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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38042	Socinianism unmask'd a discourse shewing the unreasonableness of a late writer's opinion concerning the necessity of only one article of Christian faith, and of his other assertions in his late book, entituled, The reasonableness of Christianity as deliver'd in the Scriptures, and in his vindication of it : with a brief reply to another (professed) Socinian writer / by John Edwards ...	Edwards, John, 1637-1716.	1696 (1696)	Wing E214; ESTC R3296	60,720	171

impertinent and ridiculous that is It was not in the place he meaning me would have it in p. 5. He should have said it is not in the place where every one might reasonably have look'd for it it was not in the place where his matter necessarily oblig'd him to insert it so that he was both faithless to his Subject and false to the True Cause in brief it was not in that place where if he had not been a Pupil of Socinus it would certainly have been found for no man but such a one did ever designedly undertake the Enumeration of those Benefits which we are partakers of by our Lord 's Coming and yet omit at the same time his Redeeming and Purchasing us by his Blood He pretends indeed p. 5. that in an other place of his book he mentions Christ's restoring all man kind from the state of death and restoring them to life and his laying down his life for an other as our Saviour professes he did These few words this Vindicator hath pick'd up in his book since he wrote it This is all thro' his whole Treatise that he hath dropt concerning that Advantage of Christ's Incarnation which I was speaking of and they are general terms too and such as every Racovian will subscribe to for they are not backward to own that Christ some way or other but not That before specified restored us to life and they cannot gainsay the express words of Christ concerning his laying down his life for his sheep Iohn 10. 15. but it is well known that notwithstanding this they deny the Satisfaction of Christ and his purchasing life and salvation by vertue of his Meritorious Passion and Death There is not any thing that sounds like this in that part of his Discourse where he peculiarly made it his employment and task to let the Reader know what Advantages we reap by our Saviours assuming our humane nature But he deridingly cries out What will become of me that I have not mention'd SATISFACTION p. 6. I will tell you Sir seeing you would know what will become of you you will ever hereafter be reckon'd by all understanding men an Egregious Whiffler or in plainterms a Notorious Dissembler For the case stands thus and I doubt not but the Reader will perfectly agree with me in it you believe Christ's Satisfaction or you do not if you believe there is such a thing and this was one of the Advantages we have by Christ's Coming then you were false and treacherous in omitting it if you believe it not you are as false and hypocritical in vouching your self to be no Socinian seeing this is one known Badg of a person of that Character Let him take which of these ways he will he forfeits his Truth and Integrity Was it not enough to make use of the Chief Socinian Arguments and to expound Texts in the Racovian way and to leave out plain and direct places even in the very Gospels that assert the Holy Trinity and moreover to throw off all the Famous Testimonies to this doctrine in the Apostolical Epistles and to balk the Satisfaction of Christ for us even when he was purposely telling the Reader what are the Advantages which flow to us from Christ's Coming Was it not enough I say to do all this which loudly proclaims him a Socinian but must he also hold the world in hand that he is none Can this Writer himself consider this and not blush Who doth not wonder at his Weakness that he should manifestly take the part of these Gentlemen and yet endeavour to perswade us that he is not of their number But who doth not wonder more at his Insincerity that he should act thus Must not this then be his Lasting Character that he hath in his Writings demonstated himself to be not only a Socinian but a False hearted one There are other Passages in his book which I might produce to confirm this Character of him but those may be taken notice of at another time At present let it suffice that I have shew'd that he hath not said one word in his Vindication that clears him of this imputation And as for his book it self of the Reasonableness of Christianity let it suffice to say that though there have been many Treatises concerning that Subject yet none ever could imagine that this which he offers could possibly be brought under that Title He saith some body is good at Conjecturing but if a man had the best faculty in the world that way it were impossible to guess and surmise that such a Title should be prefix'd those Papers which are an Unreasonable and False Representation of Christianity a Lame and Shatter'd Account of the Principles of the Gospel and in short a kind of Libel against the New Testament Finally let it suffice that I have demonstrated to the Reader that this Gentleman acts a Part in what he writes by which he hath gained this that he must never be believed for the future He that is such an Under-hand dealer can't be trusted there is no heed to be given to what he saith Thus I thought my self obliged to set before the Reader the state of the Case between this Gentleman and my self and to give an impartial account of our Sentiments I am satisfied in my Undertaking for whatever my defects in it otherwise be I 'm sure I have aimed aright at the vindicating the Glory of the Great Majesty of heaven and earth I have faithfully asserted our Holy Religion and the Divinity of the Blessed Author and Founder of it I have maintained the Authority and Honour of the Holy Scriptures To the pursuing of which Glorious Designs I shall dedicate my whole life and I hope from what I have written and shall hereafter write the World will bear me witness that I do so CHAP. VIII The Gentleman insinuates that the Author would represent every one as an Atheist that thinks not as he doth This Calumny is baffled He laughs at Orthodoxy and cries down Systems