A Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity,

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Wing M2666. The philosopher-poet and Anglican theologian Henry More (1614-87), a Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge, was the, “most prolific of the group of philosophical divines known now as the Cambridge Platonists. He was also a theologian of tolerant stamp who was regarded as a founder of the broad-church movement nicknamed latitudinarianism.” (ODNB). The once widely used term “Mystery of Iniquity” / “Mystery of Evil” or “Mysterium iniquitatis” of which St Paul warned the Thessalonians - “For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.” (KJV, 2 Thess. 2.7) was, as in one of its earlier definitions, “the privy and close working of all impiety against Christ.” (Nicholas Sander, The Rocke of the Churche, Louvain, 1567, p. 448). In this defence of the post-Restoration Anglican Settlement More, who, with his fellow-Platonist Dr Ralph Cudworth, had been under attack in Cambridge for his Latitudinarianism, links Enthusiasm and Roman Catholicism with Atheism as Antichristianism. In his essay “Philosophia Cartesiana Triumphati: Henry More (1646-1671)” which considers More’s retreat from Cartesianism from 1646 onwards Alan Gabbey wrote, with respect to More’s “toleration” as one of the ‘Latitude-men,’ that More: “[Like] several of his equally philosophical countrymen (q.v. John Locke), did not operate beyond the pale of Protestantism. His A Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity, the first of several onslaug

• Year: 1664

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