of the Imputation and Enditement that they Aggravate it I leave the Reader to give the Sentence They deserve a Severe one at his hands but I desire him to be Merciful for the sake of our Lord JESUS CHRIST who forgave and pray'd for his greatest Opposers May the All-Merciful God forgive them and enlighten their minds that they may be convinc'd of their Errors and heartily renounce them The Lord give them Repentance to the acknowledging of the truth that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil Then he runs to their Common Place which hath help'd to fill up their papers many a time and he thinks he doth great feats But he only epitomizes Crellius de Vno Deo Patre and offers a great many Texts which have been answered a hundred times as he but untruly saith on another occasion p. 8. This takes up 18 or 19 whole Pages and why Because this costs him nothing he borrows it all and he might have borrow'd a great deal more from the same Author Here he can afford to be very long and large but when he undertakes the Examination of what I had particularly objected against the Socinians he is like the dog at Nilus he is presently gone he is not furnish'd with any Answer that he dares insist upon or trust to Next I will observe to the Reader that this Author meddles not with my Argument which I drew from their own Professed Principle viz. that nothing is to be believed but what is exactly adjusted to Reason and thence prov'd that upon the same account that they reject the doctrine of the Holy Trinity they may likewise quit the belief of a Deity This I enlarg'd upon in seven pages together it being as I then conceiv'd and am more confirm'd in it since an Unanswerable Proof of what I laid to their Charge He only grazes on it a little p. 19. but wheels off presently and fixes upon that subject before mentioned God's Vnity because he knew where to have enough of it but did not know how to take off the force of that Argument which I propounded and insisted upon In the next place he will turn Critick and see whether he can thrive in this employment seeing he hath so ill success in his former attempts His nice palate disgusts the word birth as applyed to Adam p. 38. but thereby he only shews his want of skill in the Denotation of words He is so poor a Dabbler in Grammer and Criticism that he knows not that by the Hebrew jalad and the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Latin nasci and accordingly our English to be born are signified in a general way the Origin Rise or Beginning of things or persons and consequently Birth or Nativity is not to be taken always in the Vulgar Sense He might have read in Genethliack Writers that the word is applied even to Cities and Houses But I need not go so far to defend the Expression The use of it and that in the very way that I have applied it is to be found in Scripture Art thou the first man that was born Iob 15. 7. Or we may read it if we please more exactly according to the Original Art thou born as the first man or Adam i. e. as the Context will shew it art thou as understanding as the man that was first born viz. as our First Parent Adam By reason of this birth Adam is call'd the son of God Luk. 3. 38. Whence the Socinians would gather that Christ hath that name upon the like account because of his Extraordinary Original because of his Miraculous Birth Thus we have found that this Gentleman is ignorant of the true meaning of words in Common Authors that he doth not know the acception of them in Holy Scripture nay that he doth not know what his own Authors say which evinces him to be triply a Blunderer and that he deserves no more to be call'd an Examinator Then he thinks he doth mighty things p. 39. by quoting Limborch a very Learned Foreigner a System-maker for he hath compiled a Large System of Divinity though he gives it another Name and why then doth this Gentleman talk so reproachfully of Systems p. 44. c. but this his Author is a Second Episcopius and therefore it was wisely done to bring him in to tell us what are the Fundamentals of Religion But it was more cunningly done in the next Paragraph to fetch in the Sixth Article of the Church of England in favour of the Vindicator's Conceit Surely this his Patron at whose feet he lays his Papers will give him little thanks for this for he jeers him rather than defends his Cause Thus though they are agreed and understand one another so far as to Impose upon the world yet they cannot and never will agree to speak Truth And indeed this Worthy Writer foresignified something of this nature He is a boding sort of man you may perceive for thus he speaks in his Humble Dedicatory to the Vindicator If I have mistaken your sense or used weak reasonings in your defence and behold here he doth both I crave your pardon And so you may and I will tell you for your comfort he will soon forgive you for he knows that your heart is right i. e. for the Good Cause and therefore a little Mistaking of him out of weakness is pardonable Then he hales in Mr. Chillingworth by head and shoulders p. 40. pronouncing him very definitively the ablest defender of the Religion of Protestants that the Church ever had which is too high a Character for him though he was a person of Great Parts and Learning Why