Newton, Isaac. Autograph Manuscript Fragment: 8 lines plus 4-line marginal citations, handwritten in brown ink by Newton. On 2-1/4 x 7-1/2 piece of paper. Fragment of a manuscript on theology, apparently unpublished. In part: "are you not horrified with such society that you should speak the same things against us wch he [Eunomius] dothagainst ye Church? For all his followers enter not into ye Churches of the Apostled and Martyrs...Eunomius feigned that these were juggling tricks of ye Devils, & that ye devils did not truly cry out but counterfeit their torments.." Eunomianism was a phase of extreme Arianism prevalent in the 4th century. Isaac Newton has been accused of being tainted with Arianism, but this fragment is some evidence to the contrary.
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