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A37972	A brief vindication of the fundamental articles of the Christian faith as also of the clergy, universities and publick schools, from Mr. Lock's reflections upon them in his Book of education, &c. : with some animadversions on two other late pamphlets, viz., of Mr. Bold and a nameless Socinian writer / by John Edwards ...	Edwards, John, 1637-1716.	1697 (1697)	Wing E198; ESTC R21772	71,092	137

and Argument because these make against him Yea he makes the Blessed Apostle contradict himself meerly to contradict me And I would further remark that immediately after he had quoted those foresaid words of the Apostle he adds THEREFORE very little is said in this Epistle for explaining any part of the Great Mystery of Salvation and yet before he was against all Mysteries in Christistianity contain'd in the Gospel p. 131. And presently after The same holds in all the other Epistles and THEREFORE the Epistles seem'd not to me to be the properest part of Scripture he said before they were not at all proper to give us the Foundation p. 132. He complains of a therefore of mine where there is no cause at all for it p. III. but here is such a pair of Therefores as never was heard of in any Age and be sure never will be unless it be in his Writings It was St. Paul's way to instruct the Corinthians in the plain Principles of Christianity he took care to settle them in the Foundation seeing they were not fit at that time for any considerable Superstructure and therefore saith our Vindicator we must not expect to meet with any such Principles in this Epstle or in any others There are several people in that Great Brick House he wots of at the lower end of Moorfields that never bid for that place by talking so ravingly Whether the Childrens Crying and Bawling or the M●thers Unkindnesses to him have put him into these disorders I shall not determine but the poor Animal is certainly much shatter'd and 't is to be fear'd belongs to the Hospital of the Incurable Then he proceeds p. 138 139. to mention my taking notice of his feigned ground of Writing the Epistles viz. because the Fundamental Articles are mix'd here with other Truths But having nothing to rejoyn he falls to Railing a fault which he imputes to me but is peculiar to himself And as for what I said of Mixture that those things which are promicuously put together are capable of being distinguish'd which he boggles at there is an Example of it in one he knows very well a Committee man and a Vindicator are mix'd together but there is a possibility of distinguishing yea of separating the former from the latter the Honorable from the Vile though 't is true some things are so mix'd in some persons that they will never admit of a separation as a Chamber-Quack and an Abhorrer of Universities or thus an Innovator and a Creed-Hater There is no parting of these In the same place he thinks it Witty to reflect twice on my Degree in the University as if B. D. were as Contemptible as A B C which is his own Character He jogs on still p. 140 141 c. sometimes coyning matter and fastning it upon me sometimes impertinently asking of Questions and requiring Answers and every where falling into ridiculous Impertinencies and weak reasonings And what else could be expected from a Man that had all his days been us'd to the Tattle of Brats and Nurslings and hath thereby perfectly learn'd all their humors especially as I observ'd before their impertinent Queries and troublesome Babblings Thus our Old Tutour is twice a Child though he doats so extremely that he can't see it but verily perswades himself that all he hath writ against me is Strong and Nervous and like what he dictates to his Young Masters must not be examin'd and censured Only here it is to be noted that what he saith p. 145. concerning Popular Haranguing is a saucy Reflection on the Chiefest and most Eminent of the Clergy of our Church whose constant employment hath been that which he contemptuously calls Popular Haranguing and in other places Pulpit-Oratory i. e. Preaching Such is his Spleen against this Evangelical Institution and the Ministers of it though he makes a shew of being a Christian. But he that will bespatter the Universities and Academick Learning and expunge the Chiefest Articles of Religion out of the Bible will not stop at any thing But our Penny-Post is upon the hoof still p. 146 147 c. and his Quill is as Itinerant as himself and like its Owner fixes no where hath no Habitation Sometimes he quotes what I have said and misinterprets it at other times to fill up his book and to make it bulky he gives you large shivers out of his own Writings for he thinks none are so good as they and that 's the reason he never quotes an Author unless it be to disparage him He