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A23823 A Defence of the Brief history of the Unitarians, against Dr. Sherlock's answer in his Vindication of the Holy Trinity Allix, Pierre, 1641-1717. 1691 (1691) Wing A1219; ESTC R211860 74,853 56

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And why then cannot the Lamb be said to be slain from the beginning of the World meerly because God had certainly decreed it should be so 4. But if he is not satisfied with this Explication here is another for him There is a Transposition in the words of this Verse which also may be observed in many other Texts of Scripture so that the Verse may be read thus Whose Names are not written from the Foundation of the World in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain This reading is confirmed by Chap. 17. Ver. 8. Whose Names are not written in the Book of Life from the Foundation of the World So the sense of the controverted Text is The Names of those who worship the Dragon were never written in the Book of Life of the slain Lamb that is in the Book of the Martyrs and Confessors of Christ who were destined to eternal Life from the Foundations of the World Pag. 237. He desires some of the learned Reasoning Socinians honestly to tell him what account they can give of the Jewish Priesthood and Sacrifices which is becoming God Why should God he propitiated by a Man subject to the same Sins and Infirmities and very often guilty of them that other Men are Why innocent Beasts must die to expiate the Sins of Men The thing he aims at is to prove that the Socinian Doctrine ridicules the Jewish Oeconomy How so The Jews Sacrifices says he were Typical of Christ's Sacrifice We grant it for so the Apostle to the Hebrews intimates we say only that this was not the chief and primary end for which they were instituted But what then The Death of Christ was therefore a Sacrifice So it was Then he was not a Metaphorical Priest No more he was Then he was the Divine Word Incarnate How so This he should prove but he takes it for granted I want the Author's Spectacles how to draw this Consequence therefore the Socinian Doctrine ridicules the Jewish Oeconomy from that Argument Now to this Question concerning the Jewish Priesthood and Sacrifices I answer with St. Paul Gal. 3. 19. The Law the Ceremonial Law the Law of Sacrifices and other external Rites was added because of Transgressions i. e. by reason of the Idolatry of the Israelites which could not be restrained but by such a Method Had not the Jews been inclined so much to Idolatry by seeing the Worship of their Neighbours round them God would not have put on their Necks this Yoke which as St. Peter says they were not able to bear God himself says this Jer. 7. 22. I spake not unto your Fathers nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the Land of Egypt concerning Burnt-Offerings or Sacrifices But this thing commanded I them saying Obey my Voice and I will be your God and ye shall be my People Here we may plainly see that God at first required nothing from his People but to own him and obey his reasonable Laws the Moral and Political Laws he designed for them but he was as it were constrained to institute Sacrifices and other external and pompous Rites by their Idolatrous Inclination I refer our Author about this matter to Learned Dr. Spencer the best Writer on the Ceremonial Law This then is the true and primary Reason of God's appointing Sacrifices and very well becoming both his Wisdom and Goodness And it hinders not but those Sacrifices might be also Typical of the Sacrifice of Christ they were so secondarily God who appointed Sacrifices to stop the progress of Idolatry did also by them prefigure the Sacrifice of Christ But a meer Man says he can be no more than a Metaphorical and Typical Priest and Sacrifice This I think deserved to be proved A Metaphorical or Typical Priest and Sacrifice are here opposed to a true Priest and Sacrifice yet he tells us that tho the Priests and Sacrifices of the Law were Typical they were true and proper Priests and Sacrifices and made a true and proper expiation for Sin as far as they reached But if the Priests of the Law were true and proper Priests and the Sacrifices true and proper Sacrifices much more will the Sacrifice of Christ be a true and proper Sacrifice tho he also was a Man This Consequence the Author himself has afforded us Now because the Anti-Type as he says ought to be greater than the Type what remains is only to inquire Whether Christ be a more excellent Priest and Sacrifice than the Priests and Sacrifices of the Law The Priests of the Law were but ordinary Men distinguished from others only by the Dignity of their Priesthood but Christ was the Messias the Son of God intrusted with his secret Will indued with an in mense Authority and Power and made as it were God by the unspeakable Gifts of God his Father The Priests of the Law were called to their Priest-hood in an ordinary ways but Christ by God's immediate appointment The High-Priests of the Law entred only into a Tabernacle made with Hands and but once a Year into the most Holy Place but Christ into a Tabernacle whose Builder and Maker is God and is to continue there for ever Surely therefore tho he is a Man only this Anti-Type is more excellent than the Types and Christ a more excellent High-Priest and Sacrifice than those of the Law So that here is no ridiculing the Jewish Oeconomy by the Socinian Hypothesis but our Author by such ungrounded Charges and weak Proofs has written a Book very fit to confirm Socinians in their Opinions CHAP. IX III. HIS Third Charge is Socinianism ridicules the Christian Religion makes it a very mean and contemptible Institution He tells us That The Fundamental Mystery of the Christian Religion is the stupendious Love of God in giving his own Son his only-beloved Son for the Redemption of Mankind But how comes this Love of God to be called a Mystery still It was a Mystery or Secret before the Revelation of the Gospel but since it was revealed it ceases to be a Mystery or Secret unless a Secret discovered be a Secret still This says he our Saviour lays great stress on That God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting Life By this one would have thought that Christ had been the Son the only begotten Son of God before God gave him Now this is a very ambiguous way of expressing himself for he professes to believe that Christ was the Son of God nay the only begotten Son before he gave him but he differs from Us and from Common Sense in this that by the Son of God he means God himself and by before he means from all Eternity This is a very hard Language for who can fancy that the Son of God should be God himself and that before should signify Eternity Yet this is the Sense he puts upon it when he says If Socinianism be true God