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A49107	An answer to a Socinian treatise, call'd The naked Gospel, which was decreed by the University of Oxford, in convocation, August 19, Anno Dom. 1690 to be publickly burnt, as containing divers heretical propositions with a postscript, in answer to what is added by Dr. Bury, in the edition just published / by Thomas Long ...	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.	1691 (1691)	Wing L2958; ESTC R9878	172,486	179

Imprimatur March 30 1691. Z. Isham R. P. D. Hen. Episc Lond. à Sacris AN ANSWER TO A Socinian Treatise CALL'D The Naked Gospel WHICH WAS Decreed by the University of Oxford in Convocation August 19 Anno Dom. 1690. to be Publickly Burnt as containing divers Heretical Propositions WITH A POSTSCRIPT in Answer to what is added by Dr. Bury in the Edition just Published By THOMAS LONG B. D. One of the Prebendaries of St. Peter's Exon Contra rationem nemo Sobrius contra Scripturam nemo Christianus contra Ecclesiam nemo pacificus senserit August de Trinitate l. 4. c. 6. Sanctius reverentius visum est de actis Deorum credere quam Scire Tacitus London Printed by Freeman Collins and are to be Sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1691. TO THE Right Reverend Father in GOD JONATHAN By Divine Permission Lord Bishop of EXON I May justly fear that in the Dedication of these Exercitations I have done as some inconsiderate Persons who seek to excuse a less by committing of a greater Offence It was I confess a great Presumption that I prefixt your Lordship's Name to a Hasty Scrible against the Crime of Persecution charged on the Church of England and now I presume upon your Lordship's Patience and Patronage in a Case of greater Importance it is not a Scandalum Magnatum nor any of the Plea's of a Temporal Crown but a Crime Laesae Majestatis an Overt Attempt to overthrow the Crown and Kingdom of our Blessed Saviour as if he also were a King de Facto and not de Jure which I now lay before your Lordship it is the Crown and Dignity of him in whose Person and Due Worship and Honour our common Salvation is wrapt up The Sanction of our Law viz. de Heretico comburendo was I confess too severe but if there be not some Powerful Restraint laid on such Damnable Heresies as deny the LORD that bought them the Sons of Belial will not forbear to deny him on Earth with a Non Obstante to our Saviour's threatning Him will I deny before my Father which is in heaven The Ecclesiastical Laws are but as Bruta Fulmina to such as wilfully Excommunicate themselves and unless the Temporal Power supply the Defects of the Spiritual we are like to run into a worse Confusion than hitherto we have this sort of Men being as great Enemies to the one as to the other Ruarus who incurred a Banishment for his Socinianism though as modest as any of them in a Tract of Magistracy printed with his Epistles p. 461. says The times may be such and if we consider the state of all Ages and Nations they have been and still are such that it is more hard for a Christian to discharge the Office of a Magistrate especially of a Supreme than for a rich Man to enter into the kingdom of heaven They are for an Independent Ministry no Friends to either of our Lord's Institutions the Sacraments of Infant Baptism and the Eucharist and though while they are under the Power of the Civil Magistrate they plead for an enlarged Charity yet if at any time they get the Sword to hang at their sides their Cruelty will be much more extensive This I speak the more positively because First Their Principles lead them to it for if the Papists with whom we agree in the chiefest Articles of Religion be such implacable Enemies as to design the utter Extirpation of our Church how much more will the Socinians who condemn us as Polytheists and Idolators for worshipping those whom they account meer Creatures execute their Fury on us But 2ly their Practices have abundantly declared their Inveterate Malice for when one Arian Presbyter had drawn Constantius to be of his Opinion I tremble to relate what Havock was made in the Church and before that time under Dioclesian having gotten the Donatists and other Hereticks to strengthen their Party they committed more Outrages on the Catholicks than Dioclesian himself though that was the fluctus Decumanus the most impetuous Wave that overflowed the Church I shall give a brief Account from a Witness above all Exceptions Vincent Lirinensis Ch. 6. Contr. Her with whom St. Augustine agrees in his Discourses against the Arians Vol. 7. and Socrates l. 2. c. 10. l. 4. c. 13. and Sozomen l. 3. c. 6. the words of Vincentius are these Cùm prophana ipsa Arrianorum Novitas velut quaedam bellona aut furia Capto prius omnium Imperatore cuncta deinde Palatii culmina legibus novis subjugasset nequaquam deinceps destitit Universa Miserere atque vexare privata publica sacra prophanaque omnia nullum boni veri genere descrimen sed quoscunque collibuisset tanquam deloco superiore percutere tunc temeratae conjuges depopulatae viduae prophanatae Virgines monasteria demolita desturbate clerici verberati Levitae acti in exilium sacerdotes oppleta sanctis ergastula carceres Metalla quorum pars Maxima interdictis urbibus protrusi atque extorres inter deserta spleluncas feras saxa nuditate fame siti affecti contrite tabe facti sunt Atque haec omnia nunquid ullam aliam ob causam nisi utique dum pro caelesti dogmate humanae superstitiones introducuntur dum bene fundata antiquitas scelesta novitate subruitur dum superiorum instituta violantur dum rescinduntur scita patrum dum convelluntur definita Majorum dum sese intra sacratae atque incorruptae veritatis castissimos limites prophanae ac novellae curiositatis libido non continet This one Testimony of so good an Author is enough to make us abhor the Authors of the Arian and much more of the Socinian Heresie which is more Impious and guilty of the greater Blasphemy the more sacrilegious Novelty and of such intollerable Pride and Contempt of all Mankind but themselves even while they are under severe Laws that I believe if their Power were equal it would be as well for our Temporal as Spiritual Condition to live under the Roman as the Racovian Harrows The Statute 29 Car. 2. which abrogated that De Heretico Comburendo declares That it doth not take away or abridge any Iurisdiction of Protestant Archbishops Bishops or other Iudges of his Majesty's Ecclesiastical Courts in Causes of Atheism Blasphemy Heresie Schism or other Damnable Doctrines or Opinions but they may proceed to punish the same according to the Ecclesiastical Laws by Excommunication Deprivation Degradation and other Ecclesiastical Censures not extending to Death So as before the Act the Learned Judge Hales in the beginning of his Plea's of the Crown gives an Account of the manner of Conviction of Hereticks which he says is First By the Common Law Whereof he gives some Instances Secondly By Archbishops and Bishops in a General Synod Thirdly By the Bishop in his Diocess The Common Law he says inflicts no Forfeiture neither indeed doth the Ecclesiastical if the Criminal abjure his Opinions being pro salute Animae but if he