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Animadversions upon a late pamphlet entituled The naked truth, or, The true state of the primitive church
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Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.
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not at all if he did not apprehend it aright and as it was presently to be celebrated in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost Why this very short Baptismal form is a perfect Creed by itself if it be throughly penetrated and explained in its full latitude for it seems the Name of the Son was by a divine Criticism chosen and interpos'd between the other two Persons whose God-head was confest and acknowledg'd by the Jewish Church rather than that of the Word to denote the Second of the 3 Persons of the most equal and inseparable Trinity as God of God from the Eternal Father and also to connote the Co-eternal Son made man in the fulness of time and therefore born of a Woman the Virgin Mary Why here 's a great part of the faith already And then the Baptismal action it self the Immersion and Emersion out of the Water did in its full and plain importance as no doubt the Eunuch was made to understand it before he was brought to it acquaint him and instruct him abundantly in those other great points of Faith the Dying Burying and Rising again of Christ for our Justification from our sins as also with the whole Practical duty of a Christian man that being the Inward part or Thing signified in the Sacrament of Baptism viz. a Death unto Sin the great comprehensive duty of Mortification and a New birth unto Righteousness where he must needs be told the mystery of the First and Second Covenant that being by nature born in sin Original sin and a Son of wrath he had hereby Forgiveness of sins was adopted and made a Child of Grace and Heir and Co-heir with Christ in the Communion of Saints to live with him after the Resurrection in life everlasting Now this Author may see what use and need there was of the Constantinopolitan Creed that put in One baptism for the Remission of sins Since the true understanding of that Sacrament is so instructive of all other Fundamentals For all this our Apostle St. Paul supposed as the common Notions all Christians should have of their Baptism Know ye not that as many of us as were baptiz'd unto Jesus Christ were baptiz'd into his death Therefore we are buried with him by Baptism into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we should walk in newness of life For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his Death we shall be also in the likeness of his Resurrection Ro. 6. 3 4 5 c To as liâ—tle purpose then is his next Application of that passage in St. John Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God 1 Joh. 4. 2. Why the Mahumetans confess in some sense that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh as a great Prophet sent from God Will a Mahumetan or a Socinian confession of this suffice For the Socinians will admit the Apostles Creed as the sum of Faith the words I mean but not the Catholick sense of it And they will say through Jesus Christ our Lord at the end of their own Prayers in their own distorted sense of it But if confessing Jesus Christ be as St. John means it confessing the God and the Man otherwise it is not indeed confessing the same Jesus Christ whom Christians ought to confess this takes in whole Christianity that is all its few primary Fundamentals are coucht in this All these no question were virtually contain'd in St. Peter's short confession of faith Thou art Christ the Son of the living God for which confession he was blest and upon which faith Christ declared he would build his Church as upon a Rock And all these no doubt St. Paul preach to the Corinthians when yet he determin'd to know nothing amongst them but Jesus Christ and him crucified 1 Cor 2. 2. But whereas in the next place he charges some with introducing new and many Articles of Faith I hope he does not mean all our 39 Articles most of which as a late Right Reverend and learned Praelate Bishop Lany Lord Bishop of Ely styles them in one of his 5 Sermon p 48. are Articles of Peace and consent in certain Controversies not Articles of Faith or Communion Not as if the Subscribers to these Articles engaged themselves to no more than not to contradict them or never to preach against them No the Church is so just to her self as to exact for the security of her own Peace that all whom she trusts with teaching others or whom she recommends to the world with University Degrees shall subscribe to these Articles as their own Opinions and what they believe as convinc'd in their own Judgments that they are true Yet this I take to be one of her greatest Ecclesiastical Policies that she admits the many thousands and hundred thousands without any Subscription to these Articles ad Communionem Laicam that is not to Half-Communion as some would ignorantly construe it because they have Sacrilegiously taken away the Cup from the Laity but to that which the Primitive Church called the Communion of Laicks that is such a Communion as was given without such Conditions as were anciently requir'd of Ecclesiasticks But my best excuse for him is that though he be scuffling in the dark yet he strikes at the Papists especially and would narrow their Faith rather than ours 'T is true they have introduc'd many a new Article of Faith which is bad enough and which is worse many a one that has not a syllable of truth in it He puts the Papists Lutherans and Calvinists all together One cries this is a Demonstration Another saies he cries no such matter c. He may make as bold with any of these as he pleases for we are none of these and I am not bound to make war in their vindication In the 4th page concerning the Procession of the Holy Ghost he does implicitly condemn the Catholick Church both in the East and West for being so presumptuous in her Definitions 'T is modestly done of him But he means we have no comprehensive knowledg of the matter declared His meaning is good and true But his Inference is stark naught if he means therefore we understand not at all that this or that is declared And I am sure I do him no wrong in fixing this meaning upon his words for these are his very words If then our Reason understands not what is declared how can we by Reason make any deduction by way of Argument from that which we understand not Is it even so Then let us put the case with reverence That Almighty God who assuming I suppose the shape of an Angel treated with Abraham face to face as a man does with his friend should for once have spoken in the same manner to Arrius or Socinus and made this one declaration to either of them that the Catholick Church's doctrine of the