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A47737	The charge of Socinianism against Dr. Tillotson considered in examination of some sermons he has lately published on purpose to clear himself from that imputation, by way of a dialogue betwixt F. a friend of Dr. T's and C. a Catholick Christian : to which is added some reflections upon the second of Dr. Burnet's four discourses, concerning the divinity and death of Christ, printed 1694 : to which is likewise annexed, A supplement upon occasion of A history of religion, lately published, supposed to be wrote by Sir R-- H--d [Robert Howard] : wherein likewise Charles Blount's Great Diana is considered, and both compar'd with Dr. Tillotson's sermons / by a true son of the Church.	Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.	1695 (1695)	Wing L1124; ESTC R19586	72,850	37

be made a Priest And how it that most Sacred Office become amongst us Contemptible It is in Veneration to that High Character that I expose these Cursed Priests Latitudinarians and Socinians Enemies to the Cross of Christ the Ministers of Satan transform'd into His Ministers as Satan himself into an Angel of Light and then he is most a Devil It is a true saying That the Corruption of the best thing proves the worst A Corrupt Angel is a Devil and a Corrupt Priest the next in wickedness to him False-Christs and False-Prophets are much the greater Enemies ●o Christ that they come in His Name As False-Friends can do much more Mischief than Open-Enemies Vice is most dangerous when it is recommended under the Notion of Virtue Barefac'd Wickedness Atheism and Infidelity create a Horror in any Mind not thorowly debunch'd and hardened Therefore we are Caution'd against the Mystery of Iniquity And that is it which now worketh in these Men who Dispute against any Mystery in Religion where it is necessary and cannot be otherwise unless we were able clearly and fully to comprehend the whole Nature of God in which there is something which is and ever will be Mysterious that is Dark and Hidden not fully Vnderstood by all the Angels of Heaven to Eternity And yet where there is no necessity in the World so much as can be pretended except that of Knavery they write all Mystery and work under ground that they may not be discover'd They dwell all in Generals in which as the Proverb says Dolu●●later there is always Deceit at the bottom They will not tell plainly what they would beat But wound side-ways and by stealth as these Authors whom we have Examin'd And their admired Teacher Dr. Tillotson in his ad Sermon concerning Family Religion p. 61. gives special Caution not to have Children bred up in the JARGON of any Party But will not tell what Party or what JARGON he means You may apply it to all to Christianity it self as it was intended but so that you shall not fix it upon him he dwells in the Clouds and Mysterious Politicks more Subtile than any of which Aristotle was ever Master Whose Phylosophy the History of Religion takes pains from p. 74. to 80. to prove was brought into such esteemation by Priest-Craft on purpose to advance Mystery Great Wits make strange Discoverys It is the Bishop's Foot in the Pot which singes the Milk Among these Mysterious Arts of Priest-Craft there is none moves this Author's Spleen so much as Creeds and Rules of Faith Against which he vents his Indignation Hist Rel. p. 64. In very deed says he Creeds were the Spiritual Revenges of Dissenting Parties upon one another These Creeds are strange sort of things That a Man whatever he believes may not have Liberty openly to Profess and Preach what likes him best But must go about the Bush and take pains to Blaspheme And that Atheists Socinians and Latitudinarians cannot get in to the Preforments of the Church without Swearing Subscribing or Declaring I know not how many Lyes And all to no purpose For that will never keep them out He calls these Creeds p. 115. The Insolent value of Opinions Yet he values his own Opinion highly and would have others to value it above that of the Generality of the whole World in all Ages who have ever retain'd a great value for Religion and what he Blasphemes under the opprobrious New-made JARGON of Priest-Craft He calls Their valuing an Insolent Value This was to shew his Modesty and Good Breeding Insolent for any to be Pessitive but himself He has Prescription and would have the Monopoly he may have the Reward of it He shews great Respect to the Socinians because they retain nothing of Christianity but the Name Therefore in the same page he falls foul upon St. Athanasius his Creed knowing that most offensive to the Socinians And p. 85. He abuses the Homo-ousians that is the Christians and the whole Council