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A vindication of The reasonableness of Christianity, &c. from Mr. Edwards's reflections
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Locke, John, 1632-1704.
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Believers And the Reason I gave why I had not gone through the Writings in the Epistles to Collect the Fundamental Articles of Faith as I had through the Preachings of our Saviour and his Apostles was Because those Fundamental Articles were in those Epistles promiscuously and without distinction mixed with other Truths And therefore we shall find and discern those great and necessary Points best in the Preachings of our Saviour and the Apostles to those who were yet ignorant of the Faith and unconverted This as far as I know my own thoughts was the reason why I did as Mr. Edwards complains p. 109. not proceed to the Epistles and not give an Account of them as I had done of the Gospels and Acts. This I imagined I had in the close of my Book so fully and clearly expressed particularly p. 125. that I supposed no body how willing soever could have mistaken me But this Gentleman is so much better acquainted with me than I am with my self sees so deeply into my Heart and knows so perfectly every thing that passes there that he with assurance tells the World p. 109. That I purposely omitted the Epistolary Writings of the Apostles because they are fraught with other Fundamental Doctrines beside that one which I mention And then he goes on to enumerate those Fundamental Articles p. 110 111. viz. The Corruption and Degeneracy of Humane Nature with the true Original of it the Defection of our first Parents the Propagation of Sin and Mortality our Restoration and Reconciliation by Christ's Blood the Eminency and Excellency of his Priesthood the Efficacy of his Death the full Satisfaction made thereby to Divine Iustice and his being made an All sufficient Sacrifice for Sin Christ's Righteousness our Iustification by it Election Adoption Sanctification Saving Faith The Nature of the Gospel The New Covenant The Riches of God's Mercy in the way of Salvation by Iesus Christ The certainty of the Resurrection of Humane Bodies and of the future Glory Give me leave now to ask you seriously whether these which you have here set down under the Title of Fundamental Doctrines are such when reduced to Propositions that every one of them is required to be believed to make a Man a Christian and such as without the actual belief thereof he cannot be saved If they are not so every one of them you may call them Fundamental Doctrines as much as you please they are not of those Doctrines of Faith I was speaking of which are only such as are required to be actually believed to make a Man a Christian. If you say some of them are such necessary Points of Faith and others not you by this specious List of well-sounding but unexplained terms arbitrarily collected only make good what I have said viz. That the necessary Articles of Faith are in the Epistles promiscuously delivered with other Truths and therefore they cannot be distinguished but by some other mark than being barely found in the Epistles If you say that they are all of them necessary Articles of Faith I shall then desire you to reduce them to so many plain Doctrines and then prove them to be every one of them required to be believed by every Christian Man to make him a Member of the Christian Church For to begin with the first 't is not enough to tell us as you do that the Corruption and Degeneracy of Humane Nature with the true Original of it the Defection of our first Parents the Propagation of Sin and Mortality is one of the great Heads of Christian Divinity But you are to tell us what are the Propositions we are required to believe concerning this matter For nothing can be an Article of Faith but some Proposition and then it will remain to be proved that these Articles are necessary to be believed to Salvation The Apostles Creed was taken in the first Ages of the Church to contain all things necessary to Salvation I mean necessary to be believed But you have now better thought on it and are pleased to enlarge it and we no doubt are bound to submit to your Orthodoxy The List of Materials for his Creed for the Articles are not yet formed Mr. Ed's closes p. 111. with these words These are the Matters of Faith contained in the Epistles and they are Essential and Integral parts of the Gospel it self What just these Neither more nor less If you are sure of it pray let us have them speedily for the Reconciling of Differences in the Christian Church which has been so cruelly torn about the Articles of the Christian Faith to the great Reproach of Christian Charity and Scandal of our true Religion Mr. Ed's having thus with two learned Terms of