must he be said to be the Ablest Defender when we can name so many Eminent Writers in other Countreys that have perform'd this task Or if he means the Church of England why must he have the absolute Preference to Others that we can name here especially that Great Ornament and Glory of our Church whom I had occasion to mention before who hath so Learnedly defended the Religion of Protestants I but he writ against Crellius and therefore he must not be the Ablest Defender Again there is a reason well known to the world why Mr. Chillingworth hath the Preheminence in the opinion of this Writer and his Confederates but of that at some other time perhaps Let us now go on and see what this Gentleman gets by his producing of Mr. Chillingworth and it is no other than this a plain confutation of the Vindicator's Project concerning the reducing of Religion to a Point and no more For these are that Worthy Man's words The Bible the Bible I say the Bible only is the Religion of Protestants And I say so too but this Gentleman and the Author of the Reasonableness of Christianity are of another opinion for according to them it is not the Bible but a very Small Portion of it that is the Religion of Protestants
Socinianism Unmask'd A DISCOURSE Shewing the Unreasonableness Of a Late Writer's OPINION Concerning the Necessity of only One Article of Christian Faith And of his other Assertions in his late Book Entituled The Reasonableness of Christianity as deliver'd in the Scriptures and in his Vindication of it With a Brief Reply to another professed Socinian Writer By IOHN EDWARDS B. D. and sometime Fellow of S. Iohn's College in Cambridge LONDON Printed for I. Robinson at the Golden Lyon and I. Wyat at the Rose in S. Paul's Church-yard MDCXCVI THE INTRODUCTION THE following Discourse which was finish'd above two months ago but by reason of some Intervening Occurrences found not its way to the Press is design'd against the undertaking of a late Author in his book which bears the Title of the Reasonableness of Christianity c. But the Writer himself is wonderfully pleased with his Lying hid and being No Body I grant there may be Reasons why a man may sometimes conceal his Name and not prefix it to the Book he is Author of But there are some Reasons that are proper and peculiar to this Writer's circumstances for this is perfectly after the Mode of our late English Racovian Writers who constantly appear Nameless and accordingly herein he shews himself to be of the right Racovian breed And another good reason is this which indeed argues something of Modesty he would not set a Christian Name before that book wherein he so grosly abuses Christianity and renounces the greatest part of it I will not wast time and trouble the Reader and my self about guessing who this Writer is Out of Christian good will and charity I am backward to believe that he who is vogued to be the Father of these Extravagant Conceits is really so I will still perswade my self that there is an Error of the Person upon which account I shall be more free than otherwise I should have been But to come to the Book it self there was to express it in the most Learned and Rhetorical Stile of our Author himself a great flutter noise and buz raised about it even while it was yet under the Printers hands There were certain Factors and Emissaries who extravagantly extolled it and it was observ'd this Applause came from the Racovian quarter Those of that way knew before it came out that it was in favour of their Cause whence it was that they so mightily raised the Expectations of those they convers'd with and highly magnified this Piece before the world had seen it And as soon as it was blessed with the sight of it their language ran to an exorbitant heighth as if Christianity had been never known before the time of the compiling of this book All that went before this Author were deluded Creatures and were perfect Strangers to the Articles of the Christian Faith and to Christianity it self Now is risen up an Infallible Teacher all must obsequiously repair to this Great Oracle Now the Socinians have another Champion now they look brisk upon it and the day is their own Now Converts come in apace and the Youth begin to have a Polonian Aspect and in a short time we shall have a Brood of Socinians we shall be stock'd with Young Racovians And to let you into the whole Project this is the short account of it Socinianism was to be erected at this time they can stay no longer and in order to that all hands are to be employed i. e. all that they can get Among others they thought and made choice of a Gentleman who they knew would be extraordinarily useful to them and he it is probable was as forward to be made use of by them and presently accepted of the Office which was assigned him Now thinks he I had best to make use of this opportunity and to set up for a Divine Not only the Illiterate bulk of mankind but their Reverences and Right Reverences to use the words of a Writer of our own Brotherhood shall come to Me to have their understandings inform'd for we have but a sorry unthinking sort of Teachers now a-days whether they be Conformists or otherwise I could never approve of their Systematick genius their doating upon Creeds and Confessions and rendring