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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52606	A brief history of the Unitarians, called also Socinians in four letters, written to a friend.	Nye, Stephen, 1648?-1719.; Biddle, John, 1615-1662.; Firmin, Thomas, 1632-1697.	1687 (1687)	Wing N1505; ESTC R37735	58,564	186

World that he gave his only begotten Son to die and shed his Blood for us From SIR Your Faithful and Assured A Fourth Letter TO A FRIEND Concerning the UNITARIANS Called also SOCINIANS Containing the Texts objected to them out of the Epistles and Revelation Rom. 1. 25. Who changed the Truth of God into a Lie and worshipped and served the Creature more than the Creator who is blessed for ever Amen Printed in the Year 1687. A Fourth Letter Concerning the Unitarians vulgarly called Socinians SIR WE are come to the last part of our Task the Texts of the Epistles and Revelation and the Answers of the Socinians to them 1. Rom. 1. 3. Jesus Christ our Lord which was made of the Seed of David according to the Flesh Rom. 9. 5. Of whom as concerning the Flesh Christ came who is over all God blessed for ever Amen Answ 1. It is very probable by the Syriae and by some Passages in Ignatius and other Fathers that the word God was not originally in this Text for they read it thus Of whom as concerning the Flesh Christ came who is blessed above all for ever 2. But admitting the reading in the vulgar Editions of the Greek the Greek Words as Erasmus and Curcellaeus observe should have been thus translated Of whom as concerning the Flesh Christ came God who is over all be blessed for ever For the Words are a Thanksgiving for Christ and for his Exaltation The Addition of the word Amen proper in Prayers and Thanksgivings doth much countenance this Translation 3. These Words according to the Flesh and as concerning the Flesh never signify as Trinitarians would here interpret them according to his humane Nature as if Christ had also a Divine Nature Rom. 9. 3. My Kinsmen according to the Flesh Rom. 4. 1. Abraham our Father as pertaining to the Flesh Col. 3. 22. Servants obey in all things your Masters according to the Flesh Had now Abraham or Paul's Kinsmen or have Masters a Divine Nature because these Words according to the Flesh and as pertaining to the Flesh are used of them The Truth is these Phrases are only as much as to say according to the Body and are to signify that Abraham is the Father of the Jews according to their Bodies as God is the Father of their Souls or Spirits and that the Jews were Paul's Kinsmen according to the Body but not of Kin to him in Respect of Likeness in Faith or Manners also that Masters are Masters over our Bodies not of our Minds or Spirits Therefore in the other Texts also where Christ is said to be of the Seed of Abraham of Israel and of David according to the Flesh the meaning can only be that as to his Body or outward Man he descended of the House of David and of the Stock of Israel and Abraham his Soul or Spirit being from God. 2. Rom. 2. 16. God shall judg the Secrets of Men by Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 4. 5. Who both will bring to light the hidden things of Darkness and will make manifest the Counsels of Hearts Answ The Knowledg Christ hath or at the last Judgment shall have of the Secrets of Hearts is purely by Revelation from God and the Divine Word communicated to him Rev. 1. 1. The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave to him to shew unto his Servants 3. Rom. 10. 12. The same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him Answ This and what follows is spoken of God not of Christ 4. 1 Cor. 1. 2 3. All that in every place call upon the Name of Jesus Christ Ver. 3. Grace be to you and Peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Answ 1. As to the former of these Texts see on Acts 9. 14 21. For all that is there said takes place here also 2. But as to ver 3. It shows plainly that Christ is not God for it speaks of him as a distinct and different Person from God Therefore Grace and Peace is wished to the Corinthians from God as the Author of every good and perfect Gift and from Christ to use the Words of Origen as the Procurer by his Intercession with God. 5. 1 Cor. 6. 9. Your Body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost 2 Cor. 6. 16. Ye are Temples of the living God. Answ The Holy Ghost or Spirit being the Inspiration and Power of God the same Bodies that are Temples of one must needs be Temples also of the other 6. 1 Cor. 10. 9. Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed of Serpents It had been said before at ver 4. They drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them and that Rock was Christ Answ 1. The Rock was Christ not really but in Signification it signified and prefigured Christ for which reason 't is called a spiritual Rock So St. Austin contr Advers Leg. et Prophet l. 2. c. 6. This Interpretation is confirmed by Instances of like Nature Gen. 41. 26. The seven good Kine are seven Years and the seven good Ears are seven Years that is they signify and prefigure seven Years of plenty This Rock prefigured Christ as he is the true Rock of his People and Church Its Waters also signified Christ for as they were the Refreshment and Life of the Israelites in the Wilderness so is Christ of the true Israel of God in the howling Wilderness of this present World. 2. Whereas we are bid at ver 9. not to tempt Christ 't is to be noted that the ancient and true reading of this Text is Let us not tempt God. S. Epiphanius hath left upon record that it was the Heretick Marcion who corrupted this Text by putting Christ for God in the Copies by him published Epiphan L. 1. T. 3. p. 358. Edit Petav. But admitting the reading in the English Bibles yet the sense will be Let us not tempt that is murmur against Christ as the Israelites tempted or murmured against God in the Wilderness That tempting God and Christ is rightly interpreted by murmuring against them appears by Numb 14. 27 28 29. 7. 1 Cor. 12. 4 5 6 11. There are Diversities of Gifts but the same Spirit Differences of Administrations but the same Lord Diversities of Operations but it is the same God which worketh all in all All these worketh that one and the same Spirit Answ The plain meaning is God and his Spirit that is God by his Spirit and Inspiration worketh that great Diversity of Gifts Prophecy Tongues Healing which were in the Christians of those times and that though there are different Administrations that is Orders of Men in the Church yet they are all under one Lord or Head even Christ 8. 2 Cor. 8. 9. Ye know the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for our sakes he became poor that we through his Poverty might become rich Answ The sense is Such was the Favour and Love of Christ to Mankind that in his