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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

of Expression but with great freedom and boldness declares it to be his Opinion and Belief that these men are in the next capacity to be Atheists and that their Principles and Doctrines directly lead to Atheism as well as to Impiety and Blasphemy And that we may know he is in good earnest he repeats this over and over again This is the very thing which I undertook to prove in my late Discourse and I hope to the satisfaction of every unbiass'd Reader by that plentiful Enumeration and Induction of Particulars which I offer'd whence I demonstrated that a great number of the Socinian Articles naturally tend to the promoting of Irreligion and Prophaneness and even to the effacing of the Sense of a Deity But what saith our present Author to this who hath taken upon him the Office of an Answerer Why truly he Skulks and hides his baffled head and hath not one syllable to say for himself or against me This is a new kind of Answerer a Silent one because he is conscious to himself that nothing can be offer'd It is not to be doubted that if the foresaid Charge could have been evaded any ways he would have attempted it Had there been any thing said by me against his Party which he could have disproved questionless he would have undertaken it Had there been any shew of Reason or Truth on his side he would have let us known it Had there been any Excuse to be invented he would not have fail'd to publish it and that with open Mouth Wherefore all persons of Understanding must conclude that he acknowledges the Truth and Reality of what I objected to the Socinians viz. that most of their Doctrines and Principles damp Religion and nourish Vice and foster Atheistical and Licentious Practises which is the thing that makes Socinianism so Fashionable at this day and gains it so many Proselytes And now from the whole what a Strange Prospect have we of the Undertaking of this Doughty Champion for the Socinian Cause I appeal to the Reader whether his Incoherent and Shatter'd Pamphlet can be call'd an Answer and consequently whether the Men of Racovia who have much pretended to Grammar and Criticism speak Properly ly●and which is a higher Consequence whether they have not ab●ured all Modesty in obtruding such a piece of work upon the world This shews that their business is to make a Noise whether there be any Sense or ●ignificancy go along with it or no. They make a great stir but effect nothing they are very busy but yet to no purpose This we may truly say Their Heads are a proof against some Philosophers that there may be Motion where there is Emptiness I promis●d the Gentlemen before hand that if any thing substantial in the way of Reply were offer'd by them I would not be backward to meet the Answerer with a Rejoynder but here is nothing that looks like it he is so far from offering any thing of Substance that he doth not so much as pretend to a Shadow of any thing that is of that nature There is not one Proposition that I laid down which is shaken by him and he hath not so much as started One Objection against all I writ and yet he hath the Confidence and Effrontery to dub his Pamphlet an Answer But it may be this will end well it seems to argue that the Socinians are drawn to the very dreggs and have nothing to alledg in their behalf This looks as if their Plenipotentiaries were inclined to a Treaty of Peace and were forward to put an end to the Seven Years War between the Unitarians and Trinitarians For what can we think else when all their Ammunition is spent and they can fight no longer This Champion who was chosen and cull'd out of the whole Host of the Unitarians to engage the Contrary Side le●s fall his Weapons His Courage abates and his Spirits flag and dwindle He dares not grapple with the Arguments I propos'd neither doth he produce any of his own He raises no Exceptions against me nor takes any notice of mine against him Nay which is Wondrous and Astonishing his Invention is so barren that he can't coyn any new Cavils against what I deliver'd nor rally up any old ones Thus when they have no Forces to bring into the field the War must needs cease When they surrender their Garisons and Holds as I have shew'd they do and fairly give up the Cause what can we conclude but that they are coming over to us And as for my self particularly whatever the matter is they are very Complaisant and surely they intend in a short time to take me into their favour For though this Infallible Judge is pleas'd to tell the world that I have writ some trifling books those he means that I have writ against his Brethren of Racovia and some indifferent ones those I suppose which I have writ against a Friend of theirs lately yet out of abundant grace and good-will he vouchsafes to declare that somebody hath been serviceable to the Common Christianity by some Learned Books p. 17. I wish I could say as much of our Author and again that he hath writ divers Good Books and one Excellent one p. 3. Though one would be loth to take a Disciple of Socinus upon his bare word and though it would be immodest and vain-glorious to attribute or apply any such thing to my self yet as it is the frank Testimony of an Adversary who would not esteem it as a singular Mark of Favour who would not resent these Obliging Kindnesses from an Enemy especially when they are mixed with Reflections as in the present case for then it is a sign that the Approbation forced its way through Calumnies and Falshoods In short I perceive they have a mind to be Friends with me they would have at least a Cessation of Arms if I would agree to it On which occasion I will take leave to say that I am most heartily Glad that I have appear'd in this Cause maugre all the insults of the Adversaries I thank the Father of Lights that he was pleas'd to dispose me to this Honourable Service and in such a Juncture when the whole Posse of the Unitarians and their Allies attack'd the Christian Faith with such Force and fury When these Granadiers came on so fiercly who could but expect an Assault who was not sensible that Religion was invaded and that Christianity it self was in extreme danger It is a Comfortable Reflection to me that I have born up against the Bold Aggressors and that I have according to my mean powers asserted and vindicated the Truth with that warmth and zeal which become every Christian Breast And now I must tell them I scorn to flinch from so good a Cause as I have undertaken and I will never submit to gratify the humour and genius of Deists and Scepticks or any Well Willers to Racovia Though I am as great an Admirer and Lover of Civility

