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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38042	Socinianism unmask'd a discourse shewing the unreasonableness of a late writer's opinion concerning the necessity of only one article of Christian faith, and of his other assertions in his late book, entituled, The reasonableness of Christianity as deliver'd in the Scriptures, and in his vindication of it : with a brief reply to another (professed) Socinian writer / by John Edwards ...	Edwards, John, 1637-1716.	1696 (1696)	Wing E214; ESTC R3296	60,720	171

They acknowledg that Some few Verses in several Chapters of the Four Evangelists and the Acts are matter of Faith or Religion but they do not cry the Bible the Bible the Bible they do not think that All and Every one of the Fundamental Truths in the Whole Scripture are the necessary matter of our Belief Thus I think this Reverend Scribe might have spared the quoting of Mr. Chillingworth unless he delights in confuting himself and his New Convert Afterwards he nibbles at some other passages in my Discourse but flies off into Impertinencies Only one thing I meet with that is very Remarkable and I request the Reader to attend to it There are saith he some that-of Deists have been reconciled to the Christian faith by the Vnitarian books and have profess'd much satisfaction therein p. 42. You may perceive that they are making of Proselytes as fast as they can and among the rest some Deists come in to them and so as the Apostle speaks of Seducers and those that are Seduced 2 Pet. 2. 20. the latter end is worse with them than the beginning for whereas before they owned a Natural Religion now they become guilty of perverting and prophaning a Revealed one They are so far from being reconciled to the Christian Faith that they oppose and contradict it and even defie the Main Articles of this Religion which is owing to Divine Revelation Such Converts as these have no reason to profess much satisfaction in the Vnitarian books unless Corrupting the Christian saith be to be chosen before plain Theism To speak the plain truth and it is the design of these Papers to do so and that which every Thinking and Considering Man cannot but discern the Socinians are but the Journey men of the Deists and they are set on work by them for these latter hope to compass their Design which is to impair the Credit of the Christian Religion and of those Inspired Writings which give us an account of it they hope I say effectually to compass this design by the help of such Good Instruments as they find the Socianiz'd Men to be You see then what ground this Gentleman hath to think that the Deists are Proselytes to the Vnitarians Then he proceeds to make a long harangue about the Obscurity of Systematical Fundamentals p. 44. c. but never was poor Creature so bewildred as he is Only he happily lights upon the Quakers p. 44 45. where it is worth observing that the man doth not know his Friends from his Foes nor these from them He rails against this sort of men who he saith would be counted the only People of God and yet it is certain that they are his brethren Socinians They utterly disown the Scripture as the Rule of Faith he saith and doth not our late Socinian Writer symbolize with them when he declares that the Divine Truths contained in the Epistles of the Holy Apostles which are a considerable part of Scripture are not the Necessary matter of Faith He complains that the Quakers turn the Gospel into an Allegory but the foremention'd Author doth much worse for he represents the greatest Part of the Gospel-discoveries as Superfluous and Needless In giving us the farther Character of the Quakers he in lively colours represents the Socinians for these are his words concerning them Retaining still the words wherein the Christian Faith is expressed though in an Equivocal Sense they have made a shift to be reputed generally Christians Certainly there could not be a better Pourtraiture of the Racovian Writers for it is known that they are crafty and sophistical and quote Scripture only to pervert it They acknowledg Christ to be God and an Expiatory Sacrifice but they mean it Equivocally they quit the true sense of Scripture though they retain the words and by reason of this latter have made a shift as this Author speaks to pass for Christians These men whatever some few English Writers of the Racovian way hold of late exactly side with the Quakers in crying down of Water-Baptism for so they both call it in derision In the Grand Point of the Trinity they both concur i. e. to reject it witness W. Pen's Sandy Foundation by which he means the doctrine of the Blessed Trinity In a quibbling manner wherein he shews both his Ignorance and Blasphemy he thus speaks If God as the Scriptures testifie hath never been declared or believed but as the HOLY ONE then it will follow that God is not an HOLY THREE Neither can this receive the least prejudice from that frequent but impertinent distinction that he is One in Substance but Three in Persons or Subsistencies To which all Socinus's followers say Amen The same Gentleman derides the doctrine of Satisfaction and scoffingly calls the Asserters of it Satisfactionists and who knows not that Transylvania agrees here with Pensylvania The Man that suffer'd at Ierusalem is the Socinian as well as the Quakers Stile And generally as to the main things that relate to our Saviour they perfectly accord viz. in making nothing of them If Quakerism then be no Christianity as this our Writer reports it in the same place then we may with much more reason conclude that Socinianism is none By this it appears that Socinus and Fox are well met and that they are very Loving Friends But they must seem to disagree as here in this Gentleman's Papers Lastly let us see the wonderful hand of God in suffering this Unthoughtful Writer to produce a Paper written by a Iesuite in the late Reign entituled an Address c. And in this Address he saith he goes about to shew that the Scriptures commonly alledg'd for the Trinity admit of another sense He goes the same way in the Article of the Incarnation What! had he not enough of the Quaker but he must bring in the Iesuite And must he tell the world that the Iesuitical Writers take the part of the Socinians must he publickly give notice that they both carry on the same work and joyntly conspire to pervert the Scriptures in order to it For the credit of the Cause it had been better to have placed this under a former head and to have told the Reader that some Iesuites as well as some Deists are Converts to Socinianism But he hath blurted it out that Ignatius Loyola and Faustus Socinus were of kin Surely this Author must not be employ'd any more to write in defence of the Cause He must be no longer a Double-Column'd Writer they must look out for a man that is not so Open-hearted one that can handle his Weapon with more Cunning for this man hath stabb'd his own Cause But because this Writer in the beginning and towards the end of his Papers is pleas'd to use some words of Deference and Respect I will not be backward to return his Civility in the same kind by letting him know that I suppose him to be a Person of Ingenuity and Learning only I wirh he had