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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41192	A view of an ecclesiastick in his socks & buskins, or, A just reprimand given to Mr. Alsop, for his foppish, pedantick, detractive and petulant way of writing	Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.	1698 (1698)	Wing F764; ESTC R476	85,805	132

subscribe the Antinomian Creed Whereunto may be added what we met with in p. 93. ubi supra viz. That it is a Phrase of a dark and dubious meaning and as the Words seem to sound of dangerous Design and Tendency by which nothing else can honestly and truly be meant but that it is of an evil and fatal Consequence in reference to the overthrowing the Notions of the Socinians and Arminians which out of Respect to Mr. Williams if not to Himself he is very sorry for And of Affinity to the foremention'd Expressions is that which occurs p. 97. of the same Book where he tells us that it is inept and improper to convey to our Vnderstanding the Truth of Christ's having died for our Sins whereas much wiser and far more learned Men than he i. e. All the great Divines who have written with Irrefragable Strength and with exact Accuracy on the Subject of Christ's Satisfaction have judg'd it the aptest and properest Phrase which in order to that end they could fall upon And to all the foregoing rude and unmannerly Misrepresentations of it may be subjoyned that Expression p. 99. ubi supra that it is a Phrase which carrieth an odd sound and syncretizeth with the Nestorian Gibberish there having been a Crew of lewd Hereticks who affirmed that Christ took on him the Person of Sinners and these from the first Author and Founder of their Sect were called Nestorians who maintain'd that Christ was constituted of two Persons the one the Eternal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who did assume the other an Humane Person that was assumed Which meerly to have cited is enough to shew that the Man is Lunatick and Distracted as well as childishly foolish and grosly ignorant For without a large measure of the latter and being very much affected with the former he could never have written in this Nonsensical and Phrentick manner For to imagine that Christ's sustaining in his Sufferings the Person of the Elect or of such as either hid or should afterward believe is coincident with or of any Alliance to Nestorianism shews that after all his Pretensions to modern and antient Learning he knows not what Nestorianism is or that he hath both forfeited his Understanding and bid adieu to Conscience Seeing whatsoever the Opinion of Nestorius himself was concerning which I shall not now enquire and much less reflect upon Cyrill and others who are thought by some to have misunderstood or misrepresented him it is certain that what was condemned as Nestorianism in the General Council of Ephesus Anno 428. was that the second Person of the Trinity the Eternal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 took an entire Humane Person and not meerly the Humane Nature into Union with his Divine Person and that he was constituted not of two Natures whereof the Humane being taken into Union with the second Person of the Trinity without any Personal Subsistence of its own Distinct from that of the Eternal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 subsisted by Personality of the Son of God but that he was constituted of two Essential distinct natural Persons Now how Christ's standing in the room and stead and sustaining the Person of the Elect in his suffering for them as their Surety should come to be compared with or paralell'd unto Nestorianism and thereupon expos'd to Ridicule and rejected as Heretical I think no Man who is not depriv'd of Reason and common Sense will presume to understand Nor would any save one beyond the Relief of Hellebore have had the madness to have fancied or said it For as the Orthodox by believing and declaring that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 took a singular and individual Humane Nature of the same Species with ours i. e. A true Body and a reasonable Soul into Union with his Divine Person never meant that he took an Humane Person into that Union but that the Nature which he assumed subsisted by the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Son of God so the very Nestorians who held that the second Person of the Trinity took an Individual Humane Person i. e. an Humane Nature with its proper natural and peculiar Subsistence into Union with his Divine Person were never so nonsensical and delirious as to dream and much less to say that he took the Persons of all the Elect into a natural Physical or Hypostatical Union with himself as he was the Eternal Son of God To which may be added as that which is further detective of Mr. Alsop's prodigious Ignorance or his impresidented Insincerity that the Phrase of Christ's sustaining the Person of the Elect upon the Reasons and for the Purposes already mention'd was never intended to denote a Personal Union whether Physical or Hypostatical between Him and Them but meerly a Moral and Legal Nor was it ever used to signifie and express more than what he did for them in a Juridical Construction namely that thro' being their Surety he represented and became one with them in Conspectu Fori and that thro' standing in their room and stead he had the Guilt of their Sins imputed to Him and suffer'd both in their place and underwent whatsoever was Primarily intended and Essentially comprehended in the Sanction of the Law to which they thro' a Violation of the Preceptive part of it were become Obnoxious That is to use the Language and Stile of Foreign Divines least I should be thought to utter Anglicisms or to vent what slanderous Persons may call Crispianism Christum ut sponsorem foederis peccata nostra sibi a Deo imposita suscepisse atque sua fecisse ut pro nobis peccatum i.e. peccator factus sit in Dei Judicio quia peccatum factus pro nobis factus quoque sit Execratio vi Legis cui se nostro nomine subjecit nam is vice loco alterius moritur quo mortuo alter mortuus Censetur in Judicio Cloppenb de Christ. Servat Thess. 14. 15. i. e. That Christ as Surety of the Covenant having our Sins imputed to and charged upon him by God undertook to bear and answer for them as if they had been his own and that being made Sin i. e. a Sinner in the Judicial Estimate of God viz. by Imputation he thereupon became a Curse by virtue of the Sanction of the Law to which he had subjected Himself in our Name and Stead For he only dies in the place and room of another in by and thro' whose Death that other is accounted in a Legal and Juridical Sense to have died And that Christus quatenus pro nobis sponsor erat omnium Salvandorum personam sustinebat ac pro us omnem justitiam Legis implevit partim in ferendis poenis peccatorum et subeundo poenas condignas quas lex dei a nobis peccatoribus exigebat partim implendo pro us omnem justitiam legis quam lex exigebat sed quam illi implere non poterant Voet. Select par 2. p. 22. i.e. Christ as he was our Surety sustained the