yet I shall be so Civil to him as to acknowledge and recount those which he is Master of I own him to be Censor-General of the Logick and Latin of the Universities Corrigidore and Regulator of all the Publick Schools in Christendom Great Master of the Anti-Academick Order Tutor in Eyre and Controller to the Youth of Seven Counties Curator in Ordinary to Costive Paunches Principal Secretary to the Deists Office Feoffee in Trust for Sozzo's Pupils c. And I beg his pardon that I forgot to mention those Offices and Places before He is at me again p. 67. and obliquely insinuates for he is full of his Squinting Hints that I am for that Maxim The Doctrines in fashion and likely to procure Preferments are alone to be received and so would imply that I am ready to receive any Doctrines in fashion be they never so Unreasonable or Impious and that Gain will tempt me to this or any thing else Why I tell you Sir you are in the wrong box I am not the man you take me for I was never hired to write for the lowering of Guineas I never sought or held a Place with the forfeiture of my Honesty and therefore I defy your Impotent Raillery not only against me but against the Whole Clergy High and Low for you look upon them all as Mercenary and that they receive no Doctrines but what are in fashion and are likely to procure Preferment Which you have learnt from your Brethren of Racovia who tell us that the Church of England men are or would be Pensioners of the World Behold the Insolence of our Libertine who hath had the sway among Children and hath Lord-Mavor'd it over Nurses and Chair-women He hath been so worship'd and obey'd by the Striplings and hath had such an absolute command of their Legs and Hats that he expects the like submission and obeysance from all others and he thinks he may say any thing and not be opposed for he cannot brook Contradiction But I shall force him to it and seeing he hath thought good to Riot thus with his Pen he must not think to go untouch'd Seeing he hath taken the liberty to reflect on my Calling and Function and therein hath abus'd all of the same Character with my self he must not take it ill if I sometimes glance upon the Post he is in and his Studies and Employments If I follow so laudable an Example as his he is oblig'd to pardon me and to remember that he was the Aggressor And though indeed we are forbid to answer such people according to their folly yet in some Circumstances i. e. when Pride and Conceit and such like Ingredients are mix'd with their Folly we are permitted by the Wise Man to answer them according to the merits of their willful and affected folly lest they should be wise in their own conceit lest they should be hardned in their Pride and Arrogance and think themselves Wise because no body checks and bridles their folly Indeed it is almost a Reproach to a man to encounter such an Adversary who hath the second time gull'd the world with false Stories and abandoning all shame and ingenuity given himself up to obstinate resolves of maintaining a Cause which will prove to mischievous to Christendom An Adversary that hath no sense of what he doth but is blinded and infatuated by Prejudice so that he hath left himself no power to judge of his own words or actions Which renders him a person not fit to be treated with that respect and deference which are due to an Ingenuous and Civil Opponent To use him Gently is to handle a Bear with Ceremony and Caution And sometimes he is not worth a Serious Reply for he Cheats the people and then makes Sport of it But however though I shall be somewhat free with him yet I will not thrust upon the Reader any thing that is indecent rude spiteful or entrenching upon Truth When we deal with such men our Master's Example forbids us to revile again but the Apostle allows us nay commands us to rebuke them sharply I shall not be thought perhaps to be defective in this but none can censure me for Excess if they consider what the Badness of his design as well as the Petulancy of his Stile required But where he gives me any scope for Arguing and Reasoning the case I have with great seriousness applied my self to it and I hope I have establish'd the Truth upon firm and solid grounds I will begin with his Preface to his Vindication where he inserts a very Gracious Epistle to Mr. Bold his late Convert and now Confederate and there pretends to tell him the Birth of his Reasonableness of Christianity It was begot if you will believe the Father of it on the Controversy of Iustification He might have as well have said on the Controversy of Predestination for it as much belongs to one as the other And so you see it was a mere By blow and worthy of the Parent But he is extremely fond of this Spurious Issue and applauds himself for being the Author of it The first view I had of it saith he seem'd mightily to satisfy my mind I wonder that every body did not see and embrace it though Systems of Divinity said nothing of it I was pleas'd saith our Narcissus with the growing discovery every day whilest I was employ'd in this search And more to the same purpose in the same Epistle Then he proceeds to applaud the Godfather of this Brat Mr. Bold Concerning whom he declares that he hath more readily entertain'd and more easily enter'd into the meaning of his Book than most he might have said any he hath heard speak of it And afterwards Mr. Bold hath enter'd into the true sense of my Treatise and his notions perfectly agree with mine And therefore he must needs be as he stiles him a Calm Christian a Grave Divine a Man of Parts a Well-bred Man And he hath if you 'll credit our Encomiast a settled repute c. Would you know the reason of all this Coaksing It is no other than this that same Mr. Bold who was Sponsor for the Bastard brood had in a late Pamphlet mightily extoll'd the Dad of it Mr. Lock He calls him the Ingenious Author of the Reasonableness of Christianity Rep p. 3. and that great and eminent Person p. 27. It is a sign so when one of so little sense and discretion votes him to be such He is no Disparagement to the Cause he saith p 27. and there is a good reason for it I must tell him for as a Person so a Cause that hath nothing of worth in it is not capable of being disparaged Poor Creature he ●hinks it a great matter to have One Pen besides his own wagging on his side He is mightily rejoyc'd that he hath got a Single Patron for his Single Article and is over joy'd at such Fulsom Encomiums thrown upon him and therefore he heaps up

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. 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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