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glory_n	ghost_n	son_n	trinity_n	2,658	5	10.0265	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40444	A vindication of the Unitarians, against a late reverend author on the Trinity	Freke, William, 1662-1744.	1687 (1687)	Wing F2166; ESTC R15264	34,768	28

and every little Creature and is not there a difference between a Mediator appointed by God and one set up meerly by the whimsie of Man If these are not good Reasons for our giving to Christ Honour as a Mediatour I know not what are I am sure they are better than to make God stoop to such a petty Honour as to be absurdly Mediator to himself But you have a further Argument pag. 205 from 2 Phil. 9. 10 11. That at the Name of Jesus every knee shall bow and that every tongue shall confess But what that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father And who shall deny you this Honour Not I no I will grant it you in confusion to your own Hypothesis for 't is such a Lord and not a God that I would have you think him to be Now that we might the better understand what Honour is due to the Son the Scripture hath expresly called it and appointed it to be Mediation but yet not so as that we should pray to him for our Mediation no more than we are to pray to him for any thing else Nor ought any other Worship to be paid him unless personally present and then as the only Son of God and Lord of the World he requires it and such Worship is what is given him Heb. 1. 6. where the following verses 7 8 9. plainly shew it not to be intended of the Supream Worship but as is mentioned Rev. 5. 9 10 11 12 13. because God for his excellency and worthiness has appointed him that Honour Lastly To account 2 Cor. 13. 14. for a a Supream Adoration were to make Gen. 48. 16. so too and as for the Worship of the Holy Ghost as you your self can as good as confess pag. 194 there is no mention made of it in the whole Scriptures so that you may see on what a rotten Foundation your Faith stands and indeed were not the Truth I write for now near as clear as the Sun at Noon I should not be so zealous for it Mediatory Kingdom I proceed now to write of Christ's Mediatory Kingdom and here I cannot but observe how the Trinitarian Hypothesis distorts the whole frame of Truth makes God a Mediator to himself and a Coequal take as an Honour an underling Office whereas Christ in the Arrian Idea as the great Son of God is fit to be our Mediator between God and his Handiwork and may be deservedly honour'd with the Title that he alone can prevail with God for mercy for us And here I cannot but let you see Sir with what false colours you would magnifie this Office to make it rational for a Coequal to accept of it thus pag. 159 you make it nothing That God exalted him to it And so pag. 163 That he was forc'd first to suffer for it and then receive it as a Gift whereas indeed if he were a Coequal it were both servile and degrading to him even to accept it tho' on any Terms and tho' with a Reward So pag. 173. I cannot but admire to see how you glorious out this Kingdom how you would fain seem to make it command the Father when alas Sir you know your self all the Power of this Kingdom is but an humble Intercession p. 179. Indeed your Argument p. 176 and 243. That no One but a God can administer it is somewhat forcible against the Socinians but can be of no force for you against the Arrians But why do I use more words That all Power in Heaven and Earth were given him after his death Mat. 28. 18. If a God coequal before were Nonsence and as a Creature-God your self says he cannot exercise it so that Prophecies should cease as they did while he was Incarnate John 7. 39 16. 7. 13 14 15. were absurd otherwise indeed you might as justly frame a Mediatory Kingdom to interpret that great Text of the Holy Ghost John 16. 13 14 15 as build such a groundless one as this for Christ Of the Three Persons together Having premised thus much in general of the Son and indeed on whom almost depends the whole hinge of the Controversie I shall now proceed to shew you how the whole Three Persons are treated when they are named together in Scripture that you may see even there our Hypothesis prevails also Know then that in such places the Father is represented as our God distinct and solely the Son our Lord distinct and wholly and the Holy Ghost only as our aiding Spirit or Comforter Eph. 4. 4 5 6. 1 Cor. 8. 5 6. So in the Revelations likewise St. John makes the Son and Holy Ghost but as Attendants on the Throne of the Father Rev. 5. 7. 8 9 c. whilst he only sits on the Throne and the greatest Honour even of the Son is that he has redeem'd us and so is become worthy to open the Book But yet as I have formerly shewn you as the Father impowers the Holy Ghost through the Son in all Acts of Grace so are their Records One 1 John 5. 7. And yet not but that this Record receives a stile agreeable to the Excellency of the Person giving it where 't is distinguish'd thus in the Father 't is call'd Operation the Son Administration and in the Holy Ghost Gifts 1 Cor. 12. 4 5 6. And the manner of Gift in the Father is called Love in the Son Grace and the Holy Ghost Fellowship 2 Cor. 13. 14. Rom. 15. 16. So likewise as all Three being engaged in our Salvation they are put in as Articles to our Apostles Creed but yet with subordinate Titles as God Lord and Holy to shew their distinction and inferiority so that your Argument you see Sir that their being there makes them Coequal and God is very weak pag. 197. for by the same Reason you might make every body or the Catholick Church God likewise Hence likewise the ancient Doxology before it was alter'd was Glory be to the Father through the Son and by the Holy Ghost see Sparks on the Liturgy which shew'd plainly their Subordination Indeed since upon the prevailing of the Doctrine of the Trinity it has been alter'd But with what Scripture-Authority Now I hope you see plainly But I shall not dissent from you that the Socinians absurdly baptize in the Name of the Holy Ghost if there were none and they do worse than those Disciples who never heard of him for they acknowledg'd him when they did which these even now do not But what are not they our Brethren And are we not bound to have a Charity for their Errour And who shall condemn them in it that they are wilfully blind However to return This makes not but that we are baptiz'd in their Names as our Spiritual Governours Mat. 28. 19. for so even the Scripture plainly express themselves 1 Cor. 12. 13 27 10. 2. where we are told That we are baptiz'd by one Spirit into one body which is Christ that is into the Church by