A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen volume 5
A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen volume 5
Chambers Robert
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The king selected several doctrines which he considered heresies, and wrote to the Dutch government, signifying his disapprobation Vorstius having lately received a professorship of divinity at Leyden, as successor of Arminius. He also ordered the book to be burned in London. Soon after, Bartholomew Legate was brought into his presence, accused of professing Arianism in the capital, after which he continued for some time in Newgate, and was then burned at Smithfield. About the same time a simil...ar example of barbarous intolerance occurred. But it was in the same year that our English translation of the Bible was published an undertaking which the king had set on foot, at the suggestion of Dr Reynolds, in 1604, uhirh had been executed by forty-seven divines, whom James furnished with in- structions for the work ; and the fulfilment of which has been justly remarked as an event of very high importance in the history of the language, as well as of the religion of (ireat Britain. About the end of this year, the king founded a 'ullc'je at Chelsea, for controversial theology, with a view to answer the papists and puritans.
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