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A23631 The moderate Trinitarian containing a description of the Holy Trinity, both according to Scripture, and approved authors for learning, and adherence to the Trinitarian doctrine : being an argument shewing that moderation may and ought to be shewn by and to persons of different conceptions concerning some circumstances relating to the knowledg of the Holy Trinity : together with a short reply to Mr. Joseph Taylor's Brief inquiry whether those who own, and those who deny the divinity of Christ, may communicate together / by Daniel Allen. Allen, Daniel, fl. 1699. 1699 (1699) Wing A1023; ESTC R17226 58,738 45

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THE Moderate Trinitarian CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE Holy Trinity Both according to Scripture and approved Authors for Learning and Adherence to the Trinitarian Doctrine BEING An Argument shewing that Moderation may and ought to be shewn by and to Persons of different Conceptions concerning some Circumstances relating to the Knowledg of the Holy Trinity Together with a short Reply to Mr. Joseph Taylor 's brief Inquiry whether those who own and those who deny the Divinity of Christ may communicate together By DANIEL ALLEN Blessed are the Peace-makers But mark such as cause Divisions and avoid them LONDON Printed for Mary Fabian at Mercers Chappel in Cheapside 1699. THE EPISTLE TO THE READER IT was not any Ambition in me I 'll assure thee to teach my worthy Brethren of far greater Parts and Indowments than my self that induced me thus publickly to appear with the ensuing Tract But it was the hideous noise that the rending and tearing of Churches made that roused me up and provoked me thus publickly to expose my self to the censure of many when I might have slept securely in a whole Skin with my Sentiments lockt up in my own Breast But I saw What did I see Why I thought I saw the sparks of misguided and intemperate Zeal in divers well meaning Men to set some Churches in a Flame which like the dreadful Conflagration in London burnt down to the ground many famous tho not Parish Churches All that have appeared in print about this Subject so far as I observed have cried out Peace and Truth yet notwithstanding to my discerning have filled their Buckets with Oil and threw them into the Flame How that could quench it judg you Nay thought I if all your printing be in that fashion the Fire will never be quenched So I got my Bucket as I trust full of Cordial Water and away come I to the Press I thought if I could be but instrumental to quench and save one Post or Beam of the Church my labour would not be lost and I shall do more good than they that administer Oil. Besides I considered that those little Books or Buckets of Oil were very frequent every year or half year out comes a Piece crying Heresy Heresy But not one comes like the Dove with the Olive Branch of Peace in their Mouths neither was there one Word tending that way in any of their Writings and hereby many young Converts as well as others were much puzled and made to doubt Wherefore I thought if something were said publickly to demonstrate that there may be a safe Medium and Correspondence found out and maintain'd betwixt the two Parties it might be acceptable to the Doubtful and through the Blessing of God might become successful to help the tender Conscience There be some so confident and settled that I have no hopes of them but then I consider there be many have not renounced their Reason and therefore will hear Reason to such I speak I know some will throw away my Writing as Dirt while others will condemn it e're they hear it yet as God hath heretofore blessed my poor Endeavours and Discourses of this kind with success so I trust these my Labours will not be in vain Neither can I expect to want Readers since there be some and not a few who know me and of them not a few that love me and they will read me because they love me And there be some and not a few that do not love me nor the Design I here pursue and they 'l read me to see what they can pick up against me And there be some and not a few that are stagger'd in their own Minds and they 'l read me for their own satisfaction because they long to hear what can be said for Moderation Moreover I was induced to take this Course partly because a Book will come to speak where I cannot and possibly when I cannot partly because in arguing this case I find that too commonly there are apt to be Heats and Passions which commonly prevent persons considering what is said and the Arguments are many times cut off by the Buttocks and so condemned because not well understood I have seen some Men about these things so eagerly contending that Heat hath blinded them and like Men tied back to back tho they were close together yet they could not see one another But now having my Book in their hand they may deliberatly consider all my Arguments to the end without those Molestations which often happen in Debates And if any man fall into a passion with my Papers when my Person is not present if I hear of it I shall think him to be as some of them are said to be in the Tribe of Dan an angry Fellow Kind Reader I tread in a Path heretofore untrod by any that I know of for tho many worthy men are for Peace and Vnity notwithstanding the present Controversy yet none that I know of have publickly appeared to vindicate such a Practice And I wish this my Attempt may be a means to provoke some more sublime Genius than mine to polish and perfect that which is here rough-drawn However since I lead the Van so far as I know in so troublesome toilsome and difficult a Path between those Extreams which have in many Ages puzled the most Learned Men if I should appear to stumble and sometimes to trip and reel I hope thy Candor will accept of my well-meaning and rather pity than censure me and then thou actest like a Christian And as I profess not my self infallible and therefore subject to err and especially in so untrodden a Path If any will Christian-like inform me wherein I am wanting I shall esteem him among the number of my special Friends In short however I may have circumstantially erred tho I know it not yet in the main I meant well and therefore well-meaning men will take it well I would if I could perswade every one to be a Healer of the Breach the unpleasant sound of Discord hath too long afflicted our Ears and disturbed our Heads What pity is it we should so run upon a Party when amongst our selves there is hardly any considerable Society that can be found the Matter is so dark and so variously understood that we that profess to be most Orthodox are sadly divided and subdivided in our thoughts if a strict scrutiny should be made into our Sentiments about it That Party of Brethren which I have in this ensuing Treatise mainly and especially endeavoured to vindicate and to propose a Medium with are those which several of my Brethren met in Goswel-street in London in the years 1693 and 1696. did in a printed Paper publickly protest against and withdraw from As for my Brethren of Socinus's Perswasion concerning Christ so far as I know their Principles I am very opposite to them in my own Thoughts yet have I Charity for them But having but little converse with them I conceive I am