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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27348	A letter to a friend with remarks upon two pamphlets lately published, in defence of tritheism viz. A brief enquiry by J. T. and The Socinian slain by J.H.	A. B.	1700 (1700)	Wing B18; ESTC R2798	16,001	16

Adoration as such We will tell 'em before-hand their Undertaking to confute us is desperate and our Principles are irrefutable tho they should write in defence of Tritheism as many Volumes in Folio as there are Stars in the Firmament or Sands on the Sea-shoar they will never be able to prove their Tritheism either true or possible as long as any Bibles remain in Christendom or Reason continues in use among Men. But when our Reason has left us and our Bibles are gone they may decree and impose to good purpose tho they can never dispute with success In the mean time there is not a single Unitarian but will heartily pity the mistaken Tritheists who have a Zeal but not according to knowledg and be always imitating the Blessed Jesus in praying in the same manner and to the same Object as he did even to his Father and our Father to his God and our God that the thoughts of their hearts may be forgiven 'em Joh. 20.17 that they may know the Father to be the only true God and glorify him chap. 17.3 even as Christ himself glorify'd him chap. 17.4 that they may be sanctified thro the Truth and like true Worshipers worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth as Christ himself did Joh. 14.16 For the Father seeketh such to worship him who bow their Knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ unto whom be glory in the Church by Jesus Christ throughout all Ages world without end Amen Eph. 3 14-21 Now the God of patience and consolation grant Rom. 15.5 6. that the Vnitarians and their mistaken Brethren the Tritheists may be of one Faith likeminded one towards another according to Jesus Christ that we may with one mind and one mouth glorify God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ And let all the People say Amen Thus Sir have I given you some general Remarks upon these two new Writers and their successless Performances and tho my leisure will not admit me and the merits of the Authors do not require me to make a distinct reply to every particular Text they pervert yet I 'm satisfy'd these few Observations and Replys I have made are sufficient to obviate the Scruples they have rais'd in the Minds of a few unwary Christians I am SIR With great Veneration Y. v. h. S-t A. B. The Oxford Decree English'd At a Meeting of Mr. Vice-Chancellor and the Heads of Colleges and Halls in the Vniversity of Oxford Novemb. 25. 1695. UPON occasion of a Sermon lately preached before the University of Oxford in the Church of St. Peter's in the East on the Feast of St Simon and Jude last past these words amongst others were publickly spoken and asserted viz. There are three infinite distinct Minds and Substances in the Trinity Item That the three Persons in the Trinity are three distinct infinite Minds or Spirits and three individual Substances which words gave many Persons just cause of Offence and Scandal Mr. Vice-Chancellor and the Heads of the Colleges and Halls being now met together in their General Meeting judg declare and decree That the foresaid Words are false impious and heretical disagreeing and contrary to the Doctrine of the Catholick Church and specially to the Doctrine of the Church of England publickly received Wherefore they order and strictly enjoin all and several the Persons committed to their Trust and Care that for the future they do not maintain any such Doctrine in their Sermons or elsewhere By the Decree of Mr. Vice-Chancellor and the Heads Ben. Cooper Notary Publick and Register to the University of Oxford There was added in the London Account this Postscript viz. It may be noted that the Propositions above-mentioned are Dr. S k's in his Discourse of the Trinity and the Defenders of it and wrote against by the Animadverter c. FINIS

A Letter to a Friend WITH REMARKS Upon two Pamphlets lately published In Defence of TRITHEISM VIZ. A BRIEF ENQUIRY By J. T. And THE SOCINIAN SLAIN By J. H. In malâ causâ non possunt aliter at causam Malam quis coégit eos habere August LONDON Printed Anno Domini M.DCC. SIR I Have at your request read over two little Books you were pleas'd to put into my hands viz. The Brief Enquiry which I find was written by J. T. and The Socinian Slain written as 't is reported by one J. H. And really Sir when I have perus'd such Discourses written with an Air of Candour and Sincerity and when I see the Authors so very zealous in defending their own Mistakes and find them loading with heavy Aggravations the Opinions of others I cannot but extreamly regret the ill usage of those important Truths they undertake to confute and I assure you am at the same time no less concern'd that so much Zeal as these two Writers have express'd should be mispent in a wrong Cause and not barely so but in opposition to the most Natural and most Scriptural Notion that the best of Men and the best of Christians have ever had of the Deity How unhappily have these Men and a great many others who have earnestly contended in these Controversies in conclusion prov'd nothing so effectually as this That Education and Interest