Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecutedHart, W. H. (William Henry)
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Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecuted
Hart, W. H. (William Henry)
Prohibited books -- England -- Bibliography
"Being asked, Whether God be confined to a certain Place; saith,
this is not to the Hope that is in a Christian: Therefore there is
no necessity lying on him to answer.
"Being asked, Whether God have a bodily Shape; saith, He hath
answered sufficiently to that already."
It was thereupon ordered that Biddle should be committed prisoner
to the Gatehouse in Westminster. On January 15th, 1654/5, the House
of Commons resolved that the whole drift and scope of this book
was "to teach and to hold forth many blasphemous and heretical
opinions," and that in the preface the author thereof did "maintain
and assert many blasphemous and heretical opinions, and doth
therein cast a reproach upon all the catechisms now extant;" also
"that report be made to the House of the manner of the author's
venting his said errors, together with several particular errors
and blasphemies in the said book contained; that the manner is by
proposing a blasphemous and dangerous opinion, by way of question,
and by mis-applying of Scripture, by way of answer to the same."
"The several particulars are as followeth:
"1. That the Infinite God is confined to a certain Place. _Cat. p._
5, 6.
"2. That God hath a bodily shape; that God hath a Right Hand, and
Left, in a proper Sense, 2. _Cat. p._ 6.
"3. That there are Passions in God. 1. _Cat._ 11.
"4. He denies the Omniscience and Immutability of God, 1. _Cat._
from the 14 to the *.
"5. He denies that all the Three Persons are to be loved with our
whole Heart, 1. _Cat._ 21.
"6. He denies that Jesus Christ hath the nature of God dwelling in
him, _p._ 27, 28, 29, _ad_ 35, and _p._ 40 to the 60. That Christ
hath only a divine Lordship, without a Divine Nature.
"7. He denies the Godhead of the Holy Ghost, 1. _Cat._ _p._ 21. 2.
_Cat._ _p._ 16.
"8. He denies that Christ was a Priest, whilst he was on Earth,
_p._ 64; or died to reconcile God to us, _p._ 68; or that God doth
justify any because of the full Price that Christ paid to him in
their stead, _p._ 83.
"9. He affirms Justification by Works, _p._ 96.
"10. He denies the Righteousness of Christ is imputed to Believers,
_p._ 82.
"11. He affirms that Works give Vigour to Faith, and so makes it
able to justify, 2. _Cat._ 26; and affirms that Works give Right to
Eternal Life, 1. _Cat._ _p._ 86, 87; 94, 95; 98.
"He affirms that true Saints may turn Apostates finally, 1. _Cat._
_p._ 99.
"He denies that the Wicked do continue to live in Hell, under the
sense of everlasting Torment; but saith, That they are destroyed,
and cease to be, 1. _Cat._ _p._ 134, 135, 136, &c."
It was then resolved that this book should be burnt by the Common
Hangman.
207.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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