The exceptions of Mr. Edwards in his Causes of atheism against the Reasonableness of Christianity, as deliver'd in the Scriptures, examin'd and found unreasonable, unscriptural, and injurious also it's clearly proved by many testimonies of Holy Scripture, that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is the only God and Father of Christians.
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           Edwards, John, 1637-1716. -- Some thoughts concerning the several causes and occasions of atheism.
           Locke, John, 1632-1704. -- Reasonableness of Christianity.
           Antitrinitarianism.
           Church history -- 17th century.
           Christianity -- Early works to 1800.
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           THE
           EXCEPTIONS
           Of
           Mr.
           EDWARDS
           ,
           in
           his
           
             Causes
             of
             Atheism
          
           ,
           Against
           
             the
             Reasonableness
             of
             Christianity
             ,
             as
             deliver'd
             in
             the
             Scriptures
             ,
          
           EXAMIN'D
           ;
           And
           found
           Unreasonable
           ,
           Unscriptural
           ,
           and
           Injurious
           .
           ALSO
           It
           's
           clearly
           proved
           by
           many
           Testimonies
           of
           Holy
           Scripture
           ,
           That
           the
           God
           and
           Father
           of
           our
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           ,
           is
           the
           only
           God
           and
           Father
           of
           Christians
           .
        
         
           London
           ,
           Printed
           in
           the
           Year
           MDCXCV
           .
        
      
       
         
         
         
           To
           the
           Author
           of
           
             the
             Reasonableness
             of
             Christianity
             as
             delivered
             in
             the
             Scriptures
             .
          
        
         
           
             SIR
             ,
          
        
         
           IN
           reading
           your
           Book
           of
           that
           Title
           ,
           I
           readily
           perceived
           your
           Design
           ,
           intimated
           in
           your
           Preface
           ,
           to
           be
           therein
           most
           industriously
           and
           piously
           pursued
           :
           So
           that
           you
           have
           ,
           with
           full
           Evidence
           of
           Scripture
           and
           Reason
           ,
           shewed
           ,
           against
           the
           manifold
           obscure
           and
           tedious
           Systems
           ,
           that
           the
           Fundamentals
           of
           Christian
           Faith
           ,
           necessary
           to
           constitute
           a
           Man
           a
           true
           Member
           of
           Christ's
           Church
           ,
           are
           all
           comprehended
           or
           implied
           in
           this
           plain
           Proposition
           ,
           
             That
             Jesus
             is
             the
             Messiah
          
           :
           Whereby
           you
           have
           happily
           provided
           for
           the
           Quiet
           and
           Satisfaction
           of
           the
           Minds
           of
           the
           honest
           Multitude
           or
           Bulk
           of
           Mankind
           ,
           floating
           in
           Doubts
           and
           Fears
           ,
           because
           either
           they
           cannot
           understand
           ,
           or
           can
           find
           no
           clear
           Evidence
           in
           Holy
           Scripture
           ,
           of
           those
           intricate
           Points
           requir'd
           to
           be
           explicitly
           believ'd
           upon
           pain
           of
           eternal
           Damnation
           .
           You
           have
           also
           argued
           clearly
           the
           Reasonableness
           and
           Vsefulness
           of
           the
           Christian
           Revelation
           against
           Atheists
           and
           Deists
           .
           These
           things
           consider'd
           ,
           't
           was
           no
           marvel
           ,
           that
           the
           Systematical
           Men
           ,
           who
           gain
           both
           their
           Honour
           and
           Profit
           by
           the
           Obscurity
           and
           Multitude
           of
           their
           Fundamental
           Articles
           ,
           should
           raise
           an
           Outcry
           against
           you
           ,
           like
           that
           of
           the
           Ephesians
           magnifying
           their
           DIANA
           .
           They
           have
           more
           cause
           for
           it
           than
           Demetrius
           had
           .
           But
           that
           they
           should
           traduce
           your
           Work
           as
           tending
           to
           Atheism
           or
           Deism
           ,
           is
           as
           strange
           from
           Reason
           ,
           as
           many
           of
           their
           Articles
           are
           from
           Scripture
           .
           And
           that
           Mr.
           Edwards
           has
           done
           it
           ,
           and
           forc'd
           it
           in
           among
           his
           
             Tendencies
             to
             Atheism
          
           ,
           is
           ,
           I
           think
           ,
           to
           be
           imputed
           to
           the
           Co-incidence
           of
           your
           Book
           's
           being
           publish'd
           ,
           and
           striking
           strongly
           upon
           his
           inventive
           Faculty
           ,
           just
           when
           it
           was
           in
           hot
           pursuit
           of
           the
           Causes
           of
           Atheism
           ,
           rather
           than
           to
           any
           the
           least
           Colour
           or
           Inclination
           
           that
           way
           ,
           which
           Mr.
           Edwards
           can
           spy
           in
           it
           in
           his
           cool
           Thoughts
           :
           For
           I
           am
           much
           perswaded
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           no
           Atheist
           or
           Deist
           in
           England
           ,
           but
           ,
           if
           he
           were
           ask'd
           the
           Question
           ,
           would
           tell
           Mr.
           Edwards
           ,
           that
           their
           obscure
           and
           contradictious
           Fundamentals
           were
           one
           Cause
           or
           Inducement
           to
           his
           casting
           off
           and
           disbelief
           of
           Christianity
           .
        
         
           In
           this
           Mind
           I
           have
           undertaken
           to
           vindicate
           your
           Doctrine
           from
           the
           Exceptions
           of
           Mr.
           Edwards
           against
           it
           .
           But
           whether
           I
           have
           done
           it
           as
           it
           ought
           to
           have
           been
           done
           ,
           I
           cannot
           be
           a
           competent
           Judg.
           If
           I
           have
           mistaken
           your
           Sense
           ,
           or
           us'd
           weak
           Reasonings
           in
           your
           Defence
           ,
           I
           crave
           your
           Pardon
           :
           But
           my
           Design
           in
           this
           Writing
           was
           not
           to
           please
           you
           ,
           (
           whom
           I
           know
           not
           )
           nor
           any
           Man
           whatsoever
           ,
           but
           only
           to
           honour
           the
           One
           God
           ,
           and
           vindicate
           his
           most
           useful
           Truths
           .
           I
           am
           ,
        
         
           
             SIR
             ,
          
           
             Your
             very
             humble
             Servant
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           Mr.
           EDWARDS
           's
           Exceptions
           against
           
             the
             Reasonableness
             of
             Christianity
          
           ,
           examined
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           IT
           seems
           to
           me
           ,
           that
           Mr.
           Edwards
           ,
           printing
           his
           
             Causes
             of
             Atheism
          
           ,
           whilst
           the
           
             Reasonableness
             of
             Christianity
          
           was
           newly
           publish'd
           ,
           was
           put
           upon
           it
           by
           his
           Bookseller
           ,
           to
           add
           some
           Exceptions
           against
           that
           Treatise
           so
           much
           noted
           for
           its
           Heterodoxy
           ;
           that
           so
           the
           Sale
           of
           his
           own
           Tract
           might
           be
           the
           more
           promoted
           :
           whence
           it
           comes
           to
           pass
           ,
           that
           his
           Notes
           being
           writ
           in
           haste
           ,
           are
           not
           so
           well
           digested
           as
           might
           be
           expected
           from
           a
           Person
           of
           his
           Learning
           and
           Ingenuity
           .
           In
           pag.
           104.
           he
           takes
           notice
           of
           A
           PLAUSIBLE
           CONCEIT
           ,
           
             which
             hath
             been
             growing
             up
             a
             considerable
             Time
             ,
          
           &c.
           but
           tells
           not
           his
           Reader
           what
           that
           Conceit
           was
           ,
           till
           he
           hath
           charged
           it
           upon
           a
           very
           Learned
           and
           famous
           Author
           ,
           whom
           he
           is
           pleased
           to
           call
           
             a
             wavering
             Prelate
          
           ,
           and
           
             another
             of
             the
             same
             Order
          
           ,
           and
           a
           Third
           of
           a
           lower
           Degree
           ;
           but
           more
           
             particularly
             ,
             fully
             and
             distinctly
          
           ,
           upon
           the
           late
           Publisher
           of
           
             The
             Reasonableness
             of
             Christianity
          
           ,
           &c.
           
           Here
           at
           length
           in
           his
           next
           Page
           ,
           he
           tells
           us
           ,
           That
           
             this
             Author
             gives
             IT
             us
             over
             and
             over
             again
             ,
             in
             these
             formal
             words
             ,
          
           viz.
           
             That
             nothing
             is
             required
             to
             be
             believed
             by
             any
             Christian
             Man
             but
             this
             ,
             THAT
             JESVS
             IS
             THE
             MESSIAH
             .
          
           I
           think
           if
           he
           had
           not
           been
           in
           haste
           ,
           he
           would
           have
           cited
           at
           least
           two
           or
           three
           of
           those
           Pages
           ,
           wherein
           we
           might
           find
           those
           formal
           Words
           ,
           but
           he
           has
           not
           one
           ,
           and
           I
           do
           not
           remember
           where
           they
           are
           to
           be
           found
           ;
           for
           I
           am
           almost
           in
           as
           much
           haste
           as
           Mr.
           Edwards
           ,
           and
           will
           not
           seek
           for
           them
           .
           It
           's
           true
           ,
           he
           says
           ,
           
             That
             all
             that
             was
             to
             be
             believed
             for
             Justification
             ,
          
           or
           to
           make
           a
           Man
           a
           Christian
           ,
           by
           him
           that
           did
           already
           believe
           in
           ,
           and
           worship
           one
           true
           God
           ,
           maker
           of
           Heaven
           and
           Earth
           ,
           
             was
             no
             more
             than
             this
             single
             Proposition
             ,
             That
             Jesus
             of
          
           Nazareth
           
             was
             the
             Christ
             or
             the
          
           Messiah
           .
           But
           then
           he
           takes
           to
           be
           included
           in
           this
           Proposition
           ,
           1.
           
           All
           synonimous
           Expressions
           ,
           such
           as
           ,
           the
           Son
           of
           God
           ;
           The
           King
           of
           Israel
           ;
           The
           sent
           of
           God
           ;
           He
           that
           should
           come
           ,
           He
           of
           whom
           Moses
           and
           the
           Prophets
           did
           write
           ;
           The
           Teacher
           come
           from
           God
           ,
           &c.
           2.
           
           All
           such
           Expressions
           as
           shew
           the
           manner
           of
           his
           being
           the
           Christ
           ,
           Messiah
           ,
           or
           
           Son
           of
           God
           ,
           such
           as
           his
           being
           conceived
           by
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           and
           Power
           of
           the
           most
           High
           ;
           his
           being
           anointed
           with
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           and
           Power
           ;
           his
           being
           sanctified
           and
           sent
           into
           the
           World
           ;
           his
           being
           raised
           from
           the
           Dead
           ,
           and
           exalted
           to
           be
           a
           Prince
           and
           Saviour
           after
           the
           time
           he
           was
           so
           ,
           &c.
           3.
           
           Such
           Expressions
           as
           import
           the
           great
           Benefits
           of
           his
           being
           the
           Messiah
           ;
           as
           having
           the
           Words
           of
           Eternal
           Life
           ;
           his
           having
           Power
           from
           the
           Father
           to
           remit
           Sins
           ,
           to
           raise
           the
           Dead
           ,
           to
           judg
           the
           World
           ;
           to
           give
           eternal
           Life
           ;
           to
           send
           the
           H.
           Spirit
           upon
           the
           Apostles
           whereby
           they
           might
           work
           Miracles
           ,
           and
           preach
           the
           Light
           of
           Life
           to
           Jews
           and
           Gentiles
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           .
           For
           all
           those
           Quotations
           of
           Scripture
           which
           the
           Author
           (
           as
           Mr.
           Edwards
           observes
           )
           
             has
             amassed
             together
             out
             of
             the
             Gospels
             ,
             and
             the
             Acts
             of
             the
             Apostles
             ,
             which
             take
             up
             about
             three
             quarters
             of
             his
             Book
             ,
          
           for
           the
           proof
           of
           his
           Proposition
           ,
           are
           indeed
           expository
           of
           the
           meaning
           of
           that
           Proposition
           ,
           and
           are
           included
           in
           it
           .
           Not
           that
           it
           was
           necessary
           that
           every
           one
           ,
           who
           believed
           the
           Proposition
           ,
           should
           understand
           and
           have
           an
           explicite
           Faith
           of
           all
           those
           particulars
           :
           for
           neither
           the
           Believers
           during
           the
           Life
           of
           Christ
           ,
           nor
           the
           Apostles
           themselves
           understood
           many
           of
           them
           ,
           no
           nor
           presently
           after
           his
           Death
           and
           Resurrection
           ;
           for
           they
           had
           still
           divers
           erroneous
           Opinions
           concerning
           the
           Nature
           of
           his
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           the
           preaching
           to
           the
           Gentiles
           ,
           and
           other
           things
           .
           And
           in
           the
           beginning
           of
           Christ's
           preaching
           ,
           though
           Philip
           believ'd
           that
           
             Jesus
             was
             the
             Messiah
          
           ,
           the
           Son
           of
           God
           ,
           the
           King
           of
           Israel
           ;
           yet
           he
           seems
           to
           be
           ignorant
           of
           his
           being
           born
           of
           a
           Virgin
           ,
           for
           he
           calls
           him
           the
           Son
           of
           
             Joseph
             ,
             John
          
           1.
           45.
           
           But
           as
           he
           that
           believes
           that
           William
           the
           3d
           is
           the
           true
           King
           of
           England
           ,
           &c.
           believes
           enough
           to
           make
           him
           a
           good
           Subject
           ,
           though
           he
           understands
           not
           all
           the
           grounds
           of
           his
           Title
           ,
           much
           less
           all
           his
           Power
           and
           Prerogatives
           that
           belong
           to
           him
           as
           King
           :
           So
           he
           that
           believes
           upon
           good
           Grounds
           that
           
             Jesus
             is
             the
             Messiah
          
           ,
           and
           understands
           so
           much
           of
           this
           Proposition
           as
           makes
           him
           ,
           or
           may
           make
           him
           a
           good
           Subject
           of
           Christ's
           Kingdom
           ,
           though
           he
           be
           ignorant
           of
           many
           things
           included
           in
           that
           Proposition
           ,
           he
           has
           all
           the
           Faith
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           ,
           as
           our
           Author
           has
           abundantly
           proved
           .
        
         
           But
           Mr.
           Edwards
           says
           ,
           
             This
             Gentleman
             forgot
             ,
             or
             rather
             wilfully
             omitted
             a
             plain
             and
             obvious
             Passage
             ,
             in
             one
             of
             the
             Evangelists
             ,
          
           GO
           TEACH
           ALL
           NATIONS
           ,
           &c.
           
           Mat.
           28.
           19.
           
           
             From
             which
             it
             is
             plain
          
           (
           says
           he
           )
           
             that
             all
             that
             are
             adult
             Members
             of
             the
             Christian
             Church
             ,
             must
             be
             Taught
             as
             well
             as
             Baptiz'd
             into
             the
             Faith
             of
             the
             Holy
             Trinity
             ,
             Father
             ,
             Son
             and
             Holy
             Ghost
             ,
             and
             then
             they
             must
             believe
             it
             :
             and
             consequently
             more
             is
             required
             to
             be
             believed
             by
             Christian
             Men
             ,
             than
             that
             Jesus
             is
             the
             Messiah
             .
          
           
           He
           infers
           from
           this
           ,
           
             You
             see
             it
             is
             part
             of
             the
             Evangelical
             Faith
             ,
             and
             such
             as
             is
             necessary
             ,
             absolutely
             necessary
             to
             make
             one
             a
             Member
             of
             the
             Christian
             Church
             ,
             to
             believe
             a
          
           TRINITY
           
             in
             Vnity
             in
             the
             God-head
             ;
             or
             ,
             in
             plainer
             Terms
             ,
             that
             though
             God
             is
             one
             as
             to
             his
             Essence
             and
             Nature
             ,
             yet
             there
             are
             three
             Persons
             in
             that
             Divine
             Essence
             ,
             and
             that
             these
             three
             are
             really
             the
             one
             God.
          
           I
           must
           confess
           ,
           that
           if
           Mr.
           
           Edwards's
           reasoning
           be
           good
           ,
           the
           Author
           is
           totally
           confuted
           ,
           three
           quarters
           of
           his
           Book
           at
           least
           are
           writ
           in
           vain
           ,
           and
           the
           old
           Systems
           must
           stand
           good
           ;
           and
           the
           
             Bulk
             of
             Mankind
          
           will
           certainly
           be
           damned
           ,
           or
           it
           will
           be
           a
           wonder
           if
           any
           of
           them
           be
           faved
           .
           But
           give
           me
           leave
           to
           tell
           him
           I
           do
           
             not
             see
          
           ,
           what
           he
           says
           
             we
             do
             see
          
           :
           that
           Text
           will
           well
           enough
           consist
           with
           our
           Author's
           Proposition
           .
           For
           I
           would
           ask
           him
           ,
           whether
           the
           Apostles
           follow'd
           this
           Commission
           or
           not
           :
           If
           they
           obey'd
           it
           ,
           then
           in
           Baptizing
           in
           the
           Name
           of
           
             Jesus
             the
             Messiah
          
           ,
           and
           exhorting
           those
           to
           whom
           they
           preached
           ,
           to
           be
           baptiz'd
           in
           the
           Name
           of
           the
           Messiah
           ,
           after
           their
           preaching
           the
           Messiah
           to
           them
           ,
           they
           did
           in
           effect
           baptize
           in
           the
           Name
           of
           the
           Father
           ,
           Son
           and
           Holy
           Ghost
           ,
           otherwise
           they
           did
           not
           pursue
           their
           Commission
           ;
           for
           we
           never
           find
           them
           baptizing
           in
           those
           express
           Terms
           ,
           but
           always
           in
           the
           Name
           of
           
             Jesus
             the
             Messiah
          
           ,
           or
           the
           Lord
           Jesus
           ,
           or
           the
           Lord
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           .
           So
           that
           Mr.
           Edwards
           must
           either
           charge
           the
           Holy
           Apostles
           with
           Ignorance
           of
           ,
           or
           Disobedience
           to
           their
           Lord's
           Command
           ,
           or
           acknowledg
           that
           they
           did
           really
           baptize
           in
           the
           Name
           of
           the
           Father
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Son
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           ,
           when
           they
           did
           but
           expresly
           baptize
           in
           the
           Name
           of
           the
           Son
           or
           Messiah
           ;
           forasmuch
           as
           all
           that
           were
           so
           baptiz'd
           ,
           did
           believe
           in
           the
           Father
           of
           that
           Son
           of
           God
           ,
           as
           implied
           in
           the
           Son
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           ,
           as
           the
           Anointing
           of
           the
           Son
           ,
           and
           which
           also
           was
           given
           to
           those
           that
           were
           so
           baptiz'd
           .
           But
           as
           for
           his
           Inference
           ,
           viz.
           That
           
             it
             's
             absolutely
             necessary
             to
             believe
             a
             Trinity
             in
             Vnity
             in
             the
             Godhead
          
           ;
           or
           
             that
             God
             is
             one
             as
             to
             his
             Essence
             and
             Nature
             ,
             yet
             there
             are
             three
             Persons
             in
             that
             Divine
             Essence
             ,
             and
             that
             these
             three
             Persons
             are
             really
             the
             one
             God
             :
          
           This
           will
           condemn
           not
           only
           the
           Unitarians
           ,
           and
           
             the
             Bulk
             of
             Mankind
          
           ,
           but
           the
           greater
           part
           of
           Trinitarians
           ,
           the
           Learned
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Vulgar
           .
           For
           all
           the
           real
           Trinitarians
           do
           not
           believe
           
             one
             Essence
          
           ,
           but
           three
           Numerical
           Essences
           .
           Here
           Dr.
           Sherlock
           ,
           Dr.
           Cudworth
           ,
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Gl.
           the
           late
           Arch-bishop
           ,
           Mr.
           
             H
             —
             w
          
           ,
           and
           all
           that
           hold
           as
           the
           Council
           of
           Nice
           did
           ,
           with
           that
           Council
           it self
           ,
           and
           the
           whole
           Church
           (
           except
           some
           Hereticks
           )
           for
           many
           Centuries
           ,
           are
           by
           Mr.
           Edwards
           expung'd
           out
           of
           the
           Catalogue
           of
           Christian
           Believers
           ,
           and
           consequently
           condemn'd
           to
           the
           horrible
           Portion
           of
           Infidels
           or
           Hereticks
           .
           The
           Mystery-men
           ,
           
           or
           
             Ignoramus
             Trinitarians
          
           ,
           they
           are
           condemn'd
           too
           ;
           for
           they
           admit
           not
           any
           Explication
           ,
           and
           therefore
           not
           Mr.
           
           Edwards's
           .
           There
           remains
           only
           Dr.
           South
           ,
           and
           Dr.
           Wallis
           ,
           and
           the
           Philosopher
           Hobbs
           ,
           who
           (
           Mr.
           Edwards
           says
           )
           
             is
             the
             great
             Master
             and
             Lawgiver
             of
             the
             profess'd
             Atheists
             ,
          
           pag.
           129.
           and
           that
           Party
           which
           have
           the
           absolutely
           necessary
           Faith
           of
           three
           Persons
           in
           one
           Essence
           .
           But
           if
           you
           ask
           these
           Men
           what
           they
           mean
           by
           three
           Persons
           :
           Do
           they
           mean
           according
           to
           the
           common
           sense
           of
           Mankind
           ,
           and
           especially
           of
           the
           English
           Nation
           ,
           three
           singular
           intellectual
           Beings
           ?
           No
           ,
           by
           no
           means
           ,
           that
           is
           Tritheism
           ,
           they
           mean
           three
           Modes
           in
           the
           one
           God
           ,
           which
           may
           be
           resembled
           to
           three
           Postures
           in
           one
           Man
           ;
           or
           three
           external
           Relations
           ,
           as
           Creator
           ,
           Redeemer
           ,
           Sanctifier
           ;
           as
           one
           Man
           may
           be
           three
           Persons
           ,
           a
           Husband
           ,
           a
           Father
           and
           
             a
             Master
          
           .
           This
           is
           that
           Opinion
           of
           Faith
           ,
           which
           the
           Antients
           made
           Heresy
           ,
           and
           Sabellius
           the
           Head
           of
           it
           .
           Thus
           it
           is
           absolutely
           necessary
           to
           make
           a
           Man
           a
           Christian
           ,
           that
           he
           be
           a
           Sabellian
           Heretick
           .
           But
           perhaps
           Mr.
           Edwards
           may
           be
           of
           Mr.
           H
           —
           w's
           Mind
           ,
           for
           he
           says
           ,
           
             These
             three
             Persons
             are
             really
             the
             one
             God
          
           ;
           but
           then
           ,
           no
           one
           of
           them
           singly
           is
           so
           ,
           but
           every
           one
           
             a
             Third
             of
             God
          
           :
           If
           so
           ,
           Mr.
           Edwards
           is
           indeed
           a
           Unitarian
           ,
           for
           he
           gives
           us
           one
           God
           only
           ;
           but
           then
           he
           is
           no
           Trinitarian
           ,
           for
           he
           has
           put
           down
           the
           Father
           himself
           from
           being
           God
           singly
           ,
           and
           so
           the
           Son
           and
           Holy
           Ghost
           .
        
         
           As
           to
           what
           he
           says
           of
           being
           Baptized
           into
           the
           
             Faith
             and
             Worship
          
           of
           none
           
             but
             the
             only
             true
             God
          
           ,
           that
           has
           been
           answer'd
           a
           hundred
           times
           .
           He
           cannot
           look
           into
           any
           of
           the
           Unitarian
           Books
           ,
           but
           he
           will
           find
           a
           sufficient
           Answer
           to
           that
           Inference
           .
           Were
           the
           Israelites
           baptiz'd
           into
           the
           Worship
           of
           Moses
           ?
           but
           they
           were
           
             baptized
             into
          
           Moses
           ,
           1
           Cor.
           10.
           2.
           
           Or
           when
           the
           Apostle
           Paul
           supposes
           he
           might
           have
           
             baptized
             in
             his
             own
             Name
          
           ;
           Did
           he
           mean
           that
           he
           should
           have
           baptized
           into
           the
           Worship
           of
           himself
           as
           the
           most
           high
           God
           ?
        
