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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38046	Some thoughts concerning the several causes and occasions of atheism, especially in the present age with some brief reflections on Socinianism, and on a late book entitled, The reasonableness of Christianity as delivered in the Scriptures / by John Edwards ...	Edwards, John, 1637-1716.	1695 (1695)	Wing E215; ESTC R18870	42,384	151

Ghost Can there be any Reason given of this partial dealing Yes it is most evident to any thinking and considerate person that he purposely omits the Epistolary VVritings of the Apostles because they are fraught with Other Fundamental Doctrines besides that One which he mentions There we are instructed concerning these Grand Heads of Christian Divinity viz. the Corruption and Degeneracy of Humane Nature with the True Original of it the Defection of our First Parents the Propagation of Sin and Mortality our Restoration and Reconciliation by Christ's Blood the Eminency and Excellency of his Priesthood the Efficacy of his Death the full Satisfaction thereby made to the Divine Justice and his being made an All-sufficient Sacrifice for Sin Here are peculiar Discoveries concerning Christ's Righteousness and our Justification by it concerning Election Adoption Sanctification or the New Birth and particularly Saving Faith which is so signal a part of it Here the Nature of the Gospel and the New Covenant the Riches of God's Mercy in the way of Salvation by Jesus Christ the Certainty of the Resurrection of Humane Bodies and of the Future Glory are fully displayed These are the Matters of Faith contain'd in the Epistles and they are essential and integral parts of the Gospel it self and therefore it is no wonder that our Author being sensible of this would not vouchsafe to give us an Abstract of these Inspired Writings but passes them by with some Contempt And more especially if I may conjecture he doth this because he knew that there are so many and Frequent and those so illustrious and eminent Attestations to the Doctrine of the ever to be Adored Trinity in these Epistles Nor is this any uncharitable conjecture as the Reader may easily satisfie himself if he takes notice that this Writer interprets the Son of God to be no more than the Messiah he expounds Iohn 14. 9. c. after the Antitrinitarian mode whereas generally Divines understand some part of those words concerning the Divinity of our Saviour He makes Christ and Adam to be the Sons of God in the same senses viz. by their Birth as the Racovians generally do and so he interprets Luke 1. 35. Iohn 5. 26. according to their Standard When he proceeds to mention the Advantages and Benefits of Christ's Coming into the world and appearing in the flesh he hath not one syllable of his Satisfying for us or by his Death purchasing Life and Salvation or any thing that sounds like it This and several other things which might be offered to the Reader shew that he is all over Socinianized and moreover that his design was to exclude the belief of the Blessed Trinity in this Undertaking of his viz. to prove that the believing of Christ to be the Messiah is the only Point of Faith that is necessary and saying All the other Articles and Doctrines must fall a sacrifice to the Darling Notion of the Antitrinitarians namely that Christ is not the True God and coessential with his Father For the sake of this one Point they are all dispatch'd out of the world and are made by him Martyrs to this Cause One could scarcely imagine that a person of Ingenuity and Good Sense should go this way to work Which enclines me to think that the Ingenious Gentleman who is suppos'd by some to be the Author of this Treatise is not really so I am apt to believe that the world is impos'd upon in this matter for in this present Attempt there are none of those Noble Strokes which are visible in that Person 's Writings and which have justly gain'd him a fair repute That Vivacity of thought that Elevation of mind that Vein of Sense and Reason yea and of Elocution too which runs through his Works are all extinct here only he begins as 't were to recover himself about the Close when he comes to speak of the Laws of Christian Morality Some may attribute this Flatness to the Ill Cause he manages but for my part I question whether we have the right Author I can't perswade my self but that there is an Error of the Person at least I will charitably presume so because I have so good an opinion of the Gentleman who writ of Humane Understanding and Education But what is the ground of the foresaid Assertion What makes him contend for One Single Article with the Exclusion of all the rest He pretends it is this that all men ought to understand their Religion And I agree with him in this but I ask him may not a man understand those Articles of Faith which I mention'd out of the Gospel and Epistles if they be explain'd to him as well as that One which he speaks of Why then must there be but One Article and no more But he notwithstanding this goes on and urges that there must be nothing in Christianity that is not plain and exactly level to all mens Mother-wit and common apprehension For God considered the poor of the world and the bulk of mankind the Christian Religion is suited to vulgar capacities and hath only such Articles as the labouring and illiterate man may comprehend The Writers and Wranglers in Religion fill it with Niceties and dress it up with Notions viz. the Trinity Christ's Satisfaction c. which they make necessary and fundamental parts of it But the bulk of mankind have not leisure for Learning and Logick and therefore there must be no such doctrine as that concerning the Trinity the Incarnation of the Son of God and the like which are above the capacity and comprehension of the Vulgar And in the Entrance of his book he hath the same notion for he tells us that the Scriptures are a collection of writings designed by God for the instraction of the illiterate bulk of mankind for he is much taken with this phrase you see the bulk of mankind whereby he understands the Ignorant and Unlearned Multitude the Mob as he calls it in another place Surely this Gentleman is afraid of Captain Tom and is going to make a Religion for his Myrmidons and to please them he gives them as little of this kind as he possibly can he contracts all into One Article and will trouble them with no more Now then the sum of all that he aims at is this that we must not have any Point of Doctrine whatsoever in our Religion that the Mob doth not at the very first naming of it perfectly understand and agree to We are come to a fine pass indeed the Venerable Mob must be ask'd what we must believe and nothing must be receiv'd as an Article of Faith but what those Illiterate Clubmen vote to be such The Rabble are no System-makers no Creed-makers and therefore away with Systems and Creeds and let us have but One Article though it be with the defiance of all the rest which are of equal necessity with that One. Towards the close of his Enterprise he hath a fling and that a Shrewd one