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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23631	The moderate Trinitarian containing a description of the Holy Trinity, both according to Scripture, and approved authors for learning, and adherence to the Trinitarian doctrine : being an argument shewing that moderation may and ought to be shewn by and to persons of different conceptions concerning some circumstances relating to the knowledg of the Holy Trinity : together with a short reply to Mr. Joseph Taylor's Brief inquiry whether those who own, and those who deny the divinity of Christ, may communicate together / by Daniel Allen.	Allen, Daniel, fl. 1699.	1699 (1699)	Wing A1023; ESTC R17226	58,738	45

I observe 1. They cannot be true Worshippers that worship they know not what 2. They that worship the Father as the proper Object of Divine Worship are not such as worship they know not what but such as know what they worship 3. They that worship the Father conceiving of him as containing the glorious inseparable Essence or Spirit being worthy above all things to be worshipped these I say are not the false but the true Worshippers of God and provided they perform their Worship spiritually shall be accepted by him because he seeks such to worship him 4. That it is the Will of God and Direction of Christ that of all the Persons believed to be in the Deity God the Father is to be conceived as the most proper Person for us to direct our highest Adoration to 5. That he that conceives that the Godhead and all its essential Properties subsist in the Father as the proper Object of Divine Worship conceives not amiss because according to Christ's Rule he is a true Worshipper 6. That we may lawfully have Communion with any such Persons if that be all their fault because they are true Worshippers and with better we cannot well join 7. I observe that when Christ describes the Object of our Worship he is so far from distinguishing or teaching us to distinguish the Persons in that Object that he contains all under the denomination of one only Person even the Father Next I shall cite the Instruction of our Lord expresly injoining us to pay Adoration to God the Father and acknowledg all to be his Mat. 6.9 After this manner therefore pray ye Our Father who art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name thy Kingdom come thy Will be done in Earth as 't is in Heaven c. for thine is the Power and the Glory for ever Amen From this I observe 1. That it is the Will of God as declared by Christ that the order we should observe in our Conceptions of God Almighty and in pouring out our Desires to him is positively and directly to pray to God the Father as the proper Appellation and Object of our Prayers 2. That he that prays to God the Father prays in that respect aright and to the true God 3. That it appears not that in our Prayers we are injoined to distinguish the Persons if we regard and eye by Faith the Being or Essence we worship 1. Because if such a thing as distinguishing the Persons in Prayer were a Duty or material our Saviour would have inserted it in his Directory since he here gives an account of all the material Points of Prayer 2. Because on the contrary he expresly injoins us to direct our Desires not to three but to one Person even the Father withal teaching us to use such Expressions as are most proper to a single Person viz. three times thy and once thine 4. I observe that our Lord directs us to render and ascribe such Excellency full Power Soveraignty Protection Sacredness Bounty Clemency Glory to the Father as are only proper to be given to the whole and only Godhead which still shews that the proper glorious Object of Divine Worship is the whole Godhead as truly subsisting all and whole in the Person of the Father and under that Appellation to be worship'd And as I have hitherto treated of positive Directions in this case I shall briefly cite some Examples of Christ and his Apostles as our Pattern to follow whereby it may further appear most agreeable to Scripture to worship one Person First Christ's Example Mat. 11.25 I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth Here he pays the duty of Thankfulness to the Father and owns him as supreme Soveraign Mark 14.36 And he said Abba Father all things are possible to thee take away this Cup from me nevertheless not as I will but as thou wilt Next I shall cite the Apostles Rom. 8.15 Ye have received the Spirit of Adoption whereby ye cry Abba Father Rom. 15.6 That ye may with one Mind glorify God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Gal. 4.6 God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your Hearts crying Abba Father The next Instance shall be the Adoration of Paul to this single Person Eph. 3.14 For this cause I bow my Knee to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Jam. 3.9 Therewith bless we God even the Father 1 Pet. 1.17 And if ye call on the Father c. And indeed it were tedious to cite all those Texts that give Testimony to this thing These Gleanings are set down that ye might believe that the proper Object of Divine Worship is the one most High God as truly subsisting all and whole in the Person of the Father And believing it that ye might direct your Adoration to him accordingly and also have Charity towards all those who have no other material fault but worshipping the Father as the proper Object Nay methinks there is no Point of Divinity in the Holy Scriptures more clear than this thing as any indifferent Eye may see 't is not a thing drawn from doubtful Consequences but plainly revealed often repeated and never contradicted but confirmed by the universal Practice of the Prophets and Primitive Saints and also by Christ and the Apostles namely That the most High is to be worshipped as a single impartible Essence in one single Person without the Worshippers being obliged at the same time to distinguish three distinct Subsistings and Denominations And on the other side there is not one Instance to be given where any Man is recorded in the word of God our only Rule and Guide to adore the most High God under the apprehension of one Essence in three Persons that is I mean did direct his Prayers or Thanks to three Persons And here I must take occasion moderately to check some of my worthy and beloved Brethren useful in the Ministry who a little heated with an inordinate Zeal for the Doctrine of three Persons in the Godhead fearing they may prejudice the Doctrine it self by yielding too much to its opposite do on the other side as much overshoot the Mark and form their Petitions quite beyond all Scripture-Injunction and Example And tho no Examples nor any thing like them can be given yet they must conclude their Prayers To thee O Lord Father Son and holy Spirit three Persons one eternal God be Honour Glory Praise c. What shall one think of this but that those Men think if they should not direct and form their Prayers to the Almighty better than Abraham Jacob Moses the Prophets of old and Christ and his Apostles did their Prayers would be very defective and not accomplished as they ought Truly to be zealous in a good thing is commendable and that 's a good thing for which we have Precept or Pattern but for this there is neither Now when we take the liberty to add to Divine Worship however agreeable to our Opinions and however well-meaning

