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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

within the Compass of the four Seas By the same way of Arguing I will prove that the doctrine of the Trinity is no part of Christianity as delivered in the Scripture And so you may saith the Vindicator for I hold there is no such thing as the Trinity in Scripture But I will try again by the same Argument I will prove that the Divine Decrees and the Attributes of God and his Providence are no Part of Christianity because these words Decrees Attributes Providence as it is understood of God are not in Scripture Nor do the Sacraments belong to Christianity because that word occurs no where in the Sacred Writings as Barclay Apol. p. 292. profoundly argues Nay The word Christianity is not to be found in Scripture why then doth this man talk of Christianity as delivered in the Scripture You see by this what strange and inconsistent things he obtrudes upon the Reader He will not allow of Satisfaction because the word is not mention'd in the Bible Is there any reason then to own such a thing as Christianity seeing the word is not found there But he will say the Thing is And the same I say of Satisfaction and so the Vindicator shews himself to be a sorry contemptible Wrangler and lets the World know that he hath dealt so much with Children that he 's of that number himself But afterwards p 157. he pretends to own the Thing and to say it may be collected out of his Reasonableness of Christianity Yet still the Stubborn and Stomachful Man which disposition he observes reigns much in Children Educat p. 121 122. will not buckle to the Word Surely this same word satisfying hath been some way or other very mischievous to him that he so starts back at the naming of it But to come close to the business I appeal to any Impartial Man whether it can in any probability be believ'd that a person own such or such a Truth or Doctrine of the Gospel and yet will not express it by that Word or Name which all the Professors of the Orthodox Faith have agreed to call it by This is the Case of the Vindicator he pretends to allow of the Satisfaction of Christ and yet he absolutely refuses to use the Word But till he can give us any Reason for this refusal we shall believe that the true Cause why he will not admit of the Word is because he disbelieves the Thing it self P. 159 he would be fastning two Properties of a Iesuite as he saith upon me but every one saith they are his Own and therefore I will not injure him by laying claim to them And this I 'll tell him moreover that he hath an Other Property of one of that Order which he hath not named and that is Trudging up and down and having no Home And if a man can be of Loiola's Order and a Mendicant too then I 'm sure he may put in for both What he jabbers p. 163 164. about Satisfaction not being named at the Admission of those of Riper Years to Baptism he might have seen answer'd if he had had two eyes in my Socinianism Unmask'd p. 47. P. 168. he comes to make little Whimsical Remarks on what I had said of the Apostles Creed he raises Trifling Objections he sets up a Phantom a mere Shadow and then encounters it he is wanton and freakish and in brief the Kitling plays with his own Tail He insists upon the terms Abstract and Abridgment p. 173 174. and spends a great many vain words about them but can't for his heart disprove what I asserted viz. that the foresaid Creed is an Abstract or Abridgment of the Christian Faith which is more fully express'd in the Holy Scriptures not only in the Gospel but in the Epistles which our Vindicator cannot endure to hear of At last I am to be the Iesuite again and he is to take Mr. Chillingworth's place and so the Protestant is to confute the Papist and there 's an end of that silly Fantastick Fiction of our Masker not worthy of one of the poor raw Boys that he hath drag'd up in his time Further it is to be noted that after he had banded as fiercely as he could against my notion of Abridgment and to thwart me had produced Chillingworth's sense of the word he confesses that he is ignorant whether what Chillingworth had given be the nature of an Abridgment or no. p. 177. Which shews how fickle and restive he is and that he builds upon precarious hypotheses and is not careful whether there be any Ground for what he saith This would make one doubt whether this Writer be in his right mind or no. Hath not former Thoughtfulness disorder'd his Brain that he thus talks P. 177. he would seem to pay some honour to the Primitive Church and the Church of England though no man believes it no not himself and to vindicate their practise in admitting persons to Baptism upon the Faith contain'd in the Apostles Creed as if no more were to be believ'd by them than what is in express terms in that Form of Confession But the Catechism of our Church may satisfy him that more is comprehended in that Form of Faith than is expresly there mention'd else it would not have been said that we are chiefly to learn in these Articles of our Belief to believe in God the Father in God the Son and in God ●he Holy Ghost He may look long enough into the Creed and never find there these words God the Son and God the Holy Ghost but Our Church lets us know that these terms are really contain'd in that Profession of Faith Whence it follows that when persons are baptized into the Faith of the Apostles Creed they are baptized into the Faith of the Trinity and consequently into more than is in express words mention'd in this Symbol of our Faith Which is the thing that this Quarrelsome Animal objects against but is not able after all his fluttering to effect any thing Besides it is evident that our Church thinks not this Creed to be absolutely Perfect and Compleat because she adds other Creeds to it as the Nicene and Athanasian Which it is probable she would not have done if every thing to be believ'd were in express direct and full words set down in the other Form of Belief And again as to what he saith of the Primitive Practise of admitting persons to Baptism upon the bare confession of the Apostles Creed he betrays his Ignorance having not learnt from several Eminent Writers that this Creed is not exactly the same that it was in the First Ages of Christianity but that some Articles have been added to it But the heedless Masker attends to none of these things but goes on Chattering and loves to hear his Clack move But you must pardon him for he that is used to the Conversation of Nurses and the whole Posse of the Chatting Crew can't be thought to moderate his Intemperate Organ P.

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