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A23631 The moderate Trinitarian containing a description of the Holy Trinity, both according to Scripture, and approved authors for learning, and adherence to the Trinitarian doctrine : being an argument shewing that moderation may and ought to be shewn by and to persons of different conceptions concerning some circumstances relating to the knowledg of the Holy Trinity : together with a short reply to Mr. Joseph Taylor's Brief inquiry whether those who own, and those who deny the divinity of Christ, may communicate together / by Daniel Allen. Allen, Daniel, fl. 1699. 1699 (1699) Wing A1023; ESTC R17226 58,738 45

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Mr. Taylor 's fourth Reason is in page 11. Because they that deny Christ to be the Essence of God deny the Lord that bought them This Reason standing on the same bottom with the former the same Answer may suffice His sixth Reason for he hath no fifth that I can find is This Principle of Christ's being the Essence of God is the Rock upon which Christ hath built his Church For proof of which he cites Mat. 16.15 where Peter confesseth Thou art Christ the Son of the living God And our Lord saith Vpon this Rock will I build my Church But the necessary Consequence of Mr. Taylor 's Reason or Proof is so far off that my dull Genius will not reach it I will put it into the form of an Argument To be a Son of God is to be the Essence of God But Christ owns that he is the Son of God Ergo He owns he is the Essence of God But then perhaps some unhappy Brain or other will say At that rate of Reasoning one may prove Adam Angels and Saints to be all the very Essence of God for they are all called Sons of God I speak not this as supposing that Christ is the Son of God in no other Sense than Adam Angels and Saints are but to shew how short Mr. Taylor 's Arguing comes of what he intends it for But Mr. Taylor saith page 13. Except by the word Son of God we understand one and the same thing it is impossible we should have one and the same Faith If this be true setting the Unitarians aside there are not many of us Trinitarians have one and the same Faith for some by Son of God intend a distinct intelligent Being and Mind from Father and Spirit as Dr. Sherlock Some say it is only a Mode of the divine Essence but not the divine Essence it self as Mr. Monk Some in effect say it is called a Person but indeed in a proper Sense is not and that therefore it is a Somewhat as Dr. Wallis Some say it is a Quality and Property of the divine Essence Some say it is the Essence it self The School-men say it is God knowing himself by a reflex Act. Thus you see we are all to pieces amongst our selves and when we are united and understand by the Son of God one and the same thing 't is like the Unitarians will fall in with us But alas alas now am I come to the killing Reason of all Reasons to wit the seventh page 13. if I can but dispatch it I shall think my Work near done it is this The Doctrine of Christ his being the Essence of God is a Principle of that Consequence that the Christian Religion stands or falls with it To demonstrate this Mr. Taylor lays down these two fearful and monstrous Positions namely That if Jesus Christ be not true God of the same Essence with his Father it follows first that the Mahometan Religion is preferable to the Christian and Mahomet was a greater Prophet than Christ Secondly That Christ was an Impostor and Deceiver the Jews did justly in sentencing him to Death for Blasphemy That the Christian Religion is Idolatry and Superstition and the Messias is not yet come This roaring Reason makes a terrible Noise in Country Churches If this be true 't were enough to make a Man afraid to come near a Unitarian as long as one lives Unitarians did I say nay Mercy Mercy for as to several of our leading Trinitarians what will become of them for Mr. Monk plainly denies that Christ is the Essence of God but only a Person or Mode Dr. Wallis is of the same Mind and I am almost afraid Mr. Taylor is leaning that way and if he should what a lamentable thing would that be But now by way of Reply First observe that this Expression Christ of the Essence of his Father is not directly in express terms taught us by our Lord or the holy Scripture Secondly That our Proofs are only Consequences a long time ago and still much controverted by very learned Men and yet Mr. Taylor adventures to be so confident as to say in effect that supposing his Opinion be not true that is if he be mistaken then Christ must needs be beneath Mahomet nay an Impostor and the Jews did well to put him to Death for Blasphemy These are very high Words and look too bold and presumptuous I confess if the Pope and Church of Rome had said so it had been no very surprising thing because they believing themselves infallible might therefore look upon their Interpretation of Scripture even in the most nice and dubious Points to be certainly and infallibly true for infallible Persons cannot err But for Mr. Taylor who I doubt not thinks himself a fallible Man for him I say to hug and magnify his own Opinion in so intricate and curious a Question wherein as hath been hinted the most learned Trinitarians are greatly divided in their Apprehensions and to value it at such a rate as to think and proclaim that either his Notion must be true or Christ must be false this is very amazing And I cannot forbear thinking that Mr. Taylor had Monsieur Lamoth's Book by him when he penn'd this Reason Lamoth in his Discourse of the Trinity p. 15. hath these Expressions That in case the Doctrine of the Trinity as now held be not true then the Apostle Paul had not common Sense nor any tolerable degree of Understanding nay was a Mad-man and the rest of the Apostles were Blasphemers And page 33. I make no difficulty saith he to say they have deceived us most shamefully and their Writings are no better than continual Blasphemy if Christ be not God But Secondly I shall endeavour to demonstrate that in case Mr. Taylor should be mistaken and Christ be supposed not to be of the Essence of God yet it doth not thence follow notwithstanding all Mr. Taylor says that he was worse than Mahomet or that the Christian Religion is worse than Mahometism To which purpose I will consider what he says His chief if not only Reason for this is in page 15. Because the Christian Religion brings in Idolatry but Mahomet abolishes it I answer I shall not concern my self with Mahometism nor magnify it for expelling Idolatry But for the Christian Religion that it brings in Idolatry in the case supposed I deny for if the Christian Religion necessarily brings in Idolatry it must be either in the Unitarians or the Trinitarians But it doth not necessarily bring in Idolatry in the Unitarians nor yet in the Trinitarians therefore the Christian Religion doth not necessarily bring in Idolatry To make short for proof of the minor I refer you to the close of my Answer to his first Reason I come now to his second monstrous Assertion namely If Christ be not the Essence of God then he is an Impostor Now the consequence of this I deny and on the contrary affirm that tho Christ were not of the