         
           Then
           Mr.
           Edwards
           minds
           his
           Reader
           ,
           that
           the
           Author
           had
           left
           out
           also
           that
           famous
           Testimony
           in
           Joh.
           1.
           1.
           
           
             In
             the
             beginning
             was
             the
             Word
          
           [
           Jesus
           Christ
           ]
           
             and
             the
             Word
             was
             with
             God
             ,
             and
             the
             Word
             was
             God.
          
           Whence
           (
           saith
           he
           )
           we
           are
           obliged
           to
           yield
           assent
           to
           this
           Article
           ,
           
             That
             Christ
             the
             Word
             is
             God.
          
           Here
           Mr.
           Edwards
           must
           mean
           that
           this
           is
           a
           Fundamental
           Article
           ,
           and
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           ;
           otherwise
           he
           says
           nothing
           against
           his
           Author
           ,
           who
           has
           prevented
           his
           urging
           any
           other
           Text
           ,
           not
           containing
           a
           Fundamental
           ,
           in
           his
           Answer
           to
           the
           Objection
           from
           the
           Epistles
           and
           other
           Scriptures
           .
           For
           (
           saith
           he
           )
           pag.
           299.
           
           
             They
             are
             Objects
             of
             Faith
             —
             They
             are
             Truths
             ,
             whereof
             none
             that
             is
             once
             known
             to
             be
             such
             may
             be
             disbelieved
             .
             But
             yet
             a
             great
             many
             of
             them
             ,
             every
             one
             
             does
             ,
             and
             must
             confess
             a
             Man
             may
             be
             ignorant
             of
             ;
             nay
             disbelieve
             ,
             without
             Danger
             to
             his
             Salvation
             :
             As
             is
             evident
             in
             those
             who
             allowing
             the
             Authority
             ,
             differ
             in
             the
             Interpretation
             and
             Meaning
             of
             several
             Texts
             .
             —
             Vnless
             Divine
             Revelation
             can
             mean
             contrary
             to
             it self
             .
          
           The
           whole
           Paragraph
           ought
           to
           be
           read
           ,
           which
           I
           have
           abridged
           .
           And
           if
           this
           Text
           of
           John
           1.
           1.
           be
           not
           one
           of
           those
           ,
           that
           by
           reason
           of
           its
           difficulty
           and
           variety
           of
           Senses
           ,
           may
           not
           be
           disbeliev'd
           in
           Mr.
           
           Edwards's
           Sense
           ,
           then
           I
           will
           be
           bold
           to
           say
           ,
           There
           's
           no
           such
           Text
           in
           the
           whole
           Bible
           .
           To
           it
           I
           say
           ,
           1.
           
           He
           dares
           not
           trust
           his
           Reader
           with
           the
           clear
           Text
           ,
           but
           thrusts
           in
           his
           own
           Sense
           ,
           
             In
             the
             beginning
             was
             the
             Word
          
           (
           Jesus
           Christ
           :
           )
           and
           then
           2.
           
           Makes
           his
           Fundamental
           Article
           not
           from
           the
           Text
           ,
           but
           from
           what
           he
           has
           inserted
           into
           the
           Text
           thus
           ,
           
             Christ
             the
             Word
             is
             God.
          
           But
           will
           Mr.
           Edw.
           stick
           to
           that
           ?
           Is
           he
           of
           
           Socinus's
           Mind
           ,
           that
           by
           the
           Word
           is
           meant
           the
           Man
           Jesus
           Christ
           ,
           born
           of
           the
           Blessed
           Virgin
           ,
           and
           anointed
           with
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           ?
           I
           think
           he
           is
           not
           .
           Or
           does
           he
           mean
           that
           Christ
           was
           
             the
             First-born
             of
             every
             Creature
          
           ,
           as
           he
           is
           called
           ,
           Col.
           1.
           14.
           
           
             The
             beginning
             of
             the
             Creation
             of
             God
             ,
          
           Rev.
           3.
           14.
           
           By
           whom
           God
           made
           the
           Worlds
           ,
           and
           is
           therefore
           
             a
             God
          
           ?
           I
           think
           Mr.
           Edw.
           might
           be
           call'd
           an
           Arian
           ,
           if
           that
           were
           his
           Sense
           .
           What
           then
           does
           he
           mean
           ?
           He
           does
           not
           mean
           that
           either
           the
           Body
           or
           Soul
           ,
           or
           both
           united
           to
           constitute
           a
           Man
           ,
           or
           the
           Anointing
           of
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           added
           to
           that
           Man
           ,
           was
           the
           Word
           ;
           though
           by
           reason
           of
           those
           he
           had
           the
           Name
           of
           Jesus
           ,
           and
           by
           reason
           of
           this
           he
           had
           the
           Name
           of
           Christ
           .
           He
           means
           by
           the
           Word
           ,
           
             a
             second
             Person
             or
             Mode
             of
             God.
          
           Now
           how
           fairly
           he
           calls
           this
           second
           Person
           a
           Mode
           of
           God
           ,
           
             Jesus
             Christ
          
           ,
           when
           it
           was
           neither
           Jesus
           nor
           Christ
           ,
           nor
           any
           part
           of
           him
           ,
           let
           his
           Reader
           judg
           .
           
             In
             the
             beginning
             was
             the
             Word
             ]
          
           that
           is
           ,
           (
           according
           to
           him
           )
           before
           the
           Beginning
           ,
           and
           therefore
           from
           Eternity
           ,
           God
           in
           a
           second
           Mode
           or
           Person
           did
           exist
           :
           
             and
             the
             Word
             was
             with
             God
             ]
             i.
             e.
          
           God
           in
           the
           second
           Mode
           was
           present
           with
           God
           ,
           even
           himself
           in
           the
           first
           Mode
           or
           Person
           :
           
             and
             the
             Word
             was
             God
          
           ]
           i.
           e.
           God
           in
           his
           second
           Mode
           was
           himself
           ;
           or
           otherwise
           ,
           was
           the
           Father
           himself
           and
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           ;
           for
           he
           tells
           us
           before
           ,
           that
           the
           three
           Persons
           [
           or
           Modes
           ]
           
             are
             really
             the
             one
             God
          
           :
           but
           if
           the
           Word
           is
           really
           the
           one
           God
           ,
           as
           Mr.
           Edw.
           understands
           the
           Term
           God
           in
           this
           Text
           ,
           then
           the
           Word
           is
           the
           three
           Persons
           ,
           or
           else
           he
           is
           not
           really
           the
           one
           God
           ,
           which
           the
           three
           Persons
           only
           are
           .
           Now
           if
           this
           be
           a
           clear
           Text
           to
           build
           an
           Article
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           ,
           and
           the
           Worship
           of
           another
           Almighty
           and
           only
           wise
           Person
           upon
           ,
           besides
           the
           God
           and
           Father
           of
           our
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           ;
           let
           all
           that
           have
           any
           reverence
           for
           God
           or
           his
           Gospel
           judg
           !
           Besides
           ,
           can
           he
           alledg
           one
           
           Text
           out
           of
           all
           the
           Old
           Testament
           ,
           or
           out
           of
           the
           three
           former
           Gospels
           ,
           where
           ever
           by
           the
           WORD
           or
           Logos
           (
           as
           they
           love
           to
           speak
           )
           is
           meant
           any
           such
           preexistent
           eternal
           Person
           ?
           If
           there
           be
           none
           such
           ,
           it
           seems
           to
           be
           no
           little
           Defect
           in
           the
           Holy
           Scriptures
           ,
           that
           the
           World
           should
           be
           4000
           Years
           old
           ,
           before
           any
           part
           of
           it
           heard
           any
           thing
           of
           a
           second
           personal
           God
           ,
           equal
           to
           the
           First
           ,
           and
           who
           had
           therefore
           as
           much
           Right
           to
           be
           known
           and
           worshipped
           as
           the
           First
           :
           Nay
           ,
           and
           that
           that
           Person
           ,
           
             the
             Word
          
           ,
           should
           have
           no
           mention
           made
           of
           him
           in
           the
           Gospels
           or
           Sermons
           of
           Christ
           or
           the
           Apostles
           till
           above
           threescore
           Years
           after
           the
           Ascension
           ;
           for
           it
           for
           it
           was
           so
           long
           (
           as
           Ecclesiastical
           Historians
           tell
           us
           )
           before
           the
           Gospel
           of
           the
           Apostle
           John
           was
           written
           ,
           all
           the
           Churches
           and
           Believers
           we
           read
           of
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           having
           been
           gather'd
           and
           converted
           before
           .
        
         
           Next
           Mr.
           Edw.
           tells
           us
           
             (
             p.
          
           107.
           )
           
             there
             is
             added
          
           in
           verse
           14.
           
             another
             indispensable
             point
             of
             Faith
          
           ,
           viz.
           
             That
             the
             Word
             was
             made
             Flesh
             ,
          
           i.
           e.
           
             That
             God
             was
             incarnate
             ,
             the
             same
             with
          
           1
           Tim.
           3.
           16.
           
           
             God
             manifest
             in
             the
             Flesh
          
           .
        
         
           One
           would
           have
           expected
           that
           Mr.
           Edw.
           undertaking
           in
           short
           to
           confute
           a
           Proposition
           ,
           that
           the
           Author
           had
           spent
           
             three
             quarters
             of
             his
             Book
          
           (
           which
           consists
           of
           300
           Pages
           )
           in
           proving
           ;
           and
           for
           which
           he
           had
           alledg'd
           perhaps
           an
           hundred
           clear
           Texts
           of
           Holy
           Scripture
           ,
           should
           have
           produc'd
           some
           clear
           Texts
           against
           him
           ,
           and
           not
           such
           as
           need
           Explanations
           ;
           and
           when
           he
           has
           explain'd
           them
           ,
           leaves
           them
           far
           more
           difficult
           than
           before
           .
           We
           have
           spoken
           already
           of
           the
           Word
           that
           was
           said
           to
           be
           God
           in
           the
           first
           verse
           of
           that
           Chapter
           ;
           and
           now
           in
           the
           14th
           the
           Word
           must
           signify
           God
           :
           but
           ,
           1.
           
           Are
           not
           the
           same
           Words
           and
           Terms
           taken
           in
           different
           senses
           in
           the
           same
           Context
           ,
           and
           that
           too
           ,
           when
           they
           come
           nearer
           together
           than
           at
           thirteen
           verses
           distance
           ?
           Thus
           the
           word
           Light
           in
           ver
           .
           5.
           signifies
           an
           impersonal
           Thing
           ;
           but
           in
           the
           7
           ,
           8
           ,
           and
           9th
           verses
           ,
           it
           denotes
           a
           Person
           ,
           which
           John
           was
           not
           ,
           but
           Jesus
           was
           ,
           to
           wit
           ,
           the
           Revealer
           of
           the
           Word
           or
           Gospel
           .
           2.
           
           The
           Father
           was
           God
           too
           ,
           and
           if
           God
           was
           Incarnate
           ,
           how
           will
           it
           be
           avoided
           that
           the
           Father
           was
           Incarnate
           ?
           And
           if
           it
           cannot
           ,
           then
           Mr.
           Edw.
           will
           be
           a
           Patripassian
           Heretick
           .
           3.
           
           It
           must
           be
           acknowledged
           ,
           that
           Mr.
           Edw.
           has
           given
           a
           wonderful
           learned
           Explanation
           of
           the
           Phrase
           
             —
             was
             made
             Flesh
          
           ;
           far
           more
           Learned
           than
           that
           of
           the
           old
           Justice
           
             —
             Invasion
             is
             Invasion
          
           .
           The
           Vulgar
           and
           Unlearned
           may
           understand
           something
           ,
           when
           it
           is
           said
           that
           one
           Thing
           is
           made
           another
           Thing
           ,
           as
           when
           
             Water
             was
             made
             Wine
          
           :
           but
           I
           doubt
           they
           will
           stare
           and
           know
           nothing
           ,
           when
           one
           tells
           'em
           that
           
             a
             Person
             was
             Incarnate
          
           ;
           much
           more
           when
           they
           read
           Mr.
           Edw.
           
           saying
           ,
           That
           
             God
             was
             Incarnate
          
           ,
           will
           they
           not
           gladly
           return
           from
           the
           Explanation
           to
           the
           Text
           ?
           and
           then
           it
           will
           run
           thus
           ,
           
             God
             was
             made
             Flesh
          
           .
           But
           was
           God
           indeed
           turn'd
           into
           Flesh
           ,
           and
           
             ceased
             to
             be
             God
          
           ,
           as
           the
           Water
           turn'd
           into
           Wine
           ceased
           to
           be
           Water
           ?
           I
           'm
           sure
           Mr.
           Edw.
           never
           intends
           to
           make
           that
           an
           
             indispensable
             Point
             of
             Faith
          
           ,
           as
           he
           calls
           this
           ,
           
             That
             God
             was
             Incarnate
          
           .
           But
           this
           is
           a
           very
           hard
           case
           ,
           that
           the
           generality
           of
           the
           World
           (
           which
           
             God
             so
             loved
             ,
             that
             he
             gave
             his
             only
             begotten
             Son
             ,
             that
             whosoever
             believeth
             in
             him
             should
             not
             perish
             ,
             but
             have
             everlasting
             Life
             )
          
           their
           Salvation
           or
           Damnation
           should
           still
           depend
           on
           the
           belief
           of
           ,
           not
           only
           obscure
           Texts
           ,
           but
           of
           
             much
             more
             obscure
          
           Interpretations
           of
           those
           Texts
           .
           Whether
           shall
           we
           go
           for
           the
           Sense
           of
           
             God
             was
             Incarnate
          
           ?
           He
           sends
           us
           to
           1
           Tim.
           3.
           16.
           
           
             God
             manifest
             in
             the
             Flesh
          
           .
           But
           he
           might
           know
           that
           that
           reading
           of
           the
           Word
           GOD
           in
           that
           Text
           is
           a
           Corruption
           ,
           and
           that
           instead
           of
           God
           was
           read
           which
           in
           the
           Council
           of
           Nice
           ,
           as
           the
           accurate
           Examination
           against
           Mr.
           Milbourn
           has
           fully
           prov'd
           ;
           however
           allowing
           that
           reading
           ,
           has
           given
           a
           rational
           Sense
           of
           it
           .
           Thus
           we
           are
           sent
           for
           the
           Sense
           of
           an
           obscurer
           Interpretation
           of
           an
           obscure
           Text
           ,
           to
           a
           corrupt
           One.
           Whither
           shall
           we
           go
           next
           ?
           It
           's
           very
           like
           that
           Mr.
           Edw.
           may
           next
           time
           send
           us
           to
           the
           
             Athanasian
             Creed
          
           ,
           when
           the
           Scriptures
           fail
           him
           ;
           That
           Creed
           saith
           ,
           
             It
             is
             necessary
             to
             everlasting
             Salvation
             ,
             that
             one
             believe
             rightly
             the
             INCARNATION
             of
             our
             Lord
             Jesus
             Christ
             ,
             —
          
           That
           he
           
             is
             God
             and
             Man
             —
             perfect
             God
             and
             perfect
             Man
             —
             One
             Christ
             ,
             not
             by
             Conversion
             of
             the
             Godhead
             into
             Flesh
             ,
             but
             by
             taking
             of
             the
             Manhood
             into
             God
             :
          
           So
           then
           the
           sense
           of
           
             the
             Word
             was
             made
             Flesh
          
           ,
           will
           be
           this
           ,
           
             God
             was
             Incarnate
          
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           not
           by
           being
           made
           Flesh
           or
           Man
           ,
           but
           by
           taking
           Man
           into
           God
           ;
           that
           is
           ,
           God
           is
           now
           perfect
           God
           and
           Man.
           Well
           ,
           but
           since
           God
           is
           a
           Person
           ,
           and
           Man
           another
           Person
           ;
           perfect
           God
           and
           perfect
           Man
           must
           unavoidably
           be
           two
           Persons
           :
           but
           this
           is
           the
           Heresy
           of
           Nestorius
           Arch-Bishop
           of
           
             Constantinople
             ,
             An.
             Dom.
          
           428.
           but
           how
           shall
           we
           help
           it
           ?
           For
           to
           believe
           God
           and
           Man
           not
           to
           be
           two
           Persons
           ,
           we
           directly
           contradict
           our
           Belief
           of
           God's
           being
           
             perfect
             God
          
           and
           
             perfect
             Man.
          
           If
           we
           say
           with
           
             Apollinarius
             ,
             An.
             Dom.
          
           370.
           
           That
           God
           and
           Man
           are
           not
           two
           Persons
           but
           one
           ,
           because
           the
           Man
           had
           no
           Human
           Soul
           or
           Understanding
           ,
           then
           we
           contradict
           God's
           being
           a
           perfect
           Man
           ,
           and
           are
           condemn'd
           to
           eternal
           Damnation
           ,
           as
           Apollinarian
           Hereticks
           .
           And
           if
           for
           solving
           these
           Difficulties
           ,
           we
           should
           think
           good
           to
           hold
           ,
           that
           indeed
           there
           were
           two
           Natures
           in
           Christ
           when
           God
           was
           made
           Flesh
           ,
           but
           upon
           the
           Union
           the
           Human
           was
           swallowed
           up
           of
           the
           Divine
           ,
           and
           so
           there
           was
           one
           Nature
           made
           of
           two
           ;
           then
           we
           incur
           the
           
           Anathema
           of
           the
           Eutichian
           Hereticks
           .
        
         
           
             And
             it
             follows
             (
             saith
             Mr.
             Edw.
             )
             in
             the
             same
             verse
             of
             this
             first
             Chapter
             of
             St.
             John
             ,
             that
             
               this
               Word
               is
               the
               only
               begotten
               of
               the
               Father
            
             ;
             whence
             we
             are
             bound
             to
             believe
             the
             Eternal
             ,
             tho
             ineffable
             ,
             
               Generation
               of
               the
               Son
               of
               God.
               
            
          
        
         
           Answ
           .
           Could
           Mr.
           Edw.
           be
           so
           weak
           as
           to
           think
           any
           Body
           but
           one
           deeply
           prejudiced
           ,
           would
           approve
           of
           either
           of
           his
           Inferences
           from
           that
           Clause
           ?
           either
           the
           Eternal
           Generation
           ,
           or
           that
           we
           are
           bound
           to
           believe
           it
           as
           an
           Article
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           ?
           Does
           he
           not
           know
           that
           Jesus
           is
           the
           
             only
             Son
          
           of
           God
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           that
           Generation
           which
           befel
           him
           in
           Time
           ?
           Does
           he
           read
           of
           any
           other
           Son
           that
           God
           generated
           of
           a
           Virgin
           but
           Jesus
           ?
           See
           Luke
           1.
           35.
           
           Did
           God
           ever
           
             sanctify
             and
             send
             into
             the
             World
          
           in
           such
           
             a
             Measure
             and
             Manner
          
           ,
           any
           that
           were
           called
           Gods
           or
           Sons
           of
           God
           ,
           as
           he
           did
           Jesus
           our
           Lord
           ?
           See
           John.
           10.
           35
           ,
           36
           ,
           37
           ,
           38.
           and
           Chap.
           3.
           34.
           
           Did
           he
           ever
           give
           such
           Testimony
           to
           any
           other
           ?
           Did
           God
           ever
           beget
           any
           other
           Son
           by
           raising
           him
           from
           the
           Dead
           to
           an
           immortal
           Life
           
             (
             Acts
          
           13.
           33.
           
           )
           
             by
             anointing
             him
             with
             the
             Oil
             of
             Gladness
             above
             his
             Fellows
             ,
          
           Heb.
           1.
           9.
           
           By
           
             setting
             him
             on
             his
             Right-hand
          
           ,
           making
           him
           
             to
             inherit
             a
             more
             excellent
             Name
             than
             Angels
             ,
          
           even
           that
           of
           SON
           in
           a
           more
           excellent
           Sense
           ,
           Heb.
           1.
           3
           ,
           4
           ,
           5.
           
           By
           glorifying
           Christ
           ,
           making
           him
           
             an
             High-Priest
          
           ,
           saying
           unto
           him
           ,
           
             Thou
             art
             my
             Son
             ,
             this
             Day
             have
             I
             begotten
             thee
             ?
          
           Is
           not
           Isaac
           call'd
           the
           only
           begotten
           Son
           of
           Abraham
           ,
           though
           Abraham
           had
           other
           Sons
           ?
           But
           for
           Mr.
           
           Edw's
           Eternal
           Generation
           ,
           there
           is
           not
           one
           Tittle
           either
           in
           this
           Text
           ,
           or
           in
           all
           the
           Bible
           ;
           and
           yet
           he
           has
           the
           Confidence
           to
           bind
           the
           Belief
           of
           it
           upon
           Mankind
           ,
           upon
           pain
           of
           Damnation
           :
           I
           wish
           he
           would
           not
           be
           so
           rash
           ,
           but
           more
           reverent
           in
           so
           tremendous
           a
           Point
           .
        
         
           Next
           ,
           he
           finds
           our
           Author
           faulty
           in
           not
           
             taking
             notice
             ,
             that
             we
             are
             commanded
             to
             believe
             the
             Father
             and
             the
             Son
             ,
          
           John
           14.
           10
           ,
           11.
           
             and
             that
             the
             Son
             is
             in
             the
             Father
             ,
             and
             the
             Father
             in
             the
             Son
             ,
             which
             expresses
             their
             Vnity
             .
          
           Wonderful
           !
           Did
           our
           Author
           indeed
           take
           no
           notice
           that
           we
           are
           commanded
           to
           believe
           the
           Father
           and
           the
           Son
           ?
           when
           he
           all
           along
           in
           his
           Treatise
           makes
           the
           
             Messiah
             ,
             Christ
             ,
             Son
             of
             God
             ,
          
           terms
           synonimous
           ,
           and
           that
           signify
           the
           same
           thing
           ;
           and
           cites
           abundance
           of
           Texts
           to
           that
           purpose
           ;
           so
           that
           the
           belief
           of
           the
           Father
           &
           the
           Son
           ,
           is
           required
           by
           him
           in
           the
           whole
           three
           quarters
           of
           his
           Book
           ,
           which
           Mr.
           Edw.
           takes
           notice
           he
           spent
           in
           proving
           his
           Proposition
           .
           Did
           Mr.
           Edw.
           write
           these
           Remarks
           ?
           Or
           did
           some
           body
           else
           add
           them
           to
           his
           Book
           
             of
             the
             Causes
             of
             Atheism
          
           ?
           As
           for
           the
           
             Vnity
             of
             the
             Father
             and
             Son
             ,
             exprest
          
           he
           says
           by
           these
           words
           ,
           
             The
             Son
             is
             in
             the
             Father
             ,
             and
             the
             
             Father
             in
             the
             Son
          
           ;
           Does
           he
           think
           his
           Reader
           never
           read
           that
           Text
           in
           John
           17.
           21.
           
           
             That
             they
          
           [
           Believers
           ]
           
             all
             may
             be
             one
             ,
             as
             thou
             Father
             art
             in
             me
             ,
             and
             I
             in
             thee
             ,
             that
             they
             also
             may
             be
             one
             in
             us
             ,
          
           with
           ver
           .
           23.
           
           Or
           that
           other
           Text
           ,
           1
           John
           4.
           16.
           
           
             He
             that
             dwelleth
             in
             Love
             ,
             dwelleth
             in
             God
             ,
             and
             God
             in
             him
             ?
          
           But
           for
           the
           word
           Vnity
           ,
           which
           he
           uses
           ,
           if
           he
           means
           by
           it
           any
           more
           than
           a
           close
           Union
           ,
           it
           implies
           a
           contradiction
           ,
           that
           two
           should
           be
           one
           ;
           that
           a
           Duality
           should
           be
           an
           Unity
           .
           This
           (
           saith
           he
           )
           
             is
             made
             an
             Article
             of
             Faith
             by
             our
             Saviour's
             particular
             and
             express
             Command
             .
          
           He
           must
           mean
           ,
           that
           Mr.
           
           Edwards's
           own
           sense
           of
           that
           Text
           is
           commanded
           as
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           ,
           else
           he
           says
           no
           more
           of
           that
           than
           the
           Author
           allows
           concerning
           both
           that
           and
           other
           Scriptures
           .
           If
           he
           means
           his
           own
           sense
           ,
           then
           I
           think
           he
           's
           an
           inconsiderate
           and
           rash
           Man
           ;
           for
           I
           have
           shew'd
           that
           his
           sense
           is
           contradictious
           .
        
