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The true character of the spirit and principles of Socinianism, drawn out of their writings With some additional proofs of the Most Holy Trinity, of our Lord's and of the Holy Ghost's divinity. By J. Gailhard, Gent.
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Gailhard, J. (Jean)
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blessed saviour call'd an High-Priest in one Epistle And in his kind of Priest-Hood he was as much a Priest as ever Aaron was in his and he offered himself as really as ever any expiatory and propitiatory Sacrifice were offer'd under the Law therefore his pretious Blood which was shed upon the Cross till Death intervened is so often mention'd in Scripture chap. 9.12 ver 14. By his own Blood he entered in once c. and the Blood of Christ which through the Eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God even to Death Again Now once in the end of the World hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself ver 16. ver 26. Ephes 5.25 Acts. 20.28 thereby to save and sanctifie his Church for he loved it and gave himself for it and so hath purchased it with his own Blood which could not be done without a Sacrifice and a Priest there 's no true proper and real Effect without a true proper and real Cause As the Article of Christ's Satisfaction is one of if not the most Fundamental of our Salvation so the Holy Ghost hath in Scripture taken special care to confirm it in both Testaments Isaiah 53.10 read the whole chap. His Soul was made an Offering for sin saith Isaiah and the Lord hath laid on him the Iniquities of us all thereby the Prophet alluding to the Ceremony of the scape Goat Asasel Levit. 16.21 1 Joh. 2.2 1 Pet 2.24 which was loaded with the Sins of the People so in several places of the Psalms c. in the New Testament he is said to be the Propitiation for our sins and who his own self bare our sins in his Body on the Tree with several others to the same Effect full and plain enough 2 Cor. 4.4 except to those in whom the God of this World hath blinded the Minds Yet Smalcius as if once had not been enough * Exam. 100 Err. Err. 57.66 said elsewhere That Christ is Metaphorically and improperly called a Priest and that he never offered a true but only a metaphorical sacrifice Again 't is false that Christ upon Earth purged our sins therefore they utterly deny the Merit of our Saviour's Death and thus impiously would overthrow the Foundation of our Salvation whilest St. Paul in several places of his Epistle to the Hebrews doth plainly demonstrate the Necessity Excellency and Efficacy of our Saviour's Sacrifice of himself for our Deliverance from God's Wrath the Curse of the Law and from Sin and Death Here I may shew an instance how far in an Impious way Men can go when God hath left them unto themselves These are the Words Et si nunc Vulgo c. * Racov. Cat. p. 177. And though now it be the Common Opinion of Christians that Christ by his Death hath deserved Salvation for us and fully satisfied for our sins yet that Opinion is Deceitful Erroneous and very Pernicious Where is that Fear of God Modesty Soundness and Humility which that worst sort of Men would in their Opinions and Expressions seem to pretend to But to omit so many other Evidences of their Blasphemous Writings I shall only add some Words of the same Smalcius †Exam. Err. 47.72 Christum nobis c. Christ hath not reconciled God to us nor when offended appeased him towards us God of himself and of his own Will is become favourable to Men without any ones Reconciliation Christ hath not obtain'd the Forgiveness of our sins by the shedding of his Blood for us So then with Paul we may say the Preaching of the Gospel is vain 1 Cor. 15.14.15.17 our Faith is also vain we are yet in our sins and the Apostles are found false Witnesses of God at one blow they with denying Christ's Satisfaction for us to Divine Justice would blast our whole Joy Comfort and Assurance in this Life and hope of Happiness in that which is to come 'T is certain that in the Work of Redemption to give and receive are Relatives for as a Man cannot properly be said to receive a thing except it be given him by another so no Man can properly be said to give except there be another to receive Thus in the Work of Redemption the price which Christ gives the Father receives it as Scripture saith Rev. 5.9 Ephes 5.2 Heb. 10.5.7.10 1 Pet. 1.18.19 Thou hast Redeemed us unto God through thy Blood and Christ hath loved us and given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor Again Ye know that ye were not Redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold But with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot The Blood of Christ and his Death by the Sacrifice of himself is the Meritorious Cause of our Redemption and Salvation This Gospel-Doctrine should not be scoffed at by Men who would pass for Christians yet thereby make Heathens of themselves in joyning with Heathens to mock God's Institutions of the Ceremonial Law which represented Christ's Sacrifice upon the Cross let an Heathen who knew no better say †Cat. Distich de Morib l. 4. Stultitia est morte alterius Sperare Salutem 'T is a Folly to look for Salvation by another Man's Death but no Christian should say so I am apt to believe that Roman was not a meer stranger to the Custom of the Jews but as well as Ovid he might have read Moses's Books whereof the Translation by the Septuagint was then Extant and long before for by what that other in his Metamorphoses saith of the Flood of the Tower of Babel represented by the Gyants attempting to scale up to Heaven and some such other things we have ground to believe that he had read the Book of Genesis so might also Cato who though accounted a Wise Man by the World if he by the Verse of his already Quoted intended any thing against the Ceremonies of the Law about Sacrifices which represented that of the Messiah's Death whereby Salvation to Mankind was to be purchased according to the Prophecies of David Isaiah Daniel c. then we may reckon him to have been one of those whom Paul speaks of who professing themselves to be Wise became Fools Rom. 1.22 1 Cor. 1.23 24. so we may all others of his Opinion because as the Doctrine of the Messiah or Christ was to the Jews a stumbling Block so to the Greeks or Gentiles it was Foolishness but unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks Christ is the power of God and the Wisdom of God but we find Socinians to take part with those who barely are Jews and Greeks but not with them which are called so are more unexcusable than Cato and other Heathens who never had the Gospel-Light shining upon them as they have As they deny Christ's Satisfaction so wholly to deprive him of his Priestly Office they also would take away his
