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A40718 A parallel wherein it appears that the Socinian agrees with the papist, if not exceeds him in idolatry, antiscripturism and fanaticism / by Francis Fullwood ... Fullwood, Francis, d. 1693. 1693 (1693) Wing F2513; ESTC R38752 24,721 38

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A PARALLEL Wherein it appears that the SOCINIAN Agrees with the PAPIST If not exceeds him in Idolatry Antiscripturism and Fanaticism By FRANCIS FVLLWOOD D. D. and Arch-deacon of Totness in Devon Thinkest thou this O man that judgest them which do such things and dost the same that thou shalt escape Rom. 2. 3. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth Rom. 14. 22. IMPRIMATUR May 16. 1693. R. Barker London Printed for A. and J. Churchill at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row 1693. TO THE Most Reverend Father in God JOHN LORD Arch-Bishop of Canterbury And Primate of all ENGLAND FRANCIS FVLLWOOD Presumes with all Humility to Dedicate this following short Discourse touching Socinianism c. IT would be an unpardonable vanity in me to imagine either that the World needed my Observation how Seasonable and highly Acceptable His GRACE's late Vindication of our Lord's Divinity and Incarnation was or my Recommendation of it could I find words worthy to do it Yet thus much I cannot forbear to utter that 't is a Rare thing to find such Condescention such Candour and such Charity even towards the Enemies of our Common Faith as well as to Friends of it in a person of the Highest Station Whereby indeed he shews himself forth as an Eminent Head not only Adorning but Influencing and Animating by an admirable example the great Body of our Church under him If I may presume to speak my mind in a few words more the strength of Reason is so dextrously managed in those four Excellent and Incomparable Sermons that it will not be easie to answer them the two former of them have driven both the Arian and Socinian Reason to palpable Non-sence And the Two latter have given the World so reasonable and satisfactory account of the Christian Oeconomy that all their idle Ideas and imaginary pretences to the contrary are Deaded at the Root and put to silence in the Grave without hope of a Resurrection at least in the same Body The World is a sensible Witness of the truth of this to which I was provoked by the strange assurance of some amongst us having no farther design in it then the Publick advantage no not so much as to gain his GRACE's Countenance and Protection of this small Pamphlet the usual pretence of such Dedications But I most humbly beg His GRACE's pardon for the boldness of it and pray heartily that GOD would long preserve His Person and succeed all His Excellent Endeavours in the Government and for the good of this Poor Church Litton near Dorchester April 25. 1693. TO THE READER VVHAT I have charged the Socinians with viz That they are equally guilty of Idolatry Antiscripturism and Fanaticism with the Papist if not more hainously is no more then what their Learned Adversaries do generally twit them with They have indeed done it obitèr or more by the by and I have more largely undertaken to prove it upon them in the following Sheets The SOCINIAN stands Indited here of those three great Offences in Religion and methinks 't is but reasonable to expect he should answer to this Charge before he proceeds any farther to disturb our Common Faith with his novel and nice Disputes and Quarrels about particular Points If he think himself concern'd so to do I would advise him to begin with the First Article of the Inditement and clear himself and his Cause from Idolatry in the sence we charge it upon the Church of Rome More plainly That he would Consider and Speak out unto these two Propositions viz. ' That to give the Worship due to the Supream God to a Creature is Idolatry 2ly That 't is Lawful and therefore no Idolatry to give the Worship due to the Supream God to Jesus Christ These two Propositions divide the Vnitarians as they call themselves into Two Parties One of them affirms the First and the other the Second as I have observed and in my Opinion both of them do their parts against each other unanswerably And if both be found so far in the right I hope neither of them will see Cause to deny the Conclusion That then Jesus Christ is more then a mere Creature that is the same with the Supream God However if any think themselves engag'd to persist in the denial of either of those Two Propositions for the saving of their Cause when we hear what they can say I doubt not but they will have a farther and a fuller Answer if need be The Good Spirit lead us into all Truth THE INTRODUCTION The Design Stated and brought to an Issue THE SOCINIAN values himself much for his Opposition to Popery and indeed some of that Name have managed it in many considerable Articles with great Reason and Merit and were I such an Unitarian as he pretends to be I should esteem it more agreeable and less Scandalous to be called a Jew or a Turk or an Infidel than so bad a Christian as the Papist is But the Socinian hath one very dear and darling Opinion and is a Man of so much Reason and Resolution that if Reason in the Service of his Hypothesis require it he seems not to stick at any thing tho' it savour never so rankly even of Popery it self Yea tho' the things themselves abstractedly considered are the Objects of his professed Hatred and Detestation And though they bear the burthen of the Socinian charge against Popery and tho' he upbraids the Protestant with some degrees of the same guilt yet when the grossest of those things appear necessary for the Maintenance of his Cause the Popery vanisheth the Opposition ceaseth and with great Friendship the things otherwise detested are entertained and embraced are openly professed and practiced and pleaded for with all imaginable Reason and Zeal Now That I may justifie what I have said 't is observable that there are three small Peccadilloes which lie pretty near the Root and Essence of the Papacy in the Judgment of the Socinians themselves wherein for the state of their Cause no doubt they do plainly Symbolize with if not out-do the very Jesuit These have respect to the Term of their Worship the Rule of their Faith And Lastly the very Foundation of their Religion and are no less or greater than Idolatry Antiscripturism and Fanatical Enthusiasm In short my present charge upon the Socinian is this that he agrees with and even goes beyond the Papist in all these viz. Idolatry Antiscripturism and Fanaticism or Enthusiasm all which in the three Chapters following I shall endeavour to prove and demonstrate in a fair and just Comparison betwixt them which is all my present intention and business For I must leave the Merits of the Socinian Cause at large to the Vndertaking promised by the Excellent and Learned Dean of St. Pauls who the World knows will perform it throughly and effectually and earnestly desires and expects it CHAP. I. The Socinian compared with the Papist in point of Idolatry