our Faith cumbersom and burdensom It may be even these men will give ear to what a Thoughtful Musing Man dictates to them though they never think themselves but take all upon trust and swallow Epistles and Gospel together I have attained to such a heighth and perfection of knowledg that I am able to instruct these people after another rate I must tell them which I know they will look very strangely upon that the Apostles when they wrote the Epistles to their Christian Converts designed not to trouble their heads with any Articles or Truths that were necessarily to be believed they only dropt a few Occasional Documents And it may be now and then that One Article which I have propounded to the world may be hook'd in by the by but that is no place to look for any Necessary and Fundamental Truth of Christianity which is absolutely to be believ'd by us This seems to be Novel Doctrine and so indeed it is for I have the honour to be the first famous Inventer of it but I doubt not but in a short time I shall not only propagate this but the Cause to which it is subservient in a wonderful manner To this purpose I will carry it cunningly whilest the Double-Column'd Prints are openly and in a down-right way advancing the Cause I will do as much service under-hand They look directly towards Poland or Transylvania they publickly profess themselves to be Socinus's Followers but I 'll be upon the Reserve and so disguise my self that it shall be very difficult to discover me I will make the world believe that I never heard of such a man as Socinus and if they tell me that I speak his very language as perfectly as if I were a Native of Sienna I 'll face them down that I had it not by fingring of any Socinian Authors but by a kind of Natural Revelation Well this cause must be carried on and I can do it as well as any man by maintaining that there is but One Article of Christian Faith necessarily to be believ'd to make a man a Christian necessarily to be believ'd in order to salvation For if there be but One Point necessary to be believ'd then the doctrines concerning the Trinity concerning the Incarnation and Divinity of Christ concerning his Satisfaction c. are rendred unnecessary as to the making us Christians And this I will shove on under the colour of being serviceable to the bulk of Mankind of being obliging and merciful to the Multitude and Rabble and Poor People though to say the Truth I shew my self to be so far from obliging the Multitude that I do them an infinite deal of Mischief Yet if I compass my End it is enough and I care for no
upon us by the Messias are necessary matters of our Belief for we can't duly acknowledge him for our Benefactor and Saviour unless we believe that these Great Prerogatives are confer'd upon us Moreover it is of undoubted necessity in order to our being Christians that we know and believe what the Messias requires of us which is contained in such general Texts as these That ye being delivered out of the hands of your enemies may serve him Christ our Deliverer without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life Luke 1. 75. The grace of God which bringeth salvation teacheth us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts c. Tit. 2. 11 12. He gave himself for us that he might re-redeem us from all iniquity c. Tit. 2. 14. This is the will of God even your sanctification 1 Thess. 4. 3. Without Faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11. 6. Without holiness no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12. 14. Which places yield us such Propositions as these that the Messias who vouchsafed to come into the world to redeem lost Man requires of him universal Holiness and Righteousness and the abandoning of all sin and ungodliness That it was one grand end and design of Christ's visiting the would to redeem men from their iniquities to sanctifie their Natures and to make them entirely godly sober and righteous in their Lives That without these there is no Salvation no Seeing of God in the regions of Glory no hopes of Everlasting Happiness The disbelieving of these Articles hath made so many Sorry Christians as we see every where such as lay claim to that Honourable Title but are regardless of that Holiness which should accompany it We must not only believe that Iesus is the Messias but we must believe this also that we can have no Benefit by this Messias unless we by Faith and Obedience adhere to him Neither is this enough it is further matter of our Belief as we are Christians that our Salvation springs from the mere Favour and Bounty of God through his Son Iesus Christ and that this is the only source of that Happiness which we expect By grace we are saved through faith and that not of our selves it is the gift of God Eph. 2. 8. Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his Mercy he saveth us Tit. 3. 