Arguments convinced that you are right I cannot say as you say I think still the Ransom was Gold nevertheless tho I think you are mistaken I can and will bear with you pray shake hands and be Friends and bear with me pray don't leave me our parting will be very pernicious and uncomfortable and those Barbarians in the Ship will take n●tice of it and check us with it and every body will wonder at it and which is worst C that sent the Ransom and did us so much good will know of it and be very much offended with us therefore pray be perswaded to tar●y with me No not I says A I am resolved I 'll be gone and I 'll print some Papers and expose you and I 'll put a Bear 's Skin upon you and if I can I 'll make all them in the Ship believe that you are a Bear inde●d and all the Dogs in the Ship sha●l bark 〈◊〉 you that you shall have but little Comfort or Peace in your Voyage and so in the mind I am in I 'll never come at you more or bid you God speed and so adieu Away flings A in a great Heat down sits B fetching a deep Sigh and becomes exceeding melancholy that he must sail alone Now every body will be ready to think that this was a very untoward scurvy simple Trick of A for so slight an occasion to deal so with B and leave him thereby exposing both himself and B to the odd Censure and Derision of the By-standers Yet what do some wise Men do less than the same thing While both Parties in this Controversy were running from God and taken captive under Sin and Wrath and were unable to help themselves God saw and pitied their Condition and freely sends his Son to ransom and redeem them to the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God he accordingly offers his Body and redeems them from Sin and Wrath they both without doubting do agree that contrary to their Deserts God freely sent his Son and that Jesus of Nazareth was he and that he was a sufficient Ransom But at the same time the Question is dropt what was that Body made of says one Party all that died on the Cross to redeem us was originally a Creature of the Earth of the Dust of the Ground No says some of the other Parties that which died for our Sins tho it were a real and true natural Man yet originally was not of the Dust of the Ground nor a part of the polluted fallen Lump but of a more noble Extract to wit the Lord from Heaven And amongst other things it is said they think so for this reason because if the most High could honourably with respect to his Justice take any part of the fallen Lump and sanctify it and accept of it without any Mediator or Sacrifice offered for it nay so accept of it not ony in its own behalf but also as a Ransom satisfactory for all the rest of that Lump then it will follow that there was no absolute necessity for the satisfaction of Justice that there should be any Mediator at all since it appears that a part of that fallen Lump was accepted without any Mediator at all but I 'll not meddle with the Controversy In the mean time the other Party represented by A in our Similitude say except you say as we say and think as we think that that which died was of the Earth we will leave you and reject you as Hereticks No says the other Party represented by B not so we are your Brethren we love you pray don't part from us we live in the love of Christ we own the same Person to be Christ that you do we believe him to be as sufficient a Ransom as you do we believe him to be the Son of God as well as you only we think in this matter you are mistaken yet we are willing to bear with you and embrace you If you leave us God will be offended good men grieved young Converts staggered and the World will laugh at us and scoff us No says the other Party represented by A we will leave you say what you will you deserve no Charity nor Indulgence you ought to be excommunicated if you had your due We will expose you in printed Papers we will perswade every body if we can that you are Bugbears we say you are no Christians you hold such Heresies as are sufficient to corrupt all the Churches and to root the Christian Religion out of the World You are worse than the Papist and as bad as Atheists nay you do deny the true God and the Lord that bought you you will bring on your selves swift Destruction and therefore we will purge our selves of you and so adieu Lamentable it is and to be bewailed that they who should strive together for the Faith of the Gospel should strive to wound their Brethrens Reputation representing them as the worst of Men surely brotherly Compassion and brotherly Communion with a friendly and charitable Bearing would be to the Gospel much more adorning in our selves much more becoming and to our Brethren much more edifying Let us live in the Love of God and keep pure the Doctrines of Christ leaving those Mysteries till we shall know as we are known There is one thing more I had almost slipt some will say our Brethren own Christ to be the Son of God but that signifies little so long as they do not tell us how he is the Son of God To which I answer That it is unjust to condemn them for what we our selves are guilty of for there is none of us all while we tell them of Eternal Generation that dare once open our Mouths to tell them how it is And while they say Eternal Generation is against Reason we say it is above Reason and cannot be comprehended by Reason 'T is true we tell them by the Pen of Mr. Monk pag. 72. That the Person begets and is begotten but the Essence neither begetteth nor is begotten and pag. 98. we say his Person was begotten not his Essence But some will say we have no Scripture says so and do what we can yet some young Converts ignorant Persons and those of mean apprehension tho they may be honest-hearted Men and Women yet in this case are so dull of hearing that they●l hardly ever understand it But enough of this I shall now in the next place come to treat of the Holy Spirit the third Person of the Holy Trinity CHAP. III. Concerning the Holy Spirit I Shall do little more in this Chapter than transcribe what I have wrote on this Subject almost ten years ago in a private Letter which yet hath been made considerably publick in Kent London and elsewhere and having yet received no Answer to it I shall transcribe so much of it as relates to the Controversy concerning the Holy Spirit viz. Herein I shall first consider how far we are agreed in this also