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John Smith (1647/8–1727?) of St. Augustine's London was an English craftsman and writer, known as "philomath". He was also a Unitarian writer who was coerced into recanting at the height of the 1690s "Socinian controversy". ==Religious views== ''A designed End to the Socinian Controversy: or a rational and plain Discourse that no other person but the Father of Christ is God Most High'' was published under Smith's own name in 1695 (unusually, since Unitarian contributions in the controversy were typically anonymous).〔http://www.bartleby.com/220/1607.html〕 It was attacked in 1696 by Francis Gregory, rector of Hambleden. Smith was forced to publish a recantation: :''"... to the established laws and statutes of the realm — I, John Smith, do hereby declare, that I am very sorry for the same, and wish, with all my heart, I had not either written, or caused to be printed, the said book, asking forgiveness of all such as have been hurt thereby, or justly scandalized thereat, and retracting all pernicious errors and heretical positions contained in the said book. And I do hereby promise, with sincerity and truth, to abstain from all occasions of falling into the like miscarriage as much as in me lies, and to behave myself, for the time to come, as befits an humble, peaceable, modest, and quiet Christian. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, &c, " John Smith.""'' His case is notable in showing how the Act of Toleration 1689 did not extend to Unitarians.〔Robert Wallace, ''Antitrinitarian Biography'' (1850), vol. 1 p. 295; https://archive.org/stream/antitrinitarianb01wall#page/294/mode/2up〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Smith (Unitarian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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