of Nice which he says Shew'd a Spirit of Contention rather than of Peace and Charity This was for their Insolent Value of their Faith so as to Express it in a Creed And p. 116. He thinks to make great advantage to the Socinian Cause by the difference 'twixt Dr. Sherlock and Dr. South concerning the Trinity But this was only a difference in their Exposition of what both acknowledg'd The Holy and ever Blessed Trinity Whereas I can tell you Sir Possitive and ask your Priest-Craft at Lambeth if it be not true that the Socinians do differ not only in their Exposition of the Object of their Worship but in the thing it self and that not only two Doctors or so but whole Parties and Nations of them The Brief History of the Vnitarians upon Act. 9.14.21 tells us that the Polonian Vnitarians were so Zealous for Divine Worship to be paid to Christ that they Excommunicated and Depos'd from their Ministry such of their own Party as deny'd it Which I think they generally do in England Where likewise they are of most different Faiths tho' they call themselves Vnitarians and own one another in odium Tertij as Christian Brethren John Biddle's Confession of Faith touching the Holy Trinity Printed in the Devil's Reformation of 43. and now Reprinted with other Works of his among Volumes of Socinian Treatises which are with great Industry distributed Gratis since this Revolution owns Three Persons in the Holy Trinity But make the Second and Third Persons to be Creatures The rest of our Socinians as those that wrote The Brief History of the Vnitarians which is Printed in the same Volume with Biddle's Confession of Faith abovesaid do acknowledge a Trinity that is Three in Heaven but the Second and the Third i. e. The Word and the Spirit they would have to be the very same with the First that is the Father So that theirs is the only Contradiction in the Doctrine of the Trinity who would have Three to be Three and yet all the Three to be really but One. It is they who are out in Counting or Reckoning which the Hist of the Vnitarians calls Brutal in us The Christians and Biddelite-Socinians do confess Three in Heaven whom they acknowledge to be Three distinct Persons this is fair and plain Reckoning But then the Biddelites are guilty of very gross Idolatry in joyning two Creatures into the same Holy Trinity with God On the other Hand how is it that these Biddelites and the other Socinians do own one another to be of the same Faith and Print their Books together as setting forth the same Doctrine The Trinity of the one is Three who are One Person a most palpable Contradiction which no Distinction can solve the Trinity of the other is God and two Creatures which is rank Idolatry One Party of them say That the Word and Spirit are Persons the other say n●t One that they are God the other that they are not God one that they are Adorable

he may bid fair to Pervert the whole Nation he has deeply poysoned them already And if this be not a time to speak we may for ever after hold our Tongue He that would not in this Case expose his Life and all that he had would never do it for any Cause of Christ for the Ax was never laid more palpably at the very Root of all Christianity I hope what I have said will at least provoke abler Pens to Engage in Defence not only of Christianity but of the first Principles and Foundation of Religion in General which the Hobbiss have depress'd far below that of the Heathen who acknowledg'd Divine Revelation tho' they mistook it But these make it a perfect Tool and Engine of State hung at the Belt of the Civil Magistrate and disposeable by him at his pleasure These are yet more dangerous more affronting to God than the Socinians For the Socinians argue tho from a false Topick for the Honour of God as if more Persons were Dishonourable to the Divine Nature But these dare Blasphemously to make God an Ape to the Devil himself and to be beholding to his Imvention and the Capricio's of Foolish and Wicked Men for all the Institutions of his Holy Religion and to have sent our Lord Christ into the World and Sacrificed Him upon the Cross for no other End than to comply with the wickedness of Men and instead of destroying the works of the Devil infinitely to out-do them to put them out of Countenance and make them asham'd of their Littleness in Sacrificing Beasts and Men instead of which poor Butcheries and Murther and to make them no more regarded Here the Son of God shall be murthered to shew how little mischief the Devil could do in Comparison of God! And to frighten and amaze Mankind the most wicked of them and to stop their hand from the further pursuit of their little Insignificant Cruelties to one another by being struck with the horror