         
           Here
           Mr.
           Edw.
           calls
           in
           question
           the
           sincerity
           of
           our
           Author
           ,
           and
           ,
           pag.
           109.
           says
           ,
           
             It
             is
             most
             evident
             to
             any
             thinking
             and
             considerate
             Person
             ,
             that
             he
             purposely
             omits
             the
             
               Epistolary
               Writings
            
             of
             the
             Apostles
             ,
             because
             they
             are
             fraught
             with
             
               other
               Fundamental
               Doctrines
            
             ,
             besides
             that
             one
             which
             he
             mentions
             .
          
        
         
           I
           will
           not
           question
           Mr.
           
           Edwards's
           sincerity
           in
           what
           he
           writes
           ,
           but
           I
           question
           much
           his
           due
           considering
           what
           he
           writes
           against
           .
           Does
           not
           our
           Author
           make
           in
           effect
           the
           same
           Objection
           against
           himself
           ,
           pag.
           291.
           and
           answer
           it
           in
           fourteen
           pages
           ,
           even
           to
           the
           end
           of
           his
           Book
           ?
           but
           Mr.
           Edw.
           takes
           notice
           of
           very
           little
           of
           it
           .
           And
           the
           most
           of
           that
           he
           does
           take
           notice
           of
           ,
           he
           answers
           with
           a
           little
           Raillery
           upon
           the
           
             Bulk
             of
             Mankind
          
           ,
           the
           
             unlearned
             Multitude
          
           ,
           the
           Mob
           ,
           and
           
             our
             Author
          
           .
           His
           note
           upon
           these
           Phrases
           ,
           is
           ,
           
             Surely
             this
             Gentleman
             is
             afraid
             of
             Captain
          
           Tom
           ,
           
             and
             is
             going
             to
             make
             a
             Religion
             for
             his
             Myrmidons
             .
             —
             We
             are
             come
             to
             a
             fine
             pass
             indeed
             ;
             the
             venerable
          
           Mob
           
             must
             be
             ask'd
             what
             we
             must
             believe
             .
          
           Thus
           he
           ridicules
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           Faith
           ,
           on
           which
           the
           Salvation
           or
           Damnation
           of
           the
           Multitude
           depends
           ,
           and
           the
           Grounds
           of
           our
           Author's
           Design
           ;
           who
           finding
           in
           Holy
           Scripture
           ,
           
             that
             God
             would
             have
             all
             Men
             to
             be
             saved
             ,
             and
             come
             to
             the
             KNOWLEDG
             of
             the
             Truth
             ;
             the
             Gospel
             was
             preach'd
             to
             the
             Poor
             ,
             and
             the
             common
             People
             heard
             Christ
             gladly
             ;
             that
             God
             hath
             chosen
             the
             Poor
             in
             this
             World
             ,
             rich
             in
             Faith
          
           ;
           he
           concluded
           (
           when
           he
           had
           overcome
           the
           prejudices
           of
           Education
           ,
           and
           the
           contempt
           of
           the
           Learned
           ,
           and
           those
           that
           think
           themselves
           so
           )
           that
           the
           Gospel
           must
           be
           a
           very
           intelligible
           and
           plain
           Doctrine
           ,
           
             suted
             to
             Vulgar
             Capacities
             ,
             and
             the
             State
             of
             Mankind
             in
             this
             World
             destin'd
             to
             Labour
             and
             Travel
             ;
             not
             such
             as
             the
             Writers
             and
             Wranglers
             in
             Religion
             have
             made
             it
             .
          
           To
           this
           Mr.
           Edw.
           answers
           (
           besides
           
           what
           I
           have
           noted
           above
           )
           and
           is
           forced
           to
           agree
           ,
           
             That
             all
             Men
             ought
             to
             understand
             their
             Religion
             :
          
           but
           then
           asks
           (
           as
           of
           a
           positive
           thing
           not
           to
           be
           doubted
           )
           
             if
             Men
             may
             not
             understand
             those
             Articles
             of
             Faith
             which
             he
             had
             mention'd
             a
             little
             before
             ,
          
           pretended
           to
           be
           found
           in
           the
           Epistolary
           Writings
           ,
           [
           which
           are
           generally
           form'd
           not
           in
           Scripture-Terms
           ,
           and
           about
           which
           there
           is
           such
           endless
           Contentions
           ]
           
             when
             they
             be
             explain'd
             to
             them
             ,
             as
             well
             as
             our
             Author's
             Article
             ,
             Jesus
             is
             the
             Messiah
             ?
          
           Nay
           he
           is
           confident
           that
           there
           is
           no
           more
           Difficulty
           in
           understanding
           this
           Proposition
           
             [
             The
             Father
             ,
             Son
             and
             Holy
             Ghost
             ,
             are
             one
             God
             or
             Divine
             Nature
             ]
          
           than
           in
           that
           other
           of
           our
           Author
           (
           see
           pag.
           120.
           )
           when
           yet
           the
           World
           knows
           to
           its
           Cost
           ,
           that
           this
           Article
           has
           exercis'd
           all
           the
           greatest
           Wits
           of
           the
           Church
           these
           fourteen
           or
           fifteen
           hundred
           Years
           to
           understand
           the
           Terms
           ,
           and
           take
           away
           the
           Contradictions
           :
           and
           at
           this
           Day
           the
           English
           Trinitarians
           have
           most
           fierce
           Contentions
           among
           themselves
           about
           the
           meaning
           of
           it
           .
           The
           nominal
           Trinitarians
           agree
           with
           the
           Unitarians
           ,
           that
           the
           Realists
           ,
           that
           hold
           three
           real
           Persons
           ,
           are
           Tritheists
           ;
           and
           the
           Realists
           agree
           with
           the
           Unitarians
           ,
           that
           the
           Nominals
           or
           Modalists
           destroy
           the
           Reality
           of
           the
           Eternal
           Son
           and
           Holy
           Ghost
           ,
           and
           are
           Patripassians
           or
           Sabellians
           .
           Besides
           ,
           Mr.
           Edw.
           knows
           that
           each
           of
           these
           Parties
           are
           at
           vast
           difference
           among
           themselves
           ;
           they
           easily
           find
           Inconsistences
           or
           Contradictions
           in
           one
           anothers
           Explications
           ;
           so
           that
           supposing
           there
           be
           but
           ten
           different
           Trinitarian
           Hypotheses
           ,
           (
           I
           think
           there
           are
           more
           )
           every
           one
           has
           mine
           against
           him
           ,
           all
           which
           he
           looks
           upon
           as
           faulty
           ;
           and
           they
           on
           the
           other
           Hand
           do
           all
           reject
           his
           .
           They
           reject
           them
           I
           say
           ,
           not
           ,
           as
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Sarum
           ,
           in
           his
           Letter
           to
           D.
           
             W.
             pag.
          
           56.
           would
           paliate
           Matter
           ,
           as
           having
           
             the
             same
             Acts
             of
             Piety
             and
             Adoration
             ,
             though
             different
             ways
             of
             Explaining
             ,
             either
             the
             Vnity
             of
             the
             Essence
             ,
             or
             the
             Trinity
             of
             the
             Persons
          
           ;
           but
           as
           having
           
             different
             Acts
          
           ,
           except
           we
           can
           have
           the
           same
           Idea's
           when
           we
           worship
           three
           Gods
           ,
           as
           when
           we
           worship
           one
           only
           ;
           or
           when
           we
           worship
           one
           all-perfect
           Person
           ,
           as
           when
           we
           worship
           three
           such
           ;
           or
           when
           we
           worship
           one
           real
           Person
           ,
           and
           two
           nominal
           Ones
           ,
           as
           when
           we
           worship
           three
           Equals
           ;
           or
           when
           we
           worship
           one
           self-existent
           God
           ,
           and
           two
           dependent
           Gods
           not
           self-existent
           ,
           as
           when
           we
           worship
           three
           Self-existents
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           .
           Again
           ,
           Mr.
           
           Edw's
           Proposition
           is
           
             never
             once
          
           found
           in
           Holy
           Writ
           ;
           but
           our
           Author
           's
           often
           expresly
           .
           He
           uses
           Terms
           in
           such
           a
           Sense
           as
           they
           are
           never
           us'd
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           for
           
             Divine
             Nature
          
           is
           never
           put
           there
           for
           God
           ;
           nor
           does
           the
           word
           GOD
           ,
           or
           
             one
             God
          
           ,
           ever
           signify
           Father
           ,
           Son
           and
           H.
           Ghost
           ,
           but
           always
           one
           singular
           Person
           ;
           
           and
           throughout
           the
           Holy
           Scriptures
           from
           the
           Beginning
           to
           the
           End
           ,
           God
           is
           spoken
           of
           ,
           and
           spoken
           to
           ,
           as
           one
           only
           Person
           ,
           and
           by
           Terms
           and
           Pronouns
           that
           signify
           singularly
           ,
           and
           never
           otherwise
           .
           God
           indeed
           does
           twice
           or
           thrice
           speak
           of
           himself
           Plurally
           ,
           as
           Persons
           of
           Dignity
           and
           Dominion
           do
           often
           .
           But
           our
           Author
           both
           his
           Words
           in
           Form
           ,
           and
           his
           Explications
           are
           all
           taken
           out
           of
           Scripture
           ;
           and
           in
           the
           Days
           of
           our
           Saviour
           and
           his
           Apostles
           ,
           there
           was
           no
           difficulty
           in
           understanding
           them
           .
           The
           most
           illiterate
           Fishermen
           and
           Shepherds
           ,
           and
           Women
           ,
           knew
           what
           was
           meant
           by
           JESVs
           ,
           and
           what
           by
           Messiah
           :
           The
           only
           Question
           was
           ,
           whether
           the
           Proposition
           
             Jesus
             is
             the
             Messiah
          
           ,
           was
           to
           be
           affirm'd
           ,
           or
           denied
           .
           But
           notwithstanding
           all
           this
           ,
           Mr.
           Edw.
           says
           ,
           
             Truly
             if
             there
             be
             any
             Difficulty
             ,
             it
             is
             in
             our
             Author's
             Proposition
          
           ;
           why
           pray
           ?
           
             For
             here
             is
             an
             Hebrew
             word
             first
             to
             be
             explain'd
             before
             the
             Mob
             can
             understand
             the
             Proposition
             :
          
           But
           by
           his
           favour
           ,
           the
           word
           Messiah
           is
           by
           our
           Translators
           adopted
           into
           the
           English
           Tongue
           ,
           and
           the
           common
           People
           ,
           
             the
             Rabble
          
           (
           as
           Mr.
           Edw.
           is
           pleas'd
           to
           call
           them
           )
           understand
           it
           as
           well
           as
           they
           do
           
             the
             Christ
          
           or
           the
           Anointed
           ,
           and
           also
           the
           Explications
           of
           those
           Terms
           ,
           provided
           they
           use
           to
           read
           either
           themselves
           ,
           or
           hear
           others
           read
           the
           Holy
           Scriptures
           .
           But
           the
           word
           Messiah
           was
           in
           our
           Saviour
           and
           the
           Apostles
           Time
           most
           common
           among
           the
           Jews
           :
           therefore
           our
           Author
           designing
           to
           represent
           the
           Preaching
           and
           Faith
           of
           that
           Time
           ,
           chose
           to
           use
           it
           more
           frequently
           than
           any
           other
           Term
           ,
           see
           pag.
           30.
           
           But
           I
           presume
           Mr.
           Edw.
           brought
           in
           this
           Objection
           ,
           only
           as
           a
           Diversion
           .
           If
           he
           really
           think
           as
           he
           says
           ,
           it
           's
           a
           sharp
           Reflection
           upon
           all
           the
           Learned
           Trinitarian
           Controvertists
           upon
           this
           Point
           ;
           except
           they
           take
           it
           more
           candidly
           for
           an
           Invitation
           to
           their
           Reverences
           and
           right
           Reverences
           ,
           to
           come
           to
           the
           most
           Learned
           Mr.
           Edw.
           to
           inform
           their
           Understandings
           ,
           and
           solve
           all
           the
           Difficulties
           that
           make
           them
           at
           so
           great
           Odds
           one
           with
           another
           :
           And
           it
           's
           to
           be
           hoped
           he
           will
           give
           such
           a
           clear
           Explication
           of
           the
           Trinity
           ,
           as
           will
           satisfy
           the
           Mystery-men
           or
           Ignoramus-Trinitarians
           ,
           that
           at
           length
           they
           may
           understand
           what
           they
           now
           profess
           to
           believe
           without
           Understanding
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           return
           ,
           for
           all
           this
           will
           seem
           a
           Digression
           except
           the
           Reader
           please
           to
           remember
           it
           is
           for
           a
           Vindication
           of
           our
           Author
           from
           Mr.
           
           Edw's
           hard
           charge
           ,
           
             of
             purposely
             omitting
             the
             Epistolary
             Writings
             ,
             because
             fraught
             with
             other
             Fundamental
             Doctrines
             besides
             that
             one
             which
             he
             mentions
             :
          
           Among
           those
           ,
           Mr.
           Edw.
           reckons
           chiefly
           and
           
             more
             especially
             —
             The
             Doctrine
             of
             the
             ever
             to
             be
             adored
             Trinity
             ,
             eminently
             attested
             in
             those
             Epistles
             .
          
           This
           Doctrine
           he
           has
           given
           us
           in
           his
           
           Proposition
           above
           discoursed
           ,
           and
           has
           attempted
           to
           show
           (
           against
           Matter
           of
           Fact
           in
           all
           Ages
           ,
           and
           especially
           in
           this
           present
           Time
           )
           that
           this
           Fundamental
           ought
           not
           to
           have
           been
           omitted
           because
           of
           its
           Difficulty
           or
           Unintelligibleness
           ;
           for
           it
           is
           (
           he
           saith
           )
           less
           difficult
           than
           that
           of
           our
           Author
           ,
           
             Jesus
             is
             the
             Messiah
          
           ;
           but
           how
           successfully
           I
           leave
           to
           consideration
           .
           But
           if
           it
           be
           Unintelligible
           ,
           or
           Contradictious
           ,
           at
           least
           to
           the
           Bulk
           of
           Mankind
           ,
           then
           it
           's
           impossible
           it
           should
           be
           a
           Fundamental
           Article
           ;
           and
           therefore
           our
           Author
           needed
           not
           
             purposely
             to
             omit
             the
             Epistolary
             Writings
             of
             the
             Apostles
             ,
          
           for
           fear
           of
           finding
           it
           there
           ,
           since
           Mr.
           Edw.
           himself
           cannot
           find
           it
           there
           ,
           nor
           in
           the
           Bible
           .
        
         
           But
           what
           says
           he
           to
           our
           Author
           's
           full
           Answer
           to
           the
           Question
           ,
           about
           the
           Usefulness
           of
           the
           Epistles
           ,
           though
           
             the
             Belief
             of
             many
             Doctrines
             contained
             in
             them
             be
             not
             necessary
             to
             Salvation
             ?
          
           Our
           Author
           answers
           ,
           
             1.
             
             That
             he
             that
             will
             read
             the
             Epistles
             as
             he
             ought
             ,
             must
             observe
             what
             't
             is
             in
             them
             is
             principally
             aim'd
             at
             ;
             —
             for
             that
             is
             the
             Truth
             which
             is
             to
             be
             receiv'd
             and
             believ'd
             ,
             and
             not
             scatter'd
             Sentences
             in
             Scripture-Language
             ,
             accommodated
             to
             our
             Notions
             and
             Prejudices
             .
          
           What
           says
           Mr.
           Edw.
           to
           that
           ?
           2.
           [
           for
           I
           abridg
           ]
           
             There
             be
             many
             Truths
             in
             the
             Bible
             ,
             which
             a
             good
             Christian
             may
             be
             wholly
             ignorant
             of
             ,
             and
             so
             not
             believe
             ;
             which
             perhaps
             some
             lay
             great
             stress
             on
             ,
             and
             call
             Fundamental
             Articles
             ,
             because
             they
             are
             the
             distinguishing
             Points
             of
             their
             Communion
             .
          
           What
           says
           Mr.
           Edw.
           to
           this
           ?
           
             3.
             
             The
             Epistles
             were
             writ
             to
             those
             who
             were
             in
             the
             Faith
             ,
             and
             true
             Christians
             already
             ;
             and
             so
             could
             not
             be
             design'd
             to
             teach
             them
             the
             Fundamental
             Articles
             and
             Points
             necessary
             to
             Salvation
             .
          
           This
           he
           shows
           from
           the
           Address
           of
           all
           the
           Epistles
           ,
           or
           something
           noted
           in
           them
           .
           
             4.
             
             Their
             resolving
             Doubts
             and
             reforming
             Mistakes
             ,
             are
             of
             great
             Advantage
             to
             our
             Knowledg
             and
             Practice
             .
             5.
             
             The
             great
             Doctrines
             of
             the
             Christian
             Faith
             are
             dropt
             here
             and
             there
             ,
          
           [
           He
           has
           cited
           some
           such
           Passages
           in
           the
           Proof
           of
           his
           Proposition
           ]
           .
           —
           
             We
             shall
             find
             those
             necessary
             Points
             best
             in
             the
             Preaching
             of
             our
             Saviour
             and
             the
             Apostles
             .
             6.
             
             The
             Epistles
             ,
             besides
             the
             main
             Argument
             of
             each
             of
             them
             ,
             do
             in
             many
             places
             explain
             the
             Fundamentals
             ,
             and
             that
             wisely
             ,
             by
             proper
             Accommodations
             to
             the
             apprehensions
             of
             those
             they
             were
             writ
             to
             .
          
           Which
           he
           shows
           particularly
           in
           the
           Epistle
           to
           the
           Romans
           ,
           and
           that
           to
           the
           Hebrews
           ;
           also
           in
           the
           general
           Epistles
           .
           At
           length
           ,
           
             These
             Holy
             Writers
             (
             saith
             he
             )
             
               inspir'd
               from
               above
            
             writ
             nothing
             but
             Truth
             ;
             and
             in
             most
             places
             very
             weighty
             Truths
             to
             us
             now
             ;
             —
             But
             yet
             
             every
             Sentence
             of
             theirs
             ,
             must
             not
             be
             taken
             up
             and
             look'd
             upon
             as
             a
             Fundamental
             necessary
             to
             Salvation
             ,
             without
             an
             explicite
             Belief
             ,
             whereof
             no
             Body
             could
             be
             a
             Member
             of
             Christ's
             Church
             ,
             &c.
             
             For
             (
             saith
             he
             ,
             pag.
             299.
             )
             't
             is
             plain
             ,
             the
             contending
             Parties
             on
             one
             side
             or
             t'other
             ,
             are
             ignorant
             of
             ,
             nay
             ,
             disbelieve
             the
             Truths
             deliver'd
             in
             Holy
             Writ
             ,
             as
             I
             noted
             before
             .
          
        
         
           This
           little
           I
           have
           transcribed
           out
           of
           our
           Author
           for
           the
           sake
           of
           those
           ,
           who
           perhaps
           have
           not
           his
           Book
           ,
           but
           have
           Mr.
           
           Edwards's
           ,
           and
           that
           it
           may
           appear
           how
           unfairly
           (
           to
           say
           no
           worse
           )
           Mr.
           Edw.
           deals
           with
           our
           Author
           ,
           saying
           ,
           pag.
           111.
           
           
             He
             passes
             by
             these
             inspired
             Writings
             with
             some
             contempt
          
           ;
           also
           he
           suggests
           his
           insincerity
           to
           the
           Reader
           .
           But
           I
           have
           seen
           a
           Letter
           from
           a
           Gentleman
           of
           no
           ordinary
           Judgment
           ,
           who
           says
           ,
           —
           
             Mr.
             Edwards
             has
             not
             only
             mistook
             Mr.
             Lock
             ,
             but
             abus'd
             and
             belied
             him
             :
             for
             he
             says
             ,
             Mr.
             Lock
             cites
             only
             the
             Gospels
             and
             Acts
             ,
             but
             declares
             (
             or
             insinuates
             )
             his
             contempt
             of
             the
             Epistles
             ,
             as
             if
             they
             were
             not
             of
             like
             Authority
             with
             the
             Acts
             or
             Gospels
             ;
             but
             Mr.
             Lock
             has
             no
             where
             intimated
             any
             such
             Opinion
             .
             His
             Book
             
               (
               saith
               he
            
             )
             shows
             ,
             He
             has
             read
             the
             Scriptures
             with
             very
             great
             Observation
             ,
             as
             well
             as
             Judgment
             ;
             he
             suffers
             nothing
             to
             escape
             him
             ,
             that
             belongs
             to
             the
             Subject
             he
             manages
             .
          
        
         
           He
           names
           our
           Author
           Mr.
           Lock
           ,
           which
           I
           am
           assured
           he
           does
           by
           common
           Fame
           and
           Conjecture
           ;
           he
           has
           no
           other
           Grounds
           for
           it
           ,
           as
           neither
           have
           I
           ,
           no
           more
           than
           Mr.
           Edwards
           .
           Whether
           we
           are
           mistaken
           or
           not
           in
           his
           Name
           I
           know
           not
           ,
           but
           I
           think
           I
           have
           proved
           that
           Mr.
           Edw.
           is
           much
           mistaken
           in
           his
           Judgment
           concerning
           his
           Book
           ,
           or
           has
           perversly
           censur'd
           him
           and
           it
           .
           He
           is
           so
           far
           from
           contemning
           the
           Epistles
           ,
           (
           as
           Mr.
           Edw.
           accuses
           him
           )
           that
           whoever
           will
           take
           the
           Pains
           to
           reckon
           ,
           he
           will
           find
           he
           has
           quoted
           them
           ,
           and
           refer'd
           to
           them
           near
           FOURSCORE
           times
           .
           And
           Mr.
           Edw.
           is
           no
           less
           Injurious
           in
           his
           Censures
           upon
           other
           Writers
           :
           
             In
             the
             very
             Socinian
             Doctrine
             it self
          
           (
           saith
           he
           )
           
             there
             seems
             to
             be
             an
             Atheistical
             Tang.
          
           For
           proof
           ,
           he
           cites
           the
           
             Considerations
             on
             the
             Explications
             of
             Doct.
             of
             Trin.
          
           pag.
           5.
           
           Where
           (
           saith
           he
           )
           
             the
             Self-existence
             of
             God
             ,
             which
             is
             the
             Primary
             ,
             Fundamental
             ,
             and
             Essential
             Property
             —
             of
             the
             Deity
             ,
             is
             peremptorily
             pronounc'd
             by
             them
             to
             be
             a
             CONTRADICTION
             .
          
           It
           's
           strange
           a
           Man
           of
           Mr.
           
           Edwards's
           Undertaking
           ,
           should
           give
           forth
           such
           a
           Calumny
           .
           His
           Ldp.
           of
           Worcester
           says
           ,
           
             If
             God
             was
             from
             Eternity
             ,
             he
             must
             be
             from
             himself
             .
          
           That
           Author
           answers
           ,
           that
           
             that
             is
             an
             Espousing
             the
             Cause
             of
             the
             Atheists
             ,
          
           and
           he
           gives
           this
           Reason
           ;
           
             If
             God
             is
             from
             Eternity
             ,
             he
             must
             be
             of
             none
             ;
             neither
             of
             (
             or
             from
             )
             himself
             ,
             nor
             from
             any
             other
             ;
             not
             from
             himself
             ,
             for
             
             then
             he
             must
             be
             before
             he
             was
             ;
             and
             neither
             from
             himself
             ,
             nor
             from
             any
             other
             ,
             because
             all
             Origination
             of
             what
             kind
             soever
             is
             inconsistent
             with
             an
             Eternal
             Being
             .
          
