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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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
A40721	The Socinian controversie touching the Son of God reduced, in a brief essay, to prove the Son one in essence with the Father, upon Socinian principles, concessions and reason : concluded with an humble and serious caution to the friends of the Church of England, against the approaches of Socinianism / by F.F. ...	Fullwood, Francis, d. 1693.	1693 (1693)	Wing F2516; ESTC R17950	19,397	38

Catholick Faith not but that they may be within the Mercy of God in some secret or extraordinary way I see no reason to take the Sentence so strictly whatever Athanasius thought as to damn every one that believes not every word in his Creed There is a large and lax-sence that may be admitted to save the Charity of our Church from denouncing Damnation against the Greek Church for want of the word Filioque He that doth not believe faithfully he doth not say literally or every Word or Saying in 't but rather the Substance of our Christian Faith touching the Trinity and the Incarnation of the Son of God This seems to be better allow'd us because though it bear the Name of Athanasius's Creed yet 't is no formal Creed as the other Creeds are which begin thus I believe c. but only a Declaration or Exposition of those two great Articles In which sence our Church may be supposed to say this Creed may be proved by the Holy Scripture In this large sence I doubt not but as we are bound to repeat it so we ought to believe it 2dly As Ministers Let it be well considered that Socinian Principles being once suck'd in how trouble some and uneasie they will be and what inward Gripes they will cause as so much Poyson in our Bowels as inconsistent and repugnant to the Obligations that lye upon us Not here to insist upon the 39 Articles which we have read before our People and subscribed ex animo which some take to be only Articles of Peace and Concord though that Consideration should be a Bridle to the loose and extravagant Railery of some among us Did not we declare our unfeigned assent and consent to the use of every thing contained in the Book of Common Prayer at our Institution Were we not admitted into our Office and unto the Profits of our Places upon these Terms Is not the Common Prayer the Rule and Measure of our publick Duties Now let it be considered how agreeable such Principles as we have discours'd of are with our necessary publick Offices in the Book of Common Prayer how a Socinian can satisfie himself with so frequent a Repetition of Gloria Patri c. how he can in Conscience say the Nicene Creed which he if a Minister of our Church is bound to do every Lord's-day c. how he can then also with any Peace in himself say the Letany wherein he is to call upon God the Father Son and Holy Ghost as Three Persons and One God how he can give Thanks upon Trinity-Sunday for Grace by confession of a true Faith to acknowledge the Glory of the Eternal Trinity and to worship the Vnity and pray that God would keep us stedfast in this Faith or administer the Holy Communion upon that day when we are commanded to say Everlasting God who art one God one Lord not one only Person but three Persons in one Substance c. Besides I have noted above Twenty Collects that occur to us in their proper turns that conclude with express mention and Honour of the Holy Trinity that we are bound to read as they come in their courses Yea lastly how shall such Principles suffer us to do our Duty to Children whom we are bound to teach that by the Common Creed they believe in God the Father and in God the Son and in God the Holy Ghost Now my Brethren if we are or hereafter shall be tainted with such Principles as are light with our Offices and Obligations we see our Case for while we continue in our Places and under the Obligations of our Ministry we must either read the Creeds Catechise our People according to the Form prescribed and say the Prayers according to the Rubricks or we must refuse to do so If we refuse I do not here censure many mens too frequent Omissions of some parts of our Service for which they think they have some necessity but if we constantly refuse to discharge our Duty upon Principle especially in the great Parts or Members of it as we have instanced before I must pronounce this is a plain Neglect of our Duty a horrid Schism in our Church a great Scandal and Temptation to our People and Neighbourhood and an unaccountable breach of our Trust and the Vows Promises and Obligations formally made by us and resulting from the nature of our Offices a forfeiture of all the Profits of our Places into which we were inducted upon Conditions of Conformity and cannot consist with a quiet or good Conscience On the other side if we do continue to perform all the Offices of our Ministry outwardly contrary to our inward Principles we prevaricate with Heaven We cannot justifie what some men dare to say that we read the Service as we would read an Act of Parliament or as the Burden of our Places for we are at our Devotion in solemn Applications and Addresses to the Divine Majesty and God and Angels and Men are Witnesses of our Hypocrisie and Dissimulation Thus we are entangled in a Snare and how we should break it and deliver our selves I know not but either by a voluntary leaving our Places or by being deprived of them by Authority as Criminals Dissenters Apostates or Nonconformists Hitherto we have proceeded to caution you upon a Supposition that the Attempts of Socinians may prove ineffectual or not gain much ground among us but if they should which the good God avert the Consequences thereof give a sad Prospect to all the true Friends of this Church though Her Enemies may please themselves with the premeditation of it What Alterations Distractions Confusions would Socinianism bring with it This duly pondered I hope will provoke all good men to Watch and Guard against all approaches of it Who sees not as this Novel-Heresie advances our Faith our Worship and Ecclesiastical Government is in danger If this prevail we must have new Articles of Religion new Creeds and our Prayers and Common Service must be almost all new and our Church must be quite another thing than now it is if it shall then deserve that Name when its Pillars are shaken and its Foundation rased which is laid in the Doctrine of the Trinity upon which it stood firm in Communion with the Catholick as before I observed ever since it was a Christian Church But that Good GOD who by his wise and watchful Providence hath hitherto so wonderfully preserved this Church of Ours from all the subtile Designs and violent Attacks of Her other Enemies and doth yet preserve it I hope will never suffer us to be swallowed up in the bottomless Gulph of Socinianism for the sake of his Dear Son and our Blessed Saviour JESUS CHRIST to whom with thee O Father and the H. Ghost Three Persons and One God be Honour and Glory in all the Churches World without End FINIS