5. Where there is not this perswasion and belief the true notion of Christianity vanishes and the conceit of Merit comes in its room Wherefore there is a Necessity that we believe and be perswaded aright as to this matter We are Worthless Creatures of our selves but there is a Worthiness derived to us from the Unspotted and Meritorious Righteousness of him that is the Eternal Son of God He that knows not this he that believes not this deserves not the Name of a Christian I should have been glad to have found something of this nature in this Gentleman's Christianity But he endeavours to seduce his Readers by other apprehensions he tells them that the bare assenting to this that Iesus is the Messias is the Summ Total of the Christian Faith and the Gospel requires no more Lastly The doctrines of the Resurrection of the Final Iudgment and of Eternal Glory in heaven are contained in such passages of the New Testament as these Christ will raise up his at the last day Iohn 6. 44. The Lord Iesus Christ shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing 2 Tim. 4. 1. Father I will that they whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold my glory Iohn 17. 24. And are not these Truths the proper Object of our Faith now under the Gospel they so peculiarly belonging to the doctrine and belief of the Messias Can we believe in him and yet not believe these Great things which are brought to light by his preaching the Gospel For though they were in some measure discovered and revealed before i. e. the General Doctrine concerning a Future State and the Endless Happiness accompanying it was not unknown yet Christ's Words and those of the Apostles do more abundantly assure us of the truth of them especially Christ's Rising from the dead and ascending into Glory have irrefragably confirmed the reality of them according to that of St. Peter We are begotten again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Iesus Christ from the dead to an Inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for us 1 Pet. 1. 4. Who but the Vindicator could imagine that these Evangelical Doctrines are not Necessary Matter of Faith to Christian Men Who but he could fancy and which is more publickly assert that the belief of the Messias's being sent from God without being acquainted with his gracious appointment as to our Future Rewards is all that is required as necessary to constitute a Christian Believer Especially when it is said He that comes unto God must believe that he is a Rewarder Heb. 11. 6. Observe it he must believe then it is not indifferent but a Necessary Article of faith CHAP. II. The foresaid Articles and Doctrines are proved to be Necessary matter of Christian Faith Not that a man is supposed Actually to exert his Assent and Belief every moment That we may be True Christians All these Fundamental Truths must be imbraced and none excluded The late Writer's forgetfulness It is prov'd that he grounds his notion of One Article upon the Weakness of Vnderstanding and Capacity in the Generality of people Herein he follows the Steps of the Racovians who submit the greatest Mysteries to the judgment of the Vulgar and if they will not bear that Test reject them The Doctrine of the Trinity how said to have no Difficulty in it It contains in it no Contradiction This Proposition Jesus is the Messias is not more intelligible than any of the Articles before mentioned THUS I have briefly set before the Reader those Evangelical Truths those Christian Principles which belong to the very Essence of Christianity I have proved them to be such and I have reduced most of them to certain Propositions which is a thing the Vindicator call'd for p. 16. If what I have said will not content him I am sure I can do nothing that will And therefore if he should capriciously require any thing more it would be as great Folly in me to comply with it as it is in him to move it From what I have said it is evident that he is grosly mistaken when he saith Whatever doctrines the Apostles required to be believed to make a man a Christian are to be found in those places of Scripture which he hath quoted in his book p. 11. The places which he quotes are made use of by him to shew that there is but One Article of Belief viz. that Christ is the Messiah but I think I have sufficiently proved that there are Other Doctrines besides That
adds to his Fault But this Author of the New Christianity wisely objects that the Apostle's Creed hath none of these Articles and Doctrines which I mentioned p. 12 13. Nor doth any considerate man wonder at it for the Creed is a Form of outward Profession which is chiefly to be made in the Publick Assemblies when Prayers are put up by the Church and the Holy Scriptures are read Then this Abridgment of Faith is properly used or when there is not generally time or opportunity to make any Enlargement But we are not to think that it expresly contains in it all the Necessary and Weighty Points all the Important Doctrines of our Belief it being only design'd to be an Abstract It is with this Creed as 't is with the Commandments and the Lord's Prayer If a man doth not more than is expresly enjoyned in the Decalogue he can't be said to Act as a Christian. If he prays for no more than is expresly mentioned in the Petitions of the foresaid Prayer he can't be said to Pray as a Good Christian. So if a man believe no more than is in express terms in the Apostle's Creed his Faith will not be the Faith of a Christian. And yet still it is to be granted that as all things to be done and all things to be prayed for are reducible to the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer so All matters of