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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26746	An answer to the Brief history of the Unitarians, called also Socinians by William Basset ...	Basset, William, 1644-1695.	1693 (1693)	Wing B1048; ESTC R1596	64,853	180

Imprimatur Geo. Royse RRmo in Christo Patri ac Dom. Dom Johanni Archiep. Cantuar. à Sacris Domest Novemb. 21. 1692. AN ANSWER TO THE Brief History OF THE Unitarians Called also SOCINIANS Prov. 18. 17. He that is first in his own Cause seems just but his Neighbour comes and searches him By William Basset Rector of St. Smithin London London Printed and Sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1693. TO THE Most Reverend Father in God JOHN By Divine Providence Lord Archbishop OF Canterbury Primate of England and Metropolitan and One of Their Majesties Most Honourable Privy-Council IT is the Design of these Papers to baffle and expose those Little Pleas and Objections which the Late Author of the Socinian Letters hath urged against the Divinity of the Son My Lord This Cause doth merit as well as the Author want your Grace's Patronage For which Reason I humbly presume to prefix so Great a Name not doubting but they will meet with what Favour they may either deserve or want That that God who hath raised would preserve guide and strengthen you in those Undertakings which so great a Place doth call and so Pious a Mind more Large and Rich than that Place it self doth dispose you to for the well-governing the Church and the Uniting us in the True Faith and in all the Designs and Interests of Religion is the earnest Prayer of Your Grace's Most Humble Servant William Basset TO THE READER WHen I first met with these Socinian Letters and found that words and fallacy were their whole composition I could not but think them so unlike their Patrons or their Patrons so unlike the Character they affect which is to be men of Wit and Reason that I Judged them not Worthy an answer But since it appears that these like some other the worst things among us do not want their admirers I thought this performance my duty In it I have answered not only the first of these letters but divers parts of the rest as well as some things in more manly writers as Eriedinus Crellius c. By calling in the other letters to asist this and other Socinian authors to supply the weakness of them all I put the Objections in their full strength to the end their overthrow may be the more conspicuos to the world and the more sensible to themselves If they venture upon argument and do any thing that affects the cause I am ready to support it But if they only load me with words and cavils I must neglect them If these labours are succesful in recovering any whom this Heresy hath infected and in preserving those who yet are whole and hereby in giving any check to the growing errors and prophaness of the age I shall place the time spent upon this argument among my happy minutes That it may be productive of such blessed effects was the hope and design and shall be the prayers of Yours W. B. AN ANSWER To the FIRST of the Four LETTERS INTITULED A Brief History SECT 1. These Letters are Intituled A Brief History yet instead of History you find little if any but an abuse of divers Authors in the end of the First A Title as foreign from the Letters as the Letters from the Truth that is neither to the point THat term Vnitarian is put as a distinction between them and us take it as it signifies him who believes one only God exclusive of all others and then it makes a distinction without a difference for we are as intirely in that Faith as the Socinian can be but as they make it signify one who believes the Father only to be God exclusive of the Son and the Holy Ghost I must declare it a term suitable to these Letters i. e. full of Error and Blasphemy That word Socinian we leave to the Followers of Socinus who their beloved Sandius saith differed from all the World which proclaims those under this denomination Men of Novelty and Error The Title Page quotes Act. 17. 11. They searched the Scriptures daily whether these things were so Answ St. Basil saith of Eunomius tom 1. l. 5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thou seekest that thou may'st find not Faith but Infidelity not to discover a Truth but to establish an Error This I fear we shall find too true of our Socinians who wrest the Rule of Truth ●o their own prejudicate Opinions Sure I am did men sincerely follow this example we should find but few of this perswasion since their Heresy is founded not upon Scripture but upon those false Glosses and Sophistical Evasions which make the Scriptures of none effect The Preamble to the Letter pretends that his Friend demands an account of the Socinians Their Doctrine concerning God in which only they differ from other Christians the Remonstrants professedly agreeing with them in other points of Faith and Doctrine Answer Their Doctrine concerning God is That the Father only is God P. 4. But that they differ from other Christians in other points beside this is notorious to the world They own the Arians to be Christians and Vnitarians because they agree with themselves in this Doctrine P. 33. But the Arians ascribe to the Son the Creation of the World while the Socinians deny his Existence before the Incarnation Therefore either the Arians are no Christians or the Socinians differ from other Christians in other Doctrines besides this But he would prove that in other points the Socinians agree with other Christians because in other points they agree with the Remonstrants Which implyes 1. That there is no difference between themselves and the Remonstrants but this which is well known to be false And 2. That themselves and Remonstrants are all the Christians in the World Because he makes it that their agreement with these doth prove their agreement with other Christians but this is false too Because these Remonstrants were condemned by the Synod at Dort about the five Propositions You have then a double falshood in the compass of this one Parenthesis the one in inlarging the number of his Friends the other in lessening the number of his Errors The design of which must be to perswade the Reader That there is but one step between the Orthodox Faith and this Heresy to the end he may the more easily decoy 'em into it According to this beginning you must expect but little if any truth and honesty in this Letter which we shall now consider SECT II. He saith P. 4. That Christ was a Man the Son Prophet Messenger Minister Servant and Creature of God not himself God they think is proved by these as they call them Arguments Answer I Am glad to find any modesty in a Socinian for they call them Arguments and they think they prove But with better assurances we declare they are no Arguments nor do they prove the point in Controversy For though they prove that Christ is Man yet they do not prove he is no more than Man