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A61701	The religion of the Dutch represented in several letters from a Protestant officer in the French army to a pastor and professor of divinity at Berne in Switserland ; out of the French.; Religion des Hollandois. English	Stoppa, Giovanni Battista.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1680 (1680)	Wing S5769; ESTC R8262	51,056	72

it In all the Prophecies of the Old and New Testament he almost every where finds the Reign of Christ and that of Anti-Christ which is opposite thereto He has dispos'd the oeconomy of the Old and New Testament after a way not known before and such as had not yet been Establish'd by any Doctor He is the first that has discover'd and taught the difference there is between the Government of the Church before the Law and that under the Law and that after the Law He affirms That before the Law the Promise took place during which time of the Promise the Church was free That to the Promise God had added the Law which having been at first represented in the Decalogue contains only an abridgment of the Covenant of Grace and the Commandments of Faith Repentance and the Gratitude we owe to God as it appears by the sence of the Preface and of all the Commandements in particular He adds That after the worshipping of the Golden Calf God to Chastize his people for the Idolatry which they had committed had given them a Law consisting of Ceremonial and Carnal Commandements which were not good having impos'd upon them a Yoke by the Establishment of his Ordinances and Ceremonies Whence it comes that the Law had been made in appearance a Covenant of Works promising life to those who should obey his Commandments and denouncing malediction and death against those who should transgress them It is also another persuasion of his That the Commandement concerning the observation of the Sabbath-Day was one of those Ceremonial and Carnal Commandements which have been abrogated by Jesus Christ During all the time before Jesus Christ had paid the Father the price of our Redemption he affirms That all the Faithful were sav'd by the Security which Jesus Christ had given for us That the forgiving of Sins did not take place otherwise than by a connivance of Grace in as much as They were only under the Promise the payment or satisfaction having not been yet made by Jesus Christ That the Law being added as an obligation did reproach the People with their sins and put them into a mindfulness thereof by the Sacrifices and that it is upon that score that the Ancient people were under servitude and in fear of death till such time as Jesus Christ having by his Blood paid the Ransom of our Sins the Obligation which was in force against them being cancell'd we have fully and perfectly obtain'd the pardon of our sins He is of Opinion in fine That there is to spring up in the World a Reign of Jesus Christ which will abolish the reign of Antichrist and that when they who shall have corrupted the Earth shall be destroy'd the Church shall be in a happy condition in the World And when there shall be a restauration of the Reign of Jesus Christ before the End of the World and that after the Conversion of the Jews and of all Nations the Catholick Church shall scatter the rayes of its meridian light and glory into all Parts of the World He believes Her to be the Celestial Hierusalem which is describ'd in the Revelation the Emblem whereof represents to us the condition of the Church such as she ought to be in her greatest Splendour upon Earth and not that which is to triumph in Heaven I thought my self oblig'd to give you an account of the particular Sentiments of this Divine because he has a great number of followers as also for this Reason That Voetius and des Marets condemn his Opinions as Heretical nay indeed represent him as a Socinian in many things They affirm That he is an Innovator and give him the title of Scripturarius as if it were a great crime to be closely addicted to the Scripture and to make it the most important of our Studies There are many other Divines especially such as have studied under the Professors whom I have before named who obstinately oppose his Sentiments and endeavour to persecute and to procure the condemnation of all his Disciples It is not requisite that I should give you any account of the Roman Catholicks it being notorious to all the World what their Sentiments are You know also what the Opinions of the Lutherans are The famous Confession which they made at Ausbourg in the Year 1530 has made a sufficient discovery of them to all the World True it is that most of their Doctors have Opinions very different from their first Confession They are divided amongst themselves upon the score of very disconsonant Sentiments But as that diversity is found only in those of them who are in Germany I shall say nothing of it They who are in this Country keep closely enough to the Sentiment of their first Doctor Only observe here in what they differ from those who are in Germany Denmark and Sweden They do not use Auricular Confession Th●y have neither Images nor Altars in their Churches Their Ministers wear no Sacerdotal habits They have not the several Orders of Priests Deacons Arch-Deacons and Superintendents or Bishops as they have in most other Parts The Arminians took their denomination from Arminius their first Doctor who was a famous Professor in the University of Leyden They would rather be called Remonstrants by reason of the Book which they presented to the States-General in the Year 1611. to which they had given the Title of Remonstrance and which comprehended the principal Articles of their Belief You know the Five remarkable Points upon which they were condemn'd by the Synod of Dort held in the Year 1618 in which were present some Divines of your Cantons as also out of several Countries professing the Reformed Religion as England Germany and other plac●s After the death of Arminius and in the time of Vorstius and of Episcopius a most Eminent Doctor amongst them they adopted many Errours of the Socinians Nay most of them have deserted the Opinion of their first Master upon the Point of Predestination and Eternal Election Arminius had taught That God had Elected the Faithful by the prevision of their Faith And Episcopius is of Opinion That God has not Elected any one from all Eternity but that he does Elect the Faithful in time when they actually Believe He speaks only in very doubtful and ambiguous terms of the Prescience of God which was the great Fortress in which Arminius secur'd himself These same Arminians of the present time believe That the Doctrine of the Trinity of Persons in One only Essence is not necessary to Salvation That there is not any Precept in the Scripture by which we are commanded to adore the Holy Ghost nor any Example or Indication by which it appears that the Holy Ghost has been ador'd That Jesus Christ is not a God equal to the Father That Faith in Jesus Christ by which we are saved hath not been commanded nor took any place under the Old Covenant Most of them do make it their study to avoid that Expression

