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A48904 A vindication of The reasonableness of Christianity, &c. from Mr. Edwards's reflections Locke, John, 1632-1704. 1695 (1695) Wing L2769; ESTC R18275 16,897 48

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A VINDICATION OF THE REASONABLENESS OF Christianity c. A VINDICATION OF THE REASONABLENESS OF Christianity c. From Mr. Edwards's REFLECTIONS LONDON Printed for Awnsham and Iohn Churchil at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row 1695. A VINDICATION OF THE REASONABLENESS OF Christianity c. MY Book had not been long out before it fell under the Correction of the Author of a Treatise Entituled Some Thoughts concerning the several Causes and Occasions of Atheism especially in the present Age. No contemptible Adversary I 'le assure you since as it seems he has got the Faculty to heigthen every thing that displeases him into the Capital Crime of Atheism And breaths against those who come in his way a Pestilential Air whereby every the least Distemper is turned into the Plague and becomes Mortal For whoever does not just say after Mr. Ed's cannot 't is evident escape being an Atheist or a promoter of Atheism I cannot but approve of any ones Zeal to Guard and Secure that great and Fundamental Article of all Religion and Morality That there is a God But Atheism being a Crime which for its Madness as well as Guilt ought to shut a Man out of all Sober and Civil Society should be very warily charged on any one by deductions and Consequences which he himself does not own or at least do not manifestly and unavoidably flow from what he asserts This Caution Charity I think obliges us to And our Author would possibly think himself hardly dealt with if for neglecting some of those Rules he himself gives p. 31. 34. against Atheism he should be pronounced a promoter of it As rational a Charge I imagine as some of those he makes And as fitly put together as the Treatise of the Reasonableness of Christianity c. brought in among the causes of Atheism However I shall not much complain of him since he joyns me p. 104. with no worse Company than two Eminently Pious and Learned Prelates of our Church whom he makes favourers of the same Conceit as he calls it But what has that Conceit to do with Atheism Very much That Conceit is of Kin to Socinianism and Socinianism to Atheism Let us hear Mr. Ed's himself He says p. 113. I am all over Socinianized and therefore my Book fit to be placed among the Causes of Atheism For in the 64. and following Pages he endeavours to shew That a Socinian is an Atheist or lest that should seem harsh one that favours the Cause of Atheism p. 75. For so he has been pleased to mollifie now it is published as a Treatise what was much more harsh and much more confident in it when it was Preached as a Sermon In this abatement he seems a little to comply with his own Advice against his fourth Cause of Atheism which we have in these words pag. 34. Wherefore that we may effectually prevent this folly in our selves let us banish Presumption Confidence and Self-conceit let us extirpate all Pride and Arrogance Let us not List our selves in the Number of Caprioious Opiniators I shall leave the Socinians themselves to answer his Charge against them and shall Examine his Proof of my being a Socinian It stands thus pag. 112. When he the Author of the Reasonableness of Christianity c. proceeds to mention the Advantages and Benefits of Christ's coming into the World and appearing in the Flesh he hath not one Syllable of his satisfying for us or by his Death purchasing Life or Salvation or any thing that sounds like it This and several other things shew that he is all over Socinianized Which in effect is that because I have not set down all that this Author perhaps would have done therefore I am a Socinian But what if I should say I set down as much as my Argument required and yet am no Socinian Would he from my silence and omission give me the Lye and say I am one Surmizes that may be over-turned by a single denial are poor Arguments and such as some Men would be ashamed of At least if they are to be permitted to Men of this Gentleman's Skill and Zeal who knows how to make a good use of Conjectures Suspicions and Uncharitable Censures in the Cause of God yet even there too if the Cause of God can need such Arts they require a good Memory to keep them from recoiling upon the Author He might have taken notice of these words in my Book pag. 107. From this estate of Death Jesus CHRIST RESTORES all Mankind to Life And a little lower The Life which Jesus Christ restores to all Men. And p. 205. He that hath incurred Death for his own Transgression cannot LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR ANOTHER as our Saviour professes he did This methinks SOUNDS SOMETHING LIKE Christ's purchasing Life for us by his Death But this Reverend Gentleman has an Answer ready It was not in the place he would have had it in It was not where I mention the Advantages and Benefits of Christ's coming And therefore I not having one Syllable of Christ's Purchasing Life and Salvation for us by his Death or any thing that sounds like it this and several other things that might be offered shew that I am all over Socinianized A very clear and ingenuous Proof and let him enjoy it But what will become of me that I have not mentioned Satisfaction Possibly this Reverend Gentleman would have had Charity enough for a known Writer of the Brotherhood to have found it by an Inuendo in those words above quoted of laying down his Life for another But every thing is to be strained here the other way For the Author of the Reasonableness of Christianity c. is of necessity to be represented as a Socinian or else his Book may be read and the Truths in it which Mr. Ed's likes not be received and People put upon examining Thus one as full of Happy Conjectures and Suspicions as this Gentleman might be apt to Argue But what if the Author designed his Treatise as the Title shews chiefly for those who were not yet throughly or firmly Christians proposing to work on those who either wholly disbelieved or doubted of the truth of the Christian Religion Would any one blame his Prudence if he mentioned only those Advantages which all Christians are agreed in Might he not remember and observe that Command of the Apostle Rom. 14. 1. Him that is weak in the Faith receive ye but not to doubtful disputations without being a Socinian Did he amiss that he offered to the belief of those who stood off that and only that which our Saviour and his Apostles preached for the reducing the unconverted World And would any one think he in earnest went about to perswade Men to be Christians who should use that as an Argument to recommend the Gospel which he has observed Men to lay hold on as an Objection against it To urge such Points of Controversie as necessary Articles of Faith when we see