Historical Memoirs of Religious Dissension Addressed to the Seventeenth Parliam
Historical Memoirs of Religious Dissension Addressed to the Seventeenth Parliam
Jeremiah Trist
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Driven from a coun- try, which had afforded them countenance and pro- teftion, by an offence againft the civil and eccleli- aftical eftablifhments f of it, the difciples of Socinus direfted their emiffaries to fearch out a refting- place. England, that land of religious liberty, that hot-bed of feftaries, was open to the wretched exiles, and here they found a refuge from thofe conti- nental ftorms which their zeal and irregularities had • The Socinians are not included in the Aft of Toleration ...; and by the 9th and loth of William III. They are expofed to fundry difabilities. Likewife by the 13th Eliz. C. 12. And the 29th Ch. II. C. 9. \ Amongft other adls of violence which their zeal has tempted them to commit, was that famous tumult at Racow, in Poland. Their rage for reformation was vented againft an unfortunate cru- cifix, which had excited their religious refentment, and which they fo belaboured with flicks and, ftones, that they at laft triumphed in its overthrow. The matter, however, did not end here, the reformers attrafted the notice of the civil magiftrate, and they were banifhed Poland with the utmoft ignominy in 1638, forthif breach of the peace ; but they have always gloried in their zeal and their fufFerings.
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