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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25701	An apology for the Parliament, humbly representing to Mr. John Gailhard some reasons why they did not at his request enact sanguinary laws against Protestants in their last session in two letters by different hands.		1697 (1697)	Wing A3552; ESTC R170358	34,745	43

Excellent truly Human truly Christian Natures so temper'd their Calvinism that 't was an inoffensive harmless Speculation if ever I have more Gods than one I do not say more personal Gods but more essentially distinct Gods a Hero so form'd shall be my second but tho I have an inquisitive Mind I think I am in no danger of multiplying Gods no I am resolved I will never do it unless it should be declar'd which I think next to impossible that no Heresy shall be conniv'd at but Tritheism 2. Mr. G. complains not indeed directly and in express words but by a side-wind thus Whether or not the Ecclesiastical Court hath in this occasion of Socinianism acted its part according to Laws I must not take upon me but leave it to the World to judg But notwithstanding all this he does not leave it to the World to judg but takes it upon himself nay he not only gives his Judgment upon the Case but also passes Sentence upon them that concur not in the same Judgment with him as appears by the Citations which he produces and the Reflections which he makes upon them Now in doing this which he thinks he ought not to do and promis'd that he would not he acts against the Light of Conscience which is a damnable Sin whether or no it be Heresy I will not dispute but without dispute 't is damnable it may perchance escape from Fire and Faggot but not from Fire and Brimstone unless it be expiated by a timely and hearty Repentance But what are his Citations of Law against Socinianism First a Passage or two out of a Book called The Reformation of the Ecclesiastical Laws began in the days of H. the 8th and continued in the time of Edw. the 6th That Book then was wrote before Faustus Socinus was born and before England could know any thing of his Uncle Laelius who was about twenty one Years old when Edw. the 6th died Again does Mr. Gailhard think that the Book which he quotes was wrote against Socinianism by inspired Writers in way of prophetick anticipation I am afraid the Contents thereof as to many particulars will plainly evince the contrary I know not what might appear admitting him to be an inspired Interpreter He may interpret Passages out of that Book if he so please against Quakerism as well as Socinianism or against the Scheme of any Party which may perchance arise reviving old and long buried true or false Speculations As for the Notions which I dislike in Socinianism for I am no Socinian but a Member of the Church of England by Law establish'd if I could not bring against them more pertinent and solid Arguments than Mr. Gailhard offers I would never dislike them therefore again I suspect that Mr. Gailhard after all his loud Outcries against blasphemous Socinianism as he phrases it is a subtle but real Socinian and writes booty Mr. G. to go on with his Citations and his booty writing presents the Parliament with a Fragment of a Letter from Edw. the 6th to to A. B. Cranmer Cum vos triginta c. Upon which he makes this booty Reflection So that there is something of a Parliament's Authority against Socinianism I may well call this a booty Reflection for in the next words he grants that that something wants a Parliamentary Stamp which is as much as to say it is a something that 's just as good as nothing We are not yet come to the end of Mr. G's Citations he presents us with a long Story from the Canons and Ecclesiastical Constitutions agreed upon in the Convocations of both Provinces Canterbury and York 1640. And lest the Authority of these Canons should in scornful manner be set aside for want of Parliamentary Sanction because it cannot be pretended that Jesus Christ gave Authority to the Preachers of his Gospel to impose Laws on the Subjects of the Civil Magistrate Mr. G. argumentatively notes That King Charles the First has by virtue of his Prerogative Royal and Supream Authority in Ecclesiastical Causes straightly enjoined and commanded those Canons and Constitutions to be diligently observed and executed But after all this with Mr. G's leave be it spoken our Lawyers know not of any such Prerogative Royal and Supream Authority in Ecclesiastical Causes by which the King alone without the Advice and Consent of his Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled is enabled to ratify