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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52603	An accurate examination of the principal texts usually alledged for the divinity of our Saviour and for the satisfaction by him made to the justice of God, for the sins of men : occasioned by a book of Mr. L. Milbourn, called Mysteries (in religion) vindicated.	Nye, Stephen, 1648?-1719.	1692 (1692)	Wing N1502A; ESTC R225859	84,564	68

of a Man describing his Conception or Generation by the Holy Ghost or Power of God in the Womb of Holy Mary declaring that he died was buried rose again and was exalted to the right Hand of God that is to be next unto God all which is a denying him to be God It says no more of the Holy Ghost than it says of the Holy Catholick Church I believe in the Holy Ghost I believe in the Holy Catholick Church so all know this Creed is read in the Original Greek Your last fling at T. F. is to this purpose tho after a scurrilous fashion that the Socinians have made choice of him to disperse their Pamphlets That a Person so much concerned and imployed in the disposal of Charity might keep the Ballance even between Heaven and Hell and while he supports Mens Bodies might pervert and poison their Souls 'T is well Sir but what will your Wisdomship advise in the case Shall we turn this dangerous Man out of the gainful Imployment of neglecting his own Business and losing his Time to be an Instrument of Good to the Poor and Necessitous And let me ask you this Question Do you really think that this Gentleman ever endeavoured to proselyte to his particular Perswasion any of the Objects of Charity with whom he is concerned Does he think you seek to gather a Church out of the Hospitals the Prisons the Corners of Streets or of such Persons as are ready to perish for want of Bread or Clothes If you your self do not so think as you are challenged to give but one single Instance of what you would insinuate to your Head you are an ill Man to make that the subject of your Scurrility which should have been of your Praises and Commendations Doth the Age Sir so abound with Men who make it any part of their business to minister to the Wants of others that it should be advisable to discourage such Persons by false and scandalous Innuendo's But I am with-held by a particular Charge as I am told from him from doing him that Right against your Reproaches which I thought to be due to his Exemplary Industry and particular Dexterity in solliciting and managing the Cause and Interests of the Poor He saith if what he doth in that matter will not defend it self he is content to be without a Defence You conclude with submitting ALL that you have written to the Censure and Correction of Holy Mother-Church I acknowledg the Language of Babylon but was it convenient that a Presbyter of the Church of England as you write your self should thus publish to the whole World that he has neither Faith nor Religion I mean of his own but only what Mother Church shall prescribe to him as the terms of Preferment He propounds here in a Book of 800 Pages the Doctrines of the Trinity and the Satisfaction as Essential Articles of the Christian Religion and such as must be believed or if you 'll believe him you shall without doubt perish everlastingly He pretends he has proved these Doctrines by Demonstrations of Reason and by Testimonies of Holy Scripture and of all Antiquity Well does he himself believe what he has written Not a Tittle of it he says unless Mother Church approves of it he submits ALL Faith and Proofs to the Censure and Correction of his Holy Mother let her hang or save he submits This is the Man with whom we have to deal without Faith and without Conscience unless as the Church directs nay and he dares profess too to be otherwise without either Neither is L. M. alone but there are many others that believe their Paradoxes no more than we do but they subdue first their Consciences and afterwards their Minds to the Sophistries usually alledged to prove them so long as Holy Mother Church which can dispose of their Fortunes in the World recommends this Belief as the condition of holding a Parsonage or Vicarage or of getting a Deanary or Prebend On the same Conditions Mother Shipton should be as sacred and infallible with them as Mother Church and they would believe the Kingdom of Oberon and the Territories of Fairy-Land and had they been born Papists Transubstantiation should have been reckoned among the holy Mysteries which Faith must imbrace tho Reason craz'd they say since the Fall of Adam disclaims and renounces them But who is Holy Mother-Church to whom they pay such Profound Submissions I meet with her in Story some hundreds of Years past she seems to be such a one as the Scots imagin'd Queen Elizabeth to be I mean as uncertain and vivacious The Scots thought their King should never succeed to the Crown of England for Queen Elizabeth say they is not a particular Woman But the Lords of the Council in England call an old Woman Queen Elizabeth and so long as there is an old Woman in England they will never want a Queen Elizabeth But the worst thing to my Fancy in Holy Mother-Church is this that she is such an Individuum Vagum in one place she is this thing in another she is the just contrary she is not the same in England for instance that she is at Rome or at Geneva or in Germany and the two Northern Kingdoms or in the Provinces of the Levant in all these places she is so different a Person that she mortally hates and furiously persecutes her own self I find just such another Fantasm haunting the chosen Nation as is now meant by Mother Church and it was in as much regard with two sorts of People the Designing and the Weak as Mother Church is now with the like sorts of Men and Women Jer. 7.4 Trust not in vain words saying The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord are these By which they intended what some now do when they say Mother-Church Mother-Church Mother-Church but the Prophet ventures to call them vain words i. e. a lying and unprofitable Pretence But after all that Reverence which any pretend to have for this Holy Mother 't is certain there is nothing really meant by our Holy Mother the Church but only the strongest side or the prevailing Party And all the mighty Complements Men use to this blessed Mother are nothing else but their Wit or their Fears They find themselves the Slaves of an usurping Faction in the Church which is able to constrain them to profess any thing tho never so contradictory and absurd therefore the Witty presently list themselves of the Party call themselves her Sons and Children and subscribe and swear to all she propounds In others their Dread and Awe turns into real Reverence or rather Superstition and they act and believe as they are commanded without desiring or caring to reflect upon the Causes which first biassed their Minds to this Obedience but those Causes were originally nothing else but the Power and Wealth of the Holy Mother that is as was said of the strongest side But there is another