are irresistable that they will put such a biass upon a wise Man's Judgment and manner of reasoning which without extraordinary Care and divine Assistance will become almost insuperable to him I say almost and not altogether insuperable because I 'm perswaded there is no Man so much under the power of Mistake in the common necessary Points of Religion but may be undeceiv'd if he makes his Enquiries with any tolerable degree of Candour and Ingenuity But when a man sets up for absolute Certainty in a controverted Point and speaks and dictates like an inspired Writer there remains no remedy for his Errors till he is cur'd of his Infallibility What opinion these two Persons have of their own Performances is certainly known to God and their own Consciences alone but they give abundant satisfaction to the World that they are Men who have not temper enough for any Contronversy nor skill enough to manage this The late Bp of Worcester Bp Chichester Bp Sarum Bp Glocester Mr. How The most eminent Writers both for Learning and Dignity have written against us with the Decency of Gentlemen and the Temper of good Christians they make it appear that they can be candid and charitable to an Adversary and how warmly soever they are engag'd in the Debate yet they keep within the bounds of Religion and good Breeding And tho the Cause they engaged in was never to be confuted yet 't is own'd if it could have been they certainly had done it But this Brace of Writers have taken up the Dispute when the field was quitted by the most sober and most learned of our Opponents and when the most celebrated University of Oxon had decreed in our favour and condemn'd the vulgar Tritheistic Trinity and the Rev. Dean of Paul's had in his State of the Socinian Controversy with a Modesty that became a Man of his Dignity and Learning handsomely retracted or at least prudently soften'd whatever had the countenance and appearance of Tritheism in his former Writings With what good Grace then can these two Writers of the lowest Class who it may be were never taught in any Class undertake to revive the Debate that was given over by the best and wisest Gentlemen of the Tritheistic Party Do they think they can say somewhat better than any that have written before them sure they are too modest to be of that opinion or is it because they will say and argue as no body would besides them this may be true enough indeed for they both of them argue and prove in that unusual Method that one may see at the first blush that they understand not what they say nor whereof they affirm They knew certainly when they began to write that this Controversy whatever others might be was terra incognita to 'em both and yet which is very much to be admir'd they are as positive and as decretory as if they acted by Legantine Authority from the Holy See and came not to debate but decide this controverted Point The Brief Enquiry Pref. tells his Readers with very great gravity Gentlemen pray take notice I write only for Truth but I remember the time when he durst not dispute for it and made an honest and true confession that he could not And he adds ibid. That Christian Charity must not be abus'd towards those who root up the Foundations of Religion no nor must it be abus'd towards any Persons whatever nor on any account whatever To abuse Christian Charity would be a great abuse indeed but to abuse it for the sake of ill Men would still be a much greater abuse But I suppose he would insinuate that the Vnitarians root up the Foundations of Religion and that to treat 'em charitably would be to abuse Christian Charity which ought not to be done God forgive him for his uncharitable Insinuation and we will too but let him remember there is not a more scurvy abuse of the Christian nor of any Religion indeed than to affirm that it teaches us not to exercise Charity towards Men of a different Opinion But tho the Brief Enquirer be so very wary how he abuses Christian Charity yet to the great scandal of all pious Christians he cares not what abuses he flings at Christ and the Christian Religion provided he can expose the Vnitarians for abating a few pages a good part of his Book consists in odious Comparisons of Christianity with Mahometanism and Christ with Mahomet and if Christ be not the Supreme God and of the same Essence with the Father he wickedly infers to the just abhorrence of all that love the Lord Jesus in truth and sincerity P. 14 and 51. That Christ was an Impostor and Deceiver that the Jews justly sentenc'd him to death for Blasphemy and rejected his Apostles that the Christian Religion is Idolatry and Superstition and the Messiah is not yet come c. And these terrible Inferences are not made en passant and by the by but he continues to copy Monsieur Abbadie's rude scandalous and impious Expressions for several pages together If says he p. 15. Jesus Christ is not true God of the same Essence with the Father the Mahometan Religion is preferable to the Christian and Mahomet a greater Prophet than Christ because the Christian Religion brings in Idolatry and the Mahometan abolishes it c. How gladly would the Brief Enquirer prove the Mahometan to be the better Religion why else dos he take that for granted to prove it which every Body denys viz. That the Christian Religion brings in Idolatry for there is no Christian but the