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cause_n	father_n	person_n	son_n	3,185	5	5.8825	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38042	Socinianism unmask'd a discourse shewing the unreasonableness of a late writer's opinion concerning the necessity of only one article of Christian faith, and of his other assertions in his late book, entituled, The reasonableness of Christianity as deliver'd in the Scriptures, and in his vindication of it : with a brief reply to another (professed) Socinian writer / by John Edwards ...	Edwards, John, 1637-1716.	1696 (1696)	Wing E214; ESTC R3296	60,720	171

more And my End is this to hale in Socinianism after a new manner You see what the Musing of this Gentleman comes to and I was so unhappy a man as to find it out to take notice of it and to discover it to the world in a late Discourse which I publish'd and thereby I have extremely exasperated this New Undertaker and his Adherents I do not wonder at it for now their Intrigues are laid open their Racovian Plot is detected and all their Measures are thereby broken But to keep up their hearts a Vindication as it is call'd of this Treachery is publish'd by him who was appointed to be the Chief Tool in this work Here he makes it his business to defend his New Paradox and to shore his Notion up again with some crazy props Throughout the whole he is pleas'd to Criticize with some Magisterialness and Pertness on the Reflections which I made on his book And now it is my turn again to be Critick and I shall discharge the Task with all impartiality and integrity It is true there is nothing of any Moment nothing Weighty and Argumentative in what he hath offered and therefore some in whose Judgment I could confide would have prevailed with me to add no more on this Subject which they were perswaded I had before sufficiently cleared but partly to shew somewhat further the great Danger and Mischief of this Writer's Opinion partly to prevent the Seduction of some well-meaning persons who may be apt to be led away by his smooth Pretences for though his Cavils and Evasions be weak yet they may chance to light into the Hands of some Weak Readers such as are not well establish'd in their notions Wherefore not on the account of his Petty Objections but for the sake of these persons I reassume this Argument and partly to lay open the Wilful Mistakes and Gross Dissimulation as I take it of this Writer and partly to gratifie those Gentlemens expectations who with some impatience seem to long for a Reply I have once again undertaken to employ the Press upon this occasion But the Chief and Principal Design as well as Motive of my appearing again in this Cause is to assert and defend the Christian Faith which this Author hath misrepresented maim'd and abused To which purpose I will set before the Reader the Heads of his pretended Vindication and in the face of the world make it appear how falsly and perfidiously he hath acted in the Cause of Religion And may it be the Readers Prayer as well as it is mine that this Enterprize may tend to the Glory and Honour of God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost Three Glorious Persons in One ever to be Adored Deity and to the Edification of the Christian Church Amen Ian. 27. 1695 6. ERRATA PAge 17. line 1. read World p. 22. l. 18. for Christ. r. Iesus p. 54. l. 20. r. Sylburgius p. 85. l. 9. r. Racovians p. 87. l. 23 after Iesus insert Christ. p. 116. line 3. after done make the other part of the Parenthesis p. 117. l. 18. after if insert the truth were known I believe it would appear that p. 120. l. 17. r. telling p. 125. l 8. r. him p. 128. l. 21. after hath insert had p. 131. l. 13. after religion insert who is so near a-kin to one that is voted a Socinian in the Brief History of the Vnitarians p. 135. l. 11. r. Socinianiz'd A Late WRITER's Unreasonable Opinions CONFUTED CHAP. I. The first General Charge against the Late Writer viz. That he unwarrantably crowds all the Necessary Articles of Faith into One with a design of favouring Socinianism He endeavours to shift off the Enditement but is cast by his own words His wilful mistake about the Article of the Deity He labours in vain to split One Article into Two It is shew'd that besides the bare believing of Jesus to be the Messias it is necessary to know and believe the Fall of Adam whereby Sin and Death entred into the World and were derived to his posterity It is necessary to know and believe Who the Messias is whether he be God or Man or both on which will follow the necessary belief of the Holy Trinity It is requisite to have a right conception concerning our Recovery and Restauration by the Messias i. e. to know what he undertook and did for us and to be acquainted with the Great Privileges bestow'd upon us by him It is of necessity to believe what the Messias requires of Vs. It is undoubted matter of our belief that our Salvation springs from the mere Favour and Grace of God through Christ Jesus and not from any works or merits of ours It is indispensably requisite that we believe the Doctrin of the Resurrection of the Final Judgment and of Eternal Life I Will now betake my self to the Task which is before me after I have told the Reader that I intend not to imitate our Nameless Author in his Childish Flourishes in his Spruce and Starched Sentences and in his Impotent Jestings which are sprinkled up and down his Vindication Nor will I follow him in his Impertinencies and Incoherencies in his trifling Excursions to eke out his two sheets and a half I will not resemble him in his Little Artifices of evading in his weak and feeble Struglings with a Strong Truth I will not personate him in the Confusion and Disorder of his Reply for it seems he had forgot that it is one sign of a Well-bred a Well-taught Man to answer to the first in the first place and so in order I will not imitate him in his Dry Common Places in his Set of Words and Phrases of Sayings and Apothegms which would have serv'd on any other occasion as the Intelligent Reader cannot but take notice Much less will I comply with him in his Angry fits and Passionate Ferments which tho he strives to palliate are easily discernible for he feels himself Wounded and is not able to disguise it I will betake my self I say to the present Concern with great application and mindfulness fully making good my Former Charges against his Book and clearing my own from those sorry Objections and Cavils which he hath since rais'd against it In the whole management I will sincerely acquaint the Reader first with his own words and then offer my Refutation of them and all along I will be careful to banish all Indecent Reflections unless those shall be counted such which are purely grounded on his own expressions and which his Freedom of Language necessarily and unavoidably administers to me The Main Charges are these 1. That he unwarrantably crowded all the Necessary Articles of Faith into One with a design of favouring Socinianism 2. That he shew'd his good will to this Cause by interpreting those Texts which respect the Holy Trinity after the Antitrinitarian mode 3. That he gave proof of his being Socinianiz'd by his utter silence about Christ's