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    him long remembered by those who had the pleasure of being acquainted with him / 1

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    Aboqt that time , part of the second impression of his Twelve Arguments ? the Confession of Faith , Testimonies , &c , which , as I have told you , were published in octavo , laying dead on his , or the bookseller ' s hands , there was this title put to them , " The

    Apostolical and true Opinion concerning the Holy Trinity , revived and asserted , &c . " London , October , l 6 £ S » 8 vo . } but no alterations or augmentation made in them , as it is expressed in the said title set before them , which were put and sold together in one volume , the Long Parliament' being then dissolved .

    Afterwards was written and published by the said Biddle , A Twofold Catechism ; the one simply called , A Scripture Catechism ; the other , A brief Scripture Catechism for Children , London , 1654 . * The last of which

    " XXXV . That the Christian religion , contained in the Scriptures , be held forth and recommended as the public profession of these nations . " XXXVI . That to the public profession held forth , none shall be compelled by penalties , or otherwise , but that endeavours be used to win them by sound doctrine , and the example of a good conversation .

    " XXXVII . That such as profess faith in God by Jesus Christ , ( though differing- in judgment from the doctrine , worship , or discipline publicly held forth , ) shall not be restrained from , but shall be protected in the profession of the faith , and exercise of their religion ; so as they abuse not this

    liberty to the civil injury of others , and to the actual disturbance of the public peace on their parts ; provided this liberty be not extended to popery or prelacy , nor to such as , under the profession of Christ , hold

    forth and practise licentiousness . " The Government of the Commonwealth , as it was publicly declared at Westminster , the IQth of December , 1653 . —Published by his Highness the Lord Protectors special commandment * 1653 .

    *" The title of the first is , ' A Scripture Catechism ; wherein the chiefestPoints of the Christian Religion being questionwise proposed , resolve themselves by pertinent Answers , taken , Word for Word , out of the Scripture , without eitber Consequences or Comments . Composed for their

    safes that , would fain be mere Christians , and not of this or that Scat , inasmuch as all Sects of Christians , by what Name soever distinguished , have either more or less departed from the Simplicity and Truth of the Scripture , * Th « title of the other is , 4 brief Scripture Cateohism for CbiU

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    Life of John Biddle , by Anthonp Wood * 41 f 3

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    I have here an apology to make to the public for having so long delayed to send to your valtiable work this brief memoir of a most eventful life , and of one whom It both revered and loved - This apology must consist in

    a full expectation , from year to year , that it would be undertaken by Dr . Towers ' son , who , I understand , possesses Dr . Fleming ' s memoirs of his own life . Mr . Towers must , of consequence , have been better qualified and furnished for this undertaking .

    I had the pleasure and the benefit of the Doctor ' s acquaintance arid patronage during the six years I spent at the New College , Hoxton , and on my removal into the country , had the honour of a regular correspondence to the time of his death . A

    recollection of him is embalmed in my memory , and will never be effaced while memory lasts . L . HOL 0 EN . Tenterden , June 8 9 1 & 18 .

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    Life of John Biddle , by Anthony Wood , in Athena Oxonienues , 1692 . [ Concluded from p . 394 . ] IN February , 1651 , was published by the Parliament , a general Act of Oblivion , * that restored , among others , our author Biddle to his full

    liberty , which he improved among those friends he had gained in London , f * meeting together every Sunday for the expounding , of the Scripture , and discoursing thereupon , for the clearing of matters therein contained ; - by which means the

    doctrine of one God , and Christ bis only Son , and his Holy Spirit , was so propagated , that the Presbyterian ministers in London were exceedingly offended at it , but could not hinder it by secular power , which then favoured liberty of religion and conscience . ^

    * This Act of Oblivion , if it ever passed , appears not to have been general , though it probably secured all Who were not re * garded as state criminals . See ParL Hist . XX . 84 ; and Macaiilay's Eist . 8 vo . V . 41 *

    t" Among these was Mr , Thomas Fit-min , then at the age of 19 . Sec his Life , 1608 , P- 10 . i X Ihf following articles are in Cromwell ' s First Act of Government ;

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1818, page 413, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2478/page/5/