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Orgenitte Lardner’s Wake Ll, ii 
ORIGENISTS, followers of the ‘opinions of Origen, 
a prefbyter of Alexandria, who, in century, 
in heaven before the body was created ; t at the 
damne 
the d fhall not be eternal, but that all race 
beings fhall be reftored to order and happinefs, and that t 
devils themfelves fhall be relieved at laft. 
ig Mofheim reprefents him, was a — of v: 
d cacominon abilities, and the greateft lum 
Chriftian world that the age in which he lived exhibited to 
view. Had the juttice of his judgment been e e 
y 
fhort of his merit. t fu 
labours deferve the admiration of alla 
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for which fee Ort 
mifled by his imagination : for having entertained a 
that it very difficult, if not impoffible, to defend every 
thing in the facred writings from the cavils of heretics and 
infidels, fo long as they were explained oe aeeoene 
to the real i a : the terms, he maintai e {crip- 
tures were to be interpreted in the fame ‘llegorieal manner 
that the Platonit explained the hiftory of the go n 
pernicious rule of interpretation, - al- 
tobe fought, but in a myfteri 
frqm the nature of aie things themieles, 
plays thofe doGtrines that relate to the ftate of the foul and 
the condué of life; and myftical or fpiritual, which repre- 
fents the nature, a laws, and hiftory of the fpiritual or 
myftical world. This myftical world he again fubdivided 
into two diftin@® regions, one called the A gins t. é. 
heaven; and the other the inferior, by which he meant 
the church. And thus he was led to another divifion of the 
myftical fenfe into an earthly or allegorical fenfe, adapted to 
the inferior world ; and a celeftial or anagogical one, adapted 
the year 231, to ne from his pe in Cefare: 
ther, ee fatisfy his vengeance, he aflembled two coeneil at 
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Alexandria, in the firft of which he condemned him un- 
heard ; and deprived him of his office ; and in the fecond 
had him degraded from the facerdotal di ignity. In one of 
thefe councils, efpecially the ah rg accufed him 
of erroneous fer timents in eligi 3 for it was about this 
were terminated by the fifth general council, affembled at 
Conftantinople, by Juftinian, A.D. 
and his followers were again condemned. 
Origen which gave the greatefl offeuce were the following : 
viz. 1. That, m the Trinity, the Father is greater than the 
Son, and the Son than the Holy Ghoft. 2. The pre-ex- 
iftence of fouls, which Origen Ge dsed as fent into mor- 
tal bodies for the pun cape of fins committed in a former 
{tate of being. 3. t the foul of Chrift 
ie word before the i incarnation 4. 
e anim 
world to Gee mankind, he is to be crucified in the next to 
fave = devils. 
comm 
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Origen, took refuge nd were Nettie by 
St. Chryfoitom, the bifhop of that city, with clemency and 
a tea the elegant prelate was accufed of bein . an Ori- 
condemned to banifhment by the council of 
Chale ton. in the year 403- Origenifm fpread itfelf chiefly 
among the monks of E 
The myftic theology ee Origen feems to be adopted by 
our modern Saree On {ubje&t of this article confult 
Mobheim’s Eccl. . vol. Lardner’s Works, vol. ii, 
RIGINAL, a felt aug defign, or autograph, of 
any thing; ferving as a model, or exemplar, to be imitated or 
copie 
Searcaly y any of the ancient titles, tenures, &c. are now 
ey are only vidimufes, or copies 
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O ed, denotes that part or copy which is 
executed by the grantor, where the feveral parts of an in- 
denture are arbi pi crn) executed by the feveral parties ; 
and the reft are ‘ counterparts ;”? though of late it is moft 
frequent ae all the parties to eeeat aie! part, which ren- 
ders them all originals. See Dre 
OricininaL Procefs. See Pro 
ORIGINAL, or Ag Writ, is ae beginning or founda- 
tion of the fuit. When a perfon has received an injury, he is 
to feek Tegal "redrefs by application or rh to the crown, 
for that particular {pecific remedy w he is advifed to 
purfue. In any ation he is to fue ie or Pelee by pay- 
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