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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25701	An apology for the Parliament, humbly representing to Mr. John Gailhard some reasons why they did not at his request enact sanguinary laws against Protestants in their last session in two letters by different hands.		1697 (1697)	Wing A3552; ESTC R170358	34,745	43

like an Appeal prepar'd beforehand upon suspicion that the Jury will find but Manslaughter If Socinianism should have no Atheism nor meer Deism no Profaneness Immorality nor Idolatry in it yet caetera will not let it live Who can say he is not guilty of caetera for my part therefore I will never stint my Prayers but my Latitudinarian Litany shall run thus From the Devil and the Pope from Mr. G. caetera Good Lord deliver us The 2d thing to be examin'd in Mr. G's ill-natur'd and malicious Paper is How wide Socinianism is spread If Atheism and Deism Profaneness and Immorality Idolatry and caetera be Parcels and Portions of that Heresy o' my Conscience the Heresy is spread over the whole World and may require an extraordinary Remedy to suppose that an extraordinary one will do and if these Parcels of Socinianism are so universal I do not wonder that the Church has her share but let us not argue but observe Mr. G's particular Account of the growth of Deism 1. He says that the Jews are not wanting in their Endeavours to promote the Blasphemy Now what a Blaze would it make if only these Socinian Jews were to be burnt for they are a numerous People and for what they have done already against the Messias scatter'd over the face of the Earth but whether the burning of them be the way by which the dark Corners of the Earth are to be illuminated I make a question 2. He tells us that the Mahometans and the Socinian Generation of Vipers are ever ready to join Heads to promote their common Cause Now these Mahometans are far more numerous than the whole Body of Christians by what Appellation soever dignified or disgrac'd wherefore I can't imagine how the burning of them is feasible whether it would not be a glorious and great Work that I don't dispute but I can't imagine I say how the burning of so many Millions is feasible unless perhaps by praying for Fire to come down from Heaven and destroy them indeed our Saviour would not oblige his Disciples James and John in that particular against the Samaritans tho he might have vindicated his own Honour by executing their Wrath but what he may do for Mr. G. and his Calvinists is another matter 3. He intimates that the French Refugees among us dogmatize after the Socinian manner which they durst not do in France for fear of Fire and Faggot Now if this be true I know not why these Refugees should be suffered to live any more than the Jews and Mahometans only I would humbly move that they might be sent home to be burnt there for why should we do the King of France's drudgery for him let him burn his own Hereticks if he will now the War 's ending he 'll have nothing else to do besides the Rogues would not know how to take their burning in England but appeal to Heaven and Earth against us for breaking the Laws of Hospitality but they still retain so great a Veneration for their Grand Monarch that for ought I know upon second thoughts they may be proud of the Honour of being burnt by his Orders 4. He arraigns all the Arminians as join'd in Confederacy with the Socinians Arminius himself Mr. G. notes tho contemporary with Socinus would never write against him therefore c. which Argument is good in this particular case but in no other for tho Mr. G. would never write against his Contemporary George Fox deceas'd nor William Pen now living yet Mr. G. is no Quaker but a Calvinist nor could he possibly be otherwise being predestinated to be a Calvinist and not a Quaker and that not for any Merit that God foresaw in him for that were to make God foresee what will never happen but meerly and purely as an Arminian would guess because his Nature was capable of no other Christian Impression Mr. G. also tells us he often meets with Vorstius Episcopius Bertius Curcellaeus who favour the Socinians nay go hand in hand with them in many things and mince the matter with them And p. 7. of his Book he ingeniously expresses himself upon the whole matter thus As one Depth calls to another so an Arminian can easily become a rank Pelagian or Socinian Here a wicked Pelagian or rank Socinian would reply As one Shallowness calls to another so a Calvinist can easily become as wise as the Dominican Inquisitor at Lisbon who at a late Act of Faith burnt an English Mare that could tell what o' th' Clock it was by the Watch for a Heretick But to our purpose here we have on the Socinian side as Mr. G. tells us and he knows all the Arminians i.e. almost all the Church of England a Moiety of the Presbyterians nine parts in ten of the Quakers Indeed I was afraid that when Socinianism was once got into the Bowels of the Church it would not be long before it reach'd her Heart and thence diffus'd its Venom over all the mystical Body As for the Dissenters it would never grieve a Man that they should be infected with this pestilent Heresy since they deserv'd to be burn'd before for Schism For tho the Supream Authority of the Nation has at present indulg'd their Consciences yet no Authority upon Earth can alter the nature of Schism As much socinianiz'd as our Arminian Clergy are they yet hold fast their Orthodoxy in condemning the Dissenters for Schismaticks and doubtless will do it in spight of King and Parliament but 't is very unfortunate and infinitely to be lamented that they should be Heterodox in any Article with so bad Company as the Socinians tho 't is very certain they are so if there be any truth in Mr. G. nay he tells us p. 6. of his Book That as to most of the Matters of Grace and Providence the Socinians are agreed with the Arminians and then by consequence the Arminians with the Socinians so that it will be a hard case to burn the one without the other It is true several of these Arminians are Men of Learning nay and they have wrote against Socinianism too but as Mr. G. tells us No good is to be expected from them upon account of some Principles of theirs Socinian Principles and in plain words they are unfit to write against the Socinians Which Declaration of his puts me in mind of what another Calvinist told me t' other day Sir says he Arminianism take my word for it is the Parent of Socinianism the Brat is very like in many Features but pray mind this one The Arminians teach that God might have forgiven the Sin of Adam without exacting any Satisfaction upon this the Socinians raise a dispute whether it can be plainly prov'd from Scripture that Christ died to make a Satisfaction and then they assign I know not what other Reasons of his Death which they could never have found out but for the Arminians Ah! take my word for it says he As to Arminian