           Is
           this
           now
           peremptorily
           to
           pronounce
           ,
           that
           the
           Self-existence
           of
           God
           is
           a
           Contradiction
           ?
           or
           is
           it
           not
           to
           vindicate
           the
           Self-existence
           of
           God
           from
           a
           false
           Notion
           of
           it
           ,
           occasion'd
           by
           the
           Bishop's
           words
           ?
           But
           what
           will
           Mr.
           Edw.
           say
           to
           the
           Author
           of
           the
           XXVIII
           Propositions
           ,
           &c.
           (
           who
           ,
           they
           say
           ,
           is
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Glouc.
           )
           who
           peremptorily
           denies
           ,
           nay
           says
           ,
           
             It
             is
             a
             flat
             Contradiction
             ,
             to
             say
             that
             the
             second
             and
             third
             Persons
          
           (
           of
           the
           Trinity
           )
           
             are
             Self-existent
          
           ?
           (
           Prop.
           8.
           )
           Consequently
           neither
           of
           them
           is
           God
           :
           because
           (
           as
           Mr.
           Edw.
           says
           )
           
             Self-existence
             is
             the
             Primary
             ,
             Fundamental
             ,
             and
             Essential
             Property
             of
             God
             ,
          
           which
           yet
           neither
           the
           Son
           nor
           the
           H.
           Ghost
           have
           .
           I
           wish
           Mr.
           Edw.
           would
           either
           reconcile
           himself
           to
           the
           Bishop
           ,
           or
           the
           Bishop
           to
           him
           ,
           before
           he
           charges
           an
           
             Atheistical
             Tang
          
           upon
           the
           Socinian
           Doctrine
           ,
           upon
           account
           of
           the
           denial
           of
           God's
           Self-existence
           ,
           which
           he
           may
           see
           strongly
           affirm'd
           in
           the
           Reflections
           on
           the
           said
           Propositions
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           As
           for
           
           Socinus's
           denying
           the
           Praescience
           of
           Contingencies
           ,
           I
           am
           not
           ,
           nor
           is
           our
           Author
           concern'd
           in
           it
           ;
           but
           which
           is
           more
           dishonourable
           to
           God
           ,
           to
           be
           the
           Author
           of
           all
           the
           Sin
           and
           Wickedness
           that
           ever
           was
           ,
           or
           ever
           will
           be
           in
           the
           World
           ;
           or
           to
           deny
           his
           Fore-knowledge
           of
           the
           certainty
           of
           that
           which
           is
           not
           certain
           .
           Socinus
           and
           Crellius
           have
           denied
           such
           an
           Immensity
           of
           God
           ,
           which
           makes
           him
           to
           be
           essentially
           and
           wholly
           in
           every
           point
           of
           Space
           ;
           because
           such
           Immensity
           would
           take
           away
           all
           Distinction
           between
           God
           and
           Creature
           ,
           and
           has
           indeed
           an
           
             Atheistical
             Tang
          
           ;
           for
           the
           greater
           part
           of
           Atheists
           hold
           the
           Universe
           to
           be
           God
           ;
           hence
           
             Lucan
             ,
             Jupiter
             est
             quodcunque
             vides
             ,
             quocunque
             moveris
             .
          
           Which
           opinion
           ,
           some
           of
           the
           Antient
           Fathers
           have
           wrote
           against
           ;
           as
           
             Clemens
             Alexandrinus
          
           ,
           and
           others
           .
           Mr.
           Edw.
           may
           charge
           them
           all
           with
           
             a
             Tang
             of
             Atheism
          
           if
           he
           please
           .
           As
           for
           God's
           Spirituality
           ,
           modest
           Divines
           confess
           it
           easier
           to
           say
           ,
           
             What
             it
             is
             not
             ,
             than
             what
             it
             is
             .
          
           Mr.
           Edw.
           perhaps
           has
           attain'd
           to
           such
           a
           perfection
           of
           Knowledg
           in
           that
           Matter
           ,
           as
           may
           make
           him
           able
           to
           teach
           them
           what
           they
           are
           now
           ignorant
           of
           :
           But
           Socinus
           nor
           Crellius
           ,
           nor
           any
           other
           of
           them
           ever
           denied
           ,
           contrary
           to
           most
           express
           ,
           and
           often
           repeated
           Scriptures
           ,
           and
           common
           Reason
           ,
           the
           most
           glorious
           Attribute
           of
           God's
           Vnity
           ,
           which
           gives
           Excellency
           to
           all
           his
           other
           Attributes
           :
           for
           were
           Self-existence
           ,
           Omniscience
           ,
           Immensity
           and
           Spirituality
           ,
           and
           all
           other
           Attributes
           common
           to
           more
           than
           One
           ;
           where
           would
           the
           Excellency
           and
           Majesty
           of
           God's
           Name
           be
           ?
           How
           should
           we
           love
           and
           adore
           him
           with
           all
           our
           Hearts
           
           and
           Strength
           ,
           when
           there
           are
           others
           that
           require
           it
           and
           have
           as
           equal
           right
           to
           it
           as
           he
           ?
           But
           Mr.
           Edw.
           will
           count
           himself
           highly
           injur'd
           ,
           if
           I
           charge
           him
           with
           denying
           God's
           Unity
           :
           but
           hold
           a
           little
           ,
           be
           not
           angry
           ;
           If
           you
           be
           ,
           Take
           heed
           it
           be
           not
           more
           for
           your
           own
           sake
           ,
           than
           for
           God's
           sake
           :
           Do
           you
           not
           say
           ,
           that
           
             the
             infinite
             Nature
             of
             God
             is
             communicable
             to
             three
             distinct
             Persons
             ?
          
           pag.
           79.
           and
           pag.
           120.
           
           
             That
             the
             Father
             ,
             Son
             and
             Holy
             Ghost
             are
             one
             God
             ,
             or
             Divine
             Nature
             ?
          
           Are
           not
           these
           Terms
           convertible
           ?
           namely
           ,
           That
           one
           God
           is
           Father
           ,
           Son
           and
           H.
           Ghost
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           three
           Persons
           ?
           and
           what
           are
           three
           Almighty
           and
           only
           wise
           Persons
           ,
           but
           three
           Gods
           ?
           The
           Father
           is
           one
           God
           ,
           the
           Son
           is
           one
           God
           distinct
           from
           the
           Father
           ,
           and
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           is
           one
           God
           distinct
           from
           the
           Father
           and
           Son.
           Thus
           your
           Proposition
           amounts
           to
           this
           ,
           That
           one
           God
           is
           three
           Gods
           ,
           that
           the
           Unity
           of
           God
           is
           a
           Trinity
           of
           Gods.
           That
           Vnity
           or
           Oneness
           is
           no
           longer
           an
           Attribute
           of
           God
           ,
           but
           Trinity
           or
           Threeness
           .
           But
           we
           cannot
           be
           heard
           ,
           let
           us
           make
           out
           your
           Contradictions
           never
           so
           clearly
           :
           nay
           ,
           you
           impute
           it
           to
           us
           as
           a
           heinous
           Crime
           ,
           that
           we
           make
           it
           an
           Argument
           against
           the
           belief
           of
           your
           Trinity
           ,
           that
           it
           cannot
           be
           understood
           without
           Contradiction
           .
           You
           impute
           to
           us
           most
           injuriously
           ,
           that
           
             we
             are
             to
             admit
             of
             nothing
             but
             what
             is
             exactly
             adjusted
             to
             Nature's
             and
             Reason's
             Light
             ,
          
           pag.
           68.
           
           That
           
             therefore
             the
             Trinity
             is
             a
             Doctrine
             that
             can't
             be
             born
             ,
             because
             it
             can't
             be
             understood
             ,
          
           pag.
           69.
           and
           that
           
             the
             English
             Vnitarians
             declare
             they
             cannot
             believe
             it
             ,
             because
             Reason
             does
             not
             teach
             it
             ,
          
           pag.
           72.
           
           This
           is
           a
           Topick
           the
           Trinitarians
           do
           always
           inlarge
           upon
           ,
           and
           urge
           with
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           Pomp
           in
           themselves
           ,
           and
           Ignominy
           in
           the
           Unitarians
           ,
           as
           Persons
           that
           prefer
           their
           own
           Reasonings
           before
           Divine
           Revelation
           how
           clear
           soever
           .
           And
           though
           this
           Calumny
           has
           been
           answer'd
           and
           wip'd
           away
           ,
           and
           retorted
           upon
           them
           a
           hundred
           Times
           ,
           yet
           Mr.
           Edw.
           will
           still
           confidently
           charge
           it
           .
           He
           cites
           the
           Letter
           of
           Resolution
           for
           proof
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           therefore
           has
           read
           it
           ,
           but
           passes
           by
           the
           Answer
           to
           this
           Imputation
           ,
           which
           is
           to
           be
           found
           in
           the
           very
           first
           Page
           of
           it
           ,
           where
           thus
           ;
           
             First
             ,
             'T
             is
             not
             true
             ,
             that
             we
             prefer
             Reason
             before
             Revelation
             ;
             on
             the
             contrary
             ,
             Revelation
             being
             what
             GOD
             himself
             hath
             said
             ,
             either
             immediately
             ,
             or
             by
             inspired
             Persons
             ;
             't
             is
             to
             be
             preferr'd
             before
             the
             clearest
             Demonstration
             of
             our
             Reason
             .
          
           And
           in
           the
           
             Consider
             .
             on
             Explic.
             on
          
           4
           Serm.
           and
           a
           Sermon
           of
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Worcester
           ,
           the
           Author
           says
           :
           
             He
             utterly
             mistakes
             in
             thinking
             that
             we
             deny
             the
             Articles
             of
             the
             new
             Christianity
             ,
             or
             Athanasian
             Religion
             ,
             because
             they
             are
             Mysteries
             ,
             or
             because
             we
             do
             not
             comprehend
             them
             ;
             we
             have
             a
             clear
             and
             distinct
             
             Perception
             ,
             that
             they
             are
             not
             Mysteries
             but
             Contradictions
             ,
             Impossibilities
             ,
             and
             pure
             Non-sense
             .
          
        
         
           But
           now
           that
           the
           Trinitarians
           do
           most
           expresly
           prefer
           their
           Reasoning
           ,
           Consequences
           and
           wire-drawn
           Deductions
           before
           Holy
           Scripture
           ;
           besides
           that
           it
           has
           been
           done
           in
           the
           Notes
           upon
           the
           Athanasian
           Creed
           ,
           and
           other
           Tracts
           ,
           I
           shall
           shew
           further
           from
           Mr.
           
           Edwards's
           Fundamental
           Doctrine
           ,
           but
           now
           recited
           ;
           if
           at
           least
           the
           Trinitarians
           will
           acknowledg
           him
           for
           their
           Orthodox
           Champion
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           It
           's
           manifest
           he
           means
           by
           the
           one
           God
           ,
           not
           one
           Divine
           Almighty
           Person
           ,
           but
           three
           such
           ;
           but
           nothing
           is
           more
           evident
           in
           Holy
           Scripture
           ,
           than
           that
           God
           is
           one
           Person
           only
           .
           For
           proof
           of
           it
           ,
           I
           have
           referr'd
           my
           Reader
           to
           the
           Scriptures
           from
           beginning
           to
           end
           ,
           in
           more
           than
           twenty
           thousand
           Texts
           ,
           even
           as
           often
           as
           God
           is
           spoken
           of
           ,
           or
           to
           ,
           or
           speaks
           of
           himself
           (
           except
           as
           I
           have
           said
           )
           .
           But
           Mr.
           Edw.
           says
           expresly
           ,
           that
           his
           God
           is
           
             three
             distinct
             Divine
             Persons
          
           ,
           to
           wit
           ,
           the
           Father
           of
           the
           Son
           ,
           the
           Son
           of
           the
           Father
           ,
           and
           the
           H.
           Ghost
           which
           proceedeth
           from
           the
           Father
           and
           the
           Son.
           2.
           
           He
           says
           ,
           that
           
             these
             three
             distinct
             Divine
             Persons
          
           ,
           [
           each
           of
           which
           is
           God
           in
           the
           most
           perfect
           Sense
           ]
           
             is
             the
             only
             true
             God
             ,
             or
             the
             one
             God
             ,
             or
             Divine
             Nature
             .
          
           The
           Proposition
           which
           he
           advances
           ,
           as
           
             necessary
             to
             Salvation
             ,
             and
             more
             easy
             to
             be
             understood
          
           than
           that
           Jesus
           is
           the
           Messiah
           ,
           is
           ,
           
             That
             the
             Father
             ,
             Son
             and
             Holy
             Ghost
             are
             one
             God
             ,
             or
             Divine
             Nature
             .
          
           Whereby
           it
           's
           manifest
           ,
           that
           by
           
             ONE
             GOD
          
           he
           means
           not
           
             one
             Person
          
           ,
           but
           
             one
             Divine
             Nature
          
           ;
           and
           by
           one
           Divine
           Nature
           he
           means
           such
           a
           Divine
           Nature
           as
           is
           
             communicable
             to
             three
             distinct
             Persons
          
           ,
           see
           pag.
           79.
           
           So
           that
           his
           three
           Persons
           which
           are
           one
           God
           ,
           are
           so
           one
           God
           as
           they
           communicate
           in
           
             one
             Divine
             Nature
          
           ;
           in
           like
           manner
           as
           
             Peter
             ,
             James
          
           and
           John
           are
           
             one
             Man
          
           ,
           because
           they
           communicate
           in
           one
           Human
           Nature
           ,
           as
           do
           also
           all
           the
           Men
           in
           the
           World.
           Now
           I
           shall
           cite
           some
           Texts
           of
           H.
           Scripture
           ,
           which
           do
           expresly
           declare
           that
           God
           is
           ONE
           ;
           and
           that
           cannot
           otherwise
           be
           understood
           than
           that
           he
           is
           one
           Person
           ,
           or
           singular
           intellectual
           Nature
           ,
           Essence
           or
           Substance
           .
           Here
           let
           me
           premise
           first
           ,
           How
           Equivocally
           Mr.
           Edw.
           and
           the
           Trinitarians
           express
           themselves
           in
           this
           great
           and
           necessary
           Point
           ,
           on
           which
           depends
           our
           Eternal
           Salvation
           ;
           and
           whereby
           the
           
             Bulk
             of
             Mankind
          
           (
           for
           I
           think
           that
           's
           a
           far
           more
           decent
           Phrase
           than
           Mr.
           
           Edw's
           Rabble
           ,
           or
           Captain
           Tom
           
             and
             his
             Myrmadons
          
           ,
           or
           
             the
             venerable
             Mob
          
           )
           cannot
           escape
           being
           deluded
           .
           He
           and
           they
           confess
           also
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           but
           
             one
             God
          
           ,
           though
           three
           Persons
           in
           that
           one
           God
           ;
           but
           by
           
             one
             God
          
           they
           do
           not
           mean
           (
           as
           I
           have
           shewed
           from
           Mr.
           
             Edw.
             )
             one
             singular
             intellectual
          
           
           Nature
           ,
           Essence
           ,
           or
           Substance
           compleat
           ,
           for
           that
           is
           a
           Person
           ;
           and
           if
           they
           did
           ,
           the
           Contradiction
           would
           presently
           appear
           to
           every
           Capacity
           ,
           to
           wit
           ,
           that
           three
           Divine
           Persons
           are
           one
           Divine
           Person
           ;
           but
           they
           (
           as
           Mr.
           Edw.
           )
           say
           ,
           
             The
             Father
             ,
             Son
             and
             Holy
             Ghost
             ,
             or
             the
             three
             Divine
             Persons
             ,
             are
             one
             God
             ,
             or
             Divine
             Nature
             ,
             Essence
             or
             Substance
             .
          
           Hereby
           they
           conceal
           from
           their
           poor
           honest
           Reader
           ,
           thirsting
           after
           Truth
           ,
           that
           God
           is
           one
           intellectual
           Perfect
           Nature
           ,
           Essence
           or
           Substance
           ,
           and
           make
           him
           believe
           by
           that
           concealment
           ,
           that
           though
           there
           are
           three
           Divine
           intellectual
           perfect
           Natures
           ,
           yet
           there
           is
           but
           one
           Divine
           Nature
           or
           God.
           
        
         
           I
           am
           also
           willing
           to
           premise
           ,
           that
           the
           Grecism
           of
           a
           solitary
           Adjective
           Masculine
           ,
           or
           Article
           without
           a
           Substantive
           (
           where
           the
           Discourse
           is
           of
           intellectual
           Beings
           )
           doth
           frequently
           ,
           if
           not
           always
           connote
           PERSON
           ;
           and
           our
           English
           Translators
           have
           in
           many
           Texts
           render'd
           it
           Person
           ,
           as
           the
           clear
           Sense
           of
           the
           Greek
           Text
           ,
           not
           as
           a
           word
           supplied
           in
           another
           Character
           to
           explain
           the
           Text
           ,
           but
           in
           the
           same
           Character
           as
           a
           verbal
           Translation
           .
           Instances
           of
           this
           rendring
           are
           these
           among
           many
           others
           ;
           Mat.
           27.
           24.
           
           Of
           this
           just
           [
           Person
           ]
           Luke
           15.
           7.
           
           Ninety
           nine
           just
           [
           Persons
           ]
           Acts
           17.
           17.
           
           —
           The
           devout
           [
           Persons
           ]
           Eph.
           5.
           5.
           
           —
           unclean
           [
           Person
           ]
           2
           Pet.
           3.
           11.
           
           What
           manner
           of
           [
           Persons
           .
           ]
           In
           these
           places
           there
           is
           nothing
           in
           the
           Greek
           to
           answer
           the
           word
           Person
           ,
           but
           what
           is
           implied
           in
           the
           Adjective
           .
        
         
           To
           come
           now
           to
           the
           Texts
           that
           assert
           the
           Vnity
           or
           Oneness
           of
           God
           ,
           against
           Mr.
           
           Edw's
           Trinity
           or
           Threeness
           ;
           or
           that
           God
           is
           one
           intellectual
           Nature
           ,
           or
           one
           Person
           ,
           against
           Mr.
           
           Edws's
           one
           Divine
           Nature
           ,
           or
           three
           Persons
           :
           see
           Jam.
           2.
           19.
           according
           to
           the
           Greek
           ,
           Thou
           believest
           that
           God
           is
           ONE
           ,
           thou
           dost
           well
           .
           Gal.
           3.
           20.
           
           But
           God
           is
           ONE
           .
           Mark
           12.
           29.
           
           The
           Lord
           our
           God
           ,
           the
           Lord
           is
           ONE
           ,
           saith
           our
           Saviour
           out
           of
           the
           Law
           ,
           to
           the
           Scribe
           that
           asked
           him
           ,
           
             which
             is
             the
             first
             Commandment
             of
             all
             ?
             And
             Jesus
             answer'd
             him
             ,
             the
             first
             of
             all
             the
             Commandments
             is
             ,
             Hear
             ,
             O
          
           Israel
           ,
           
             the
             Lord
             our
             God
             ,
             the
             Lord
             is
             one
             .
             And
             thou
             shalt
             love
             the
             Lord
             thy
             God
             with
             all
             thy
             Heart
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           And
           in
           the
           
             32d
             ver
             .
             The
             Scribe
             said
             unto
             him
             ,
             Well
             Master
             ,
             thou
             hast
             said
             the
             Truth
             ,
             for
             God
             is
             ONE
             ,
          
           and
           there
           is
           
             none
             other
          
           but
           he
           .
           And
           ver
           .
           34.
           
             —
             Jesus
             saw
             that
             he
             answer'd
             discreetly
             .
          
           Our
           Bibles
           refer
           us
           to
           Deut.
           6.
           4
           ,
           5.
           whence
           our
           Lord
           takes
           this
           his
           Answer
           ,
           and
           where
           we
           find
           the
           same
           Words
           ,
           which
           by
           Ainsworth
           are
           also
           render'd
           ,
           The
           Lord
           our
           God
           ,
           the
           Lord
           is
           one
           .
           Now
           in
           these
           Scriptures
           the
           Numeral
           Adjective
           Masculine
           ,
           being
           without
           a
           Substantive
           and
           Singular
           ,
           it
           forces
           us
           to
           understand
           in
           every
           place
           Person
           .
           So
           that
           we
           nothing
           doubt
           
           but
           the
           Translators
           would
           have
           render'd
           every
           where
           
             God
             is
          
           ONE
           PERSON
           ,
           if
           they
           had
           not
           been
           prepossessed
           with
           the
           Opinion
           of
           God's
           being
           three
           Persons
           ;
           the
           like
           to
           which
           they
           have
           done
           in
           many
           other
           Places
           .
           But
           in
           that
           Answer
           of
           the
           Holy
           Jesus
           to
           him
           that
           called
           him
           Good
           Master
           ,
           Mat.
           19.
           17.
           it
           's
           not
           possible
           to
           avoid
           it
           ;
           1.
           
           That
           God
           is
           a
           Person
           ;
           2.
           
           That
           he
           is
           but
           
             one
             Person
          
           ;
           and
           3.
           
           That
           he
           is
           GOOD
           in
           an
           eminent
           Sense
           above
           all
           other
           Persons
           whatsoever
           .
           For
           thus
           he
           says
           ,
           
             Why
             callest
             thou
             me
             GOOD
             ?
             None
          
           [
           or
           no
           Person
           ]
           
             is
             good
             but
             one
          
           [
           Person
           ]
           
             the
             God.
          
           How
           strangely
           perverse
           would
           it
           be
           to
           understand
           this
           Text
           in
           the
           Trinitarian
           sense
           ,
           
             viz.
             None
             ,
             or
             no
             Person
             is
             good
             but
             one
             ,
             the
             Father
             ,
             Son
             and
             Holy
             Ghost
             ?
          
           or
           thus
           ,
           
             None
             ,
             or
             no
             Person
             is
             good
             but
             one
             ,
          
           i.
           e.
           
             the
             Divine
             Nature
          
           ?
        
         
           Again
           ,
           2.
           
           Consider
           we
           these
           Texts
           ,
           and
           see
           what
           sense
           we
           can
           make
           of
           them
           ,
           if
           God
           be
           not
           one
           Person
           only
           ,
           Mal.
           2.
           10.
           
           
             Hath
             not
             ONE
             GOD
             created
             us
             ?
          
           must
           we
           say
           with
           Mr.
           
             Edw.
             Hath
             not
             ONE
             Father
             ,
             Son
             and
             Holy
             Ghost
          
           [
           or
           one
           Divine
           Nature
           that
           is
           not
           a
           Person
           ]
           
             created
             us
          
           ?
           Rom.
           3.
           30.
           
           There
           is
           
             one
             God
          
           who
           justifies
           ,
           &c.
           
           Trin.
           There
           is
           one
           Father
           ,
           Son
           and
           H.
           Ghost
           that
           justifies
           ,
           Zech.
           14.
           9.
           
           Hebr.
           
             In
             that
             Day
             the
             Lord
             shall
             be
             ONE
             ,
             and
             his
             Name
             ONE
             .
          
           How
           should
           the
           Lord
           be
           one
           and
           his
           Name
           one
           ,
           if
           the
           Lord
           be
           three
           distinct
           Persons
           ,
           and
           his
           Name
           Father
           ,
           Son
           and
           Holy
           Ghost
           ?
           Isa
           .
           37.
           16.
           
           O
           Lord
           of
           Hosts
           ,
           God
           of
           Israel
           ,
           thou
           dwellest
           between
           the
           Cherubims
           ,
           thou
           art
           the
           God
           ,
           even
           
             thou
             alone
          
           ,
           of
           all
           the
           Kingdoms
           of
           the
           Earth
           ;
           thou
           hast
           made
           Heaven
           and
           Earth
           ;
           Psal
           .
           86.
           10.
           
           Thou
           art
           great
           and
           dost
           wondrous
           Works
           ,
           thou
           art
           
             God
             alone
          
           .
           2
           King.
           19.
           19.
           
           —
           That
           all
           the
           Kingdoms
           of
           the
           Earth
           may
           know
           that
           thou
           art
           
             the
             Lord
             God
          
           ,
           even
           
             thou
             only
          
           .
           Isa
           .
           44.
           24.
           
           &c.
           
             I
             am
             the
             Lord
          
           that
           maketh
           all
           things
           ,
           that
           stretcheth
           forth
           the
           Heavens
           alone
           ,
           that
           spreadeth
           abroad
           the
           Earth
           by
           
             my self
             .
             Nehem.
          
           9.
           6
           ,
           &c.
           Thou
           even
           thou
           art
           
             Lord
             alone
             ,
             thou
          
           hast
           made
           Heaven
           —
           the
           Host
           of
           Heaven
           worshippeth
           thee
           .
           Isa
           .
           37.
           20.
           
           —
           That
           all
           the
           Kingdoms
           of
           the
           Earth
           may
           know
           ,
           that
           
             thou
             art
             the
             Lord
          
           ,
           even
           
             thou
             only
          
           .
           2
           King.
           19.
           15.
           
