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death_n	body_n	life_n	resurrection_n	10,682	5	8.7967	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52608	Considerations on the explications of the doctrine of the Trinity by Dr. Wallis, Dr. Sherlock, Dr. S-th, Dr. Cudworth, and Mr. Hooker as also on the account given by those that say the Trinity is an unconceivable and inexplicable mystery / written to a person of quality.	Nye, Stephen, 1648?-1719.; Wallis, John, 1616-1703.; Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1693 (1693)	Wing N1505B; ESTC R32239	45,913	35

of the Party I say now 1. That their Quotations out of Socinus and the rest are for a great pa●● of them as false and disingenious as those ●● Dr. Wallis were as any one will see who shall take the Pains to consult the Authors themselves 2. They make it to be a great Heresy in some Socinians that they deny there is a certain Fore-knowledg of contingent Events they say 't is a Denial of God's Omniscience And yet all Men know that very many of the most Learned Trinitarians have been of the same Opinion Antients as well as Moderns Protestants as well as Catholicks Nor have these Doctors so much as offered at an Answer to the Reasons of Socinus and Crellius concerning a conditional Knowledg in God 3. That God is Omnipresent not in his Essence or Person but by his Knowledg and Power is also held by divers Learned Trinitarians and it must needs have been the Opinion of those Fathers who either were Anthropomorphites or held that God is a Body not a Spirit 4. These Doctors have written against the Socinians by occasion of the English Books that have been lately published by those of that Perswasion they should therefore have attacked the Doctrine of those Books they should have described our Opinions out of our own Writings not from the Books of Foreigners The English Socinians sincerely believe that God is truly Omniscient that he foreseeth all Events how contingent soever they may be to us They believe the real Omnipresence of God or that he is present in his Essence or Person in all Places and not only by his Power Knowledg or Ministers They honour or if we must use that word they worship the Lord Christ neither with the same sort nor with the same degree of Worship which is due to God they worship or honour him with their Minds only as one who is highly exalted by God above all Principality and Power and every Name that is named and to whom God hath given to be Head over all things to the Church In a word they neither pay a higher Worship nor impute a greater Power or Knowledg to the Lord Christ than the most Learned and the far greater Number of Trinitarians impute and pay to the Human Nature the meer Human Nature of Jesus Christ in his present State of Exaltation We have said these things so often in our late Books we have defended them so earnestly that none but Persons of little Honesty or great Inconsideration would object to us such Opinions as these before-mentioned But these Gentlemen had a longing Mind to be Authors and who should they signalize themselves upon so popularly as upon the Socinians if they have got Reputation by their Books that is by weak Arguments and strong Calumnies it is with so very few that I do not think they will reap an Advantage by it But one of them urgeth that Socinus was in this dangerous Heresy that the Soul of Man after the Death of his Body is in a State of Inactivity and Unperception in a word neither perceives nor lives till the Resurrection of the Body at which time it receiveth Immortality by the meer Grace or Gift of God but is not of its own Nature immortal I do acknowledg that this seems to be the Opinion of F. Socinus but I believe of very few Unitarians besides But this Error was common to him with some of the Fathers the Learned Monsieur Du Pin has noted that Justin Martyr Irenaeus Minutius Foelix and Arnobius were in this Sentiment There was no Reason therefore to object this to Socinus as if it were a peculiar Opinion of his much less to the English Unitarians who never defended it nor that I know of do any of them hold it As to Mr. Basset there are two things very remarkable in his Answer to the Brief History of the Unitarians the meanness and dulness of the Book it self it being written with no Vivacity Wit or Elevation of Thought and the undecent Insolence of the Author His Book being such as it is if the Brief History cannot shift for it self against that Reply to it the Historian is resolved it shall take its Fortune he is perswaded that when a discerning Man has read Mr. Basset's Answer if he again looks over the Brief History he will at least as much approve of it as at first Mr. Basset has said nothing that can in the least shake the Reputation of the Brief History unless his Reader will believe him when he charges the Historian with false Quotations of Authors To this the Historian answers that he hath not made one false or mistaken Citation but Mr. Basset sometimes not understanding the Authors that are quoted for they are Greek and Latin and sometimes mistaking the Sense of the Historian which he doth very frequently it hath happened hereupon that he hath charged the Historian with his own either Ignorances or Inadvertences But I am not at leisure to write a Vindication every time that negligent and ignorant Scriblers mistake my meaning or the Sense or the Authors by me alledged I reckon it to be his Insolence that a Person who had nothing to offer on these Questions but what was very trivial and vulgar should yet give disrespectful Language without any the least Provocation given by the Historian He saith for instance that indeed the Foreign Socinians have been learned and subtile Men but he cannot say so concerning the English but for the Epistler so he calls the Writer of the Brief History because 't is written in four Letters he saith Poor Wretch ought to have imploy'd his small Talent to honester Purposes and not have sought for Reputation only by his Nonsense his Follies and his Impieties This was a Mortification indeed c●ming as it does from so great and worthy a Hand but the Comfort is we are apt to be more advised and better'd also by our Humiliations And yet I am still of Opinion that as Mr. Basset thought it requisite to answer the Brief History after the great Victory gained over it by Dr. Sherlock so there will not want many others who will judg it no less than necessary to give other Answers to it after this Triumph of Mr. Basset But however that be I answer to Mr. Basset as Moses did to Pharaoh Glory over me I am resolved Mr. Basset shall have the Self-satisfaction that he hath mauled the Epistler for ever For I will not catch Flies nor spend my Artillery upon Mud-Walls when I happen on some such Second as Dr. Sherlock found up against the Jesuits Mr. Basset may hear from me and not before I will not ask Pardon Sir for the length of this Letter for you see to how many it was necessary to make some Answer but I ought not to forget to give you my Thanks and Respects for the Liberalities and Favours which you have done to your Humble Servant A LETTER to the Publisher from another Hand SIR I Heartily thank you