_First_: with having, between twenty-three and twenty-four
years ago, caused to be printed at Hagenau, in Germany, a
book against the Holy Trinity, full of blasphemies, to the
great scandal of the Churches of Germany, the book having been
condemned by all their doctors, and he, the writer, forced
to fly that country. _Item._ With having, in spite of this,
not only persisted in his errors and infected many with them,
but with having lately had another book clandestinely printed
at Vienne in Dauphiny, filled with the like heresies and
execrable blasphemies against the Holy Trinity, the Son of
God, the Baptism of Infants, and other sacred doctrines, the
foundations of the Christian religion. _Item._ With having in
the said book called all who believe in a Trinity, Tritheists,
and even Atheists, and the Trinity itself a dæmon or monster
having three heads. _Item._ With having blasphemed horribly,
and said that Jesus Christ was not the Son of God from all
Eternity, but only became so from his Incarnation; that he is
not the Son of David according to the flesh, but was created of
the substance of God, having received three of his constituent
elements from God, and one only from the Virgin Mary, whereby
he wickedly proposed to abolish the true and entire humanity
of Jesus Christ. _Item._ With declaring the Baptism of Infants
to be sorcery and a diabolical invention. _Item._ With having
uttered other blasphemies, with which the book in question is
full, all alike against the Majesty of God, the Son of God, and
the Holy Ghost, to the ruin of many poor souls, betrayed and
desolated by such detestable doctrines. _Item._ With having,
full of malice, entitled the said book, though crammed with
heresies against the holy evangelical doctrine, ‘Christianismi
Restitutio--the Restoration of Christianity,’ the better to
deceive and seduce poor ignorant folks, poisoning them all
the while they fancied they were sitting in the shadow of
sound doctrine. _Item._ With attacking our faith by letters
as well as by his book, and saying to one of the ministers of
this city that our holy evangelical doctrine is a religion
without faith, and indeed without God, we having a Cerberus
with three heads, for our God. _Item._ For having perfidiously
broken and escaped from the prison of Vienne, where he had
been confined because of the wicked and abominable opinions
confessed in his book. _Item._ For continuing obstinate in
his opinions, not only against the true Christian religion,
but, as an arrogant innovator and inventor of heresies against
Popery, which led to his being burned in effigy at Vienne,
along with five bales of his book. _Item._ And in addition to
all of which, being confined in the gaol of this city, he has
not ceased maliciously to persist in the aforesaid wicked
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