ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY? 



what wtre their names, their doctrines, the pro- 

 grefs that they made, and the obstacles they en- 

 countered. It makes particular mention or one 

 named Manes, who Jived in the third cent 

 about the year 277, and who was the foi: 

 of a feel: called Manicheans : of one Arius, who 

 appeared in the fourth century, an^ became the 

 chic?" of the fjr.^ik! u-L K; of : of one. 



ho eftablifhed, at the beginning of 

 the fifth century, the celebrated fedl of Pela- 

 gians : of one Ncftorius, who, about the year 

 430, founded the feel: of Neftorians: of oneLe- 

 lius Socinus, who formed, toward the middle of 

 the fixteenth century, the feel of Socinians ; and 

 of many other hcrefiarchs, who have made them- 

 Itlves very famous in the world. 



XIII. But it app<^rs to be unjuft to give the 

 odious appellation of herefiarch, or heretic, to 

 Martin Luther, or John Calvin , who, far from 

 attempting to introduce any new dogmas into the 

 church, have not, if) any manner, attacked the 

 fundamental principles of the Chriftian religioni 

 but have applied thcmiclves folely to the re- 

 eftablifhment of the pure and fimple do&rine of 

 Jeius Chrift, and co th catholio 



ion from divers points < t faith and practice, 

 which time the troubles of the church, its leaders 

 and council^ ntroduccJ, and which had 



rendered the doctrine of our Saviour quite d 

 ent from th ! humility K 



s originally thai Their only in- 



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