           Jude
           4.
           —
           denying
           
             the
             only
             Lord
             God
          
           ,
           and
           our
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           .
           1
           Tim.
           2.
           5.
           
           There
           is
           
             one
             God
          
           ,
           and
           one
           Mediator
           between
           God
           and
           Men
           ,
           the
           Man
           Christ
           Jesus
           .
           Ephes
           .
           4.
           6.
           
           
             One
             God
          
           and
           Father
           of
           all
           ,
           who
           is
           above
           all
           and
           through
           all
           ,
           and
           in
           you
           all
           .
           Isa
           .
           46.
           9.
           
           For
           I
           am
           God
           ,
           and
           there
           is
           
             none
             else
             ;
             I
          
           am
           God
           ,
           and
           there
           is
           
             none
             like
             me
          
           .
           1
           King.
           8.
           23.
           
           
             Lord
             God
          
           of
           Israel
           ,
           there
           is
           no
           
             God
             like
             thee
          
           in
           Heaven
           above
           ,
           or
           in
           Earth
           beneath
           .
           
             —
             Ver.
          
           60.
           
           That
           all
           the
           People
           of
           the
           Earth
           may
           know
           that
           the
           Lord
           is
           God
           ,
           and
           that
           there
           is
           
             none
             else
          
           .
           Isa
           .
           44.
           6.
           
           I
           am
           the
           
           First
           ,
           and
           
             I
             am
          
           the
           Last
           ,
           and
           
             besides
             me
          
           there
           is
           
             no
             God.
             Ver.
          
           8.
           
           Is
           there
           
             a
             God
             besides
             me
          
           ?
           yea
           ,
           there
           is
           
             no
             God
          
           ,
           I
           know
           
             not
             any
          
           .
           Isa
           .
           45.
           5.
           
           
             I
             am
             the
             Lord
          
           there
           is
           
             none
             else
          
           ,
           there
           is
           
             no
             God
             besides
             me
             .
             Verse
          
           6.
           —
           There
           is
           
             none
             besides
             me
          
           ,
           I
           am
           the
           Lord
           and
           there
           is
           
             none
             else
             .
             Ver.
          
           14.
           —
           Saying
           ,
           surely
           
             God
             is
             in
             thee
          
           ,
           and
           there
           is
           
             none
             else
          
           ,
           there
           is
           
             no
             God.
             Ver.
          
           21.
           —
           Have
           not
           
             I
             the
             Lord
          
           ?
           and
           there
           is
           
             no
             God
             else
             beside
             me
          
           ,
           a
           just
           God
           and
           a
           Saviour
           ,
           there
           is
           
             none
             beside
             me
             .
             Ver.
          
           22.
           
           Look
           unto
           me
           ,
           and
           be
           ye
           saved
           all
           the
           ends
           of
           the
           Earth
           ,
           for
           
             I
             am
             God
             ,
             and
             there
             is
             none
             else
             .
             Deut.
          
           4.
           35.
           
           Unto
           thee
           it
           was
           shewed
           ,
           that
           thou
           mightest
           know
           that
           
             the
             Lord
             he
             is
             God
          
           ,
           and
           there
           is
           
             none
             else
             beside
             him
          
           .
           1
           Chron.
           17.
           20.
           
           
             O
             Lord
          
           there
           is
           
             none
             like
             thee
          
           ,
           neither
           is
           there
           
             any
             God
             besides
             thee
             .
             Exod.
          
           34.
           14.
           
           For
           thou
           shalt
           worship
           
             no
             other
             God
          
           ,
           for
           the
           Lord
           whose
           Name
           is
           Jealous
           ,
           is
           a
           jealous
           God.
           Deut.
           32.
           39.
           
           See
           now
           that
           
             I
             ,
             even
             I
             am
             he
             ,
          
           and
           there
           is
           
             no
             God
             with
             me
          
           .
           2
           King.
           5.
           15.
           
           Behold
           ,
           now
           I
           know
           that
           there
           is
           
             no
             God
          
           in
           all
           the
           Earth
           ,
           but
           in
           Israel
           .
           2
           Sam.
           22.
           32.
           
           For
           who
           is
           
             God
             save
             the
             Lord
          
           ?
           See
           the
           same
           words
           in
           Psal
           .
           18.
           31.
           1
           
           Cor.
           8.
           4.
           
           —
           There
           is
           
             none
             other
             God
             but
             one
          
           .
           I
           conclude
           with
           the
           first
           and
           chiefest
           of
           the
           Ten
           Commandments
           given
           from
           Mount
           Sinai
           ,
           Exod.
           20.
           3.
           
           
             Thou
             shalt
             have
             no
             other
             Gods
             before
             me
             —
             I
             the
             Lord
             thy
             God
             am
             a
             jealous
             God
             :
          
           and
           that
           of
           the
           Lord
           Jesus
           ,
           when
           himself
           was
           tempted
           ,
           Matth.
           4.
           10.
           
           
             Thou
             shalt
             worship
             the
             Lord
             thy
             God
             ,
             and
             him
             only
          
           shalt
           thou
           serve
           .
           The
           meaning
           plainly
           is
           ,
           I
           am
           a
           Jew
           ,
           and
           subject
           to
           the
           Law
           of
           the
           Jews
           ,
           I
           am
           commanded
           therein
           to
           worship
           the
           Lord
           my
           God
           ,
           and
           to
           serve
           
             him
             only
          
           .
        
         
           These
           Scriptures
           do
           so
           clearly
           prove
           ,
           that
           
             God
             is
             a
             Person
          
           ,
           or
           a
           perfect
           intellectual
           Nature
           or
           Substance
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           is
           
             only
             one
          
           such
           ;
           that
           to
           deny
           either
           of
           these
           Propositions
           ,
           is
           to
           me
           to
           deny
           the
           Truth
           of
           Holy
           Scripture
           ,
           not
           only
           in
           some
           obscure
           and
           doubtful
           Text
           ,
           but
           in
           the
           Current
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           chief
           Fundamental
           of
           all
           Religion
           .
           And
           Mr.
           Edw.
           in
           asserting
           there
           are
           three
           such
           Persons
           in
           one
           Divine
           Nature
           ,
           renders
           in
           effect
           the
           whole
           Bible
           void
           and
           useless
           for
           the
           proof
           of
           any
           Proposition
           whatsoever
           it
           be
           .
           If
           this
           ,
           that
           God
           is
           an
           absolutely
           perfect
           Being
           ,
           and
           therefore
           a
           Person
           ,
           (
           for
           Persons
           are
           the
           most
           perfect
           of
           Beings
           or
           Substances
           )
           and
           but
           one
           such
           ,
           cannot
           be
           plainly
           and
           undeniably
           prov'd
           from
           Scripture
           ,
           it
           's
           utterly
           in
           vain
           to
           attempt
           to
           prove
           any
           thing
           .
           For
           it
           's
           manifest
           that
           to
           assert
           THIS
           ,
           is
           the
           chief
           Aim
           and
           Design
           of
           all
           the
           Holy
           Writers
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           are
           most
           zealous
           and
           vehement
           in
           it
           .
           And
           herein
           lies
           the
           Controversy
           between
           the
           Trinitarians
           and
           the
           Unitarians
           ;
           we
           assert
           with
           the
           greatest
           plainness
           ,
           and
           
           fulness
           ,
           and
           clearness
           of
           Holy
           Scripture
           ,
           as
           ever
           any
           thing
           was
           or
           can
           be
           exprest
           ,
           that
           God
           is
           ONE
           in
           the
           
             most
             perfect
          
           sense
           of
           Oneness
           ,
           (
           which
           is
           by
           all
           Men
           that
           understand
           the
           Word
           )
           in
           a
           personal
           Sense
           .
           But
           the
           Trinitarians
           do
           on
           the
           contrary
           contend
           ,
           that
           God
           is
           
             not
             One
          
           ,
           but
           Three
           in
           that
           personal
           Sense
           ,
           and
           One
           in
           a
           less
           perfect
           Sense
           ;
           which
           is
           not
           Personal
           ,
           but
           common
           to
           many
           :
           Which
           is
           a
           Sense
           that
           dethrones
           God
           ,
           and
           makes
           him
           either
           
             a
             Third
          
           of
           the
           one
           God
           ,
           or
           
             one
             of
             the
             Three
          
           ,
           that
           created
           and
           governs
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           is
           to
           be
           ador'd
           by
           Men
           and
           Angels
           .
           For
           they
           cannot
           deny
           but
           that
           in
           worshipping
           the
           Father
           our
           God
           ,
           we
           worship
           one
           God
           ;
           But
           they
           rage
           against
           us
           ,
           because
           we
           do
           not
           worship
           besides
           him
           ,
           and
           distinct
           from
           him
           ,
           
             the
             Son
          
           as
           perfectly
           God
           as
           he
           ;
           as
           different
           from
           him
           as
           a
           real
           Son
           is
           from
           a
           real
           Father
           ,
           and
           another
           Person
           as
           really
           God
           as
           either
           the
           Father
           ,
           or
           the
           Son
           ,
           and
           as
           really
           different
           from
           the
           Father
           and
           Son
           ,
           as
           he
           that
           is
           sent
           is
           from
           him
           that
           sent
           him
           .
           And
           this
           is
           so
           evidently
           true
           ,
           that
           (
           as
           I
           have
           observ'd
           )
           almost
           one
           half
           of
           the
           Trinitarians
           consent
           with
           the
           Unitarians
           ,
           in
           condemning
           the
           other
           Party
           of
           Trinitarians
           as
           Confessors
           of
           three
           Gods.
           
        
         
           But
           that
           I
           may
           give
           yet
           fuller
           Evidence
           of
           this
           Fundamental
           Truth
           of
           the
           Unity
           of
           the
           Person
           of
           God
           against
           the
           Trinity
           of
           Persons
           in
           him
           ,
           I
           shall
           in
           the
           third
           place
           produce
           some
           Texts
           that
           ascribe
           some
           Perfections
           to
           the
           Person
           of
           God
           singularly
           ,
           and
           with
           exclusion
           of
           all
           other
           Persons
           in
           that
           Sense
           and
           Degree
           .
           Such
           are
           those
           ,
           where
           the
           Holy
           Jesus
           says
           ,
           None
           [
           or
           no
           Person
           ]
           
             is
             good
             but
             one
             ,
             the
             God
             ,
          
           which
           I
           have
           urged
           before
           :
           and
           that
           in
           John
           17.
           3.
           where
           the
           Blessed
           Son
           in
           his
           Prayer
           to
           God
           ,
           (
           wherein
           it
           were
           absurd
           to
           say
           that
           he
           pray'd
           to
           himself
           )
           calls
           him
           Father
           ,
           and
           
             the
             only
             true
             God
          
           ;
           and
           that
           in
           distinction
           from
           himself
           ,
           whom
           he
           describes
           by
           the
           Names
           of
           
             Jesus
             Christ
          
           ,
           him
           
             whom
             the
             Father
             hath
             sent
          
           .
           This
           Particle
           only
           ,
           imports
           some
           Excellency
           in
           the
           Attribute
           of
           true
           ,
           which
           is
           here
           given
           to
           God
           his
           Father
           ,
           above
           and
           with
           exclusion
           of
           all
           others
           ,
           or
           it
           signifies
           nothing
           .
           Rom.
           16.
           27.
           
           
             To
             God
             only
             Wise
          
           be
           Glory
           
             through
             Jesus
             Christ
          
           for
           ever
           .
           Amen
           .
           Here
           again
           the
           Attribute
           of
           
             only
             Wise
          
           is
           ascrib'd
           to
           the
           Person
           of
           God
           in
           distinction
           from
           
             Jesus
             Christ
          
           as
           the
           Medium
           of
           the
           Glory
           which
           is
           given
           to
           the
           only
           Wise
           God.
           1
           Tim.
           6.
           15
           ,
           16.
           
           God
           is
           called
           ,
           
             the
             blessed
             and
             ONLY
             Potentate
             ,
             the
             King
             of
             Kings
             ,
             and
             Lord
             of
             Lords
             ;
             who
             ONLY
             hath
             Immortality
             ,
          
           &c.
           which
           are
           all
           personal
           Titles
           ,
           from
           which
           all
           other
           Persons
           are
           excluded
           by
           the
           exclusive
           Particle
           only
           :
           for
           there
           can
           be
           but
           one
           Potentate
           who
           is
           King
           of
           Kings
           in
           the
           highest
           Sense
           ,
           and
           much
           more
           when
           only
           
           is
           added
           .
           When
           Christ
           is
           called
           
             King
             of
             Kings
             ,
             and
             Lord
             of
             Lords
             ,
             (
             Rev.
          
           17.
           14.
           and
           19.
           16.
           
           )
           it
           's
           manifest
           it
           's
           to
           be
           understood
           in
           a
           derivative
           Sense
           ,
           because
           all
           Power
           in
           Heaven
           and
           Earth
           was
           given
           to
           him
           as
           the
           Lamb
           that
           had
           been
           slain
           ;
           and
           therefore
           he
           is
           represented
           as
           clothed
           with
           a
           Vesture
           dipt
           in
           Blood
           ,
           in
           that
           19
           
             Chap.
             ver
          
           .
           13.
           
           
             Who
             only
             hath
             Immortality
          
           :
           that
           is
           ,
           (
           as
           Dr.
           Hammond
           says
           )
           
             God
             is
             Immortal
             in
             himself
          
           ,
           (
           not
           in
           three
           Selfs
           )
           
             and
             all
             Immortality
             of
             others
             is
             derived
             from
             him
             .
          
           In
           the
           same
           Sense
           is
           the
           Lord
           God
           Almighty
           called
           ,
           in
           Rev.
           15.
           4.
           
             only
             Holy
          
           ,
           because
           he
           only
           is
           Holy
           of
           himself
           ;
           and
           as
           it
           is
           understood
           ,
           1
           Sam.
           2.
           2.
           
           
             There
             is
             none
             Holy
             as
             the
             Lord.
          
           Now
           in
           these
           and
           such-like
           Passages
           of
           Holy
           Scripture
           ,
           the
           Trinitarians
           and
           Mr.
           Edw.
           must
           understand
           by
           God
           three
           Persons
           ;
           by
           Father
           ,
           the
           Father
           ,
           Son
           and
           Holy
           Ghost
           ;
           by
           Thou
           ,
           Ye
           ;
           by
           Him
           ,
           Them
           ;
           by
           Himself
           ,
           Themselves
           ;
           and
           those
           Words
           the
           Scripture
           hath
           in
           the
           singular
           Number
           ,
           must
           be
           understood
           by
           them
           plurally
           .
           It
           's
           no
           marvel
           then
           that
           they
           call
           their
           Doctrine
           a
           Mystery
           ,
           and
           that
           there
           is
           so
           much
           dissension
           among
           themselves
           concerning
           it
           ,
           since
           it
           cannot
           be
           understood
           in
           any
           Sense
           ,
           which
           is
           not
           either
           contradictious
           in
           it self
           ,
           or
           so
           to
           the
           full
           Current
           of
           Holy
           Scripture
           .
        
         
           In
           like
           manner
           ,
           4thly
           ,
           all
           those
           Texts
           (
           which
           are
           not
           a
           few
           )
           in
           which
           God
           is
           named
           
             the
             most
             High
             ,
             the
             most
             high
             God
             ,
             the
             Lord
             the
             most
             High
             ,
             God
             most
             High
             ,
             the
             Highest
          
           ;
           whether
           these
           Titles
           be
           Subject
           or
           Attribute
           ,
           must
           all
           be
           understood
           ,
           not
           of
           one
           Person
           ,
           or
           
             a
             singular
             knowing
             and
             willing
             Substance
             ,
          
           but
           either
           of
           a
           Substance
           that
           is
           not
           a
           Person
           ,
           or
           else
           of
           three
           equal
           Persons
           :
           And
           all
           this
           by
           virtue
           of
           that
           scholastic
           and
           unreasonable
           Distinction
           between
           Person
           and
           Essence
           ;
           or
           as
           Mr.
           Edw.
           words
           it
           ,
           
             The
             infinite
             Nature
             of
             God
             communicable
             to
             three
             distinct
             Persons
             ,
             (
             Pag.
          
           79.
           )
           which
           Distinction
           being
           absurd
           in
           it self
           when
           understood
           ,
           they
           obtrude
           upon
           the
           World
           under
           the
           Name
           of
           MYSTERY
           and
           Incomprehensible
           .
        
         
           5thly
           .
           Besides
           ,
           that
           the
           Holy
           Scriptures
           are
           so
           abundant
           in
           those
           Texts
           that
           clearly
           shew
           him
           to
           be
           
             one
             Person
             only
          
           ,
           as
           I
           have
           fully
           manifested
           ;
           yet
           I
           may
           still
           urge
           from
           the
           same
           Texts
           and
           others
           ,
           that
           the
           Father
           only
           ,
           whom
           the
           Trinitarians
           acknowledg
           to
           be
           but
           one
           Person
           ,
           is
           
             that
             God
             ,
             that
             God
             alone
             ,
             that
             one
             God
             ,
             that
             God
             who
             is
             One
             ,
             the
             most
             high
             God
             ,
          
           and
           no
           Person
           else
           besides
           him
           .
           I
           produced
           before
           the
           Text
           in
           John
           17.
           3.
           to
           prove
           that
           the
           Perfection
           of
           being
           THE
           ONLY
           TRUE
           GOD
           ,
           is
           ascrib'd
           to
           him
           as
           being
           one
           Person
           only
           .
           Now
           I
           urge
           from
           the
           same
           Text
           ,
           that
           that
           Person
           is
           the
           Father
           of
           the
           Son
           ,
           in
           express
           distinction
           from
           the
           Son
           and
           all
           
           others
           .
           Next
           ,
           that
           Text
           in
           1
           Cor.
           8.
           5
           ,
           6.
           
           
             Though
             there
             be
             that
             are
             called
             Gods
             ,
             whether
             in
             Heaven
             or
             in
             Earth
             ,
             (
             as
             there
             be
             Gods
             many
             ,
             and
             Lords
             many
             )
             ;
             but
             to
             us
             there
             is
             but
             one
             God
             ,
             the
             Father
             ,
             of
             whom
             were
             all
             things
             ,
             and
             one
             Lord
             Jesus
             Christ
             ,
             by
             whom
             are
             all
             things
             ,
             and
             we
             by
             him
             .
          
           Which
           words
           do
           plainly
           assert
           ,
           that
           that
           Person
           who
           is
           the
           one
           God
           of
           Christians
           in
           exclusion
           of
           all
           those
           that
           are
           called
           Gods
           ,
           (
           and
           in
           some
           Sense
           may
           be
           so
           )
           is
           none
           but
           the
           Father
           ;
           and
           in
           distinction
           from
           the
           Lord
           Jesus
           ,
           who
           was
           made
           Lord
           and
           Christ
           in
           a
           most
           excellent
           manner
           ,
           after
           his
           Resurrection
           .
           This
           Text
           must
           be
           understood
           by
           the
           Trinitarians
           thus
           ;
           
             There
             is
             none
             other
             God
             but
             three
             Almighty
             Persons
             :
             —
             There
             are
             Gods
             many
             ,
             and
             Lords
             many
             ,
             but
             unto
             us
             [
             Christians
             ]
             there
             is
             but
             one
             God
             or
             Divine
             Nature
             ,
             the
             Father
             ,
             Son
             and
             Holy
             Ghost
          
           ;
           each
           of
           which
           is
           the
           
             one
             God
             of
             Christians
          
           ,
           and
           not
           the
           Father
           only
           .
           See
           next
           Ephes
           .
           4.
           4
           ,
           5
           ,
           6.
           
           
             There
             is
             one
             Spirit
             —
             one
             Lord
             —
             one
             God
             and
             Father
             of
             all
             .
          
           Where
           the
           one
           God
           and
           Father
           of
           all
           is
           clearly
           differenced
           from
           the
           one
           Spirit
           and
           the
           one
           Lord.
           Now
           see
           Mat.
           24.
           36.
           
           
             But
             of
             that
             Day
             and
             Hour
             knoweth
             none
          
           [
           or
           no
           Person
           ]
           (
           for
           of
           necessity
           it
           must
           be
           so
           understood
           )
           
             no
             not
             the
             Angels
             of
             Heaven
             ,
             but
             my
             Father
             only
             .
          
           St.
           Mark
           hath
           it
           
             —
             neither
             the
             Son
             ,
             but
             the
             Father
             .
          
           These
           parallel
           Texts
           prove
           ,
           1.
           
           That
           the
           Person
           of
           the
           Father
           is
           the
           Person
           of
           God
           ;
           for
           none
           but
           that
           Person
           could
           then
           know
           the
           Day
           and
           Hour
           of
           Judgment
           :
           And
           ,
           2.
           that
           the
           Father
           only
           is
           that
           Person
           of
           God
           in
           exclusion
           of
           all
           other
           Persons
           ,
           both
           Angels
           and
           Men
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Son
           himself
           .
           What
           shall
           we
           say
           of
           them
           ,
           who
           in
           flat
           Contradiction
           to
           this
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           the
           Son
           himself
           ,
           assert
           ,
           That
           the
           Son
           knew
           the
           Day
           and
           Hour
           of
           Judgment
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Father
           ?
           Let
           us
           next
           compare
           that
           Passage
           in
           1
           Tim.
           2.
           5.
           
           (
           which
           I
           cited
           before
           )
           with
           1
           John
           2.
           1.
           
           The
           former
           saith
           ,
           
             There
             is
             one
             God
             ,
             and
             one
             Mediator
             between
             God
             and
             Men
             ,
             the
             Man
             Christ
             Jesus
             .
          
           The
           latter
           says
           ,
           
             If
             any
             Man
             sin
             ,
             we
             have
             an
             Advocate
             with
             the
             Father
             ,
             Jesus
             Christ
             the
             Righteous
             .
          
           By
           which
           consider'd
           together
           ,
           it
           appears
           that
           the
           
             one
             God
             and
             the
             Father
          
           are
           the
           same
           Person
           ,
           for
           only
           a
           Person
           is
           capable
           of
           being
           interceded
           to
           ,
           and
           the
           Mediator
           and
           Advocate
           the
           same
           :
           So
           that
           the
           Father
           is
           the
           Person
           of
           God
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Advocate
           is
           the
           Person
           of
           the
           Mediator
           .
           But
           if
           the
           Reader
           desire
           to
           see
           this
           Point
           
             (
             viz.
          
           that
           the
           Father
           only
           is
           the
           most
           high
           God
           )
           fully
           and
           learnedly
           argued
           and
           defended
           ,
           let
           him
           read
           
           Crellius's
           two
           Books
           of
           
             One
             God
             the
             Father
          
           ,
           out
           of
           which
           I
           have
           transcribed
           much
           .
           In
           what
           a
           many
           Places
           of
           Scripture
           is
           Christ
           called
           
             the
             Son
             of
             God
          
           ,
           and
           the
           Holy
           Spirit
           the
           Spirit
           of
           God
           ?
           In
           every
           of
           which
           either
           
           God
           must
           be
           taken
           for
           the
           Father
           only
           ,
           or
           Christ
           must
           be
           the
           Son
           of
           himself
           ,
           and
           the
           Holy
           Spirit
           the
           Spirit
           of
           himself
           ,
           both
           which
           are
           absurd
           .
        
         
           Again
           ,
           how
           many
           places
           of
           Holy
           Scripture
           are
           there
           ,
           where
           some
           Prerogative
           is
           given
           to
           the
           Father
           above
           Christ
           ,
           as
           John
           14.
           28.
           
           
             My
             Father
             is
             greater
             than
             I
             ?
          
           How
           asham'd
           are
           the
           more
           ingenuous
           Trinitarians
           of
           that
           Answer
           ,
           to
           this
           Objection
           against
           the
           Deity
           of
           the
           Son
           ,
           which
           says
           ,
           
             The
             Son
             was
             less
             according
             to
             his
             Human
             Nature
             ?
          
           John
           10.
           29.
           
           
             My
             Father
             is
             greater
             than
             all
             .
          
           It
           's
           manifest
           from
           the
           Context
           ,
           that
           the
           Son
           himself
           is
           included
           in
           that
           word
           ALL.
           1
           Cor.
           11.
           3.
           
           
             The
             Head
             of
             Christ
             is
             God.
          