chap. 23.43 with a strong Asseveration he saith Verily to day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Which is evidence of his commanding Power there hereupon the words of an antient Doctor are remarkable * Hilar. lib. de Trin. p. 77. Habes conquerentem ad Mortem Relictum se esse quia Homo est Habes eum qui moritur profitentem se in Paradiso Regnare quia Deus est Thou hast him complaining to be forsaken at his Death because he is Man thou hast him who dying declares he Reigns in Paradise because he is God for none but God the King of Heaven hath Right and Power to dispose of places in Paradise When Paul saith He hath a desire to depart and to be with Christ He therein declares Phil. 1.23 how when God's Servants are departed this Life they are with Christ in Heaven a place of Joy and Comfort That there is a Hell we by the Grace of God shall prove it out of Scripture but before I must follow the charge how to make the Soul insensible after Death and the total Annihilation which is plain denial of Hell do take out of most part of the World all manner of Vertue and open a wide Door to all sort of Licentiousness Immorality and Wickedness for if the greater part of the World be as they are contain'd in their Duty more out of Fear of Punishment than love to Vertue what then will not the Covetous Ambitious Unclean Revengeful c. Men and Women dare to do to satisfie their several Passions if once they are persuaded that after this Life no Punishment shall be inflicted upon them for all their Wickednesses Are not Thoughts of Impunity an encouragment for them to commit Crimes For the fear of a Judgment and Torments to come are a Curb upon and Terror to the Wicked as we read that Paul's reasoning of Judgment to come made Felix tremble Acts. 24.25 After this rate they will fear nothing from God after Death and being free from the terrors of Hell's Torments their only care shall be how to avoid the Justice of Men which they can more easily do than that of God who cannot be imposed upon as Men are if they can but hide themselves from Man's Eye they will think they are safe enough 1 Cor. 15.32 and say Let us eat and drink for to morrow we die However let them do what they can to free Men from the Thoughs of Hell yet I defie them to free them from the Terrors of an Evil Conscience Such false Teachers who would persuade others that there shall be no Hell can hardly be able to persuade themselves of it no doubt but they wish it were so neither God nor Hell Acts. 24.15 Scripture saith There shall be a resurrection of the dead both of the just and unjust After Resurrection shall follow Judgment for the Dead shall rise to come to Judgment which shall pass upon all both Just and Unjust certainly that Judgment and Sentence shall be executed upon both and as for some it will be Eternal Life so by the Rule of Contrarles for others 't will be Eternal Death for as Felicity shall be Eternal so shall Misery be The Word of God speaks of Hell and of Heaven of Goats and Sheep Reprobate and Elect as we read in the description of that Judgment made by our Saviour where mention is made of an everlasting fire and the Eternity of those Torments for Soul and Body Matth. 25.41 Mark 9.45 46. Matth. 13.42 chap. 25.41 are expressed by a worm that never dieth and a fire that never shall be quench'd and a furnace of fire there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth Hence we see First there are after this Life Torments prepared for the Wicked for the Devil and his Angels for his Children Secondly those Torments are great being represented by what can be conceived and expressed to be most painful as is Fire with a mixture of Combustible Matters to make it more fierce therefore call'd Rev. 19.20 A lake of fire burning with brimstone which the beast and false Prophets were cast alive into Whether it will be a material Fire we may not well determine for we must not presume beyond what is written but a fire it is for in many places God's word calls it so Matth. 18.8 Thirdly Those Torments shall be eternal for Scripture saith it and we must not pretend to be wiser and know more or better than God who in the fore-quoted places calls it An everlasting fire that shall never be quenched Jude 7. 't is elsewhere call'd eternal Fire suffering the vengeance of eternal Fire otherwise called Everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the Glory of his power and 't is to last to all Eternity for 't is said that the beast and the false prophet with the wicked shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever which latter words plainly shew the continuation without intermission of those Torments and besides Scripture we have reason for it if the joys of Heaven be Everlasting so must the Torments of Hell be now both the justice and Truth of God which are two unshaken Pillars require that there be a continuation not annihilation of the wicked for is it not just that the Soul and Body which together sinn'd against God should also together suffer the pains due to Sin there must be an adequate punishment for offences against an infinite Eternal Majesty but the finite Creature cannot intensively suffer an infinite Torment therefore must extensively that is of an infinite duration and whether or not the fire be Material the wrath and curse of God can supply it with Fewel for ever and ever now that there is a judgment to pass and be executed upon all I am sure it is the Apostles doctrine when he saith for we must all appear before the Judgment-Seat of Christ 2 Cor. 5.10 that every one may receive the things done in his Body whether it be good or bad the same Reason there is for bad as for good and our Saviour speaks home when upon account of the Resurrection of the last day he saith they that have done good shall out of their graves come forth to the Resurrection of Life and they that have done Evil unto the Resurrection of Damnation but damnation is not Annihilation John 5.28 29 and can men be so impious as to think that the threatning of Hell is but a scare Crow a forged Tale or the Man in Clouts Another errour of theirs about Resurrection is this that the same Bodies which are buried shall not raise the question is not about the quality but about the Substance which shall be the same but of different quality God say they will give Spiritual ones instead of those we had here which is a forgery wholly destructive to the Resurrection of the dead one of the Articles of our Faith for if there be