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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77449	Brief observations upon the vindication of the trinity and incarnation, by the learned Dr. W. Sherlock	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707. A vindication of the doctrine of the holy and ever blessed Trinity.	1690 (1690)	Wing B4616B; ESTC R229472	21,969	16

things of God Rev. 1.1 If it be demanded If this be all Why is this Spirit called the Spirit of God I hope the Vindicator knows that 't is the manner of the Hebrew Tongue to name things great in their kind by the name of God He may also be called the Spirit of God as Prophets are in Scripture called the Men of God because both one and the other are sent by God And this Spirit is so much the Chief of all other Spirits that are God's Messengers that he is therefore sometimes called by way of Eminence and Excellence the Spirit of God So an Arian or Bidellian Unitarian would answer to the Objection from this Text. How a Socinian Unitarian would answer may be seen in the Brief History from p. 98 to p. 102. The CONCLUSION THus I have consider'd Dr. Sherlock's new Explication of the Doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation by Self-consciousness and Mutual consciousness and therein the substance and force of his Book which he has so vainly and untruly called a Vindication of those Doctrines His Book can deserve that Title in no other sense but as 't is a supercilious disdainful and peevish Answer But for that the Unitarians know very well that when Learned Men rage in such a manner that they have neither Humanity nor good Manners left 't is because they find themselves pinch'd they know too that Omnis Renegada est Ordinis sui Persecutor Those who have hitherto said who are all that have read his Books there is nothing considerable in Dr. Sherlock's Books but what he either borrowed from the Socinians or build upon their Foundation such will wonder he would shew no better Reasons why he hath shifted sides He promised at P. 21. to examine the Brief Notes Paragraph by Paragraph that the Author might not complain of unsair Vsage But at p. 256 before he was got half thorough the Notes he pretends to grow weary of the Note-maker's long Harangues tho the whole Notes are less than a Sheet of Paper and so gives his Reader only so much of the Brief Notes as he fancied he could deal withal Therefore the Author of the Notes will say this was not only unfair but after a Promise false Vsage Others say the Doctor grew self-conscious sensible of his Inability and therefore durst not trust his Reader with those dangerous Notes and his crude Answer to them But where he pretended to answer he should not have suppressed so many Periods nor omitted to take notice of the Reason used supposing it was enough if he opposed the Doctrine Least of all should an Answerer of his standing and Reputation in Polemic Squabble have quietly past by some whole Paragraphs the most material in the Notes or only cast a bald squeez'd Jest at ' em As to the slight Querks which he sometimes opposes to the Arguments in the Notes and History there is an Answer preparing and almost finish'd to every thing in his Book to be publish'd unless in his next he is content to own he desires it not For as to the Unitarians themselves they are upon several accounts not forward to publish a farther Answer First They foresee that the Vindication is not a Book by which the Church of England or any other Party of the Trinitarians will abide they look for another kind of Answer and therefore reserve their Defences to a time and occasion that may more require them Another Reason is they dare trust the History and Notes with the Doctor 's Answer tho he durst not trust his Answer with the Notes only they desire the Reader to read the Notes and History as they are publish'd by them in entire Discourses not as they are mangled and cut into Thongs by the Vindicator They are confident that no discerning Man who shall read Dr. Sherlock's Vindication and afterwards read again the Notes or History as they are publish'd by the Unitarians but will sind himself as much troubled to untie the Gordian Knots as if they had never read the Solutions of the Vindicator But I will conclude with him with only observing something to what he has with his usual Charity and Sagacity objected to the Hopes of Salvation in the Unitarian way The Note-maker had said that In these Points which have been always controverted in the Churches of God 't is not necessary to Salvation that a Man happen to be of the right Perswasion 't is sufficient if he use reasonable Diligence to be informed if after that he mistakes he is in no fault at all his Error is pure Ignorance not a culpable Ignorance for how can it be culpable not to know that of which a Man is ignorant after a diligent and impartial Inquiry To this the Vindicator answers in several Pages but all the Argument of his Answer is in these words Then how comes an Atheist a Turk or a Jew to be in any fault Does the Note-maker think that no Atheist Turk or Jew ever used reasonable Diligence And why should not their reasonable Diligence serve their turns as well as the reasonable Diligence of Socinians and other Hereticks And does not the Reason he gives extend to the whole Christian Religion as well as to those Points that he says have been always controverted in the Churches of God To this Complement of the Vindicator I answer 1. I do not think Atheism ever was the abiding Sentiment of any Man who took time to consider and I deny that any Atheist ever used reasonable or but tolerable Diligence to be informed 2. As to Jews and Turks who believe and worship the one true God and him only perhaps they are in a nearer Proximity to Salvation than such as against sufficient Opportunities of a right Information and for Worldly Interests have apostatized from the Christian Faith to the Athanasian 3. Those that deny the whole Christian Religion after having known it and the Reasons of it the Note-maker is assured whatever Diligence they may have used they have not made as the Notes expresly require an Impartial Inquiry They have been byassed by their Prejudices or their Lusts against the whole Christian Faith as others we see are byassed against the most Essential Parts of it the Unity of God his Insinite Sapience Goodness Justice and Power his real Omnipresence the Liberty of our Wills to Good and Evil. If the Vindicator thinks otherways let him speak out and plainly tell the World his Mind that a Man may have used reasonable Diligence and also made an Impartial Inquiry and yet disbelieve the whole Christian Religion This I hope may be enough to Dr. Sherlock at present As for Mr. Savage who hath also written against the Brief Notes if he had pleased to write after an intelligible manner he seems to be a Person that might have deserved a careful Answer But having wrapt himself up in a School-Cloud and wrote in such towring Metaphysicks as are much above ordinary or unlearned Capacities I am sensible that with respect to the Unitarian Cause his Book can do neither good nor hurt However the Unitarians thank him for his design to inform and instruct them and they desire him not to take it amiss if they also advise him that the next time he writes for the Information of the Illiterate and Vulgar he would write more intelligibly For Learning's Light when held too high goes out The End