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Title:  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 ...
Author: Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.
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saith the Protestants have constantly maintained, and doe still maintain, that good workes are not properly meritori∣ous, and that faith alone justifies; but either this is false, or else men that are counted Protestants have changed their Religion. Franciscus de Sancta Clara wil inform him of the ex∣travagancies of some in these points, who passed for such Protestants as England hath been guilty of entertaining of late yeares. I have heard it publikely maintained in Oxford by Mr. Wethereld of Queenes Colledge, that Bona opera suntMr. Wethereld his Sermon at Saint Maries.Causae Physicae Vitae Aeternae, he had said before that they were Morall Causes, by that he meant Meritorious, but that expression would not content him. It is well known what Dr. Duncan maintained at Cambridge; what Shelford printed there, what Dr. Dow and Dr. Heylin have since maintained, and to their power justifyed; you may read their words at large in Ladensium the fifth Chapter.The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury hath given us the reason why the Jesuites refused to come to our Churches, (it seems he had invited them) since they themselves acknowledge The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury his Relat. Sect. 35. Punct. 5. p. 307. A probable con∣jecture of his Graces Reason why he altered the Service-book. The difference between the Scotch Liugy and the English is exactly set down in the Canterburians selfe conviction p. 97. to 113. See M. Newcomen his Sermon prea∣ched on the fifth of Novemb. that there is no positive errour in our Liturgy, and it is briefly this. Because though our Liturgy had in it nothing ill, yet it wanted a great deale of that which was good, and was in their Service. I can now give at least a probable conjecture why his Grace altered the Service-book which he sent into Scotland: why, surely to please the Jesuites, for he put in some∣thing which the Jesuites counted good, and so in his appre∣hension made up the defect.Mr. Newcomen in his learned Sermon hath shewen at large how punctuall his Grace was in observing the Je∣suites instructions for the alteration of our Religion. How truth hath been sold at a low rate, by the highest Priests, is clearely discovered by Mr. Hill in his accurate Sermon. Re∣vend Dr. Hakewill hath set forth Dr. Heylin to the life, and therefore I will not presume to adde any thing to his happy observations. The Ministers Remonstrance will give suffi∣cient light to this point, I hope it will be published ere long. There is a Book which passeth from hand to hand as a pre∣tious manuscript called Romano-Catholicus Pacificus, in which 0