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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52613	A letter of resolution concerning the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation	Nye, Stephen, 1648?-1719.	1691 (1691)	Wing N1507B; ESTC R217844	25,852	20

Monster is that Faith that is made up of contradictory Parts of Propositions that destroy one another of such Inconsistencies that in saying and affirming one you either expresly or implicitly deny the other In their Doctrine of the Incarnation they tell us an infinite Person is whole and all united to a finite Man Is not this a contradictory Faith doth it not confound Infinite with Finite and make them to be all one doth it not destroy all the Demonstrations of Geometry and thereby contradict both our rational Faculties and our Senses Their Doctrine of the Trinity is in short this There are three Infinite Almighty All-wise Persons three eternal Beings three absolutely-perfect Spirits and yet but one GOD. Is not this a contradictory Faith Doth it not destroy our natural Ideas our congenit Notions For what are three Gods but three such Persons and what is the Idea Notion or Conception of but one God which is natural and congenit to every Man but one Infinite Almighty All-wise Person one eternal Being one absolutely perfect Spirit As to the late Attempts of some to satisfy in part these Difficulties you know Sir how vain and fruitless they have been Dr. Wallis saith the three Divine Persons are only three Modes that is three Qualifications or three Respects of GOD towards his Creatures and they make one GOD as Vnderstanding Will and Memory make one Soul But this saith Dr. Sherlock is both Non-sense and Heresy How doth Dr. Sherlock mend the matter Why he hath advanced an Explication of the Trinity which Dr. Wallis and other Orthodox Men have in Print condemned as Tritheism that is as introducing three Gods a far worse Heresy than Socinianism And thereupon they tell Dr. Sherlock in Print also That though he hath not been counted a Fool yet it may become a wise Man to change his Opinion In a Word they have in civil Language invited him to a Recantation 4. How is DEVOTION another principal Instance of Piety disturbed by such a strange and unaccountable Object of it Devotion is senseless and irrational if the Object to be adored and worshipped be not conceived by it But such of Necessity must be the Worship and Devotion of Trinitarians if in their Prayers they keep to their Belief For they may talk of a Trinity but themselves will not pretend that they can think it they can have no Conception of it no more than of Words without Sense We have seen very lately that those who have indeavoured to make Sense of this as they call it Mystery or to represent it as a possible and intelligible thing not only accuse one another of Heresy and demand a Recantation but are generally disclaimed by their own Party The Party it self if you mean thereby the general Body of Trinitarians are for a Trinity which no Man understands or ought to pretend to give other Account of it than that 't is an incomprehensible Mystery and this Trinity they call their GOD. And thus by their own Confession that Blame and Reprimand which our Saviour gives to the Samaritans is equally applicable to them and what he saith of himself and the Jews is verified in the Unitarians Ye worship ye know not what we know what we worship John 4.22 5. As to Obedience the last part of our Piety towards GOD and the most necessary the Obligation to it and all occasion for it is wholly taken away by the Doctrine of the Incarnation and the Superstruction which Trinitarians build thereon They say GOD the Son being incarnate in our Nature did by his active Righteousness fulfil for us all Obedience By his Sufferings in this Life his Death and Descent into Hell which things they call his Passive Righteousness He more than exhausted all that Punishment that is or can be due to Sin Whatsoever he did was they say for us and his Righteousness was meritorious of Heaven for never so many Sinners and what he suffered was in our stead also and one Drop of his Blood was sufficient to ransom and thousand Worlds from the Demerit of their Sins that is from Hell and all other Punishments The manifest Consequences of these Doctrines are these 1. Gospel-Obedience good Works or a good Life are in us unnecessary and superfluous some of them have said hurtful and dangerous to Justification and Salvation 2. Heaven is so much every Sinner's just Due and Debt from GOD without any Amendment or Newness of Life on their Parts that GOD would be unjust in giving them no more if more could be given 3. GOD should be unrighteous if he punish'd Men for Sin though unrepented of because we have in Christ our Representative both fulfilled all Righteousness and suffered and paid a more than sufficient Price of Redemption The notorious Decay of Christian Piety in all Places and Ages since these Doctrines have prevailed plainly shows That these are not speculative Consequences only but such real Consequences as do much influence the Practice of most Men. One may know and be assured that 't is these Consequences and this Belief which bolsters Men up in their wicked Courses because these are the things that comfort and support such at their Deaths The greatest of Sinners go away with Peace of Mind on the Reflection and Consideration of the infinite Merits and Satisfaction of GOD their Redeemer They have not nor can out-sin his Satisfaction and Deserts and applying both to themselves by believing in him that is by believing he merited and suffered for them in particular therefore they depart assuredly expecting of GOD the Rewards that are appointed to only Innocence and Well-doing I pray Sir desire your Friends who find Fault with us for reviving as they say unnecessary Questions to take it into serious and impartial Consideration Whether Doctrines that have these Consequences and also are such Hindrances of the other Branches of Piety ought not to be again and again examined whether they are or can be true The Fourth Reason against them is this They have crumbled the Christian Church into innumerable and unreconcilable Factions and Parries so that there is no possible way of restoring Peace but by returning to the Belief and Profession of the Unity of God Next to Godliness or Piety the Peace of the Christian Churches should be the Wish and Indeavour of every Christian Man But the Doctrines under Consideration have so divided the Churches called after the Name of Christ that there is no Agreement but among those Professors who believe there is but one GOD or but one who is God The Orthodox as they call themselves are so multifariously divided that they are not perhaps ten of them in a Party The whole Mobile indeed of them go under the common Name of Trinitarians and the Trinity and Incarnation are the general Tests of Orthodoxy among them but this is an Orthodoxy only of Names and Words for in interpreting those Words and Names I doubt very much whether there are ten of them that