an heretical offshoot from the Soci- ans, which under the conduct of Stanislaus Farnowski (in Lat. Farnovius or Farnesius) separated from the other Unitarians in 1568, and attracted within its pale many men eminent for piety, learning, and ability. This schism took place on account of an opinion maintained by Farnovius, that before the foundation of the world Christ was either begot- ten or produced out of nothing by the supreme God. Far- novius also forbade his followers to pray to the Holy Ghost. These are the only points of the peculiar doctrines of this sect of which we have any knowledge. The Socinians used every effort to draw it back within their pale, and succeeded so well, that on the death of Farnovius in 1615 the sect became utterly extinct.