of such Super-wickedness and unnatural Barbarity As the K. of Moab Sacrificed his Eldest Son to stop the pursuit of his Enemies 2 Kings 3.27 by over glutting their Revenge and out-doing their Cruelty These are not Tares Sown in the Night and by Stealth But it is Rooting up all Revealed Religion in the Noon-day and exposing of Christianity to the Contempt and Buffoonery of Atheistical Wits And if the Husbandmen take no no notice of it They are not Asleep but Dead God awaken them by a timely sense of their Duty and not by a Total Extirpation and Removeal of their Candlestick Amen Some REFLECTIONS upon the Second of Dr. BURNET's Four Discourses concerning the Divinity and Death of Christ Printed 1694. I Had ended the Reader 's Labour and my own but that I am call'd back by a Book now lately Published Licensed by this Great Dr. Himself Jo. Cant. to give it the greater Authority and wrote by his Collegue Dr. Burnst now called Bishop of Sarum It is Entituled Four Discourses delivered to the Clergy of the Diocess of Sarum c. Printed 1694. One of these Discourses is Concerning the Divinity and Death of Christ wherein there is such a Notion of Christ's Divinity set down as would make any Christian Ear to tingle He gives the very same account of it as the Brief History of the Vnitarians in Answer to John 1.14 The Word was made Flesh that is says that Socinian Author the Word dwelt in or did Inhabit the Person of Jesus Christ There is none that is unprejudiced but must see how very far this is from the full Import of that Text and what a force is done to the words of the Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was made Flesh This is sure a degree beyond bare Inhabitation It is true our Soul may be said to dwell in our Body But there is something more It is Impersonated with our Body whence there arises what the Schools call Communicatio Idiomatum between the Soul and the Body That is that the Properties of each are attributed to the Person who partakes of Both. Thus Man is called Mortal because his Body is such and Immortal because his Soul is such And thus it is that Christ is called God in respect to his Divine Nature and Man in respect to his Human. Neither of these can be predicated of the other The Divine Nature is not the Human Nature nor the Human Nature the Divine The Soul is not the Body nor the Body the Soul But each of these is predicated of the Person who partakes of Both. All the Atiributes of the Divine and Properties of Human Nature are predicated of Christ as all Properties of Soul and Body are predicated tho' not of One another yet of Man who is made up of Both. This is the true Notion of Impersonation and without this Christ could never be made Flesh The Spirit of God did Inhabit or Inspire the Apostles Prophets and Holy Men of Old and will do every Saint or Holy Person to all Eternity But this does not make God to become Flesh If you answer that the Spirit of God or the Word as the Socinians say did inhabit or inspire that Man Jesus Christ in an Higher Degree than other Men That will make nothing as to the Word 's becoming Flesh God was no more Flesh in Abraham or St. Paul than in the Meanest Saint tho' he inspired one much more than another Nothing short of Impersonation could make him to become Flesh or make that Flesh Adorable without the highest Idolatry Dr. B. thinks to solve all this by comparing God's Indwelling in Jesus to the Indwelling of God in the Cloud of Glory in the Temple and he says p. 127. That the Jews worshipped the Cloud of Glory because of God's Resting upon it and therefore that they could make no Objection to the Christians Worshipping of Christ by vertus of the Indwelling of the Eternal word in Him Make no Objection Yes sure and Retort the Argument to the Confusion of such Christians For they did not worship the Cloud of Glory That had been Rank Idolatry Notwithstanding of any Inhabitation of God there and therefore from this Reasoning it must have been Idolatry to have worshipped Christ notwithstanding of any Inhabitation of God in him Nor will it solve this that the Dr. says p. 116. That there was a more perfest Indwelling of God in Christ than in the Cloud So there was in the Cloud more than in the Temple yet it had been as great Idolatry to have worshiped the Cloud as the Temple God's Presence was never more visibly exhibited in any Apparition under the Law than when he descended upon Mount Hereb in Fire Cloud c. He spoke out of that Fire with an Audible V●ice which he did not out of the Cloud of Glory in the Temple And yet he strictly forbids the worshipping of any thing they there saw or the making any Resemblance or Similitude of any thing that there appeared lest it should