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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38033	The Socinian creed, or, A brief account of the professed tenents and doctrines of the foreign and English Socinians wherein is shew'd the tendency of them to irreligion and atheism, with proper antidotes against them / by John Edwards ...	Edwards, John, 1637-1716.	1697 (1697)	Wing E212; ESTC R17329	116,799	294

it is said expresly that then Men shall give an Account viz. of their words and actions Mat. 12. 36. Heb. 13. 17. 1 Pet. 4. 5. and can any but Volkelius imagine that this Form of Speech signifies that they shall be punished if they be guilty of such and such Crimes Again in the Description of the General Resurrection and Last Judgment it is said The Books were opened and the dead were judged out of those things that were written in the books Rev. 20. 12. which imports that there shall be a Scanning of their Lives their Thoughts words and deeds shall be plainly Discover'd these as well as the Persons of Men shall appear before the Judgment-Seat of Christ they shall be manifested and laid open Thus the Socinian Error as it is repugnant to Good Reason and Common Sense so it contradicts the Holy Book of God and the Revelation made to us there But this is not all can there be a greater Gratification excepting what I shall mention next to all Atheists than this that none of their actions shall be accounted for Let men blaspheme curse God and Man abjure Religion persecute the faithful Professors of it give themselves up to all manner of Debauchery and Immorality and live and die in the commission of all that is impious and execrable yet they shall never hold up their hands for this at the Last Bar there shall be no particular Account given or taken of any thing of this nature Yea let Men live all their Days in a course of Dissembling in a mere form of Godliness in an external Shew of Religion whilst they inwardly abhor all that is Good and Vertuous nay let them be guilty of the most horrid villanies and impieties in secret let them privily commit murder adultery incest and whatever fact is Horrid and Detestable and let them descend into the grave with the guilt of these upon them without the least motions of Godly Sorrow and Repentance yet be it known to them that they shall never be Examined concerning any of these past actions no not concerning the most secret of them Whatever Enormities they have been guilty of here they shall be passed by in silence hereafter and never be mention'd to their Shame and reproach Surely this doctrine was calculated for the Meridian of those whom I before named Surely none but persons of Atheistical Principles could o●… would vent such Conceptions as these and none but those who are Lovers of them can embrace them The last thing which I propounded to speak of under this Head of my Discourse is the Punishment which is awarded at that Final Close of the world And here I shall shew that the Socinians have wretchedly perverted the Holy Scriptures and have thereby gratified those persons who live without God in the world and make their Lusts the only Rule of their actions Though they generally grant that the Ungodly shall rise at the last day yet they tell us that immediately after that they shall be Annihilated or which is the same thing they shall utterly cease and eternally perish as Socinus expresly saith This Perishing of the wicked was at first but hinted by this Writer and therefore a Judicious Author calls it the Covert Doctrine of the Socinian but afterwards he and others were plain and open enough for according to him the Punishment of the wicked is a Total and Eternal Dissolution not a Perpetual Torment but a perpetual Extinction Smalcius interprets Mat. 10. 28. where Christ threatens destruction both of soul and body in hell of the utter Perdition of them and not of the Tormenting of them He propounds it as credible that Ungodly Men as well as Devils are to be utterly destroyed and annihilated and that the Righteous only shall survive And if he did not believe it why did he make Reply to those places of Scripture which are produced to prove the contrary as you may see in his Disputation concerning the Last Judgment In the same place he hath these words The Soul or Spirit can't be cast into hell because according to Solomon it returns unto God Slichtingius is positive that all the future Punishment of the Reprobate is that they shall be eternally destroyed or consumed According to Crellius the punishment of Christ's Enemies after the day of Judgment ends in the Delection of them I 'll mention one Writer more whose words are these God will inflict upon 〈◊〉 man a Punishment that is greater than his Demerits now there can be no Sins so grievous as to equal Eternal Torments Eternity is a long time and this is the Greatest Punishment that can be to be deprived for ever of eternal happiness and to perish for ever As for the English Socinians they are presumed to write after the Copy of their Countryman who hath publickly told the world that all the Wicked are to be burnt up and to perish eternally and never to be any more And I have lately receiv'd it from a Professed Friend of the Gentleman whom I have had to do with about the One Article that he hath sometime express'd his thoughts to this purpose concerning the Eternity of Hell-Torments when it hath been propounded to him but he knows best whether he hath given occasion for such a Report It is certain that this is a doctrine disallow'd of by the Church of Christ in all ages and therefore disallow'd because repugnant to those discoveries of God's will which we have in the infallible Writings of the Evangelists and Apostles Our Saviour told the inhabitants of Cho●…azin and Bethsaida that it should be more tolerable for those of Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for them Luke 10. 14. And again he saith It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrain that day than for that city which receiv'd not his Apostles Mat. 10. 15 But could he thus speak if the Racovian Position be true that the Punishment allotted to the wicked at the last day is their Utter Dissolution Can the condition of some persons be more tolerable than that of others if their Punishment be the very Same And must it not be the same if it be Annihilation This makes the punishment of all Equal for one can't be more Annihilated than another and consequently it can't be more tolerable for one than another But if we embrace the other Assertion viz. that the Wicked being raised to life at the last day shall be continued i●… that life for ever that thereby they may suffer that Torment which they deserve for their Sins then we may understand what our Saviour saith then we may apprehend how it shall be more tolerable for some than others at the day of Judgment that is the Misery of the damned shall be proportion'd to the●… Crimes they shall be punish'd according to the Heinousness of their Enormities mighty men shall be mightily tormented But there can be no such thing