soever they think nothing well done but what they do themselves Let me therefore my good friends find kindness and curtesie from you at home lest it repent me not that I undertook and by Gods mercy finished but that ever I published these weak endeavours of mine I have here unmasked Errour and Heresie that you may the better see them and seeing know them and knowing avoid them when you shall meet them in what ever Paint or Dress of Piety and Purity they shall seek to shroud or shelter themselves so that you be not deceived by them I have made use of such Authors in the managing of this high and holy business as have gone before me and were needful for me They I suppose may pass currant without any prejudice or prejudicial censure But my self and what is mine do importune your favour which I presume will be the easier attained in regard we both intend nothing but good unto you We are they my friends upon whom the very Ends of the World are come in which not only homo homini Lupus one man is a Wolf to another preying upon the Body Name and Estate but homo homini Daemon one man is a Divel to another labouring to ensnare and betray the Souls the precious Souls one of another It is very necessary then that we take heed unto our selves that we be not slightly carryed on to our own destruction What caution the Apostle gave his Colossians the same do I give to you Let no man spoil you through Philosophy and vain deceit And further give me leave to say let no man spoil you through Divinity and vain deceit For no doubt but the Serpent hath his poyson in his head as well as his tayl and the Divel hath his baits as cunningly set on and as covertly laid in the depths of Divinity as in the shallows of Philosophy yea rather did he attempt to have spoyl'd the great Commander of Divines with the Theorems of Divinity then with the Rudiments of Philosophy he can frame either or both according to the times places or persons with whom he hath to deal to serve his purpose and make for his advantage Let us then consider what is or ought to be the credit countenance and authority of him that writeth any thing in publike not his Person though it be Comly nor his Deportment though it be Demure nor his Name though it be Famous nor his Learning though it be Profound nor his Language though it be Pleasing nor his Stile though it be Smooth But rather the Spirit if not only the Spirit by which he is guided For otherwise were he as grave and ancient as Melchisedech as wise and well learned as Solomon as eloquent and well-spoken as Aaron were he brought up at the feet of Gamaliel or might he sit in the Gates of the City for his Judgment and great ability yet if in these the Spirit of Truth accompany him not we are so far from receiving any good from him that there is the more danger to be infected by him And though the only or special credit of him that writeth be the Spirit by which he doth it yet we must not believe every one that pretendeth he hath the Spirit There are many false Prophets gone out into the world and many times such are the unseasoned and

he was called to Tubinga where he set up his profession practised the Law and in a very eminent and publique auditory read Lectures thereof for the instruction of others but at length by the prudence of Hieronymus Gerh●●dus one of the privy councel to the Prince of Wertenberge he was detected of heresy but secretly made an escape being after this taken at Bernen he was again enlarged by vertue of a counterfeit abnegation which he made for he presently turned to his old byasse again so that being imprisoned he was swept away by the pestilence and so saved the Hangman a labour preventing the execution which was prepared otherwise for him Georgius Blandrata Saluciensis Medicus Hic Medicus Blandrata fuit dum corpora curat Haereseos virus mentibus ille parat GEorge Blandrata of Salucia by profession a Physician who not long after followed his companion Gentilis flying from Geneva for fear of the Magistrate who is not a terrour but to those that do evil and who as he supposed laid out for him to take him if possible conscius ipse sibi as one conscious of his own baseness but by a slight escaped he fled away no man so much as pursuing him For while he among the rest was hearing Calvin in a publick Auditory by chance espying the Magistrate or chief Judge comming in whom to avoid he cunningly clapt his hand-kerchief to his nose as if he had bin taken with a sudden bleeding and so fled out of the Church and out of the City being never afterwards seen therein During his abode at Geneva he often disputed with Calvin in whose works we may find the answers to Blandrata's questions He ingennously confesseth that he received great satisfaction from Calvin by his publick disputations and consented with him but never held to any thing so close as his pernicious errours and damnable heresies of the foulness of which