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IV. - THE DIFFERENT SECTS OF CALVINISTS. - 99.- The Sects into which Calvinism was divided. 100.- The Puritans. 101. -
The Independents and Presbyterians. 102.-The difference between these Sects. 103.-The Quakers and Tremblers. 104.-The
Anglo-Calvinists. 105.-The Piscatorians. 106.-The Arminians and Gomarists............................................................................................. 177
CHAPTER XII. THE HERESIES OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY-(CONTINUED). - ARTICLE I. -THE SCHISM OF ENGLAND.
- l. - THE REIGN OF HENRY VIII. - 1.- Religion of England previous to the Reformation. 2. -Henry VIII. marries Catherine of
Arragon, but becomes enamoured of Anna Boleyn. 3.~The wicked Wolsey suggests the invalidity of the marriage Incontinence
of Anna Boleyn; suspicion that she was the daughter of Henry. 4.-Calvin refuses to have his cause tried by English Judges;
"Wolsey is made prisoner, and dies at Leicester. 5.-Henry seizes on the property of the Church, and marries Anna Boleyn. 6.-He
obliges the Clergy to swear obedience to him, and Cranmer declares the marriage of Catherine invalid. 7. -The Pope declares
Anna Boleyn’s marriage invalid, and excommunicates Henry, who declares himself Head of the Church. 8. -He persecutes Pole,
and puts More and Fisher to death. 9. -The Pope declares Henry unworthy of the kingdom; the King puts Anna Boleyn to death,
and marries Jane Seymour. 10.-The Parliament decides on six Articles of Faith; the bones of St. Thomas of Canterbury are
burned; Jane Seymour dies in giving birth to Edward VI. 11. -The Pope endeavours to bring Henry to a sense of his duty, but
does not succeed. 12. -He marries Anne of Cleves; Cromwell is put to death. 13. -Henry marries Catherine Howard, whom he
afterwards put to death, and then marries Catherine Parr. 14.-His remorse in his last sickness. 15. -He makes his will, and dies.
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II.- REIGN OF EDWARD VI. - 16.-The Duke of Somerset, as Guardian of Edward VI., governs the kingdom. 17.-He declares
himself a heretic, and gives leave to the heretics to preach; invites Bucer, Vermigli, and Ochino to England, and abolishes the
Roman Catholic Religion. 18.-He beheads his brother, the Lord High Admiral. 19.-He is beheaded himself. 20.-Death of Edward;
the Earl of Warwick makes an attempt to get possession of the kingdom, and is beheaded, but is converted, and dies an edifying
death. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 186
II- MARY’S REIGN. - 21. -Mary refuses the title of Head of the Church; repeals her Father’s and Brother’s Laws; Cranmer is
condemned to be burned, and dies a heretic; Mary sends off all heretics from her Court. 22,-Cardinal Pole reconciles England
with the Church; her marriage with Philip II., and death.................................................................................................................................. 188
IV. -THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH. 23.-Elizabeth proclaimed Queen; the Pope is dissatisfied, and she declares herself a
Protestant. 24.-She gains over the Parliament, through the influence of three of the Nobility, and is proclaimed head of the
Church. 25.-She establishes the form of Church Government, and, though her belief is Calvinistic, she retains Episcopacy, & c.