and enforce the Ceremonial or Sanguinary Rules and Orders Canons and Constitutions I should have said of the Convocational Clergy Our Just and Lawful and Gracious King William pretends not to this Power nor is inclin'd to let any persecuting Priests loose upon his People and perhaps this is the true Reason and not his being chose by the People why he has no Defenders of his Title among such Priests here and there perhaps a moderate and sober Churchman owns him for his Rightful and Lawful Soveraign but Priests of persecuting Principles every Man of 'em spare not to revile him as a Conquering Usurper Let a Prince claim and exert a Prerogative Royal and Supream Authority to inforce Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiastical I question not but his obliged Clergy shall gratify him with a Right Divine tho he came in by a Foreign Power without and against the Consent of his People but Marriage-Right Proximity of Blood and Consent of the People together shall signify nothing if his Majesty out of a Fatherly Affection to all his loving Subjects will not execute the Vengeance of a Convocation or not call a Convocation to be taught his Duty 3. Mr. G. is troubled that Socinianism has met so little Opposition from the Bishops who as he intimates have not acted their parts and here he most andaciously and sliely slurs the Honour of my Lords the Bishops for tho several of them have wrote learnedly and angrily against Socinianism some in the Real some in the Nominal Trinitarian way yet Mr. G. takes no notice at all of this looking upon them as Men of the Arminian Perswasion who he tells us favour the Socinians go hand in hand with them mince the matter with them Hence he takes occassion to wish that after what several have written heretofore some Persons of Learning sound in the Doctrinal part of the 39 Articles i.e. Calvinists would appear as a very learned and able Prelat hath in some Points effectually done Now nothing could be more sly and malicious than this particular Commendation of a single Prelat as if all the rest favour'd the Socinians went hand in hand with them and mine'd the matter with them He often declares his Aversion from the Arminians of which Perswasion most of the Bishops in their Sermons and Prints have shewn themselves and as for the Calvinists the only Persons sound in the doctrinal part of the 39 Articles he says they have not appear'd i.e. they have been wanting to their Duty against Socinianism for which they were sitted by their Principles How unjust this

Parliament with a matter of such importance wherefore in the first place he warns them against dawbing with untemper'd Mortar Alas the Cement will not be strong and durable unless it be throughly wetted with human Blood Next he quotes Solomon for this Saying Fools make a mock at Sin thence he raises this Observation That Sin is a great Distemper and by Sin he understands not Wickedness of Life but Error of Opinion Heresy Socinianism for the cure of this Distemper he quotes these other Words of Solomon A Rod for the Fools back And now he looks upon it as a thing most manifest that the Socinian Sinner ought to be punish'd and that 't is the Magistrate's Duty to punish him But what shall we do now for a Man is punish'd if only his Back suffers and Solomon meddles no farther but then that 's no extream Remedy 't is pity that Solomon left the matter so loosly wherefore we must one way or other make his Rod what a Serpent a good Improvement that but a better and more suitable it will be to make it a Faggot See now how artificially this Change is wrought There is no greater Sin says Mr. G. than Blasphemy and no greater Blasphemy than Socinianism that he always intimates Wherefore it deserves the heaviest Punishment to make the Pain hold proportion with the Offence and what heavier Punishment and what more cruel Pain I pray than Fire and Faggot When Aaron chang'd his Rod into a Serpent we read that the Egyptian Sorcerers did the very same only their Serpents were not a Match for Aaron's But give me the Sorcerer that outdoes the old Egyptian Dealers with the Devil and by the Magick of his Zeal turns Solomon's Rod made for the back of Fools into a Faggot made for the back of Hereticks there 's the true materia Medica prepar'd against the Distemper of Heresy if the Magistrate would but apply it according to the Sorcerer's Direction and set fire to 't Heresy would quickly be burnt up only perhaps a little Hypocrisy might spring from the Ashes but that 's a harmless humble Weed which never gives Offence no not to zealous Powers with Calvinistical fiery Qualifications