and Creeds This Indifferent Writer blames the Author for his Zeal Is angry with him for penetrating into his Thoughts and Intentions The Party inure themselves to Sophistry and yet make a shew of Simplicity and Plainness The Gentleman 's Uneven Temper observ'd What is meant by a known Writer of the brotherhood He is himself of an other Fraternity Though he pretends to be Grave he Scosss and Ieers He cannot be brought to confess himsef to be a Retainer to Socinianism though he hath given such evident proofs of his being one The Author shuts up all with seasonable Advice to him giving him some account of the Freedom which he hath used towards him in the preceding Discourse HAving now dispatch'd my Main Business and found the Bill against the Criminal not by Innuendo's but by Plain Express Proof I am at leisure to account with him for some Other Passages in his Vindication He insinuates that I would represent every one as an Atheist

shew'd it in his late Undertaking and that I would not have made opposition to him in any other Points but These which are the Foundation Basis and Ground-work of Christianity and the very Life and Soul of our Religion and therefore none is to be permitted to treat them irreverently and scoffingly as he and his Associates have lately done But I entertain some hope that this Unsavoury Tang will wear off in time And thus I have finished both my Replies to the Gentlemen's Writings against me and I have wholly confined my self to these and not ventured to guess at their Persons or make any Reflections of that kind for that is a thing which I abhor Nay though the Vindicator by his reflecting upon my Degree p. 24. and 36. and Calling p. 36 and before p. 26 and before that p. 9. had given me occasion to enquire into his Quality and Character yet I purposely forbore to meddle with any such Considerations And so as to the Examinator I could easily have traced his Person and Station and offer'd some Remarks upon either but I made it not my business to observe Who they were that wrote but what they had written And it was necessary to do this latter with some Salt and Keenness that the levity of their Arguments might be the better exposed and that I might in a lawful and innocent way retaliate that Liberty which they had taken And indeed the Socinian Gentlemen must shew themselves very Disingenuous which I will not presume of them if they be dissatisfied with me for my Freedom of discourse when in all their Writings they profess to use it And it is plain that they make use of it for who sees not that they have been very sharp upon some of the most Eminent and Venerable Persons of our Church They have handled the late Archbishop and some of his Reverend Brethren who in their Writings shewed their dislike of the Socinian doctrines with no excess of Respect And they represent them and the whole Clergy as Mercenary Timerous and False hearted They would perswade the world that the doctrine of the Trinity is defended by them merely because they are bribed or forced to it And others of their Writers have been very severe upon the Trinitarians in their late Prints And therefore with good reason some of These have been free with them again especially that Worthy Person who undertook the Defence of the Archbishop and the Bishop of Worcester and hath with great Vivacity and Sharpness reflected on the Socinian Errors and with as great Solidity and Composedness establish'd the contrary Truths and hath not spared that Socinian Author whom he grapples with no not in the least I suppose none will grudg me that Freedom which this Gentleman and others have taken in their Replies to the Racovian Writers especially seeing I have not as I conceive made ill use of it But of that let the Reader judg FINIS BOOKS written by the Reverend Mr. John Edwards AN Enquiry into several Remakable Texts of the Old and New Testament which contain some Difficulty in them with a Probable Resolution of them in two Vol. 8 o. A Discourse concerning the Authority Stile and Perfection of the Books of the Old and New Testament with a Continued Illustration of several Difficult Texts throughout the whole Work In three Vol. 8 o. Some Thoughts concerning the several Causes and Occasions of Atheism especially in the Present Age with some brief Reflections on Socinianism and on a Late Book entituled The Reasonableness of Christianity as deliver'd in the Scriptures 8 o. A Demonstration of the Existence and Providence of God from the Contemplation of the visible Structure of the Greater and the Lesser World In two Parts The first shewing the Excellent Contrivance of the Heavens Earth Sea c. The second the wonderful Formation of the Body of Man Socinianism Vnmask'd A Discourse shewing the Unreasonableness of a Late Writer's Opinion concerning the Necessity of only One Article of Christian Faith and of his other Assertions in his Late Book Entituled The Reasonableness of Christianity as deliver'd in the Scriptures and in his Vindication of it with a brief Reply to another Professed Socinian Writer All sold by Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lyon and John Wyat at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-yard * The Exceptions of Mr. E. against the Reasonableness of Christianity c. examined * Mishn. Tract Avoth c. 5. * De Uno Deo Patre l. ● c. 1. † The Exceptions of Mr. E. c. examined * Mat. 28. 19. Iohn 10. 30. * Mat. 28. 19. Iohn 10. 30. * The Exceptions c. examined * Diatr de Symbol † De Trib. Symb. * Azoar 1. * Azoar 67. † From the Arabick verb islam credidit whence the Mahometan Religion is call'd Islamisinus * Alcor Azoar 11. † De Trin. l. 1. * Socin de Cognit Dei Ostorod Instit. cap. 3 4. Epifeop Apol. Remonstr * Praelect cap. 5. * De Uno Deo Patre Sect. 1. cap. 1. * The Exceptions of Mr. E. against the Reasonableness of Christianity examin'd * Cont. Meisner de Trin. † Socin cont Wiek cap. 5. * Cont. Meisner de Trin. * Luke 1. 35. † John 10. 36. ‖ Acts 13. 32 33. ** John 3. 16. Rom. 5. 8. 2 Cor. 11. 31. * The Trinitarian Scheme of Religion page 21. * Reasonableness of Christianity p. 303. * Vindic p. 20. * W. Pen's Sandy Foundation p. 12. † Sandy Foundat ibid. * Considerations on the Explications of the doctrine of the Trinity