26.-Appropriates Church Property, abolishes the Mass; the Oath of Allegiance; persecution of the Catholics. 27.-Death of
Edmund Campion for the Faith. 28.-The Pope’s Bull against Elizabeth. 29.-She dies out of Communion with the Church. 30.-Her
successors on the Throne of England; deplorable state of the English Church. 31. -The English Reformation refutes itself. ....... 189
ARTICLE II. - THE ANTITRINITARIANS AND SOCINIANS. - MICHAEL SERVETUS. - 32.-Character of Servetus; his studies,
travels, and false doctrine. 33.-He goes to Geneva; disputes with Calvin, who has him burned to death........................................... 192
II. - VALENTINE GENTILIS, GEORGE BLANDRATA, AND BERNARD OCHINO. - 34.-Valentine Gentilis; his impious
doctrine. 35.-He is punished in Geneva, and retracts. 36.-Relapses, and is beheaded. 37.-George Blandrata perverts the Prince of
Transylvania; disputes with the Reformers; is murdered. 38.-Bernard Ochino; his life while a Friar; his perversion, and flight to
Geneva. 39.-He goes to Strasbourg, and afterwards to England, with Bucer; his unfortunate death in Poland................................. 193
III. -THE SOCINIANS. - 40.-Perverse doctrine of Lelius Socinus. 41.-Faustus Socinus; his travels, writings, and death. 42.-Errors
of the Socinians. ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 196
CHAPTER XIII. - HERESIES OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES. - ARTICLE I. - ISAAC PERIERES,
MARK ANTHONY DE DOMINIS, WILLIAM POSTELLUS, AND BENEDICT SPINOSA. - 1. -Isaac Perieres, chief of the Pre-
Adamites; abjures his heresy. 2.-Mark Anthony de Dominis; his errors and death. 3. -William Postellus; his errors and
conversion. 4.-Benedict Spinosa, author of a new sort of Atheism. 5.-Plan of his impious system; his unhappy death.................. 197
ARTICLE II. - THE ERRORS OF MICHAEL BAIUS. - 6.-Michael Baius disseminates his unsound doctrine, and is opposed. 7.-
St. Pius V. condemns seventy-nine Propositions of Baius, and he abjures them. 8. -Retractation written by Baius, and confirmed
by Pope Urban VIII. ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 199
ARTICLE III. - THE ERRORS OF CORNELIUS JANSENIUS. - 9. -Cornelius, Bishop of Ghent, and Cornelius, Bishop of Ipres;
his studies and degrees. 10.-Notice of the condemned work of Jansenius. 11.-Urban VIII. condemns the book of Jansenius in the
Bull "In eminenti;" the Bishops of France present the five propositions to Innocent X. 12. -Innocent condemns them in the Bull "
Cum occasione;" notice of the Propositions. 13. -Opposition of the Jansenists; but Alexander VIII. declares that the five
propositions are extracted from the book, and condemned in the sense of Jansenius; two propositions of Arnauld condemned.
14.-Form of subscription commanded by the Pope to be made. 15.-The religious silence. 16.-The Case of Conscience condemned
by Clement XI. in the Bull Vineam Domini. 16.-The opinion, that the Pontificate of St. Paul was equal to that of St. Peter,
condemned...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 200
ARTICLE IV. - 18,-Quesnel is dismissed from the Congregation of the Oratory. 19. -He publishes several unsound works in
Brussels. 20.-Is imprisoned, escapes to Amsterdam, and dies excommunicated. 21. -The Book he wrote. 22.-The Bull
"Unigenitus," condemning the Book. 23. -The Bull is accepted by the King, the Clergy, and the Sorbonne; the followers of
Quesnel appeal to a future Council. 24.-Several Bishops also, and Cardinal de Noailles, appeal to a future Council likewise, but
the Council of Embrun declares that the appeal should not be entertained. 25.-The Consultation of the Advocates rejected by the
assembly of the Bishops; Cardinal de Noailles retracts, and accepts the Bull; the Bull is declared dogmatical by the Sorbonne
and the Bishops. 26.-Three principles of the system of Quesnel. .................................................................................................................... 204
ARTICLE V. -THE ERRORS OF MICHAEL MOLINOS. - 29.-The unsound Book of Molinos called the "Spiritual Guide." 30.-His
impious Doctrine, and the consequences deduced from it. 31. -His affected sanctity; he is found out and imprisoned, with two of
his disciples. 32.-He is condemned himself, as well as his Works; he publicly abjures his errors, and dies penitent. 33. -
Condemnation of the Book entitled " The Maxims of the Saints.".................................................................................................................. 208
SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER. - HERESIES OF THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES. - 1. -Introductory
matter. 2.-Rationalists. 3-Hernlmtters, or Moravians. 4-.Swedenborgians, or New Jerusalemites. 5 -Methodism; Wesley. 6, 7.-
Doctrines and practices of the Methodists. 8. -Johanna Southcott. 9.-Mormonism. 10.-German Catholics......................................... 209
REFUTATION OF HERESIES. - REFUTATION I. - THE HERESY OF SABELLIUS, WHO DENIED THE DISTINCTION OF
PERSONS IN THE TRINITY..................................................................................................................................................................................... 214
II. OBJECTIONS ANSWERED. ................................................................................................................................................................................ 218
REFUTATION II. - THE HERESY OF ARIUS, WHO DENIED THE DIVINITY OF THE WORD. - THE DIVINITY OF THE
WORD PROVED FROM THE SCRIPTURES....................................................................................................................................................... 220
II- THE DIVINITY OF THE WORD PROVED BY THE AUTHORITY OF HOLY FATHERS AND COUNCILS............................. 226
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