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19 ted energies of thoſe beaſted benefactors of mankind, the philoſophic infidels."

Of the ARIANS They have their name from one Arius, a Lyn by birth, and a presbyter of Alexandria by profeſſion. This hereſy broke out under the Emperor Conſtantine, 290 years after Chriſt, and over-ran a great part of the world; being oppoſed one for ſome time: but the famous Athan an eminent father of the church at that time, o compoſed an admirable Creed in oppoſition to the Arian doctrine; their errors were condemned in the Council of Nice, gathered, by Conſtane's appointment, in the year 1325, after a moſt and bloody perſecution, wherein many of thoſe who oppoſed it, (and were therefore called  Orthodox.) suffered martyrdom

Arians say, that God is one abſolute being; that Jeſus Chrift is the firſt and beſt of all the ica of God; and the Holy Ghost only an ibute of Deity.

Of Arminians. They are so called from James Arminius, divinity reader in Leyden, who, in the year 1605, publiſhed and maintained five articles, which have occaſioned great trouble to the church of God, ing eagerly maintained by his followers, called monstrants. The five articles are concerning predestination, redemption, God's grace, free-, and the perſeverance of the.