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death_n	mortal_a	sin_n	venial_a	6,152	5	13.8485	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52602	An account of Mr. Firmin's religion, and of the present state of the Unitarian controversy	Nye, Stephen, 1648?-1719.	1698 (1698)	Wing N1502; ESTC R4610	32,345	84

any should say they are not prohibited in the Mosaick Law Some of them were punishable with death by that Law as Gluttony and Drunkenness by the Law at Deut. 21.20 Luxury Riot Lust and such like are contrary to the good of a Man's Children and of himself or of his Neighbor and the Commonwealth and therefore are implicitly forbid by that Commandment at Lev. 19.18 which requires that a man should love his Neighbor as himself I do not love my Neighbor as my self if I am guilty of Luxury or Riot by which my Heir and the Poor are defrauded or if I am guilty of Ambition Covetousness or Lust by which I spoil or grind or wrong my Neighbor Nay Lust Riot Excess Covetousness do unfit us and that very much for the service of God and for the honest and honorable discharge of our station whatsoever that be in the Commonwealth therefore we may say they are implicitely forbidden by all those Commandments of the Law that require either the Fear Regard and Service of God or the welfare and esteem of our Neighbor or Selves XII Concerning Magistrates I believe 't is not lawful for them under the Gospel to inflict Capital Punishment Death on any Offenders no not on Murderers This was the Doctrine of divers of the Fathers of the three first Ages scarce any of 'em believ'd otherwise Nay they added 't is not lawful to go to the Wars as a Souldier or Officer or to assist at Executions or even to defend a Mans own Life by any such resistance as will take away the Life of the injurious Aggressor The reason they gave for this last was that by killing a Person who attempts to murder me he is dispatched out of the world without Repentance and therefore is certainly damn'd but the Christian by being killed loses only his Life and enters upon a blessed Immortality Some Unitarians have been of this mind while others have written against the whole Doctrine In short it is not their Doctrine as Unitarians for some of them have held it while others I believe the most disallow it XIII Concerning some other points I believe as the Church of Rome believes for we agree with them in several points of Doctrin What these points are he tells us at Chap. 9. from p. 201. Namely that somethings were said by our Saviour by way only of monition or counsel not of command That we merit by a good Life and may be perfect That all Sins are not damnable That the prayers of the living may help the dead Nay the Author of the Considerations on the Explitions of the Trinity speaks favourably of the Transubstantiation Let us begin at the foot of this account The Author of the Considerations is no otherwise favourable to the Doctrine of the Transubstantiation than by saying of it 'T is only a Philosophical Error or Folly not an Impiety p. 21. And again p. 22. 'T is a Mistake into which the Papists have been cozened by the Philosophy of Aristotle Would Mr. Edwards think a man favoured the Doctrines in his Books if he gave them no better Names than Mistakes Errors and Follies Mr. Edwards finds Impiety Irreligion Atheism and what not in all Doctrines and all Authors he dislikes We are no so dextrous We sometimes think that we spy an Error or Mistake and sometimes it seems so gross as to deserve the name of a Folly but to call it Impiety Irreligion Abnegation of Christianity how much soever Mr. Edwards delights in it and makes it his constant Practice as well in preaching as writing we cannot approve the Example it being always contrary to Charity good Manners and Truth The Prayers of this Living may help the Dead Mr. Edwards quotes for this but one Socinian Writer nor is that Author positive in the case He only says Those who believe a middle state or place for the Dead do well to pray for them That is in case you suppose beside Heaven and Hell some middle place where Souls may repent and reform or are any otherwise capable of mercy or where they have not yet received their last Doom It is Charity to interceed by our Prayers for them as much as we would for the Living I believe he is the only Writer of his Sect that can be charged with any such thing but we have it in print concerning a late Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Sheldon that he prayed for the Dead in his daily Prayers But what one particular Man dos or says is not to be imputed to his whole Party and reported to the whole world as an Article of their Creed All Sins are not damnable A Christian may merit by his good works and may be perfect Merit and Perfection may be truly or falsly said of the works and life of a Christian man according as you interpret the terms Merit and Perfection Taking 'em in the sense that Protestants use them no Man can merit of God the infinite Recompences of Heaven and of Blessedness everlasting nor was any Man perfect or without Sin but only that Lamb of God that taketh away the Sins of the world But Merit and Perfection are sometimes used in a popular sense namely for that tho imperfect yet sincere Obedience to God's Commandments to which God has graciously appointed the recompence of everlasting Blessedness in Heaven and for universal Obedience as it is opposed not to Oversights and Frailties but a wilful indulging our selves in particular Sins In this sense every sincere Christian both merits and is perfect Yet I own that divers Unitarian Writers have spoke either too loosly or too incorrectly on the point of Perfection but they have been as much opposed by some of their own number The same cannot be said concerning the distinction of Sin into mortal and venial for our People are positive and unanimous that as St. John words this matter there is a Sin which is not unto death 1 John 5.16 God Almighty they say has not appointed Hell-fire to our Frailties and Inadvertences but to our Contempts and advised Breach of his Laws Some things said by our Saviour are Counsels to such as would be perfect not absolute indispensible Commands to all the Faithful without exception He quotes for this an obscure passage of one single Socinian Writer who never was espoused in that matter by any of his Party We judg that the distinction of Counsels and Commands is a great and very dangerous Presumption a back-door by which to escape from almost a mans whole Duty The two Doctrines of Counsels for the perfect and probable Opinions will furnish the most profligate Wretch in the world with defences and excuses for his very greatest Enormities Lastly after all I believe Tho the aforesaid Articles are all of 'em necessary to make a Man a Socinian yet the belief of only one of them is enough to make a Man a Christian and that one Article is that Jesus is the Messias In which it is not included whether