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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43808	A vindication of the primitive Fathers against the imputations of Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum, in his Discourse on the divinity and death of Christ referred to the sense and judgment of the church universal, the arch-bishops and bishops of the Church of England, the two famous universities of Oxon and Cambridge, and the next session of the convocation / Samuel Hill ...	Hill, Samuel, 1648-1716.	1695 (1695)	Wing H2013; ESTC R12727	83,119	189

A VINDICATION OF THE Primitive Fathers against the Imputations of GILBERT Lord Bishop OF SARVM In his Discourse on the Divinity and Death of Christ referred to the Sense and Judgment of the Church Universal the arch-Arch-Bishops and Bishops of the Church of England the two famous Universities of Oxon and Cambridge and the next Session of the Convocation by Samuel Hill Rector of Killmington in the Diocese of Bath and Wells Athan. de Synod Arimin Seleuc. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Printed for J. Whitlock near Stationers-hall 1695. THE PREFACE TO THE READER THat there was just Cause for a Writing of this nature I hope this Book it self will convince even his Lordship himself but how I came to be engaged in it perhaps the Curious may desire to know and I think it reasonable enough to satisfie them His Lordship had been well assured by some of his most Dutiful Clergy that the integrity of his Faith was under a common suspicion for causes which I shall think fit to suppress And this did so sensibly affect him that thenceforward all his Advices and Discourses seem'd pointed against Deism and Socinianism to work off the Jealousie of his Clergy And truly this seemed to be not only a designed but an effectual Essay hereunto which he offered in the Oral Discourse on the Divinity and Death of Christ of which I my self was an Auditor at Warminster in the Year 1693 being led thither by a strong desire to know the Senses of so great a Prelate on those Points which have employ'd my Theories for above Twenty Seven Years And truly as it was then delivered it gave a general Joy and Satisfaction to the whole Corona of the Clergy and to my self also for though there were some little failures I attributed those to the inevitable looseness of a present effusion since all the substance seemed even heartily Orthodox and Christian without any indecencies toward the Fathers or flouts at the received Notions or Forms and with most passionate concern against the Socinian Impieties For though indeed he commended the Foreign Socinians for their Morals yet ours he severely condemned for a rout of profligate and irreligious Villains Insomuch that I not only sincerely thanked his Lordship but desired a worthy Favourite of his Lordship 's to bespeak the Publication that the whole Church might rejoyce with us together that so Great and Learned a Father had so publickly and solidly asserted that Faith which he was supposed really to despise And not only so but I every where celebrated his Integrity and Learning among my Friends that upon my account they quitted their prejudices against him which several other Mens fair Character had not been able to remove But when I saw the Discourse as it came new dressed from the Press I was quite confounded by a complication of passions and amazements at the Changes made in it especially by the unfriendly usage of the Fathers * Preface to the Clergy and the gaudy Character of the Socinian Probity Justice and Charity Being thus disappointed no wonder if my heart was heated within me And hereupon I undertook to write to his Lordship my grief at those Passages which offended me and another particular practice of his Lordship not to be mentioned here This Letter his Lordship resented very grievously as too free and daring and for that Cause wrote to me that he would admit of no discussion of particulars with a Man of my ill temper who seemed made to exercise the patience of better Men. But had I come and modestly proposed my exceptions he could and would have given me satisfaction but if I would to the Press for want of such private satisfaction as I had forewarned his Lordship I might take my Course so that this Book comes out even with his Lordship's License The Persons near me to whom the Letter was shown by his Lordship on the account thereof given at second hand did indeed judge the Letter bitter and so I confess it was not from any malignity in my temper but in the matters charged on his Lordship And to shew my tenderness of his Honour I did protest to him that I wrote it not with that Envy through which some Men forgetting his great merits insult on his failures but that he might make such amendments himself as might prevent those assaults and censures which otherwise must fall upon him And to let him see that it was written for Conscience only not for clamour I promised him to impart it to no Man living nor should any Person have ever known the least apex of it if his Lordship himself had not discovered it Now whether his Lordship be indeed able to give me satisfaction as to the matters taxed in his Discourse I leave to him to try and God and his Church to judge But for the private practice I objected to him I will at present spare him and if his Lordship will be so kind to himself as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the matter shall not only be hushed up but every soul his Clergy will love him with new fervours But as to his Doctrine it is gone abroad and cannot return And if it be of evil influence on Young Students or Men prepared to Irreligion or of dishonourable Reflexion to the present Reign or State of Religion every Man has a just right fairly and bravely to oppose it without fear of Men or respect of Persons And if it be not so I promise his Lordship the most publick Penance and Recantation A Vindication of the Primitive Fathers against the Imputations of Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum c. PART I. § 1. TWO Things I have to urge against my Lord Bishop of Sarum in his Discourse on the Divinity and Death of Christ One is that he very defectively to say no worse states our Faith and Doctrine in the Articles of the Trinity and Incarnation tho' * P. 25. he professes it a Matter of the greatest Importance for us to have our Notions concerning these right and duly stated and tho' he exposes the Fathers under the same and worse Imputations which is the second thing that offends For he does not uncover any real failures in any particular Ancients but censures their very Catholick and Established Principles § 2. This then is to be the first part of my Charge That he foully states the Faith of the Divinity and Incarnation of Christ and therein of the Holy Trinity Of which he tell us † P. 30 31. there have been three Opinions to wit the Socinian the Arian and then Thirdly that which I would have called the Catholick and Christian Faith Now his Lordship means there have been these three Opinions either within or without the Church Catholick if within then indeed here is an insinuation laid for the Communion with Socinians and Arians which is a blessed Comprehension but if his Lordship means not within the Catholick Church only then he had been nearer the number