notwithstanding he vvere convinced in his conscience by his ovvn confession yet such povver had the Devil over him that he was never able or willing to retract and wholly forsake them Insomuch that Calvin told him to his face thy countenance bewrayes that all is not well thou hast some detestable monster within thee which thou makest much of and lies lurking in thy very heart Ill actions are perpetual perturbations his countenance cannot be serene whose conscience is over cast with the guilt of his impiety At Ticinus escaping the hands of the Inquisitors who would willingly have gotten him into their power he went into Helvetia and so to Germany He passeth from thence to Polonia and Transylvania where he practiseth Physick and under the notion of that profession wherein he proved happy either by his ability or successe did the better obscure that heresy which he mainta●ned and endeavoured so much to advance by his wily whisperings and crafty dist●lling it into the ears of those eminent persons who by reason of his practise he had to be his patients To him Faustus Socinus being now grown up write an Epistle bearing this title or Dedication To George Blandrata chief Physician to Stephen the most renowned King of Poland and one of the privy Councel his Lord and Patron most worthy to be honoured c. This man was a very great favourer and promoter of the Socinian faction and stood them in great steed both in the Court of Polonia and Transylvania where his word did bear some weight by reason of his profession and power by which also he attained to a very rich and plentiful estate But it seems towards his end he grew somewhat luke-warm in his affections to them and not so indulgent towards their affairs as they expected or desired which made them much to compla●n of him and insteed of titles of honour to lade him with terms of infamie and reproach However he dealt with them at the last yet sure they had never gotten so much footing in those parts had it not bin for him his secret endeavours his open and apparent writings may evidence the good will he bare unto them and therefore shall not go unpunished sometimes private punishments gripe a man within while others looking in their face discern not their hurt sometimes God punisheth openly and the offences of men meet with a Market lash thus dealt he with Blandrata he was strangled in his bed by his own Brothers Son whom he had appointed and constituted his heyr Non haec sine numine c. This was not done in a corner nor without Gods just revenge upon this wicked and ungodly wretch whom he thought fit to hurry out of the World by such an unwonted and cursed kind of death being a prime Authour of many execrable heresies in the Churches of Christ many horrible blasphemies against God and his truth many filthy and abhominable books many terrible rufflings among the Professors of the same truth of God which can never be wholly vanquished Errour and heresy may blow on it and shake it to but not overthrow it for it is founded on such Basis and hath such a sure ground-work as is subject neither to battery nor undermining The rock Christ Jesus This Blandrata with the counsel and assistance of Francis Davidis wrote a book against the blessed Trinity opposing one to whom the Church of God in those parts was very much beholding as being a notable Assertor of the Orthodox Religion that is George Major whose very Title doth declare both the Authour and the matter of the same being a certain Refutation of a writing of George Major's to be unsound and heretical wherein he endeavours to prove but out of the pit of Anti-Christ that there are not three distinct Persons and but one Essence in the Godhead We will not trouble our selves with the blasphemies against God the Calumnies and Slanders vomited out against the maintainers of the truth which are therein conteined it is sufficiently known that their whole Religion consisteth in nothing else which being if it were possible taken from them they would not have a fig-leaf left them to cover themselves withall By this book of Blandrata's we come to know who were the Authours of that most cursed pamphlet published 1567. in the name of the Ministers of the Churches agreeing together in Sarmatia and Transylvania that is to say this wicked Blandrata Francis Davidis and some others of the same stamp It is no marvel that he who laboured to stifle the honour of God in the Churches should be stifled by the hands of him who should have done honour to him We see though the wayes of vice be smooth yet are they slippery inviting by the eye but tripping up the heels to the wounding or drowning of those that take a delight to walk on them Paulus Alciatus Miles Mediolanensis Alciatus miles Blandratae fidus Achates Ecclesiam contra militat ante malâ PAulus Alciatus of Mediolanum a City in Milla● a Souldier and an intimate friend and Comp●nion of B●adrata's marketh up next