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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39364	Polemica Christiana, or, An earnest contending for the faith which was once deliver'd unto the saints in I. a letter to the author of the Dialogue, &c., II. a vindication of the doctrine of Mr. Richard Hooker, against the mis-representation of an anti-trinitarion, in a pamphlet entitled, Considerations on the explications of the doctrine of the trinity, III. reflections upon some passages in a book entitled, The history of religion, IV. a vindication of Vincentius Lirinensis, from the unjust reproach cast on him, by an anonymous writer, in a book entitled, Animadversions on Mr. Hill's book / by Edmund Elys ...	Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1696 (1696)	Wing E685; ESTC R41121	13,781	30

hath his Substance or Essence of or from the Father he would seem to Obviate this Answer in these words They will say Mr. Hooker doth not affirm that the self-same Substance is Begotten and Unbegotten this indeed were a slat Contradiction But he saith That as 't is in the Father 't is Unbegotten as in the Son 't is Begotten Answ This is a most notorious Falshood Mr. Hooker does not assert That the Essence as in the Son is Begotten but that the Person of the Son is Begotten in that he hath his Essence of or from the Father Let us now consider what a Fast Friend this Disputer is to the Phanaticks i. e. The Despisers of the Liturgy of the Church of England which Mr. Hooker has so judiciously and irrefragably Defended What shall we do here says He shall we say Reverend Hooker has mistaken and mis-led his Sons who are all the Church of England into an Error concerning the Trinity Hath he ascrib'd to the Divine Essence Properties which he calleth Persons that are not in it To give up Hooker is to dishonour the Church of England it self to part with Father Hooker is to endangerthe very Surplice and even the Cross in Baptism nay that Book of Books the Common-Prayer If Mr. Hooker could Err about the Trinity what will the Phanaticks and Trimmers say Will not they be apt to pretend too He may have Erred in his profound Dissertations and Discourses for the Rites and Discipline of the Church Now I appeal to any Person of common Ingenuity in the whole World to Judge whether I had not Just Cause to Publish that Paper Entitled An earnest Call to those Non-conformists who really Believe the Doctrine of the Holy Blessed and Glorious Trinity To come into the Communion of the Church of England That by their Constant Regular Confession of the Christian Faith they may Confound the Devices of those Gain-sayers whom by their Separation they have so much Encourag'd I cannot imagine how 't is possible that any Nonconformist that has the least Spark of Grace that has in any measure the true Love of the Holy JESVS in his Heart should not be Inclin'd to the Communion of the Church of England upon the reading of these words of the most Judicious and Heavenly-minded Mr. R. Hooker in the Fifth Book of Ecclesiastical Polity The very Creed of Athanasius and that sacred Hymn of Glory the Gloria Patri than which nothing doth sound more Heavenly in the Ears of Faithful Men are now reckoned as superfluities which we must in any case pare away lest we cloy God with too much Service Is there in that Confession of Faith any thing which doth not at all times edify and instruct the attentive Reader Or is our Faith in the Blessed Trinity a matter needless to be so oftentimes mention'd and open'd in the principal Part of that Duty which we owe to God our Publick Prayer Hath the Church of Christ from the first beginning by a secret universal instinct of God's good Spirit always tied it self to end neither Sermon nor almost any Speech which hath concern'd matters of God without some special words of Honour and Glory to that Trinity which we all adore and is the like Conclusion of Psalms become now at the length an Eye-sore or a Gauling to their Ears that hear it Against which Poison Arianism if we think that the Church at this Day needeth not those ancient Preservatives which Ages before us were so glad to use we deceive our selves greatly The Weeds of Heresy being grown to such Ripeness as that was do even in the cutting down scatter oftentimes those Seeds which for a while lay unseen and buried in the Earth but afterwards freshly spring up again no less Pervicacious than at the first I shall not at this time recite any more of the words of this most Pious and Learned Man but only these with which I find my own Heart most Zealously affected Wisdom to the End she might save many built her House of that Nature which is common unto all she made not this or that Man her Habitation but dwelt in Vs The Good Lord give Grace to Thee and Me Dear Reader to Hold the Mystery of this Faith in a Pure Conscience Amen Reflections UPON Some Passages in a Book ENTITLED The History of RELIGION IT is to me most Evident and unquestionable that this Gentleman's Design is this in the Crowd of his Invectives against what he calls Priest-Craft of Heathens and Papists closely and subtlely to Convey into the mind of the Reader a Contempt of the Authority of the Church of England in Enjoyning all those that will be of her Communion to make Profession of Believing the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity exprest in those Forms of sound words which we commonly call the Creed of St. Athanasius and the Nicene Creed He tells us plainly p. 85. that The Council of NICE it self shew'd a Spirit of Contention rather than of Peace and Charity Truly this Man shews himself to be a Person of very ill Quality in using such vile Artifices to Delude the Reader as to endeavour to make him Conceit that St. Hilary and St. Gregory Nazianzen did not approve that most Orthodox Council Having thus Revil'd those most Orthodox Fathers of the Council of NICE affirming that they were led by a Spirit of Contention Hilary says he Bishop of Poictiers describes this saying we Decree every Year of the Lord a New Creed concerning God nay every Change of the Moon our Faith is alter'd c. Answ 'T is evident to every Man that knows any thing of Ecclesiastical History that St. Hilary speaks against those Creeds that were made in Opposition to the Council of NICE and that he would not allow the Arians to have the Name of Christians CHRISTIANUS sum says he non ARIANUS Lib. ad Constantinum Augustum Those other words of his which I shall here recite will most certainly put this Gentleman to a Blush if it be possible for him to Blush at any thing Deus Alius quam qui est Ex Deo Nullus est Hoc fidei nostrae secundum Evangelicam Apostolicam Doctrinam Principale Dominum Nostrum Jesum Christum Jesum Christum Deum Dei Filium a Patre nec Honoris Confessione nec Virtutis Potestate nec Substantiae Diversitate nec Intervallo Temporis separari Gregory Nazianzen says this Gentleman was so full of Detestation at these Quarrels of Christians that at last he resolv'd never more to come into an Assembly of Bishops because saith he I have never seen a good and happy End of any Council Answ Whatever St. Gregory Nazianzen said of any other Councils most certainly no Man ever had a greater Esteem of the Orthodoxy of the Council of NICE than this Blessed man abundantly declares in his Writings particularly in his most admirable Oration In Laudem Magni Athanasii Our Historian is not asham'd to own as great a Respect for