A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

Let no man here stumble in the threshold, or be scandalized at the case I put: I intend nothing, either against piety, or truly pious persons, but to vindicat both from those principles of impiety, which some maintain and adhere unto, under colour of piety. The Arians, Ebionites, and Socinians in Poland, have pretended to be the godly party there, in so much that Faustus Socinus wrote a book entitled thus, That the men of the kingdom of Poland, and the great Duchy of Lithuania, commonly called Evangelics, who were studious of solid piety, ought altogether to adjoin themselves to the Assembly of those, who in the same places are falsely and undeservedly called Arians and Ebionites.

LEt no man here stumble in the threshold, or bee scandalized at the case I put: I intend nothing, either against piety, or truely pious persons, but to vindicat both from those principles of impiety, which some maintaine and adhere unto, under colour of piety. The Arrians, Ebionites, and Socinians in Poland, have pretended to bee the godly party there, in so much that Faustus Socinus wrote a book entituled thus, That the men of the kingdome of Poland, and the great Dutchy of Lithuania, commonly called Evangelicks, who were studious of solid piety, ought altogether to adjoyne themselves to the Assembly of those, who in the same places are falsely and undescrvedly called Arrians and Ebionites.

There is as little truth in that pretence, which diverse Sectaries now make to the way of godliness, observe but these principles of theirs.

There is as little truth in that pretence, which diverse Sectaries now make to the way of godlinesse, observe but these principles of theirs.

1. That none ought to be punished for Preaching, Printing, or maintaining any error in Faith or Religion, except it be contrary to the very light of nature.