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A75473 Antidotes against some infectious passages in a tract, concerning schisme. 1642 (1642) Wing A3499; Thomason E142_12; ESTC R19075 4,091 8

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the sake of that Head wee may or should have Communion with them It is Christ God with us that unites Christians who believe in that God Christ And if men are not united to him and in him through the faith which is in him 1 Tim 3.16 as God manifest in the flesh there is a true disunion both betweene Christ and them and between them and true Christian And where there is such a Dis-union and likewise a Dis-union in the very object of worship how can they fitly joyn in one worship who do not worship one and the same God Fourthly it seems a favour to the Arrians to save them from the title of Heresie which is the ancient terme deservedly fastned to them Hee cannot but know that misbelief in fundamentall points was anciently accounted Heresie and it was profitably done to put this misbeliefe under a fearfull name it being destructive to salvation that men might shun and avoid it To this end were the Rules and Summes of Faith commonly used and carried about that men might take the contrary beliefs to be Heresies Opt. lib. 1. So Optatus Haeretici veritatis exules sani verissimi Symboli desertores Tertull. de proser cap. 14. And Tertullian long before him Haec Regula Fidei a Christo ut probabitur instituta nullas habet apud nos quaestiones nisi quas haeretici inferant aut haereticos faciant And if this Authour will needs have the name of Heresie taken away from these misbeliefs yet he cannot thereby take away the killing nature of them So are they still mortall like Heresies by what name soever they be called Indeed the wilfull holding of lesse and extrafundamentall Errours may be deadly but not from the nature of the points wheron the Errour is fixed but by reason of the pravity of the will which affects a Lye and hath not in it the love of the truth But Saint Augustine being a true believer in the greater points and not loving Errour in the lesser much lesse in the greater might well say I may erre but I will not be an Heretick Surely a Socinian may easily thinke that hee may goe to an Arrian Church Pag. 10. Why may I not goe to an Arrian Church but orthodox Christians have accounted it an abomination Let us bring forth one example instead of many not unknowne to this Author Epiph. Tom. 2. advers Haer. Haer. 48. sinc 68. When Alexander the Bishop of Constantinople should be enforced to admit Arrius into his Communion by Eusebius a favourite Bishop of the Court he fled to sighes teares and prayers desiring of God that he would take him out of this life that he might not be polluted with the contagion of Arrius a man reproachfull against God or that God would shew some strange work This Prayer shortly obtained his request For Arrius going aside to a place of Retreat brake in sunder like Judas and in that unclean place ended his life So Epiphanius Their prayers and their persons are an abomination to that God the Father who is not well pleased with any prayers or persons that are not presented to him in the name of God the Sonne And surely if a loose belief in Christ and such as doth not reach home to his Godhead may be a ground of Communion why may not this Authour joyne in Communion with the Mahometans whose Alcoran tels them that Christ was a good man though not God which is not much short of the Arrians To call the difference between us and the Arrians private fancies Pag. 10. Private fancies upon which we differ is an untrue and scandalous expression The Scripture I am sure is neither of private inspiration nor fancy but men of God spake it as they were inspired with that universall Spirit which breatheth into the Catholike Church For the same Spirit which animateth the Church inspired the Prophets and Apostles Now the Scripture saith of Christ 1 Iohn 5.20 This is very God So indeed to deny Christ to be true God is a private fancie of Arrius and Socinus but to confesse him to be true God and to pray unto him as such is a Catholike verity Wherefore let every true and Catholike Christian say unto Christ with converted and believing Thomas My Lord Iohn 20.28 and my God AMEN