Essential and Integral Parts sufficiently proved the Matter in Question viz. That all those he has set down are Articles of Faith necessary to be believed to make a Man a Christian he grows warm at my omission of them This I cannot complain of as unnatural The Spirit of Creed-making always arising from an heat of Zeal for our own Opinions and warm Endeavours by all ways possible to decry and bear down those who differ in a tittle from us What then could I expect more gentle and candid than what Mr. Ed's has subjoyned in these words And therefore it is no wonder that our Author being sensible of this viz. That the Points he has named were Essential and Integral parts of the Gospel would not vouchsafe to give us an Abstract of those inspired Writings the Epistles but passes them by with some Contempt Sir when your Angry Fit is over and the abatement of your Passion has given way to the return of your Sincerity I shall beg you to read this passage in 297 pag. of my Book These Holy Writers viz. the Pen-men of the Scriptures INSPIRED from above writ nothing but Truth and in most places very weighty Truths to us now for the expounding clearing and confirming of the Christian Doctrine and establishing those in it who had embraced it And again pag. 299. The other parts of DIVINE REVELATION are Objects of Faith and are so to be received They are Truths of which none that is once known to be such i. e. revealed may or ought to be disbelieved And if this does not satisfie you that I have as high a Veneration for the Epistles as you or any one can have I require you to publish to the World those passages which shew my Contempt of them In the mean time I shall desire my Reader to examine what I have writ concerning the Epistles which is all contained between p. 290 and 301 of my Book And then to Judge whether I have made bold with the Epistles in what I have said of them or this Gentleman made bold with Truth in what he has writ of me Humane Frailty will not I see easily quit its hold What it loses in one part it will be ready to regain in another and not be hindred from
'T is to the truth of this Proposition that he examines his Witnesses as he speaks pag. 21. And this if I mistake not in his Epist. Dedicatory he calls Christianity Fol. A. 3. where he calls them Witnesses to Christianity But these two Propositions viz. That SON of God in the Gospel stands for Messiah And that the Faith which alone makes Men Christians is the believing Iesus to be the Messiah displeases Mr. Ed's so much in my Book that he thinks himself Authorized from them to charge me with Socinianism and want of Sincerity How he will be pleased to treat this Reverend Prelate whilest he is alive for the Dead may with good Manners be made bold with must be left to his decisive Authority This I am sure which way soever he determine he must for the future either afford me more good Company or fairer Quarter FINIS Books lately Printed for and Sold by A. J. Churchill at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row A View of Universal History from the Creation to the Year of Christ 1695. wherein the most memorable Persons and Things in the known Kingdoms and Countries of the World are set down in several Columns by way of Synchronism according to their proper Centuries and Years By Francis Tallents sometime Fellow of Magdalen-College Cambridge The whole graven in 16 Copper-Plates each 15 Inches deep and 22 broad bound up into Books the Sheets lined A Work of great Exactness and Curiosity Price 16 s. Camden's Britannia newly Translated into English with large Additions and Improvements By Edmund Gibson of Queens-College in Oxford The General History of the Air. By Robert Boyle Esq Quarto A Compleat Journal of the Votes Speeches and Debates both of the House of Lords and House of Commons throughout the whole Reign of Queen Elizabeth Collected by Sir Simonds Dewes Baronet and Published by Paul Bowes of the Middle-Temple Esq The 2d Edition Fol. 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The Christians defence against the fear of Death with seasonable Directions how to prepare themselves to Dye well Written originally in French by Charte Drilincourt of Paris and translated into English by M. D. Assigny B. D. Third Edition The Royal Grammar containing a new and easie Method for the speedy attaining the Latin Tongue A Guide to Surveyers of the Highways shewing that Office and Duty with Cases and Resolutions in Law relating to the same with an abstract of the Laws for repair of Highways and Bridges By G. Meriton Three several Letters for Toleration 40. Bishop Hopkins Sermons 3 Vol. Lords Prayer 40. Commandments 40. Leyburn's Cursus Mathematicus Fol. Seldens Table Talk Debates of Oxford and Westmin Parliaments FINIS * Bp. Taylor and the Author of The Naked Truth * Preface