trifles to a prodigy and according to his constant Method he never fails at the close of a Paragraph to wind up all with Railing his Mother-tongue But wondrous it is to see what work he makes p. 156. where the Reader will be puzzel'd to tell whether his Falshood or his Weakness be greater He complains that I call him a Betrayer of Christianity and a Contemner of the Epistles because he did not out of them name Satisfaction Whereas the Re●der will find if he thinks fit to consult my Socinianism Unmask'd that I treat of his Contempt of the Epistles in one Chapter and of his refusing to use the word Satisfaction in an other And I mention his not naming of Christ's Satisfying for us on no other account but this that it argues he is a favourer of Socinianism because when he professedly and designedly enumerates the Advantages of our Saviour's Coming he speaks not of his making Satisfaction for us This is the true and plain account of the matter whence it is obvious to take notice of his willful violation of Truth and Sincerity He jumps from the Third Chapter of my Book to the Seventh to form a Falshood against me He most untruly and perversly represents the thing he speaks of and there is no shadow of Verity in what he saith So that the Reader is sufficiently caution'd against depending upon his word for the future and he must always suppose him to be an arrant Masker But he is as Silly as he is False for in the same place to excuse himself as to his not mentioning of Satisfaction he saith there is not any such word in any one of the Epistles or other Books of the New Testament in his Bible as Satisfying or Satisfaction made by our Saviour and so he could not put it into his Christianity as delivered in the Scripture Very sound and solid It being such a Noble Strain of Logick and Reason we will form it into a Syllogism and leave it as Mr. Lock 's Memorial to posterity It is briefly thus If there be no such word as Satisfaction in any of the books of the New Testament it cannot be put into Christianity as delivered in the Scripture But there is no such word as Satisfaction in any of the Books of the New Testament Ergo it can't be put into Christianity as delivered in the Scripture Get thee gone for a Cunning Disputant thou hast not thy fellow I verily believe

and Good Temper as any Man yet I will never be bribed to a faint-hearted Relinquishing of the Truth No I will by the Divine Aid vindicate the Religion of the New Testament and the Faith of the Christian Church in all ages and that with open face And particularly as to what I last writ and publish'd I will make it stand the shock of the most daring Socinian in Christendom But to let these Gentlemen see that I am no Man of Contention I declare to them that I am not averse from complying with their Offers if they be Sincere and in Good Earnest and if they resolve not to violate their own Articles of Peace I will forgive their Colts teeth as this pleasant Gentleman words it if for the future they use not as they have done in most of their Writings those of the Bear And why indeed should I contend with these Catholick and Orthodox Men for that is the Stile now in their last Print Who will fall out with those that profess Agreement with the Catholick Church But especially the Title of Orthodox which they so abhorr'd is much courted by this Author as the Reader cannot but observe Which may be an occasion to us to think that these Persons are inclined to do something to deserve that Name It is my hearty Prayer and Wish that they may shew themselves to be of this number And I promise them thus far to yield to the Terms of Peace that if they renew not the Quarrel and assault me not afresh this shall be our Last Campagne and so here is an End to our Debates and Rencounters ERRATA PAge 8. Line 29. read and if those p. 11. l. 14. r. Vnreaso●ably p. 12. l. penult r. which p. 13. l. 6. r. numbers l. 11. r. nor the p. 19. l. 15. r him for p. 33. l. 22. r. assented p. 34. l. 27. r. task l. 31. for they r. you p. 38. l. 21. r. declare p. 39. l. 15. dele the p 42. l. 20. r. more to p. 46. l. r. peruse p. 56. l. 17. r. owns p. 5● l. 31. r. bandied p. 64. l. 4. dele and p. 75. l. 13 for give r. go p. 94. l. 22. before to insert it BOOKS written by the Reverend Mr. John Edwards AN Enquiry into several Remarkable Texts of the Old and New Testament which contain some Difficulty in them with a Probale Resolution of them in two Vol. 8● 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● 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● price 1 s. 6 d. 