[249] This is stated by Wallace, in his introduction to his Antitrinitarian Biography, i. 252; yet on p. 316 he quotes from a publication in 1697, where it is said the Unitarians had “not any set Meeting-house for the propagating of their doctrines.”
[250] Tayler’s Religious Life in England, 229.
[251] It is impossible to notice these publications in detail. They are very numerous. A large collection of them may be found in Dr. Williams’ Library, and an account of some of them in the elaborate introduction to Wallace’s Antitrinitarian Biography, vol. i.
[252] The Brief Hist. and Acts of the Great Athanasius.
[253] The Book is entitled, The Naked Gospel. The writer, Dr. Bury, doubts whether Mahomet or Christian doctors have most corrupted the doctrines of the Gospel. He was deprived, in 1690, by Trelawny, Bishop of Exeter, the Visitor of Lincoln College.
[254] Journals, January 3, 1694. The book so treated was the Brief but Clear Confutation of the Doctrine of the Trinity. The author was sentenced to pay a fine of £500, to give bail for good behaviour for the next three years, and to make a public recantation.
[255] The pamphlet is entitled, The Doctrine of the Blessed Trinity, Briefly Explained in a Letter to a Friend, 4to.
[256] Vindication, &c., sect. iv.
[257] Bingham’s Works, viii. 292, 319, 320.
[258] Bingham’s Memoir, i. 6. Dorner’s Doctrine of the Person of Christ, Div. ii. vol. iii. 355.