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land_n	egypt_n	joseph_n	pharaoh_n	4,186	5	10.7503	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49188	The scripture-terms of church-union, with respect to the doctrin of the trinity confirmed by the unitarian explications of the beginning of St. John's Gospel; together with the Answers of the Unitarians; to the chief objections made against them: whereby it appears, that men may be unitarians, and sincere and inquisitive, and that they ought not to be excluded out of the church-communion. With a post-script, wherein the divinity of Christ, and of the Holy Ghost, according to the generality of the terms of scripture, is shewn, not to be inconsistent with the unitarian systems. Most earnestly and humbly offered to the consideration of those, on whom 'tis most particularly incumbent to examin these matters. By A.L. Author of the Irenicum Magnum, &c.	Lortie, André, d. 1706.	1700 (1700)	Wing L3078A; ESTC R221776	144,344	120

is there in being sincere and seeking most carefully to understand the real Meaning of the Scripture No Men do account innocent Mistakes punishable in most difficult Matters in which honest and diligent Persons may err And shall we think God harder than Men Far be that thought from any Christian The Gospel is a benign and a gracious Oeconomy and we are in the hands of the Father of Mercies We may then be sure that God will not impute unavoidable and therefore pitiable Errors Wherefore the most rigid Trinitarians that will impartially and attentively consider the Vnitarian Arguments must needs discern that if Vnitarianism be an Error yet it is not a damnable one and consequently not an intolerable one nor therefore a Heresy Gal. 5.19 20. The Apostle declares that Heresy taken in an evil Sense for in general it signifies a Sect which includes some particular Sentiment whether good or bad is a Work of the Flesh that is is the Attendant and Product of Wilfulness and Wickedness And therefore from what has been said it manifestly appears that Vnitarianism cannot be a Heresy in that Sense tho' it were an Error seeing that if it be supposed that it may be an Error yet it cannot but be own'd it has so many Arguments of Credibility and looks so much like a Truth that inquisitive Men may very honestly mistake about it if indeed they err when they take it for the very Import and real Sense of Scripture Tit. 3.11 The same Apostle expresly says that those that are Hereticks in being so sin willfully and are condemned of their own Conscience being perverted by some evil consideration knowing that they do not sincerely what lies in them towards the acknowledgement of the Truth and it being in their power to consider and discern that their Tenets are not right but favour Vice and are suggested by the Flesh So that a Heresy is a criminal and wilful departing from some Evident Truth for the gratifying of Sensual Inclinations Such was the Heresy of the Nicolaïtans who as it is thought would have Women to be Common Such was the Heresy of the Gnosticks who made Religion to consist in Speculation and the Knowledge of Mysteries and who held that it was lawful to dissemble the truth to avoid Persecution And such is the Heresy of those who possessed with a domineering Spirit and a hasty and imperious Temper drive away from their Communion by Human Decisions those that differ from their Sentiment in Matters that are most Difficult This is a Schismatical Heresy But there is no such thing in the Sentiment of the Vnitarians if it be an Error It is far from gratifying the Flesh It doth not indulge a careless and lazy humour averse to consideration and making Men willing to follow others blindly any whether so they may but enjoy their ease and pleasure But it exposes Men to trouble And it is grounded on Arguments that manifestly appear rational and apt to persuade those who are sincere and inquisitive and who fear and love God Moreover Vnitarianism doth not require of any Christians nor doth impose upon them any thing against their Conscience or necessitate them to dissemble their Sentiments For it is not Magisterial and Imposing Vnitarians in Mr. Chillingworth's words proposing the Bible that is the Generality of the Expressions of Scripture for Terms of Church Communion And that Vnitarianism doth not cause Men to be absolutely wanting in any essential Part of Religion is implied in this consideration that it is attended with so much Evidence and Credibility that Men as has been shewn may be Vnitarians and be guiltless and without crime it being not to be thought that God has made any thing absolutely essential to Religion wherein sincere and inquisitive Persons may mistake For when Men out of a Principle of Piety do in all Particulars and even in the most intricate what they can to be rightly Inform'd and to discharge their Duty what can a Good God exact more According to the Natural Ideas of God the Tenor of the Gospel and the Principles of Protestants Whatsoever is indispensibly Necessary must needs be Ciear and Discernible to all that are sincerely Inquisitive And after all it cannot be denied but that the Vnitarians acknowledge those weighty Points which are absolutely requisite to move us to love and obey God and Christ. For in general they believe that Christ according to God's express Will is to be lov'd and worshipped on God's account and to God's Glory and as most intimately united with God that the Spirit belonging to Christ which Christ disposes of which He communicates to his Disciples and whereby Christians are sanctified is the Spirit and Power of God that God dwells and acts most eminently in Christ and that Christ is in the highest Station of the Universe all Things being Subjected to him the Father only excepted to whose Praise and Service all Dispensations are designed ultimately to tend as all own and who efficaciously directs and assists Christ in his Soveraign and Universal Government whereby Christ rules and acts as God and according to his Desire and the Laws he has enacted and established by the Covenant of Grace thus appearing not as being a Subject but as being the Soveraign together with the Father in this illustrious Oeconomy the Effect and Fruit of which will last for ever and the Honour and Glory whereof will eternally crown the Lord Jesus so that he shall to all Eternity be most intimately United to the Father and when he shall particularly commit and deliver up the Universal Administration of Government into God's hands when all his Subjects shall have attain'd to a Sinless Perfection and shall become Subjects to the Laws of a most Perfect State even then he shall retain the title of Soveraign he shall always be the next to God and tho' himself Subject to God so as that he shall live under God's peculiar Government and that all Creatures under him shall be under such an Oeconomy with respect to the Father as Adam was and as therefore may in that respect be termed the Law and not the Gospel he shall remain World without end the Prince and Head of all Men and Angels The Vnitarians therefore believe Christ to be most highly exalted and dignified and to be most intimately partaker of the Divine Nature infinitely more eminently than Joseph was made partaker of the Egyptian Majesty and Government together with Pharaoh when Pharaoh told him See I have set thee over all the Land of Egypt thou shalt be over my House and according unto thy Word shall all my People be ruled only in the Throne will I be greater than thou and when accordingly Pharaoh took off his Ring from his Hand and put it upon Joseph's Hand and arrayed him in Princely Apparel and made him to ride in the Second Chariot which he had and they cried before him Bow the Knee and so Pharaoh made Joseph Ruler over all the Land of