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Francis Cheynell, English Puritan (1608 - September 1665) was a member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines. He was known as the 'hammer of the Socinians' and Samuel Johnson described him as being 'considered the most learned and acute of his party' (Gentlemans' Magazine, March 1775).
He was the author of Zion's Memento, and God's Alarm; The rise, growth, and danger of Socinianism; Relation of a Disputation at Oxford between Mr. Cheynell and Mr. Erbury, a Socinian; The Divine Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (which Matthew Poole credited in the preface to The Blasphemer slain with the sword of the Spirit); and A Discussion of Mr. Fry's Tenets lately condemned in Parliament, and Socinianism proved to be an Unchristian Doctrine; among other works.
He was the author of Zion's Memento, and God's Alarm; The rise, growth, and danger of Socinianism; Relation of a Disputation at Oxford between Mr. Cheynell and Mr. Erbury, a Socinian; The Divine Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (which Matthew Poole credited in the preface to The Blasphemer slain with the sword of the Spirit); and A Discussion of Mr. Fry's Tenets lately condemned in Parliament, and Socinianism proved to be an Unchristian Doctrine; among other works.