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 8● price 4 s 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 8● price 1 s. 6 d. The Socinian Creed Or a Brief Account of the professed Tenents and Doctrines of the Forreign and English Socinians wherein is shewed the Tendency of them to Irreligion and Atheism With Proper Antidotes against them 8● price 3 s. A Brief Vindication of the Fundamental Articles of the Christian Faith as also of the Clergy Universities and Publick Schools from Mr. Lock 's Reflections upon them With some Animadversions on two other late Pamphlets viz. of Mr. Bold and a Nameless Socinian Writer 8● price 1 s. 6 d. Brief Remarks upon Mr. Whiston's New Theory of the Earth and upon another Gentleman's Objections against some Passages in a Discourse of the Existence and Providence of God relating to the Copernican Hypothesis 8● price 6 d. BOOKS Printed for Jonathan Robinson and John Wyat. A Practical Exposition on the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer in two Volumes in Quarto The Vanity of the World with other Sermons in 8 vo Sermons or Discourses on several Scriptures in Four Volumes in Octavo The Almost Christian discovered in some Sermons on Acts 26. 28. All these written by the Right Reverend Father in God Ezekiel Hopkins late Lord Bishop of London-derry Bishop Usher's Life and Letters By Dr Parr in Folio 's Body of Divinity or the Sum and Substance of the Christian Religion Folio 's 22 Sermons on several Subjects Fol. Iosephus's History of the Jews Folio Dr. Bates's Harmony of the Divine Attributes Octavo 4th Edition 1697. Charron of Wisdom in three Books All Dr. Antony Walker ' s Works viz. The Sinfulness and Danger of delaying Repentance The Vertuous Woman or the Life of the Countess of Warwick The Vertuous Wife or the Life of Mrs. Eliz. Walker His Sermons of Water-drinking Preached at Tunbridge wells c. The worthy Communicant a Treatise shewing the due Order of Receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper The 17th Edition By Ieremiah Dyke Newly reprinted 1697. The Poor Doubting Christian drawn unto Christ. By Thomas Hooker Ovid's Metamorphosis in English Verse By George Sandys Aesop's Fables in Prose with Cuts Solitude improved by divine Meditation By Nathaniel Ranew late Rector of Felsted in Essex Practical Discourses concerning Death and Heaven By Nathaniel Ranew Correction Instruction or a Treatise of Afflictions By Tho. Case The Principles of Christian Religion with a brief Method of the Doctrine thereof By Bishop Usher The sinfulness of Sin and the fulness of Christ In two Sermons By W. Bridge Brinsley's Posing of the parts reprinted 1697. Sir Simon D'ews Journal of all Queen Elizabeths Parliaments Folio Bacons Historical and Political account of the Government of England FINIS * Occasional Paper Numb 5. p 38. * Answer to the Archbishop's Sermon p. 44. * B● of Worcester in his Vind. of the Trinity ch 10. * Letter to the Bishop of Worcester p. 69. * Smalc cont Frantz Disput. 4 † Homil 4. in 1 Iohan Catechism de morte Christi Qu. 12. ‖ The Antit●lu●tarian Scheme of Religion p. 18. * Mr. Norr●'s Acco●nt o● Reason and Faith p. 13. * Bishop of Worcester's Pref. to his Vind. of the Doctrine of the Trinity † Pref. to the Account of Reason and Faith

183 184. he heaves very hard to take off a Blunder that had been justly imputed to him but he runs into a greater and more ridiculous one and salves it by Supposition for he would have it supposed and that is a great word with him you must note in his Writings that the Compilers of the Creed who lived in several Centuries yet lived in one age or time This is precious stuff you will say Though some of the Compilers of the Creed lived at some years distance from one an other yet by a Supposition they are Contemporary and live together Yes it must be so by all means he peremptorily vouches that the supposition of their living together is easy at what distance so ever they lived and how many so ever there were of them p. 185. This is as if he should suppose that all the Pedantick Tutors that lived in King Richard the Second's and King Henry the Eight's reigns should live at the same time with our Vindicator who is of the same race and kind One would not think that a man that talks so much against Poetry as he doth should have such a fansiful knack of Fiction The sense of this Blunder hath somewhat dampt him and for some pages together he is down in the mouth and only sneakingly desires me to shew him this and shew him that i. e. to shew him his Folly which I need not do he hath sufficiently done it himself Then p. 190 191 192 193 c. he is at his old work of Repetition and quoting himself though he could not quote a worse Author and filling up whole pages with what he had said in his Reasonableness of Christanity and in his former Vindication And truly this is his employment every where so that a man may modestly compute that there are three parts of his book spent in Reiterating the same things and in the very same words He that