Mr. G. is so positive that the heaviest Punishment is the true and proper Remedy against what he calls Socinianism that suspecting his clumsy Rhetorick and inept Applications of Scripture might not prove effectual to obtain sanguinary Laws against Hereticks he breaks out into this Ejaculation and vents his Calvinistical Impatience in a wrylookt Prayer God grant none of this Land for want of performing their Duty in their Stations do provoke God in the way of Judgments to make them know that he is the Lord who both acts and speaks with a strong hand If he were serious in this Prayer the most that could be made of it were that tho he is angry with the King and Parliament for not enacting sanguinary Laws against Heresy yet he hopes they may not be struck too down to Hell with Thunder for that sinful neglect But the real Design of the Prayer is to cover the Impudence of charging the King and Parliament with favouring Heresy and intimating that they deserve to feel the severest Judgments of God and can expect no other Such is the Mercy of a zealous Calvinist his very Prayers are Libels Just so that sly malitious Rogue in Horace Me Capitolinus convictore est usus Amecoque I always had a Kindness for Capitolinus my dear Friend and Companion Sed tamen admiror qo pacto judicium illud fugerit But being tried for a horrid Crime I wonder how he scap'd hanging To authorize the use of the extream Remedy Fire and Faggot Mr. G. tells us The Emperor Theodosius decreed That after death an Action might lawfully be commenc'd against a Maniche or a Donatist to render the Hereticks Memory infamous I wonder at this Quotation from Mr. G. because his Master Calvin borrow'd his denial of Free-will from the Founder of the Manichean Sect but I commend his Wisdom he 's for commencing his Action against living Socinians Theodosius against dead Hereticks he 'll do what he can to brand their Memory but his first care is to be the death of them Had Mr. Gailhard but the power of the Magistrate or the Magistrate the burning Zeal of Mr. Gailhard what a Country should we have so free from Hereticks that the Orthodox would have no Enemies to trouble them nor no need to fall out among themselves for want of room But here that Mr. G's Zeal may be throughly understood I must take notice he would have the extream Remedy us'd not only against Atheists and Deists Papists and Armininians French Refugees Jews and Turks but also against all heretical Tritheists of what Order or Degree soever for in his Pref. p. 2 3. he commends the Oxf. Decree Nov. 25. 1695. for condemning as false impious and heretical the Notions and Expressions of Three insinite distinct Minds and Substances in the Trinity This Censure the Translator of the History of Val. Gentilis expresly applies to Dr. Sherlock but Mr. G. only in general says of such Tritheists that they affect Singularity are wise in their own Conceit follow By-paths in their Defence of the Trinity and thereby declare that they are Enemies to the Cause and have a mind to betray it No Souldier says he in an Enemies Country ought to straggle out of the way under pain of Death c. he that does so ought to be knock'd o' th' head for it may reasonably be suppos'd he straggles with a design to desert This he applies to Stragglers in the Cause of the Trinity and in his Judgment the Maintainers of Three distinct infinite Minds in the Trinity are such Stragglers I grant that Mr. G. has no particular spight against Dr. Sherlock as another Calvinistical Nominal Trinitarian has but then he is for sparing no Body that explains the Trinity as Dr. Sherlock does The Translator of the History of Gentilis goes a step farther for he boldly affirms that the Tritheism of Dr. Sherlock is worse and more reproachful to Christianity not only than Sabellianism but even than Socinianism it self and having related how the Senate of Bern caus'd Val. Gentilis to be beheaded for this Tritheism of Three distinct infinite Minds he concludes his Advertisment concerning his Publication of that Story thus I cannot but wish that all Christian Governours and Governments would show the same magnanimous Zeal and Courage in defence of the Faith tho I confess I wish not that they should do the same way i.e. this good Calvinist Translator wishes the Government would not behead his Tritheistical Adversary Dr. Sherlock but I suppose burn him The putting him to death for that he heartily wishes and had rather his Head were taken off as Val. Gentilis his Head was than lifted up as high as Paul's this he intimates tho 't is the Consequence also of his pious wish in a marginal note