Faith in some manner may be reduced to this Brief Platform of Belief But when I call it an Abstract or Abbreviature it is implied that there are more Truths to be known and assented to by a Christian in order to making him really so than what we meet with here And yet I must take leave to tell our Vindicator that this Creed hath more in it than he and his brethren will subscribe to If he were not above Catechisms as well as Creeds I might remind him of Our Church's judgment concerning the Articles of this Creed Qu. What dost thou chiefly learn in these Articles of thy Belief Answ. First I learn to believe in God the Father who had made me and all the world Secondly in God the Son who hath redeemed me and all mankind Thirdly in God the Holy Ghost who sanctifieth me and all the Elect People of God These are killing words to a Disciple of Socinus who acknowledges neither the God-head of the Son nor of the Holy Ghost nor the Redemption or Sanctification by either Yet our Church with all the Christian Churches in the world owns these Truths to be contained in the Apostles Creed And there are other Articles of this Symbol let them palliate it as they please which the Racovian Gentlemen are unwilling to give their assent to They faulter about Christ's Iudging the quick and the dead they partly deny the Resurrection of the body they deny Life Everlasting as it respects wicked men for they hold that these shall be Annihilated of all which I may have occasion to speak another time At present I only take notice of their lopping off several Articles from this Creed But was it not judiciously said by this Writer that it is well for the Compilers of the Creed that they lived not in my days p. 12. I tell you Friend it was impossible they should for the Learned Usher and Vossius and others have proved that that Symbol was drawn up not at once but that some Articles of it were adjoyned many years after far beyond the extent of any man's life and therefore the Compilers of the Creed could not live in my days not could I live in theirs but I let this pass as one of the blunders of our Thoughtful and Musing Author Nor had he reason to think that those that made the Apostles Creed would have been censured by me for I have vindicated and asserted their Articles whereas he and his friends have new-modell'd the Creed yea indeed have presented us with One Article instead of Twelve and in order to that have sunk the Epistles because they are not Socinianized all over Socinianized If this Gentleman had said that the belief of Iesus's being the Messias was one of the first and leading acts of Christian Faith he had said right and none would have opposed it If he had said that the knowledg of the Gospel and consequently of the Doctrines of it advanc'd at first by degrees and shone brighter after our Saviour's Ascension than before he had spoken truth but when he positively and peremptorily declares that neither at first nor afterwards there was any Necessity of believing more than this that Iesus is the Messias he misrepresents the Gospel-Dispensation and mistakes the nature of Christiaanity To stop here and go no further is unsufferable This is as if a Breeder up of Children and Youth should carry them no further than the A B C. He is wholly for reducing of Christianity whereas he should have given it in its Full and Ample Extent especially he should not have kept back any thing of the Foundation CHAP. IV. The Christian Faith which this Gentleman describes is of the same scantling with that of the Mahometans The Affinity between the Turks and Anti-trinitarians The Devils are capable of a higher degree of Faith than that which he saith makes a Christian. A brief Idea of the Compleat Faith of a Christian. The Danger of asserting that there is but One Article of Christian belief necessary to be assented to This is the way to introduce Darkness and Blindness into Christendom and to promote the designs of that Church which cherishes Ignorance as the Mother of Devotion and Religion How far this Writer is instrumental in it What care he hath of mens Souls and of their Salvation It is the practise of Socinian Writers to curtail Christianity and to cut off as many Fundamental Articles from it as they can This Writer had his Platform from Crellius He is approved of and applauded by the English Socinians Three Reasons assign'd why the Socinians agree to maim the Heads of Christianity and to reduce all into One Article The Office of Catechizing was not instituted for the teaching of One Article of Faith only IT is likely I shall further exasperate this Author when I desire the Reader to observe that this Lank Faith of his is in a manner on other than the Faith of a Turk For the Alcoran acknowledges that the Spirit of God bore witness to Christ the Son of Mary a Divine Soul was put into him He was the Messenger of the Spirit and the Word of God And in another place God is brought in declaring that he had sent Christ the Son of Mary c. And in other places he is mention'd as a Prophet as a Great Man one Commission'd by God and sent by him into the world This is of the like import with what our good Ottoman Writer the Vindicator saith of our Saviour and this he holds is the sum of all that is Necessary