           Christ
           is
           not
           the
           Head
           of
           himself
           ,
           therefore
           the
           Father
           only
           is
           God.
           How
           often
           do
           Christ
           and
           the
           Divine
           Writers
           call
           the
           Father
           his
           God
           ?
           John
           20.
           17.
           
           I
           ascend
           to
           my
           Father
           and
           your
           Father
           ,
           to
           my
           God
           and
           your
           God.
           In
           Rev.
           3.
           12.
           he
           calls
           the
           Father
           
             my
             God
          
           four
           times
           .
           Mat.
           27.
           46.
           and
           Mark
           15.
           34.
           he
           cries
           out
           ,
           
             My
             God
             ,
             my
             God
             ,
             why
             hast
             thou
             forsaken
             me
             !
          
           His
           God
           was
           only
           the
           Person
           of
           the
           Father
           ,
           and
           not
           God
           the
           Divine
           Nature
           ,
           which
           according
           to
           Mr.
           Edw.
           is
           common
           to
           three
           Persons
           .
           Ephes
           .
           1.
           17.
           
           —
           The
           God
           of
           our
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           ,
           the
           Father
           of
           Glory
           .
           Heb.
           1.
           8.
           
           Where
           Christ
           is
           called
           a
           God
           ,
           he
           is
           also
           said
           to
           have
           a
           God
           ,
           who
           anointed
           him
           .
           Was
           he
           his
           own
           God
           ,
           and
           the
           God
           that
           anointed
           him
           ?
           or
           was
           the
           Father
           only
           ?
           John
           10.
           18.
           
           
             This
             Commandment
             have
             I
             received
             of
             my
             Father
             .
          
           He
           only
           is
           God
           who
           gives
           Commandments
           to
           the
           Son.
           John
           12.
           49.
           
           
             The
             Father
             that
             sent
             me
             ,
             he
             gave
             me
             a
             Commandment
             what
             I
             should
             say
             ,
             and
             what
             I
             should
             speak
             .
          
           John
           14.
           31.
           
           
             As
             the
             Father
             hath
             given
             me
             Commandment
             ,
             so
             I
             do
             .
          
           John
           15.
           10.
           
           
             As
             I
             have
             kept
             my
             Father's
             Commandment
             ,
             and
             abide
             in
             his
             Love.
          
           See
           Chap.
           4.
           34.
           and
           6.
           38.
           and
           8.
           29
           ,
           55.
           and
           17.
           4.
           and
           18.
           11.
           
           Add
           those
           places
           wherein
           it
           's
           clearly
           taught
           that
           Christ
           obey'd
           God
           ,
           Rom.
           5.
           19.
           
           Phil.
           2.
           8.
           
           Heb.
           5.
           8.
           
           
             God
             calleth
             Christ
             his
             Servant
             ,
             Isa
             .
          
           42.
           1.
           
           Mat.
           12.
           18.
           
           Isa
           .
           49.
           5
           ,
           6.
           with
           Acts
           13.
           47.
           
           
             Isa
             .
          
           ,
           2.
           13.
           and
           53.
           11.
           
           Ezek.
           34.
           23
           ,
           24.
           and
           37.
           24
           ,
           25.
           
           He
           is
           called
           
             —
             a
             Minister
             of
             the
             Sanctuary
             ,
          
           Heb.
           8.
           2.
           
           All
           these
           Texts
           ,
           and
           a
           hundred
           more
           (
           say
           the
           Trinitarians
           )
           are
           answered
           by
           the
           Distinction
           of
           
             a
             Divine
             and
             Human
             Nature
             in
             one
             Person
             ,
          
           or
           the
           second
           Person
           of
           God
           his
           having
           a
           Human
           Nature
           :
           So
           you
           are
           to
           understand
           that
           this
           Person
           of
           God
           ,
           who
           is
           here
           said
           to
           be
           a
           Servant
           ,
           to
           receive
           Commands
           and
           obey
           them
           ,
           &c.
           is
           yet
           as
           perfectly
           Great
           as
           he
           ,
           from
           whom
           he
           receiv'd
           those
           Commands
           ,
           who
           has
           no
           Prerogative
           above
           him
           .
           The
           Servant
           is
           as
           great
           as
           his
           Lord
           ,
           and
           he
           that
           Obey'd
           as
           he
           that
           Commanded
           ,
           and
           
           he
           that
           is
           sent
           as
           he
           that
           sent
           him
           ;
           yea
           ,
           the
           same
           God
           is
           Servant
           and
           Lord
           ,
           the
           Obeyer
           and
           Commander
           ,
           the
           Sent
           and
           the
           Sender
           .
           When
           all
           these
           Prerogatives
           of
           the
           Father
           above
           the
           Son
           ,
           and
           consequently
           above
           the
           Holy
           Spirit
           ,
           will
           not
           prove
           the
           Father
           only
           to
           be
           the
           most
           High
           God
           ;
           of
           what
           use
           can
           the
           Holy
           Scriptures
           be
           to
           us
           ?
           What
           shall
           be
           the
           Difference
           between
           Holy
           Scriptures
           and
           profane
           Writings
           ?
           May
           not
           all
           the
           Greek
           Fables
           of
           their
           Gods
           ,
           be
           justified
           by
           the
           same
           ,
           or
           such
           like
           Distinctions
           ?
           O
           Father
           of
           Mercies
           ,
           enlighten
           their
           Understandings
           ,
           and
           remove
           their
           Prejudices
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           no
           longer
           ,
           deny
           thee
           the
           Glory
           due
           to
           thee
           above
           all
           !
        
         
           Neither
           is
           it
           to
           be
           passed
           by
           ,
           that
           to
           the
           Father
           only
           is
           ascrib'd
           in
           Holy
           Scripture
           ,
           the
           Creation
           of
           Heaven
           and
           Earth
           ,
           to
           Christ
           never
           ;
           though
           in
           a
           certain
           way
           of
           speaking
           ,
           common
           to
           the
           Sacred
           Writers
           ,
           many
           things
           ,
           or
           all
           pertaining
           to
           the
           new
           Covenant
           or
           Gospel
           ,
           are
           said
           to
           be
           created
           (
           that
           is
           ,
           medelled
           or
           put
           into
           a
           new
           and
           better
           State
           )
           by
           him
           .
           So
           in
           that
           antient
           Confession
           of
           Faith
           ,
           call'd
           ,
           
             The
             Apostles
             Creed
          
           ,
           the
           Creation
           of
           Heaven
           and
           Earth
           is
           appropriated
           to
           the
           Father
           ;
           and
           both
           in
           those
           Apostolical
           Times
           ,
           and
           to
           this
           day
           ,
           Prayers
           and
           Praises
           are
           offer'd
           to
           the
           Father
           through-Christ
           ,
           and
           the
           Gift
           of
           the
           Holy
           Spirit
           is
           begg'd
           of
           him
           ;
           which
           clearly
           shews
           the
           Prerogative
           of
           the
           Father
           above
           the
           Son
           and
           Holy
           Spirit
           ;
           and
           consequently
           that
           he
           only
           is
           that
           Person
           ,
           whom
           we
           ought
           to
           understand
           by
           the
           Name
           of
           GOD.
           
        
         
           In
           fine
           ,
           The
           God
           of
           Abraham
           ,
           of
           Isaac
           ,
           and
           of
           Jacob
           ,
           the
           God
           of
           the
           Fathers
           ,
           and
           the
           Father
           of
           Christ
           ,
           are
           Descriptions
           of
           one
           and
           the
           same
           Person
           :
           So
           Acts
           3.
           13.
           
           
             —
             The
             God
             of
             our
             Fathers
             hath
             glorified
             his
             Son
             Jesus
             :
          
           and
           Heb.
           1.
           1.
           
           
             God
             who
             —
             spake
             in
             times
             past
             to
             the
             Fathers
             by
             the
             Prophets
             ,
             hath
             —
             spoken
             to
             us
             by
             his
             Son.
          
           So
           that
           they
           who
           make
           the
           Son
           to
           be
           the
           God
           of
           the
           Fathers
           ,
           make
           him
           to
           be
           
             his
             own
             God
          
           and
           Father
           .
        
         
           But
           because
           I
           think
           it
           may
           give
           farther
           Light
           and
           Evidence
           to
           this
           great
           Point
           ,
           wherein
           the
           Glory
           of
           God
           ,
           even
           the
           Father
           ,
           is
           so
           much
           concern'd
           ;
           I
           will
           yet
           further
           show
           from
           many
           plain
           Texts
           ,
           set
           so
           as
           they
           may
           give
           Light
           one
           to
           another
           ;
           that
           the
           God
           of
           the
           Fathers
           ,
           and
           the
           God
           and
           Father
           of
           Christians
           ;
           or
           our
           God
           and
           Father
           ,
           and
           the
           God
           and
           Father
           of
           our
           Lord
           Christ
           ;
           our
           Heavenly
           Father
           and
           his
           Heavenly
           Father
           ;
           his
           God
           and
           our
           God
           ,
           is
           one
           and
           the
           same
           Person
           .
           I
           present
           them
           by
           Couples
           ,
           the
           first
           speaking
           of
           Christ
           ,
           the
           second
           of
           us
           .
        
         
           See
           Rom.
           15.
           6.
           
           That
           ye
           may
           glorify
           God
           ,
           even
           the
           Father
           of
           our
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           .
        
         
         
           Phil.
           4.
           20.
           
           Now
           unto
           God
           our
           Father
           ,
           be
           glory
           for
           ever
           and
           ever
           .
        
         
           2
           Cor.
           1.
           3.
           
           Blessed
           be
           God
           ,
           even
           the
           Father
           of
           our
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           ,
           the
           Father
           of
           Mercies
           .
        
         
           Rom.
           1.
           7.
           
           Grace
           be
           to
           you
           ,
           and
           Peace
           from
           God
           our
           Father
           ,
           and
           the
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           .
        
         
           Col.
           1.
           3.
           
           We
           give
           thanks
           to
           God
           ,
           and
           the
           Father
           of
           our
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           .
        
         
           Eph.
           1.
           2.
           
           Grace
           to
           you
           ,
           and
           Peace
           from
           God
           our
           Father
           ,
           and
           from
           the
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           .
        
         
           2
           Cor.
           11.
           31.
           
           The
           God
           and
           Father
           of
           our
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           knoweth
           that
           I
           lie
           not
           .
        
         
           1
           Thes
           .
           1.
           1.
           
           Grace
           be
           to
           you
           ,
           and
           Peace
           from
           God
           our
           Father
           ,
           and
           the
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           .
        
         
           Heb.
           1.
           8.
           
           Unto
           the
           Son
           he
           saith
           ,
           Thy
           Throne
           ,
           O
           God
           ,
           is
           for
           ever
           and
           ever
           .
           Thou
           hast
           loved
           Righteousness
           ,
           and
           hated
           Iniquity
           ,
           therefore
           God
           even
           thy
           God
           hath
           anointed
           thee
           with
           the
           Oil
           of
           Gladness
           above
           thy
           Fellows
           .
        
         
           Phil.
           1.
           2.
           
           Grace
           be
           unto
           you
           ,
           and
           Peace
           from
           God
           our
           Father
           ,
           and
           the
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           .
        
         
           Ephes
           .
           1.
           3.
           
           Blessed
           be
           the
           God
           and
           Father
           of
           our
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           .
        
         
           1
           Tim.
           1.
           2.
           
           Grace
           ,
           Mercy
           and
           Peace
           from
           God
           our
           Father
           ,
           and
           Jesus
           Christ
           our
           Lord.
           
        
         
           Eph.
           1.
           17.
           
           That
           the
           God
           of
           our
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           ,
           the
           Father
           of
           Glory
           ,
           may
           give
           unto
           you
           the
           Spirit
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           Col.
           1.
           2.
           
           Grace
           be
           unto
           you
           ,
           and
           Peace
           from
           God
           our
           Father
           ,
           and
           the
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           .
        
         
           1
           Pet.
           1.
           3.
           
           Blessed
           be
           the
           God
           and
           Father
           of
           our
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           .
        
         
           2
           Thess
           .
           2.
           16.
           
           Now
           the
           Lord
           Jesus
           himself
           ,
           and
           God
           even
           our
           Father
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           John
           20.
           17.
           
           Jesus
           saith
           to
           Mary
           ,
           I
           ascend
           to
           my
           Father
           and
           your
           Father
           ,
           and
           to
           my
           God
           and
           to
           your
           God.
           
        
         
           Gal.
           1.
           4.
           
           Who
           gave
           himself
           for
           our
           Sins
           —
           according
           to
           the
           will
           of
           God
           and
           our
           Father
           .
        
         
           Mat.
           27.
           46.
           
           Jesus
           cried
           —
           saying
           ,
           My
           God
           ,
           my
           God
           ,
           why
           hast
           thou
           forsaken
           me
           ?
        
         
           Philem.
           3.
           
           Grace
           be
           to
           you
           ,
           and
           Peace
           from
           God
           our
           Father
           ,
           and
           the
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           .
        
         
           Rev.
           3.
           12.
           
           Him
           that
           overcometh
           ,
           will
           I
           make
           a
           Pillar
           in
           the
           Temple
           of
           my
           God
           ,
           and
           write
           upon
           him
           the
           Name
           of
           my
           God
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           2
           Thess
           .
           1.
           1.
           
           —
           Unto
           the
           Church
           of
           the
           Thessalonians
           in
           God
           our
           Father
           ,
           and
           the
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           .
        
         
           John
           17.
           1.
           
           —
           Jesus
           lift
           up
           his
           Eyes
           to
           Heaven
           ,
           and
           said
           —
           Father
           ,
           Glorify
           thy
           Son.
           
        
         
         
           Mat.
           23.
           9.
           
           One
           is
           your
           Father
           which
           is
           in
           Heaven
           .
           Psal
           .
           115.
           3.
           
           Our
           God
           is
           in
           the
           Heavens
           .
        
         
           Thus
           we
           see
           there
           is
           one
           God
           and
           Father
           of
           all
           
             (
             Ephes
          
           .
           4.
           6.
           
           )
           both
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           Believers
           the
           Children
           of
           God
           ;
           the
           same
           Person
           is
           the
           God
           and
           Father
           of
           both
           .
           It
           's
           absurd
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           Christ
           the
           Son
           is
           his
           own
           Father
           ,
           or
           his
           own
           God
           ;
           so
           it
           's
           plainly
           contrary
           to
           Scripture
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           any
           other
           Person
           is
           our
           God
           or
           our
           Father
           (
           in
           the
           highest
           Sense
           )
           but
           the
           same
           who
           is
           Christ's
           God
           and
           Father
           .
           That
           it
           is
           so
           ,
           I
           appeal
           to
           the
           serious
           Thoughts
           of
           every
           Man
           and
           Woman
           that
           reads
           the
           Scriptures
           attentively
           ,
           without
           the
           prejudice
           of
           Scholastick
           and
           confus'd
           Distinctions
           .
        
         
           Now
           I
           shall
           further
           produce
           you
           many
           couples
           of
           Scriptures
           ,
           which
           prove
           expresly
           ,
           that
           the
           Name
           of
           GOD
           (
           when
           taken
           by
           way
           of
           Excellency
           )
           and
           the
           Name
           of
           FATHER
           (
           in
           Christ's
           Gospel
           )
           do
           signify
           the
           same
           singular
           Person
           .
           So
           that
           no
           one
           is
           or
           can
           be
           God
           ,
           who
           is
           not
           also
           the
           Father
           ;
           which
           Term
           is
           acknowledged
           to
           signify
           but
           one
           Person
           .
           This
           appears
           from
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           attributing
           the
           sending
           of
           Christ
           ,
           or
           the
           Son
           ,
           sometimes
           to
           God
           ,
           sometimes
           to
           the
           Father
           ,
           and
           both
           frequently
           .
        
         
           John
           3.
           34.
           
           He
           whom
           
             God
             hath
             sent
          
           ,
           speaketh
           the
           Words
           of
           God
           ;
           for
           God
           giveth
           not
           the
           Spirit
           by
           measure
           unto
           him
           .
        
         
           Chap.
           14.
           24.
           
           The
           Word
           which
           ye
           hear
           is
           not
           mine
           ,
           but
           the
           Father's
           who
           sent
           me
           .
        
         
           Acts
           10.
           36.
           
           The
           Word
           which
           
             God
             sent
          
           to
           the
           Children
           of
           Israel
           ,
           preaching
           Peace
           by
           Jesus
           Christ
           .
        
         
           John
           5.
           30.
           
           I
           seek
           not
           mine
           own
           Will
           ,
           but
           the
           Will
           of
           
             the
             Father
             which
             hath
             sent
             me
             .
          
        
         
           Acts
           3.
           26.
           
           God
           having
           raised
           up
           
             his
             Son
          
           Jesus
           ,
           
             sent
             him
          
           to
           bless
           you
           .
        
         
           John
           12.
           49.
           
           The
           Father
           which
           sent
           me
           ,
           he
           gave
           me
           a
           Commandment
           what
           I
           should
           say
           ,
           and
           what
           I
           should
           speak
           .
        
         
           1
           John
           4.
           10.
           
           Not
           that
           we
           loved
           God
           ,
           but
           that
           he
           loved
           us
           ,
           and
           sent
           his
           Son
           to
           be
           the
           Propitiation
           for
           our
           Sins
           .
        
         
           Chap.
           4.
           14.
           
           And
           we
           have
           seen
           and
           do
           testify
           ,
           that
           the
           Father
           sent
           the
           Son
           to
           be
           the
           Saviour
           of
           the
           World.
           
        
         
           Gal.
           4.
           4.
           
           God
           sent
           forth
           his
           Son
           made
           of
           a
           Woman
           .
        
         
           John
           6.
           39.
           
           And
           this
           is
           the
           
           Father's
           Will
           that
           hath
           
             sent
             me
          
           .
           See
           ver
           .
           44.
           
        
         
           1
           John
           4.
           9.
           
           In
           this
           was
           manifested
           the
           Love
           of
           God
           toward
           us
           ,
           because
           
             God
             sent
          
           his
           only
           begotten
           Son
           into
           the
           World
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
         
           John
           5.
           24.
           
           He
           that
           heareth
           my
           Word
           ,
           and
           believeth
           on
           the
           
             Father
             that
             hath
             sent
             me
          
           .
        
         
           Rom.
           8.
           3.
           
           God
           sending
           his
           own
           Son
           in
           the
           likeness
           of
           sinful
           Flesh
           .
        
         
           John
           20.
           21.
           
           Then
           said
           Jesus
           ,
           As
           my
           Father
           sent
           me
           ,
           even
           so
           send
           I
           you
           .
        
         
           Joh.
           3.
           17.
           
           God
           sent
           not
           his
           Son
           to
           condemn
           the
           World.
           
        
         
           Chap.
           5.
           23.
           
           He
           that
           honoureth
           not
           the
           Son
           ,
           honoureth
           not
           
             the
             Father
             which
             sent
             him
          
           .
        
         
           Joh.
           6.
           29.
           
           Jesus
           answered
           ,
           This
           is
           the
           Work
           of
           God
           ,
           that
           ye
           believe
           on
           him
           whom
           
             he
             hath
             sent
          
           .
        
         
           Chap.
           17.
           25.
           
           O
           Father
           ,
           these
           have
           known
           that
           thou
           hast
           sent
           me
           .
        
         
           John
           17.
           3.
           
           This
           is
           Life
           Eternal
           ,
           that
           they
           might
           know
           thee
           (
           Father
           )
           the
           only
           true
           God
           ,
           and
           Jesus
           Christ
           whom
           thou
           hast
           sent
           .
        
         
           Chap.
           10.
           36.
           
           Say
           ye
           of
           him
           whom
           
             the
             Father
          
           hath
           sanctified
           
             and
             sent
          
           into
           the
           World
           ,
           Thou
           blasphemest
           ,
           because
           I
           said
           ,
           I
           am
           the
           Son
           of
           God
           ?
        
         
           John
           16.
           27.
           
           The
           Father
           himself
           loveth
           you
           ,
           because
           ye
           have
           —
           believed
           that
           I
           came
           out
           from
           God.
           
        
         
           Ver.
           28.
           
           
             I
             came
             forth
             from
             the
             Father
             ,
          
           and
           am
           come
           into
           the
           World
           ;
           again
           ,
           I
           leave
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           
             go
             to
             the
             Father
          
           .
        
         
           Ver.
           30.
           
           By
           this
           we
           believe
           that
           thou
           camest
           forth
           from
           God.
           
        
         
           John
           3.
           16.
           
           God
           so
           loved
           the
           World
           ,
           that
           he
           gave
           his
           only
           begotten
           Son
           —
           .
        
         
           Chap.
           8.
           18.
           
           I
           am
           one
           that
           bear
           witness
           of
           my self
           ;
           and
           the
           Father
           that
           sent
           me
           beareth
           witness
           of
           me
           .
        
         
           John
           8.
           42.
           
           For
           I
           proceeded
           forth
           and
           
             came
             from
             God
          
           ;
           neither
           came
           I
           of
           my self
           ,
           but
           he
           sent
           me
           .
        
         
           Chap.
           5.
           36.
           
           The
           Works
           that
           I
           do
           ,
           bear
           witness
           that
           
             the
             Father
             hath
             sent
             me
          
           .
        
         
           Hence
           it
           appears
           most
           evidently
           ,
           not
           only
           that
           God
           and
           the
           Father
           are
           the
           same
           Person
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           same
           is
           as
           plainly
           distinguisht
           from
           our
           Lord
           Christ
           ,
           as
           the
           Sender
           is
           distinct
           from
           him
           that
           is
           sent
           ;
           but
           that
           the
           Son
           is
           no
           more
           the
           same
           God
           that
           sent
           him
           ,
           than
           he
           is
           the
           same
           Father
           that
           sent
           him
           .
        
         
           If
           Christians
           will
           still
           suffer
           themselves
           to
           be
           impos'd
           upon
           ,
           under
           the
           Notion
           of
           MYSTERY
           ,
           to
           believe
           that
           the
           Son
           of
           God
           is
           the
           same
           numerical
           God
           as
           his
           Father
           ,
           who
           sent
           him
           to
           do
           his
           Will
           ,
           (
           not
           his
           own
           )
           and
           to
           be
           the
           Propitiation
           (
           or
           Mercy-seat
           ,
           Heb.
           9.
           5.
           
           )
           for
           our
           Sins
           ;
           that
           the
           
             only
             begotten
          
           or
           well-beloved
           Son
           ,
           whom
           the
           Father
           (
           first
           )
           
             sanctified
             and
          
           (
           then
           )
           
             sent
             into
             the
             World
          
           ,
           is
           the
           same
           God
           who
           sanctified
           
           and
           sent
           him
           ,
           that
           the
           miraculous
           Works
           which
           the
           Son
           did
           ,
           did
           bear
           witness
           ,
           not
           that
           the
           Father
           even
           God
           had
           sent
           him
           ,
           but
           that
           the
           Son
           was
           that
           God
           ,
           &c.
           they
           should
           no
           longer
           pretend
           ,
           that
           their
           Faith
           concerning
           God
           and
           his
           Son
           Christ
           Jesus
           ,
           in
           what
           is
           necessary
           to
           eternal
           Life
           ,
           is
           clearly
           and
           plainly
           reveal'd
           in
           Holy
           Scripture
           ,
           but
           that
           they
           have
           learnt
           it
           by
           Tradition
           from
           their
           Teachers
           ,
           which
           yet
           they
           can
           no
           more
           conceive
           the
           meaning
           of
           ,
           without
           contradiction
           to
           Scripture
           and
           Reason
           ,
           than
           the
           Papists
           can
           their
           Transubstantiation
           ,
           which
           they
           also
           believe
           under
           the
           Notion
           of
           Mystery
           .
           Let
           none
           say
           there
           is
           a
           wide
           Difference
           between
           the
           Faith
           of
           Protestants
           and
           Papists
           in
           these
           Cases
           ,
           because
           Transubstantiation
           is
           contradicted
           by
           Sense
           ,
           the
           Trinity
           only
           by
           Reason
           ;
           for
           I
           appeal
           to
           any
           Man
           of
           Sense
           ,
           whether
           we
           may
           not
           be
           as
           certain
           that
           one
           Person
           is
           not
           three
           Persons
           ,
           nor
           three
           Persons
           one
           Person
           ,
           as
           that
           Bread
           is
           not
           Flesh
           .
           If
           Protestants
           think
           themselves
           excusable
           in
           that
           ,
           let
           them
           not
           for
           shame
           blame
           the
           Papists
           in
           this
           .
           And
           if
           both
           Protestants
           and
           Papists
           are
           faultless
           in
           these
           Points
           ,
           I
           see
           not
           but
           the
           Heathen
           Polytheists
           will
           be
           capable
           of
           the
           same
           Charity
           .
        