is so much against Themes will not permit himself to vary the Phrase but brings over his old matter again in the very same individual terms that he used before which renders his Farce very ridiculous and irksom But besides the impudent Vanity of the thing there is a great deal of Knavery and Dishonesty in it which he ought to answer for None but he that hath counterfeited his Name would impose upon the world by offering them a false number of Pages to heighten the Price of them The Reader is cheated into a book of above thirty sheets when if you pare off his Repetitions there remain not above eight or nine Here is a gross piece of Injustice to make the Buyer pay five shillings for a Twelve penny Cut. This is a New way of Writing to insert one book into an other verbatim and so to chouse the unwary Chapman Nay it might be further observed that whatever he hath added in this last Pamphlet is run over again in some places of it as if he studied to make it more Ridiculous then it seem'd to be at the first reading But it appears it was his business to heap up a Multitude of words and to eeke out his poor lank matter for a Book was to come out against what I had writ and there was a necessity of Stuffing it and Swelling it and to say Much where Nothing could be said to the Purpose In his next pages 202 c. he is stark mad at me for intimating that he and his Allies are Under-hand Factors for Rome See how it pleases the Divine Disposer of all things that by occasion of a small Hint a man shall discover to the world his Inward Consciousness and together with that his Propensions and Designs which he with all the art imaginable labour'd to mask and conceal When I but mention'd the Tendency of the Party to Rome he as a Concern'd and Guilty Criminal starts up and shews himself gall'd and pinch'd he flies about and grows furious and outragious What! saith he doth this Orthodox Railer tell us that we are Factors for Rome and truck for Popery What! doth he think that because I hate Universities I am in love with the Whore of Babylon How can I be of the Roman Church that am of none But this is easily answer'd by the known Maxim One of no Religion will soon be of any Scepticism makes way for Popery The doctrine which the Author and Vindicator of the Reasonableness of Christianity hath spread abroad is contrived on purpose to bring men off from the Received Articles of Christianity and to prepare them to be Scepticks and Infidels I hope to give the Reader satisfaction about this and in a few words to convince the Intelligent and Serious Considerer that it is the design of this Writer to unsettle Religion to introduce Indifferency and Neutrality into Christianity to place all Opinions on a level to represent all Doctrines to be alike that there may be no contending for any Articles of Faith that those which were look'd upon by the Primitive Church and by Our Own as Fundamental Doctrins of Christianity may for the future not be thought necessary to be known and believ'd in order to making men True Christians He perswades men that One Article will do their business and that those who pass for Orthodox Protestants confound people with bundels of doctrines which are useless and unnecessary that half the Bible Yea a quarter of it is enough that One of the Evangelists Writings contains all the rest for which he quotes Mr. Chillingworth and therefore if all the rest were lost we need not concern our selves about it as for the Epistles of the Apostles we need not trouble our heads with looking into them for there is only now and then dropt by the bye an Article of Faith And then this Author under the pretence of declaring against Systems of Divinity which is his Common Subject strikes at all the Received and Celebrated Doctrines of the Christian Church and represents them as indifferent and precarious Every where he shews his abhorence of the very word System as if it were as uneasy to him as Satisfying so that it is a singular and extraordinary favour he would quote as he doth and that with Respect Dr. Cudworths book that bears the Name of System Now I am only to take notice of the Ground of his inveighing against Systems which is his design of bringing an odium on the Settl'd Truths of Christianity and to make way for his own Giddy Notions Accordingly he pronounces concerning those Stable Fundamentals of Christianity that they were framed and fashioned according to the humors interests or designs of the Heads of Parties as if they were things depending on mens pleasure and to be suited to their convenience These are his words p. 215 216. and speak his heart and the Turkish Spye doth not express his mind more fully Thus he disposes his Readers to be of no Church of no Religion Or at least he would perswade them that one way of Religion