shew'd it in his late Undertaking and that I would not have made opposition to him in any other Points but These which are the Foundation Basis and Ground-work of Christianity and the very Life and Soul of our Religion and therefore none is to be permitted to treat them irreverently and scoffingly as he and his Associates have lately done But I entertain some hope that this Unsavoury Tang will wear off in time And thus I have finished both my Replies to the Gentlemen's Writings against me and I have wholly confined my self to these and not ventured to guess at their Persons or make any Reflections of that kind for that is a thing which I abhor Nay though the Vindicator by his reflecting upon my Degree p. 24. and 36. and Calling p. 36 and before p. 26 and before that p. 9. had given me occasion to enquire into his Quality and Character yet I purposely forbore to meddle with any such Considerations And so as to the Examinator I could easily have traced his Person and Station and offer'd some Remarks upon either but I made it not my business to observe Who they were that wrote but what they had written And it was necessary to do this latter with some Salt and Keenness that the levity of their Arguments might be the better exposed and that I might in a lawful and innocent way retaliate that Liberty which they had taken And indeed the Socinian Gentlemen must shew themselves very Disingenuous which I will not presume of them if they be dissatisfied with me for my Freedom of discourse when in all their Writings they profess to use it And it is plain that they make use of it for who sees not that they have been very sharp upon some of the most Eminent and Venerable Persons of our Church They have handled the late Archbishop and some of his Reverend Brethren who in their Writings shewed their dislike of the Socinian doctrines with no excess of Respect And they represent them and the whole Clergy as Mercenary Timerous and False hearted They would perswade the world that the doctrine of the Trinity is defended by them merely because they are bribed or forced to it And others of their Writers have been very severe upon the Trinitarians in their late Prints And therefore with good reason some of These have been free with them again especially that Worthy Person who undertook the Defence of the Archbishop and the Bishop of Worcester and hath with great Vivacity and Sharpness reflected on the Socinian Errors and with as great Solidity and Composedness establish'd the contrary Truths and hath not spared that Socinian Author whom he grapples with no not in the least I suppose none will grudg me that Freedom which this Gentleman and others have taken in their Replies to the Racovian Writers especially seeing I have not as I conceive made ill use of it But of that let the Reader judg FINIS BOOKS written by the Reverend Mr. John Edwards AN Enquiry into several Remakable Texts of the Old and New Testament which contain some Difficulty in them with a Probable Resolution of them in two Vol. 8 o. A Discourse concerning the Authority Stile and Perfection of the Books of the Old and New Testament with a Continued Illustration of several Difficult Texts throughout the whole Work In three Vol. 8 o. Some Thoughts concerning the several Causes and Occasions of Atheism especially in the Present Age with some brief Reflections on Socinianism and on a Late Book entituled The Reasonableness of Christianity as deliver'd in the Scriptures 8 o. A Demonstration of the Existence and Providence of God from the Contemplation of the visible Structure of the Greater and the Lesser World In two Parts The first shewing the Excellent Contrivance of the Heavens Earth Sea c. The second the wonderful Formation of the Body of Man Socinianism Vnmask'd A Discourse shewing the Unreasonableness of a Late Writer's Opinion concerning the Necessity of only One Article of Christian Faith and of his other Assertions in his Late Book Entituled The Reasonableness of Christianity as deliver'd in the Scriptures and in his Vindication of it with a brief Reply to another Professed Socinian Writer All sold by Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lyon and John Wyat at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-yard * The Exceptions of Mr. E. against the Reasonableness of Christianity c. examined * Mishn. Tract Avoth c. 5. * De Uno Deo Patre l. ◠c. 1. †The Exceptions of Mr. E. c. examined * Mat. 28. 19. Iohn 10. 30. * Mat. 28. 19. Iohn 10. 30. * The Exceptions c. examined * Diatr de Symbol †De Trib. Symb. * Azoar 1. * Azoar 67. †From the Arabick verb islam credidit whence the Mahometan Religion is call'd Islamisinus * Alcor Azoar 11. †De Trin. l. 1. * Socin de Cognit Dei Ostorod Instit. cap. 3 4. Epifeop Apol. Remonstr * Praelect cap. 5. * De Uno Deo Patre Sect. 1. cap. 1. * The Exceptions of Mr. E. against the Reasonableness of Christianity examin'd * Cont. Meisner de Trin. †Socin cont Wiek cap. 5. * Cont. Meisner de Trin. * Luke 1. 35. †John 10. 36. ‖ Acts 13. 32 33. ** John 3. 16. Rom. 5. 8. 2 Cor. 11. 31. * The Trinitarian Scheme of Religion page 21. * Reasonableness of Christianity p. 303. * Vindic p. 20. * W. Pen's Sandy Foundation p. 12. †Sandy Foundat ibid. * Considerations on the Explications of the doctrine of the Trinity