         
           The
           New
           Testament
           Scriptures
           are
           so
           full
           of
           those
           clear
           Distinctions
           ,
           and
           opposite
           Relations
           ,
           and
           Works
           of
           God
           ,
           from
           the
           
             Son
             of
             God
          
           ,
           that
           a
           Man
           must
           in
           a
           manner
           transcribe
           the
           whole
           Volume
           to
           present
           them
           all
           .
           I
           have
           given
           my
           Reader
           a
           great
           number
           of
           Texts
           already
           ;
           I
           will
           yet
           point
           him
           to
           some
           more
           ,
           which
           he
           may
           read
           at
           his
           leisure
           .
           See
           then
           1
           John
           4.
           ver
           .
           9
           to
           16.
           2
           
           Pet.
           1.
           17.
           
           Rom.
           16.
           27.
           
           John
           6.
           69.
           
           John
           5.
           26
           ,
           27.
           
           
             As
             the
             Father
             hath
             Life
             in
             himself
             ,
             so
             hath
             he
             given
             to
             the
             Son
             to
             have
             Life
             in
             himself
             ,
             and
             hath
             given
             him
             Authority
             to
             execute
             Judgment
             also
             ,
             because
             he
             is
             the
             Son
             of
             Man.
          
           The
           Son
           of
           God
           had
           not
           this
           Life
           in
           himself
           ,
           till
           it
           was
           given
           him
           by
           the
           Living
           God
           his
           Father
           ,
           not
           because
           he
           was
           God
           ,
           but
           because
           he
           was
           the
           Son
           of
           Man.
           But
           what
           Ears
           can
           hear
           ,
           that
           Life
           and
           Authority
           were
           given
           by
           the
           same
           God
           the
           Father
           ,
           to
           the
           very
           same
           God
           the
           Son
           ?
           Or
           that
           any
           Life
           and
           Authority
           could
           be
           given
           to
           him
           that
           was
           God
           ,
           who
           had
           always
           from
           all
           Eternity
           ,
           all
           Life
           and
           Authority
           in
           himself
           ,
           and
           could
           never
           be
           without
           it
           ?
           But
           I
           am
           pointing
           you
           to
           some
           Texts
           of
           Scripture
           .
           Read
           also
           Rom.
           1.
           9.
           
           Chap.
           8.
           3
           ,
           29
           ,
           31.
           
           Chap.
           5.
           10.
           
           Ephes
           .
           1.
           3.
           1
           
           John
           1.
           5
           ,
           7.
           
           Chap.
           3.
           21
           ,
           23.
           
           Chap.
           1.
           3.
           
           Gal.
           1.
           15.
           
           Col.
           1.
           10
           ,
           13.
           1
           
           Cor.
           1.
           9.
           1
           
           John
           4.
           15.
           
           Whosoever
           shall
           confess
           that
           Jesus
           is
           the
           Son
           of
           God
           [
           not
           that
           he
           is
           that
           God
           whose
           Son
           he
           is
           ]
           God
           dwelleth
           in
           him
           and
           he
           in
           God.
           1
           John
           5.
           9
           ,
           10
           ,
           11.
           
           Heb.
           1.
           1
           ,
           2.
           
           John
           3.
           16
           ,
           17.
           
           Acts
           3.
           26.
           1
           
           Thess
           .
           1.
           9
           ,
           10.
           
           John
           5.
           18.
           
           2
           
           
             John
             ver
          
           .
           3.
           
           Gal.
           4.
           4.
           
           Acts
           3.
           13.
           
           These
           Texts
           do
           undeniably
           prove
           ,
           that
           God
           is
           one
           Person
           only
           ,
           to
           wit
           ,
           the
           Father
           of
           the
           Son
           ;
           and
           as
           the
           Son
           cannot
           be
           his
           own
           Father
           ,
           so
           neither
           that
           God
           who
           is
           his
           Father
           .
           But
           I
           proceed
           ,
           see
           Mat.
           14.
           33.
           and
           16.
           16.
           
           Luke
           1.
           35.
           
           Mark
           1.
           1.
           
           John
           1.
           34.
           and
           20.
           31.
           
           These
           are
           written
           that
           ye
           may
           believe
           that
           Jesus
           is
           the
           Christ
           the
           Son
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           that
           believing
           ye
           might
           have
           Life
           through
           his
           Name
           .
           The
           Apostle
           John
           did
           not
           write
           his
           Gospel
           (
           as
           some
           pretend
           )
           to
           prove
           that
           Jesus
           was
           God
           ,
           who
           was
           his
           Father
           ,
           but
           that
           he
           was
           the
           Christ
           ,
           or
           a
           Man
           anointed
           with
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           and
           Power
           ,
           the
           Son
           of
           that
           God
           who
           anointed
           him
           ;
           and
           that
           so
           believing
           we
           might
           have
           Life
           through
           him
           .
           Mark
           1.
           11.
           
           Mat.
           3.
           17.
           
           Luke
           3.
           22.
           
           Mark
           9.
           7.
           
           Luke
           9.
           35.
           
           Heb.
           1.
           5.
           1
           
           John
           4.
           14.
           
           Mat.
           11.
           27.
           
           Luke
           10.
           22.
           
           John
           1.
           14.
           and
           3.
           18
           ,
           29.
           and
           14.
           28.
           and
           15.
           10.
           and
           20.
           17.
           
        
         
           Against
           all
           these
           Scriptures
           ,
           and
           many
           more
           that
           might
           be
           alledged
           ,
           it
           's
           urged
           that
           the
           Son
           is
           somewhere
           called
           God
           [
           or
           rather
           
             a
             God
          
           ]
           in
           Scripture
           .
           To
           which
           I
           answer
           ,
           that
           both
           Angels
           and
           Men
           are
           called
           God
           ,
           and
           Gods
           ,
           and
           Sons
           of
           God
           in
           Scripture
           ;
           see
           Exod.
           7.
           1.
           
           
             —
             I
             have
             made
             thee
          
           [
           Moses
           ]
           
             a
             God
             to
          
           Pharaoh
           .
           Exod.
           4.
           16.
           compar'd
           with
           Chap.
           3.
           2
           ,
           5.
           an
           Angel
           is
           called
           Jehovah
           and
           Elohim
           ;
           in
           English
           ,
           
             the
             Lord
          
           and
           God.
           Psal
           .
           8.
           5.
           
           
             Thou
             hast
             made
             him
          
           [
           Man
           ]
           
             a
             little
             lower
             than
             the
             Angels
          
           ;
           in
           Hebrew
           ,
           
             than
             the
             Gods.
          
           And
           Judg.
           13.
           22.
           
           Manoah
           said
           —
           We
           shall
           surely
           die
           ,
           because
           we
           have
           seen
           God
           ;
           so
           he
           calls
           the
           Angel
           that
           appeared
           to
           him
           .
           But
           the
           word
           God
           taken
           by
           way
           of
           Eminency
           for
           the
           Father
           of
           all
           ,
           signifies
           also
           
             the
             God
             of
             Gods
          
           ,
           Deut.
           10.
           17.
           
           Joshua
           22.
           22.
           
           Psal
           .
           136.
           2
           ,
           
             &c.
             The
             most
             high
             God
          
           ,
           Gen.
           14.
           18.
           
           Heb.
           7.
           1.
           
           And
           the
           Lord
           Jesus
           being
           stoned
           and
           charged
           with
           Blasphemy
           by
           the
           Jews
           ,
           for
           saying
           ,
           that
           he
           and
           his
           Father
           were
           one
           ,
           as
           we
           read
           John
           10.
           29
           ,
           30
           ,
           &c.
           he
           vindicates
           himself
           by
           the
           Authority
           of
           that
           Text
           ,
           in
           Psal
           .
           82.
           6.
           where
           it's
           Divinely
           written
           ,
           
             I
             said
             ye
             are
             Gods
          
           ,
           speaking
           of
           the
           Judges
           and
           Princes
           ,
           who
           receiv'd
           their
           Authority
           and
           Power
           from
           God
           ;
           
             and
             all
             of
             you
             Sons
             of
             the
             most
             High
             :
          
           and
           argues
           from
           it
           thus
           ,
           
             Say
             ye
             of
             him
             ,
             whom
             the
             Father
             hath
             sanctified
             and
             sent
             into
             the
             World
             ,
             Thou
             blasphemest
             ,
             because
             I
             said
             ,
             I
             am
             THE
             SON
             of
             God
             ?
          
           Which
           is
           in
           effect
           to
           say
           ,
           I
           may
           with
           far
           greater
           right
           than
           they
           ,
           be
           called
           a
           God
           ,
           or
           
             the
             Son
             of
             God
          
           ,
           who
           have
           received
           from
           God
           far
           greater
           Authority
           and
           Power
           ;
           being
           sanctified
           to
           such
           a
           Degree
           ,
           and
           sent
           among
           Men
           to
           preach
           such
           a
           Doctrine
           and
           Work
           ,
           such
           Miraculous
           Works
           ,
           as
           plainly
           shew
           ,
           that
           the
           
             Father
             is
             in
             me
             ,
             and
             I
             in
             him
          
           ;
           that
           is
           ,
           there
           is
           such
           a
           close
           
           Union
           between
           us
           ,
           as
           if
           the
           Father
           dwelt
           in
           me
           ,
           and
           did
           the
           Works
           which
           I
           do
           ,
           (
           dwelling
           as
           it
           were
           in
           him
           )
           and
           which
           cannot
           be
           done
           by
           any
           other
           Power
           .
           Whence
           I
           argue
           ,
           that
           if
           in
           any
           Text
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           Jesus
           is
           said
           to
           be
           God
           or
           a
           God
           ,
           (
           tho
           he
           himself
           never
           said
           he
           was
           God
           ;
           
             Nunquam
             seipse
             Deum
             dixit
          
           ,
           as
           saith
           Lactantius
           )
           it
           is
           to
           be
           understood
           of
           that
           Godlike
           Power
           ,
           Authority
           and
           Glory
           ,
           which
           God
           his
           Father
           has
           conferr'd
           upon
           him
           ;
           for
           which
           he
           is
           to
           be
           honoured
           as
           the
           Father
           who
           sent
           him
           ,
           who
           anointed
           him
           ,
           who
           raised
           him
           from
           the
           Dead
           ,
           and
           set
           him
           at
           his
           own
           Right
           Hand
           .
           So
           in
           Heb.
           1.
           8
           ,
           9.
           where
           in
           the
           Words
           spoken
           of
           
             Solomon
             ,
             Psal
          
           .
           45.
           he
           is
           called
           God
           ,
           he
           is
           said
           to
           have
           a
           God
           above
           him
           ,
           who
           anointed
           him
           .
           Let
           them
           consider
           who
           say
           ,
           the
           Son
           is
           God
           in
           the
           same
           sense
           as
           the
           Father
           ,
           how
           they
           can
           clear
           themselves
           of
           Blasphemy
           .
           Such
           Persons
           look
           upon
           the
           Unitarians
           with
           Amazement
           and
           Horrour
           ,
           because
           they
           will
           not
           take
           the
           term
           God
           in
           that
           Sense
           as
           themselves
           do
           :
           
             What!
             Deny
             Christ
             to
             be
             God
             ,
             so
             expresly
             spoken
             of
             him
             in
             Holy
             Scripture
             !
          
           In
           the
           mean
           time
           ,
           they
           do
           not
           reflect
           upon
           themselves
           ,
           who
           make
           to
           themselves
           (
           by
           understanding
           Scripture
           in
           another
           Sense
           than
           Christ
           understood
           it
           in
           )
           another
           God
           besides
           the
           Father
           ,
           who
           only
           is
           the
           true
           God.
           The
           Unitarians
           acknowledg
           and
           celebrate
           
             one
             God
          
           the
           Father
           ,
           the
           Trinitarians
           do
           so
           too
           ,
           but
           they
           also
           acknowledg
           and
           celebrate
           
             two
             other
             Persons
          
           ,
           each
           of
           which
           is
           God
           in
           the
           same
           sense
           as
           the
           Father
           ,
           neither
           of
           which
           is
           the
           Father
           .
           Which
           of
           us
           are
           safer
           ,
           and
           in
           less
           danger
           of
           being
           Blasphemers
           ,
           and
           worshippers
           of
           more
           Gods
           than
           one
           ?
        
         
           There
           's
           nothing
           more
           manifest
           in
           Holy
           Scripture
           ,
           than
           that
           the
           only
           true
           God
           hath
           given
           to
           the
           Son
           both
           his
           Being
           ,
           and
           all
           whatsoever
           that
           he
           enjoys
           ;
           he
           has
           exalted
           him
           to
           his
           Right
           Hand
           ,
           given
           him
           all
           Power
           in
           Heaven
           and
           in
           Earth
           ,
           as
           Pharaoh
           exalted
           Joseph
           in
           
             Egypt
             ;
             only
             in
             the
             Throne
          
           (
           saith
           he
           )
           
             will
             I
             be
             greater
             than
             thou
             .
          
           But
           the
           Trinitarians
           will
           not
           suffer
           the
           Father
           to
           enjoy
           that
           Privilege
           ;
           They
           are
           asham'd
           of
           that
           Son
           of
           God
           (
           and
           his
           words
           )
           who
           is
           not
           as
           great
           as
           his
           Father
           ;
           though
           he
           said
           ,
           
             My
             Father
             is
             greater
             than
             I.
          
           They
           are
           asham'd
           of
           his
           words
           ,
           who
           said
           ,
           
             Of
             that
             Day
             and
             Hour
             —
             knoweth
             none
             ,
             not
             the
             Son
             ,
             but
             the
             Father
             only
             :
          
           and
           say
           in
           Contradiction
           to
           him
           ,
           
             The
             Son
             did
             know
             that
             Day
             and
             Hour
             as
             well
             as
             the
             Father
             ,
             and
             not
             the
             Father
             only
             .
          
           They
           are
           asham'd
           of
           his
           Words
           who
           said
           ,
           
             I
             can
             do
             nothing
             of
             my self
             ;
             I
             came
             not
             to
             do
             my
             own
             Will
             ,
             but
             the
             Will
             of
             him
             that
             sent
             me
             ;
             my
             Doctrine
             is
             not
             mine
             ,
             but
             his
             that
             sent
             me
             ;
             I
             —
             do
             nothing
             of
             my self
             ,
             but
             as
             the
             Father
             hath
             taught
             me
             I
             speak
             these
             things
             ;
             I
             have
             not
             spoken
             
             of
             my self
             ,
             but
             the
             Father
             that
             sent
             me
             ,
             he
             gave
             me
             a
             Commandment
             what
             I
             should
             say
             ,
             and
             what
             I
             should
             speak
             ;
             The
             word
             that
             I
             speak
             ,
             I
             speak
             not
             of
             my self
             ,
             but
             the
             Father
             that
             abideth
             in
             me
             he
             doth
             the
             Works
             .
          
           These
           and
           many
           other
           Words
           and
           Sayings
           of
           the
           same
           kind
           ,
           they
           seem
           to
           be
           asham'd
           of
           ,
           and
           say
           ,
           and
           contend
           for
           it
           ,
           that
           he
           could
           do
           all
           things
           of
           himself
           ,
           that
           he
           came
           to
           do
           his
           own
           Will
           ,
           that
           his
           Doctrine
           was
           his
           own
           ,
           that
           he
           had
           no
           need
           of
           the
           Father's
           teaching
           ,
           &c.
           
           They
           are
           ashamed
           of
           those
           words
           of
           Christ's
           ;
           Mat.
           19.
           17.
           
           
             Why
             dost
             thou
             call
             me
             good
             ?
             none
             is
             good
             but
             one
             ,
             the
             God
          
           ;
           and
           say
           none
           is
           good
           but
           Three
           ,
           God
           and
           God
           and
           God
           ,
           or
           Father
           ,
           Son
           and
           Holy
           Ghost
           .
        
         
           Here
           let
           me
           observe
           to
           the
           Reader
           (
           as
           I
           have
           hinted
           above
           )
           that
           there
           is
           a
           considerable
           Difference
           between
           that
           particle
           one
           in
           this
           Text
           ,
           and
           the
           same
           particle
           one
           in
           that
           supposititious
           Text
           ,
           1
           Joh.
           5.
           7.
           
           These
           three
           are
           one
           ;
           for
           here
           one
           is
           of
           the
           Neuter
           Gender
           ,
           as
           is
           manifest
           both
           in
           the
           Greek
           and
           Latin
           ,
           and
           fignifies
           as
           the
           same
           word
           does
           in
           1
           Cor.
           3.
           8.
           
           
             He
             that
             planteth
             and
             he
             that
             watereth
             are
             one
             :
          
           but
           in
           the
           Text
           above
           ,
           one
           is
           of
           the
           Masculine
           Gender
           ,
           and
           must
           be
           understood
           of
           one
           Person
           (
           or
           intelligent
           Being
           )
           who
           is
           good
           ,
           and
           none
           but
           he
           ,
           to
           wit
           ,
           
             the
             God.
          
           If
           they
           were
           not
           hinder'd
           by
           strong
           Preiudices
           ,
           they
           might
           easily
           see
           ,
           that
           whatsoever
           they
           attribute
           to
           the
           Son
           ,
           be
           it
           eternal
           necessary
           Existence
           ,
           Almightiness
           ,
           or
           Omniscience
           ,
           &c.
           they
           take
           away
           from
           the
           Father
           thereby
           ,
           not
           only
           the
           Glory
           of
           enjoying
           those
           Divine
           Excellencies
           alone
           ,
           but
           also
           the
           Glory
           of
           his
           free
           Goodness
           ,
           and
           the
           Son
           's
           ,
           and
           our
           Thankfulness
           for
           such
           unspeakable
           Benefits
           both
           to
           him
           and
           us
           ,
           as
           he
           has
           been
           graciously
           pleas'd
           to
           give
           unto
           the
           Son
           ,
           either
           in
           begetting
           him
           ,
           or
           raising
           him
           up
           in
           Time
           ,
           or
           in
           rewarding
           him
           both
           for
           his
           and
           our
           Good.
           Nay
           ,
           they
           make
           the
           Son
           uncapable
           of
           receiving
           those
           great
           and
           glorious
           Rewards
           ,
           of
           
             all
             Power
             in
             Heaven
             and
             Earth
          
           given
           to
           him
           ,
           of
           an
           
             everlasting
             Kingdom
          
           ,
           of
           a
           
             Name
             above
             every
             Name
          
           ,
           of
           exaltation
           
             to
             the
             Right
             Hand
             of
             God
             ,
          
           and
           the
           like
           ,
           which
           the
           Scriptures
           are
           full
           of
           :
           For
           how
           could
           any
           of
           these
           Blessings
           be
           given
           to
           him
           that
           was
           God
           always
           ,
           even
           from
           Eternity
           ?
           Could
           God
           sit
           at
           the
           Right
           Hand
           of
           God
           in
           any
           sense
           whatever
           ?
           These
           are
           the
           absurd
           Doctrines
           ,
           which
           make
           the
           Trinitarians
           contend
           so
           fiercely
           one
           with
           another
           ,
           and
           with
           us
           .
           God
           will
           judg
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           between
           them
           and
           us
           ,
           
             by
             that
             Man
             whom
             he
             has
             ordained
             to
             be
             Judg
             of
             the
             Dead
             and
             Living
             .
          
        
         
           But
           to
           return
           to
           the
           Consideration
           of
           those
           Texts
           that
           are
           alledg'd
           for
           the
           Son
           's
           being
           called
           God
           ;
           that
           in
           John
           1.
           1.
           
           I
           have
           spoken
           of
           already
           ,
           as
           also
           that
           
           in
           1
           Tim.
           3.
           16.
           
           That
           in
           Rom.
           9.
           5.
           is
           read
           without
           the
           word
           God
           in
           the
           Syriac
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           Writings
           of
           St.
           
             Cyprian
             ,
             Hilary
          
           and
           Chrysostom
           ;
           whereby
           it
           's
           probable
           it
           was
           not
           originally
           in
           that
           Text.
           But
           Erasmus
           acknowledges
           that
           for
           a
           good
           Reading
           ,
           which
           points
           the
           Clause
           so
           as
           to
           render
           it
           a
           Thanksgiving
           to
           the
           Father
           thus
           ,
           
             The
             God
             over
             all
             be
             blessed
             for
             ever
             ,
          
           to
           wit
           ,
           for
           his
           Benefits
           in
           raising
           up
           Christ
           of
           the
           Fathers
           ,
           &c.
           
           And
           it
           seems
           to
           have
           been
           so
           read
           by
           some
           of
           the
           Antients
           ,
           for
           they
           reckon
           it
           among
           the
           Heresies
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           
             Christ
             was
             God
             over
             all
          
           ,
           as
           
             Origen
             contr
             .
             Cels
          
           .
           and
           others
           .
           In
           1
           John
           3.
           16.
           
           The
           word
           God
           is
           not
           found
           but
           in
           very
           few
           Greek
           Copies
           ;
           and
           if
           it
           be
           read
           there
           ,
           admits
           of
           a
           good
           Sense
           ,
           without
           making
           God
           to
           die
           ,
           who
           only
           hath
           Immortality
           .
           As
           also
           doth
           that
           Text
           in
           Acts
           20.
           28.
           which
           may
           be
           render'd
           ,
           Feed
           the
           Church
           of
           God
           ,
           which
           he
           hath
           purchased
           with
           the
           Blood
           of
           his
           own
           Son
           ;
           but
           the
           truer
           Reading
           according
           to
           the
           Syriac
           ,
           the
           Armenian
           ,
           and
           most
           antient
           Greek
           Bibles
           ,
           is
           ,
           Christ
           instead
           of
           God.
           Most
           of
           the
           Antient
           Fathers
           read
           Christ
           or
           Lord.
           Those
           words
           in
           1
           John
           5.
           21.
           
           
             This
             is
             the
             true
             God
          
           ,
           which
           some
           refer
           to
           the
           Son
           ,
           are
           plainly
           to
           be
           refer'd
           to
           the
           Father
           ,
           signified
           by
           
             him
             that
             is
             true
          
           ,
           through
           his
           Son
           Jesus
           .
           This
           [
           He
           that
           is
           true
           ]
           (
           whose
           Son
           Christ
           is
           )
           
             is
             the
             true
             God.
          
           Lastly
           ,
           They
           urge
           that
           in
           John
           20.
           28.
           where
           Thomas
           being
           convinced
           by
           the
           clear
           Testimony
           of
           his
           Senses
           ,
           that
           Christ
           was
           risen
           from
           the
           Dead
           ,
           answered
           and
           said
           unto
           him
           ,
           
             My
             Lord
             and
             my
             God
          
           :
           which
           words
           ,
           whether
           they
           are
           words
           of
           Admiration
           ,
           respecting
           God
           that
           raised
           him
           from
           the
           Dead
           ,
           or
           him
           that
           was
           raised
           to
           be
           a
           Prince
           and
           Saviour
           
             (
             Acts
          
           5.
           30
           ,
           31.
           )
           a
           Lord
           and
           a
           God
           ;
           the
           term
           God
           cannot
           signify
           in
           this
           latter
           sense
           ,
           any
           other
           than
           a
           God
           or
           Christ
           ,
           made
           so
           by
           Resurrection
           .
           'T
           is
           a
           clear
           Case
           ,
           that
           the
           Evangelist
           could
           not
           intend
           by
           these
           words
           ,
           to
           teach
           us
           that
           Jesus
           was
           God
           ,
           when
           he
           tells
           in
           the
           last
           Verse
           ,
           that
           they
           and
           his
           whole
           Book
           were
           written
           ,
           
             That
             we
             might
             believe
             that
             Jesus
             is
             the
             Christ
             the
             SON
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             that
             believing
             we
             might
             have
             Life
             through
             his
             Name
             .
          