sort of People called Schismaticks and Hereticks who having free and discerning Minds stout and brave Souls finding themselves in some Particulars either cheated or wronged by the strongest side they maintain tho a dangerous and bazardous yet a generous and perpetual War for the Natural Liberties of Mankind in Matters of Conscience and Religion They assert by all possible and honest means the Kingdom of God that is they admit of no Lords over Conscience but only God nor any Law of Faith of Worship or Manners but only God's Word no Canons or Articles no humanly devised Creeds or Catechisms nothing but God's Word the naked Gospel without any Interpretations or Interpreters but only Reason and Good Sense These have the luck sometimes to baffle Mother-Church and to bear up against all her Indignation But this Sir shall serve in Answer to your Dedication and Preface only let me advise you as you would come off with more Credit and do more Good in the Parish of Great St. Hellens than you did at Great Yarmouth that you carry it with more Modesty and Respect to all the Inhabitants and to forbear such smutty Lampoons as you made upon that Town What follows is an Answer to your Book and I address it to Friend T. F. An Accurate EXAMINATION of the principal Texts usually alledged for the Divinity of our Saviour and for the Satisfaction by him made to the Justice of God for the Sins of Men Occasioned by a Book of Mr. Luke Milbourn called Mysteries in Religion vindicated To T. F. CHAP. I. Containing an accurate Examination of 1 Tim. 3.16 SIR YOUR particular Friend Mr. Milb has begun his Attack on Socinianism with a Text of St. Paul in the Explication and Vindication of which he wastes no fewer than 82 Pages The Text is this Great is the Mystery of Godliness God was manifest in the Flesh justified in the Spirit seen of Angels preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the World received up into Glory 1 Tim. 3.16 He saith hereupon that indeed some Translators read here Great is the Mystery of Godliness WHICH which Mystery was manifested by Flesh that is the Law was given by Angels but the Gospel by the Ministry of Men even by Jesus Christ and his Apostles called Flesh here in opposition to Angels who are Spirit and because Flesh is the usual Scripture-Term for Man but all the Greek Copies he saith agree in reading this Text as we read it in our English Bibles as also does the famous Manuscript in the King of England's Library which is about 1300 Years old And if saith he the Providence of God as the Socinians contend is concerned to preserve his own holy Word from Corruptions and Falsifications 't is reasonable to think such Providence has been exercised rather about the Original Greek than about Translations But neither saith he do all the old Translations read here as the Socinians do for the Arabick reads as we do GOD was manifested in the Flesh Further more Macedonius to whom the Socinians impute the Corruption of this Text was too late in time for he lived in the Year 512. to attempt an Innovation in Scripture And besides he could have no design in so doing because he had no peculiar Opinions about our Saviour Finally the word God in the first Clause of this Verse makes that Clause to accord with all that follow it for all of them together will make this most proper Sense The Eternal Son of God God equal with his Father and Creator of the World took upon him and was manifested in our weak and passible Nature being incarnate in the Man Christ Jesus He was justified to be God notwithstanding his mean outward Appearance by divers glorious Actions and Miracles done on that behalf by the Holy Spirit He was seen i. e. known by Angels to be the Eternal Son of God and God thô covered with the Veil of Flesh He was preached as such by the Apostles to the Gentiles was believed on generally in the World where-ever they came and after his Resurrection He was received up into the Glories of Heaven But if saith our Author we read here as the Socinians do Great is the Mystery of Godliness WHICH Mystery was manifested by Flesh that is by Men what Sense shall we make of the other Clauses Will it be Sense to say The Mystery of Godliness the Gospel was seen by Angels Or will it be true that it was received up into the Glory of Heaven The Socinians indeed here answer That instead of these words received up into Glory it should have been said by our Translators was gloriously extolled was magnified and lifted up but this saith our Author is false for on the contrary the Gospel was despised and derided both by Jews and Gentiles This is the Sum and Force of what he has transcribed out of Authors in behalf of his Opinion from the words of this Text. He might if he had pleased have given us too the full and solid Answer made by the Socinians to these Pretences of his Party for I see he has quoted the Books in which those Answers are to be found but that was not the way he thought to mend his Fortunes in the World which is what he aims at and the cause of his writing his Book I will briefly evince these two things 1. This Text of St. Paul has been falsified by those who affirm the Ante-mundan Existence and Divinity of our Saviour 2. This Corruption has been so unskilfully performed that the Attempt serves only to betray their Unfaithfulness and Partiality but does not a whit avail their Cause 1. This Text has been most certainly falsified by substitution of the word God instead of Which WHICH Mystery was manifested by Flesh The first time I meet with this Text read with the word God among the Antients is in the Acts of the first Council of Nice a Council of next Authority to the Scriptures themselves in the Opinion of our Opposers In this Council a Person repeated the words of St. Paul as they are now read by Trinitarians God was manifested in Flesh the Person who made this Mistake probably from some Marginal Note where he found the word God put as an Explanation of the word Which in the Text was answered by Macarius Bishop of Jerusalem that he mistook the reading for St. Paul's words are Great is the Mystery of Godliness WHICH was manifested by Flesh Mr. Milbourn will not say that the Authors of the Old Translations the Latin Syriac and Armenian were Unitarians be sure St. Jerom Author of the Latin was a bigotted Trinitarian yet they and he read with the Nicene Council WHICH was manifested by Flesh not GOD was manifested in Flesh I appeal to any Man of ordinary sense whether he can think those Translators and Fathers would have corrupted the Bible in favour and to the advantage of their Adversaries the Unitarians by saying not GOD but WHICH was manifested by Flesh