Having given you this Summary account of the Socinians my next work is to give you that of the Arrians Those last are very numerous in this Country and many amongst the Socinians have embrac'd their Opinions You know what were the Sentiments of the Arrians concerning the Birth of Jesus Christ They believ'd That the Word the Intellect and the Word of God had had been created before all the Creatures That God had made Use of it in the old Testament as of an Interpreter of a Mediator when he had something to declare to the Patriaerchs and Prophets That that word had by a voluntary annihilation animated the Body of Jesus Christ as the Spirit of Man animates his Body the Word having taken Flesh only without Soul and without Spirit Nay they were also of a persuasion That all the Souls of other men were Spirits subsisting before the Bodies and that they assum'd not the name of Souls till such time as they actually animated their Bodies Christopher Sandius a Gentleman of Poland Son to a Councellor of the Elector of Brandeburgh was the Restaurator of the Arrian Sect in this Country His habitation for some Years past has been at Amsterdam Among other works he has written two Books which I have seen whereof one is entituled The Paradoxall Interpretations of the Four Evangelists The other is An Ecclesiastical History in which he proves or pretends to prove That all the Doctors commonly called the Fathers of the Church who flourish'd from the time of the Apostles to that of Arrius had the same Sentiments as he had concerning the Mystery of the Trinity The Borrellists had their name from one Borrell the Ringleader of their Sect a man very Learned especially in the Hebrew Greek and Latine Tongues He was Brother to Monsieur Borrell Ambassador from the States-General to his most Christian Majesty These Borrelists do for the most part maintain the Opinions of the Mennonites though they come not to their Assemblies They have made choice of a most austere kind of Life spending a considerable part of their Estates in Alms-giving and a careful discharge of all the Duties incumbent upon a Christian They have an aversion for all Churches as also for the Use of the Sacrament publick Prayers and all other external Functions of God's Service They maintain That all the Churches which are in the World and have been ever since the death of the Apostles and their first subsequent Successors have degenerated from the pure Doctrine which they had Preach'd to the World for this reason That they have suffered the infallible word of God contain'd in the Old and New Testament to be expounded and corrupted by Doctors who are not infallible and would have their own Confessions their Catechisms and their Liturgies and their Sermons which are the works of m●n to pass for what they really are not to wit for the pure word of God They hold also That men are not to read any thing but the word of God alone without any additional explication of men Another persuasion they have is That if there should be any Assembly wherein men would content themselves with the bare reading of the word of God however the persons who might be desirous to be receiv'd into it may demean themselves provided they acknowledg the Holy Scripture to be the Word of God they ought to be receiv'd into its Communion The Enthusiasts or Quakers who affirm That what they say or do is by Divine Inspiration maintain That the Holy Scripture ought to be explicated according to the light of that Divine Inspiration without which it is but a dead Letter written to Children and not to perfect and spiritual men and that it is not the true only and perfect Word of God or the Compleat and Necessary Rule of Faith They maintain That their own private Spirit is the true internal and spiritual Word of God the Rule and the Judg of the Scriptures That men ought to hearken to and follow that Spirit and not the words of the Scripture That a man has within himself and in his own Spirit an infallible Teacher who if he hearkens to him will inform him of all he is to believe or do in orer to his Salvation That they who hearken to that Spirit are united to God and that such union makes them Gods When they are in their Assemblies they continue a long time in a sitting posture without speaking and many times without so much as stirring for the space of one or two hours and there is nothing heard of them unless it be some sighs and groans till such time as some one among them feeling the agitation and stirring of the Spirit rises up and speaks the things which the Spirit commands him to speak Nay many times the Women are sensible of those motions of the Spirit which occasion their speaking or holding forth in the Congregation of their Brethren In their ordinary discourses they speak of their Ecstasies and Revelations and will be always sure to add very severe censures of all other Christians They very vehemently declaim against Vices and with great earnestness press the mortification of the Flesh They challenge all those who are in the Assembly and conjure them to speak if there be any one that has ought to object against what the Spirit has inspir'd them to deliver And this occasions the frequent disputes and quarrels which happen amongst them Nay it comes to pass sometimes that after they have for a good while expected the coming and inspiration of the Spirit not any one amongst them being sensible of its heat and motion in himself they depart from the place where they were Assembled without any one's having held forth As to the Libertines they seem to have each of them his particular Sentiment to himself But most of them are of this persuasion that there is only one Spirit of God which is universally diffus'd and lives in all Creatures That the Substance and Immortality of our Souls is not any thing but that Spirit of God That God himself is not any thing but that Spirit That mens Souls die with their Bodies That Sin is not any thing That it is but a simple opinion which immediately vanishes provided there be no account made of it That Paradise is but an illusion a pleasant Chimera which the Divines have invented to engage men to embrace that which they call Virtue That Hell also is but a vain Fancy which the same Divines have fram'd to divert men from that which they call Sin that is to say to hinder them from being happy in doing what they please They affirm in fine That Religion is only an invention of Politicians to keep the people by the fear of a Divinity in a subjection to their Laws in order to the better Regulation and Government of the Commonwealth In short there are in this Country a vast number of persons as I know there were heretofore in England who go under the