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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

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

more And my End is this to hale in Socinianism after a new manner You see what the Musing of this Gentleman comes to and I was so unhappy a man as to find it out to take notice of it and to discover it to the world in a late Discourse which I publish'd and thereby I have extremely exasperated this New Undertaker and his Adherents I do not wonder at it for now their Intrigues are laid open their Racovian Plot is detected and all their Measures are thereby broken But to keep up their hearts a Vindication as it is call'd of this Treachery is publish'd by him who was appointed to be the Chief Tool in this work Here he makes it his business to defend his New Paradox and to shore his Notion up again with some crazy props Throughout the whole he is pleas'd to Criticize with some Magisterialness and Pertness on the Reflections which I made on his book And now it is my turn again to be Critick and I shall discharge the Task with all impartiality and integrity It is true there is nothing of any Moment nothing Weighty and Argumentative in what he hath offered and therefore some in whose Judgment I could confide would have prevailed with me to add no more on this Subject which they were perswaded I had before sufficiently cleared but partly to shew somewhat further the great Danger and Mischief of this Writer's Opinion partly to prevent the Seduction of some well-meaning persons who may be apt to be led away by his smooth Pretences for though his Cavils and Evasions be weak yet they may chance to light into the Hands of some Weak Readers such as are not well establish'd in their notions Wherefore not on the account of his Petty Objections but for the sake of these persons I reassume this Argument and partly to lay open the Wilful Mistakes and Gross Dissimulation as I take it of this Writer and partly to gratifie those Gentlemens expectations who with some impatience seem to long for a Reply I have once again undertaken to employ the Press upon this occasion But the Chief and Principal Design as well as Motive of my appearing again in this Cause is to assert and defend the Christian Faith which this Author hath misrepresented maim'd and abused To which purpose I will set before the Reader the Heads of his pretended Vindication and in the face of the world make it appear how falsly and perfidiously he hath acted in the Cause of Religion And may it be the Readers Prayer as well as it is mine that this Enterprize may tend to the Glory and Honour of God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost Three Glorious Persons in One ever to be Adored Deity and to the Edification of the Christian Church Amen Ian. 27. 1695 6. ERRATA PAge 17. line 1. read World p. 22. l. 18. for Christ. r. Iesus p. 54. l. 20. r. Sylburgius p. 85. l. 9. r. Racovians p. 87. l. 23 after Iesus insert Christ. p. 116. line 3. after done make the other part of the Parenthesis p. 117. l. 18. after if insert the truth were known I believe it would appear that p. 120. l. 17. r. telling p. 125. l 8. r. him p. 128. l. 21. after hath insert had p. 131. l. 13. after religion insert who is so near a-kin to one that is voted a Socinian in the Brief History of the Vnitarians p. 135. l. 11. r. Socinianiz'd A Late WRITER's Unreasonable Opinions CONFUTED CHAP. I. The first General Charge against the Late Writer viz. That he unwarrantably crowds all the Necessary Articles of Faith into One with a design of favouring Socinianism He endeavours to shift off the Enditement but is cast by his own words His wilful mistake about the Article of the Deity He labours in vain to split One Article into Two It is shew'd that besides the bare believing of Jesus to be the Messias it is necessary to know and believe the Fall of Adam whereby Sin and Death entred into the World and were derived to his posterity It is necessary to know and believe Who the Messias is whether he be God or Man or both on which will follow the necessary belief of the Holy Trinity It is requisite to have a right conception concerning our Recovery and Restauration by the Messias i. e. to know what he undertook and did for us and to be acquainted with the Great Privileges bestow'd upon us by him It is of necessity to believe what the Messias requires of Vs. It is undoubted matter of our belief that our Salvation springs from the mere Favour and Grace of God through Christ Jesus and not from any works or merits of ours It is indispensably requisite that we believe the Doctrin of the Resurrection of the Final Judgment and of Eternal Life I Will now betake my self to the Task which is before me after I have told the Reader that I intend not to imitate our Nameless Author in his Childish Flourishes in his Spruce and Starched Sentences and in his Impotent Jestings which are sprinkled up and down his Vindication Nor will I follow him in his Impertinencies and Incoherencies in his trifling Excursions to eke out his two sheets and a half I will not resemble him in his Little Artifices of evading in his weak and feeble Struglings with a Strong Truth I will not personate him in the Confusion and Disorder of his Reply for it seems he had forgot that it is one sign of a Well-bred a Well-taught Man to answer to the first in the first place and so in order I will not imitate him in his Dry Common Places in his Set of Words and Phrases of Sayings and Apothegms which would have serv'd on any other occasion as the Intelligent Reader cannot but take notice Much less will I comply with him in his Angry fits and Passionate Ferments which tho he strives to palliate are easily discernible for he feels himself Wounded and is not able to disguise it I will betake my self I say to the present Concern with great application and mindfulness fully making good my Former Charges against his Book and clearing my own from those sorry Objections and Cavils which he hath since rais'd against it In the whole management I will sincerely acquaint the Reader first with his own words and then offer my Refutation of them and all along I will be careful to banish all Indecent Reflections unless those shall be counted such which are purely grounded on his own expressions and which his Freedom of Language necessarily and unavoidably administers to me The Main Charges are these 1. That he unwarrantably crowded all the Necessary Articles of Faith into One with a design of favouring Socinianism 2. That he shew'd his good will to this Cause by interpreting those Texts which respect the Holy Trinity after the Antitrinitarian mode 3. That he gave proof of his being Socinianiz'd by his utter silence about Christ's

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