        
         
           I
           have
           insisted
           long
           upon
           this
           Point
           of
           the
           Oneness
           of
           God
           ,
           partly
           because
           it
           is
           a
           Matter
           of
           the
           highest
           Moment
           in
           Religion
           ;
           partly
           to
           shew
           ,
           that
           if
           our
           Author
           
             had
             a
             Design
          
           (
           as
           Mr.
           Edw.
           says
           he
           had
           )
           
             to
             exclude
             the
             Belies
             of
             the
             Trinity
          
           (
           or
           Threeness
           of
           God
           )
           from
           being
           a
           Point
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           ,
           it
           was
           a
           Pious
           and
           Christian
           Design
           ;
           and
           that
           Mr.
           Edw.
           has
           been
           so
           far
           from
           offering
           any
           thing
           to
           prove
           that
           Faith
           to
           be
           so
           necessary
           ,
           that
           he
           has
           not
           proved
           it
           a
           true
           Doctrine
           ;
           but
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           I
           have
           proved
           it
           to
           be
           false
           ,
           and
           highly
           dishonourable
           
           to
           the
           ever-blessed
           God
           and
           Father
           of
           Christ
           ,
           contrary
           to
           the
           clear
           and
           full
           Current
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           obscuring
           the
           true
           Glory
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           very
           injurious
           to
           the
           Peace
           and
           Hope
           of
           Christians
           .
        
         
           But
           after
           all
           ,
           whether
           our
           Author
           is
           of
           my
           mind
           in
           this
           Matter
           ;
           or
           whether
           he
           believes
           that
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           three
           coequal
           Almighty
           Persons
           is
           a
           Truth
           ,
           but
           not
           Fundamental
           ,
           I
           cannot
           determine
           :
           but
           methinks
           Mr.
           
           Edwards's
           concluding
           him
           
             all
             over
             Socinianiz'd
          
           in
           this
           Point
           ,
           is
           done
           upon
           such
           Grounds
           ,
           as
           will
           argue
           the
           Holy
           Evangelists
           to
           be
           also
           Socinians
           :
           for
           he
           says
           ,
           
             This
             Writer
             interprets
          
           the
           Son
           of
           God
           
             to
             be
             no
             more
             than
             the
             Messiah
             :
          
           and
           I
           am
           much
           perswaded
           ,
           that
           whoever
           shall
           read
           the
           Gospels
           with
           any
           attention
           ,
           will
           find
           the
           Holy
           Writers
           to
           be
           of
           the
           same
           Mind
           ;
           and
           our
           Author
           has
           fully
           prov'd
           it
           in
           his
           Book
           ,
           but
           more
           particularly
           from
           pag.
           48.
           to
           61.
           and
           pag.
           95.
           
           Yea
           the
           comparing
           the
           Evangelists
           in
           the
           relation
           of
           one
           and
           the
           same
           Story
           alone
           may
           do
           it
           ;
           for
           what
           in
           Matthew
           is
           exprest
           by
           ,
           
             Thou
             art
             the
             Messiah
             the
             Son
             of
             the
             Living
             God
             ,
          
           chap.
           16.
           16.
           the
           same
           is
           in
           Mark
           ,
           Chap.
           8.
           29.
           
           
             Thou
             art
             the
             Messiah
          
           ;
           and
           in
           Luke
           9.
           18.
           
           
             The
             Messiah
             of
             God.
          
           And
           if
           you
           compare
           1
           John
           5.
           1.
           with
           ver
           .
           4
           ,
           5.
           you
           will
           easily
           see
           the
           Christ
           or
           Messiah
           ,
           and
           the
           
             Son
             of
             God
          
           ,
           are
           Terms
           of
           the
           same
           Import
           .
           Besides
           ,
           the
           very
           word
           Messiah
           or
           Christ
           signifying
           Anointed
           ,
           and
           so
           interpreted
           in
           the
           Margin
           of
           our
           Bibles
           ,
           John
           1.
           41.
           is
           in
           the
           
             49th
             verse
          
           ,
           understood
           by
           Nathanael
           to
           be
           
             the
             Son
             of
             God
             ,
             the
             King
             of
          
           Israel
           .
           For
           the
           Kings
           of
           Israel
           in
           the
           Letter
           and
           Type
           ,
           were
           constituted
           Kings
           by
           Anointing
           ;
           hence
           God
           is
           said
           
             to
             anoint
          
           David
           
             King
             over
          
           Israel
           ,
           2
           Sam.
           12.
           7.
           and
           Psal
           .
           2.
           2.
           he
           is
           called
           
             the
             Lord
             's
             Anointed
          
           ;
           but
           in
           verse
           7.
           upon
           that
           very
           account
           ,
           the
           Lord
           said
           ,
           
             Thou
             art
             MY
             SON
             ,
             this
             Day
             have
             I
             begotten
             thee
             .
          
           Now
           as
           the
           first
           and
           second
           verses
           of
           this
           Psalm
           ,
           are
           by
           the
           Apostles
           and
           Believers
           ,
           applied
           to
           God's
           Holy
           Child
           [
           or
           Son
           ]
           Jesus
           ,
           who
           as
           David
           is
           called
           
             the
             Lord's
             Christ
          
           ,
           Acts
           4.
           25
           ,
           26
           ,
           27.
           so
           upon
           God's
           raising
           again
           of
           Jesus
           to
           be
           a
           Prince
           and
           a
           Saviour
           ,
           the
           Apostle
           Paul
           does
           expresly
           apply
           to
           him
           that
           glorious
           Proclamation
           in
           the
           7th
           verse
           ,
           saying
           ,
           
             As
             it
             is
             also
             written
             in
             the
             second
          
           Psalm
           ,
           
             Thou
             art
             MY
             SON
             ,
             THIS
             DAY
             have
             I
             BEGOTTEN
             THEE
             ,
          
           Acts
           13.
           33.
           
           And
           the
           Author
           to
           the
           Hebrews
           ,
           Chap.
           1.
           4
           ,
           5.
           speaking
           of
           the
           Son
           's
           
             being
             made
             better
             than
             the
             Angels
             ,
          
           proves
           it
           from
           this
           ,
           that
           
             God
             said
             not
             at
             any
             time
             to
             any
             of
             them
             ,
          
           as
           he
           did
           unto
           Jesus
           ,
           [
           in
           his
           Type
           
             David
             ]
             Thou
             art
             my
             Son
             ,
             this
             Day
             have
             I
             begotten
             thee
          
           ;
           and
           in
           his
           Type
           
             Solomon
             ,
             I
             will
             be
             to
             him
             a
             Father
             ,
             and
             he
             shall
             be
             to
             me
             a
             Son
             ,
          
           2
           Sam.
           7.
           14.
           
           Moreover
           we
           have
           
           seen
           before
           ,
           that
           our
           Lord
           vindicates
           to
           himself
           the
           Name
           of
           the
           
             Son
             of
             God
          
           ,
           by
           a
           Text
           out
           of
           the
           82d
           Psalm
           ,
           where
           the
           mighty
           Judges
           and
           Princes
           are
           called
           Gods
           ,
           and
           
             Sons
             of
             the
             most
             High
          
           ,
           John
           10.
           
        
         
           These
           things
           consider'd
           ,
           will
           I
           think
           justify
           our
           Author
           in
           interpreting
           the
           
             Son
             of
             God
          
           to
           be
           no
           more
           than
           
             the
             Messiah
          
           ,
           or
           will
           condemn
           the
           Divine
           Writers
           (
           if
           not
           the
           Messiah
           himself
           )
           in
           the
           same
           Crime
           .
        
         
           Another
           Evidence
           of
           our
           Author's
           being
           Socinian
           ,
           is
           (
           according
           to
           Mr.
           Edw.
           )
           that
           
             he
             expounds
          
           Joh.
           14.
           9
           ,
           &c.
           
             after
             the
             Antitrinitarian
             Mode
             ,
             whereas
             generally
             Divines
             understand
             some
             part
             of
             those
             words
             concerning
             the
             Divinity
             of
             our
             Saviour
             .
          
           He
           says
           ,
           
             —
             generally
             Divines
          
           ,
           &c.
           
           By
           this
           mark
           those
           Divines
           that
           do
           not
           so
           interpret
           ,
           must
           be
           Socinians
           :
           the
           Socinians
           owe
           Mr.
           Edw.
           their
           thanks
           ,
           for
           adding
           to
           their
           Number
           many
           Learned
           and
           able
           Divines
           ;
           but
           I
           doubt
           those
           Divines
           will
           not
           thank
           him
           for
           it
           .
           But
           Mr.
           Edw.
           has
           Courage
           enough
           to
           call
           a
           most
           Learned
           and
           right
           Reverend
           Father
           ,
           
             Wavering
             Prelate
          
           ,
           and
           to
           bring
           in
           his
           Doctrine
           about
           Fundamentals
           ,
           as
           favouring
           the
           Causes
           of
           Atheism
           ,
           if
           he
           and
           those
           other
           Divines
           agree
           not
           with
           him
           in
           their
           Sentiments
           .
        
         
           Another
           mark
           of
           Socinianism
           is
           ,
           that
           our
           Author
           
             Makes
             Christ
             and
          
           Adam
           ,
           
             to
             be
             the
             Sons
             of
             God
             —
             by
             their
             BIRTH
             ,
             as
             the
             Racovians
             generally
             do
             .
          
           That
           they
           both
           make
           Christ
           to
           be
           the
           Son
           of
           God
           by
           his
           Birth
           ,
           and
           that
           truly
           according
           to
           that
           Text
           of
           Luke
           1.
           35.
           cannot
           I
           think
           be
           denied
           by
           any
           that
           duly
           considers
           the
           Place
           ;
           but
           that
           either
           the
           one
           or
           the
           other
           make
           Adam
           ,
           who
           was
           never
           born
           to
           be
           so
           ,
           in
           like
           manner
           by
           his
           Birth
           ,
           is
           Mr.
           
           Edwards's
           Blunder
           ,
           and
           not
           their
           Assertion
           .
        
         
           I
           have
           not
           taken
           notice
           of
           the
           other
           Fundamentals
           which
           Mr.
           Edw.
           reckons
           in
           his
           System
           ,
           (
           divers
           of
           which
           are
           not
           found
           in
           Holy
           Scripture
           ,
           either
           Name
           or
           Thing
           ,
           expresly
           ,
           or
           by
           consequence
           )
           because
           he
           insists
           chiefly
           on
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           Trinity
           ;
           which
           however
           it
           is
           believed
           by
           Learned
           Men
           ,
           to
           be
           in
           some
           sense
           or
           other
           (
           they
           cannot
           agree
           in
           what
           sense
           )
           a
           Truth
           ;
           yet
           some
           of
           the
           most
           Learned
           of
           them
           do
           not
           believe
           it
           a
           Fundamental
           and
           necessary
           Truth
           ,
           particularly
           Mr.
           Limborch
           (
           than
           whom
           this
           present
           Learned
           Age
           does
           not
           afford
           a
           more
           Learned
           and
           able
           Divine
           )
           could
           not
           defend
           Christian
           Religion
           ,
           in
           his
           most
           famous
           and
           weighty
           Disputations
           against
           the
           Jews
           ,
           without
           waving
           that
           Point
           ;
           one
           of
           which
           we
           have
           in
           his
           
             Amica
             Collatio
             cum
             erudito
             Judaeo
          
           ,
           &c.
           the
           ablest
           Jew
           (
           I
           presume
           )
           that
           ever
           wrote
           in
           Defence
           of
           Judaism
           against
           Christianity
           .
           Another
           Conference
           I
           am
           informed
           we
           may
           hope
           shortly
           to
           see
           ,
           in
           his
           Reduction
           of
           an
           eminent
           Person
           ,
           
           who
           was
           upon
           the
           Point
           of
           forsaking
           the
           Christian
           Religion
           ,
           and
           embracing
           for
           it
           that
           of
           the
           Jews
           at
           Amsterdam
           ,
           when
           first
           the
           ablest
           Systemers
           had
           tried
           their
           utmost
           skill
           and
           could
           not
           effect
           it
           .
           Perhaps
           Mr.
           Edw.
           means
           him
           for
           one
           ,
           when
           he
           says
           ,
           our
           Author
           's
           
             Plausible
             Conceit
          
           found
           
             reception
             (
             if
             it
             had
             not
             its
             birth
             )
             among
             some
             Foreign
             Authors
          
           besides
           Socinians
           ,
           pag.
           104.
           
           Indeed
           he
           had
           cause
           enough
           ,
           for
           Mr.
           Limborch
           tells
           the
           Jew
           expresly
           (
           in
           the
           Book
           I
           named
           ,
           Chap.
           9.
           
           Pag.
           218.
           )
           
             Quando
             exigitur
             fides
             in
             Jesum
             Christum
             ,
             nusquam
             in
             toto
             novo
             Testamento
             exigi
             ut
             credamus
             Jesum
             esse
             ipsum
             Deum
             ,
             sed
             Jesum
             esse
             Christum
             ,
             seu
             Messiam
             olim
             promissum
             ,
             vel
             quod
             idem
             est
             ,
             esse
             Filium
             Dei
             ;
             quoniam
             appellationes
             Christi
             &
             filii
             Dei
             inter
             se
             permutantur
             .
          
           
             When
             we
             are
             requir'd
             to
             believe
             in
             Jesus
             Christ
             ,
             we
             are
             no
             where
             in
             all
             the
             New
             Testament
             requir'd
             to
             believe
             that
             Jesus
             is
             the
             very
             God
             ,
             but
             that
             Jesus
             is
             the
             Christ
             or
             the
             Messiah
             ,
             that
             was
             of
             old
             promised
             ,
             or
             which
             is
             the
             same
             ,
             that
             he
             is
             
               the
               Son
               of
               God
            
             ;
             because
             those
             Appellations
             of
             Christ
             and
             of
             
               Son
               of
               God
            
             are
             put
             one
             for
             another
             .
          
           So
           that
           in
           Company
           of
           Mr.
           Limborch
           and
           other
           eminent
           Divines
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           our
           English
           Bishops
           and
           Doctors
           ,
           our
           Author
           may
           still
           believe
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           Trinity
           to
           be
           a
           Truth
           ,
           though
           not
           
             necessary
             ,
             absolutely
             necessary
             to
             make
             one
             a
             Christian
             ,
          
           as
           Mr.
           Edwards
           contends
           .
        
         
           But
           why
           does
           he
           make
           mention
           of
           only
           the
           Right
           Reverend
           Fathers
           ,
           one
           Reverend
           Doctor
           ,
           and
           the
           foreign
           Divines
           and
           Socinians
           ,
           as
           Favourers
           of
           this
           
             Plausible
             Conceit
             ,
             of
             making
             nothing
             necessary
             and
             Fundamental
             ,
          
           but
           what
           is
           
             EVIDENTLY
             contain'd
             in
             Holy
             Scripture
             as
             such
          
           ;
           and
           so
           is
           accommodated
           to
           the
           apprehension
           of
           the
           Poor
           ,
           that
           hear
           and
           read
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           making
           them
           also
           capable
           of
           being
           saved
           ,
           though
           they
           are
           either
           ignorant
           of
           ,
           or
           do
           not
           believe
           aright
           those
           Truths
           ,
           which
           ,
           though
           deliver'd
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           are
           yet
           either
           hard
           to
           be
           understood
           ,
           or
           difficultly
           infer'd
           ,
           or
           have
           no
           mark
           of
           Fundamental
           ,
           either
           in
           themselves
           ,
           or
           in
           Divine
           Revelation
           ;
           and
           for
           those
           Reasons
           cannot
           be
           made
           evident
           to
           the
           despised
           common
           People
           ,
           which
           the
           Lord
           Jesus
           came
           to
           save
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Learned
           ?
           He
           might
           also
           have
           charg'd
           the
           sixth
           Article
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           with
           this
           
             Plausible
             Coneeit
          
           ,
           which
           has
           so
           much
           
             Evil
             and
             Mischief
             in
             it
             ,
             tending
             to
             reduce
             the
             Catholick
             Faith
             to
             nothing
             ,
          
           pag.
           122.
           
           For
           that
           Article
           saith
           thus
           ;
           
             Holy
             Scripture
             containeth
             all
             things
             necessary
             to
             Salvation
             ,
             so
             that
             whatsoever
             is
             not
             read
             therein
             ,
             nor
             may
             be
             
               proved
               thereby
            
             ,
             is
             not
             to
             be
             required
             of
             any
             Man
             ,
             that
             it
             should
             be
             believed
             as
             an
             Article
             of
             Faith.
             
          
           Observe
           here
           ,
           
           that
           every
           necessary
           Article
           must
           be
           read
           expresly
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           
             proved
             thereby
          
           ,
           and
           to
           whom
           is
           this
           Proof
           to
           be
           made
           ?
           even
           to
           the
           WEAKEST
           NODDLES
           of
           those
           that
           are
           requir'd
           to
           believe
           it
           .
           Absolutely
           there
           is
           not
           one
           Man
           or
           Woman
           of
           the
           
             venerable
             Mob
          
           ,
           that
           (
           according
           to
           Mr.
           Edw.
           )
           can
           be
           saved
           ,
           because
           they
           cannot
           possibly
           have
           the
           Article
           of
           
             the
             three
             Persons
             that
             are
             one
          
           prov'd
           to
           them
           from
           Scripture
           ;
           for
           it
           's
           evident
           the
           Learned
           ,
           even
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           cannot
           prove
           it
           to
           one
           another
           ,
           much
           less
           to
           vulgar
           Understandings
           .
           And
           Mr.
           Chillingworth
           (
           the
           ablest
           Defender
           of
           
             the
             Religion
             of
             Protestants
          
           ,
           that
           the
           Church
           ever
           had
           )
           says
           (
           and
           ingeminates
           it
           )
           
             —
             The
             BIBLE
             ,
             the
             BIBLE
             ,
             I
             say
             the
             BIBLE
             only
             is
             the
             Religion
             of
             Protestants
             ;
             whatsoever
             else
             they
             believe
             besides
             it
             ,
             and
             the
             plain
             IRREFRAGABLE
             and
             INDVBITABLE
             Consequences
             of
             it
             ,
             well
             may
             they
             hold
             it
             as
             a
             Matter
             of
             Opinion
             ,
             but
             not
             as
             a
             Matter
             of
             Faith
             or
             Religion
             ;
             neither
             can
             they
             with
             consistence
             to
             their
             own
             Grounds
             believe
             it
             themselves
             ,
             nor
             require
             the
             Belief
             of
             it
             from
             others
             ,
             without
             most
             High
             and
             most
             Schismatical
             Presumption
             ,
          
           Ch.
           6.
           
           N.
           56.
           
           Will
           Mr.
           Edwards
           say
           ,
           His
           Fundamentals
           are
           such
           irrefragable
           and
           indubitable
           Truths
           ,
           about
           which
           there
           are
           among
           Protestants
           such
           hot
           and
           irreconcileable
           Contentions
           ?
           Again
           ,
           that
           most
           judicious
           Author
           lays
           this
           as
           the
           unmoveable
           Foundation
           of
           his
           whole
           Discourse
           against
           the
           Papists
           ,
           viz.
           
             That
             all
             things
             necessary
             to
             Salvation
             are
          
           evidently
           
             contain'd
             in
             Scripture
          
           ;
           as
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           does
           ,
           (
           see
           
             Pref.
             N.
          
           30.
           )
           And
           he
           shows
           in
           the
           following
           Paragraphs
           ,
           to
           N.
           38.
           
           That
           all
           the
           Jesuits
           Arguments
           against
           Protestants
           are
           confuted
           by
           it
           .
           But
           that
           's
           not
           all
           ,
           the
           same
           Author
           after
           Dr.
           Potter
           affirms
           ,
           
             That
             the
             Apostles
             Creed
             contains
             all
             those
             points
             of
             Belief
             ,
             which
             were
             by
             God's
             Command
             of
             Necessity
             to
             be
             preached
             to
             all
             ,
             and
             believed
             by
             all
             :
          
           And
           yet
           he
           says
           in
           the
           same
           Paragraph
           ,
           
             That
             all
             Points
             in
             the
             Creed
             are
             not
             thus
             necessary
          
           ;
           See
           Chap.
           4.
           
           N.
           23.
           
           Now
           what
           more
           or
           less
           hath
           our
           Author
           asserted
           in
           his
           whole
           Book
           ?
           For
           I
           have
           shewed
           out
           of
           him
           ,
           and
           it
           's
           evident
           to
           the
           Impartial
           ;
           that
           his
           Proposition
           ,
           that
           
             Jesus
             is
             the
             Messiah
             or
             Christ
             ,
          
           does
           comprehend
           or
           clearly
           imply
           all
           the
           Articles
           of
           necessary
           Christian
           Faith
           in
           the
           Creed
           .
           For
           ,
           though
           it
           was
           sufficient
           to
           constitute
           a
           Believer
           during
           the
           Life
           of
           Christ
           ,
           to
           believe
           him
           to
           be
           the
           Christ
           ,
           although
           they
           had
           no
           explicite
           Belief
           of
           his
           Death
           and
           Resurrection
           to
           come
           ;
           yet
           afterwards
           those
           Articles
           
             were
             necessary
             ,
             being
             undoubted
             Evidences
             of
             his
             being
             the
             Messiah
             ,
          
           as
           our
           Author
           pag.
           31.
           
           And
           therefore
           Mr.
           Edw.
           is
           very
           injurious
           to
           him
           ,
           in
           representing
           his
           Proposition
           ,
           as
           if
           it
           were
           only
           the
           believing
           the
           Man
           called
           Jesus
           
           to
           be
           
             the
             Messiah
          
           ,
           an
           
             Hebrew
             word
          
           ,
           that
           signifies
           in
           English
           Anointed
           ,
           without
           understanding
           what
           is
           meant
           by
           that
           Term
           ,
           see
           pag.
           121.
           
        
         
           But
           why
           should
           I
           expect
           that
           Mr.
           Edw.
           should
           have
           any
           regard
           to
           Mr.
           
           Chillingworth's
           Judgment
           ,
           and
           all
           those
           ,
           the
           Vice
           Chancellour
           ,
           the
           Divinity-professors
           ,
           and
           others
           that
           licensed
           and
           approved
           his
           Book
           ,
           when
           he
           has
           none
           for
           the
           Pious
           and
           Learned
           Bishop
           
             Jer.
             Taylor
          
           ,
           and
           those
           others
           ?
           Nay
           ,
           when
           those
           numerous
           plain
           Testimonies
           ,
           which
           our
           Author
           has
           quoted
           out
           of
           the
           Holy
           Scriptures
           themselves
           ,
           do
           but
           provoke
           his
           Opposition
           and
           Contempt
           ;
           though
           the
           Divine
           Writers
           add
           these
           Sanctions
           to
           the
           Belief
           of
           our
           Author's
           Proposition
           ,
           or
           of
           those
           Words
           and
           Sentences
           that
           are
           of
           the
           same
           Import
           ,
           and
           comprehended
           in
           it
           ,
           viz.
           
             He
             that
             believeth
             shall
             be
             saved
             ,
          
           or
           
             shall
             never
             thirst
          
           ,
           or
           
             shall
             have
             eternal
             Life
          
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           :
           On
           the
           contrary
           ,
           
             He
             that
             believeth
             not
             shall
             be
             condemned
             ,
          
           or
           
             shall
             die
             in
             his
             Sin
          
           ,
           or
           perish
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           .
           However
           I
           doubt
           not
           but
           my
           impartial
           Reader
           will
           consider
           both
           what
           my
           Author
           ,
           and
           what
           my self
           have
           said
           in
           this
           Point
           .
        
         
           Having
           thus
           made
           it
           appear
           ,
           that
           the
           reducing
           of
           the
           Fundamentals
           of
           Christian
           Faith
           to
           a
           few
           ,
           or
           even
           to
           one
           plain
           Article
           deliver'd
           in
           Scripture
           expresly
           ,
           and
           often
           repeated
           there
           ,
           and
           in
           divers
           equipollent
           Phrases
           ,
           easy
           to
           be
           understood
           by
           the
           POOR
           ,
           and
           strongly
           enforcing
           the
           Obedience
           of
           the
           Messiah
           ,
           (
           as
           is
           our
           Author's
           Proposition
           )
           is
           far
           from
           having
           any
           tendency
           to
           Atheism
           or
           Deism
           ;
           I
           shall
           now
           retort
           this
           charge
           upon
           Mr.
           Edw.
           and
           show
           that
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           the
           multiplying
           of
           speculative
           and
           mysterious
           Articles
           as
           necessary
           ,
           which
           are
           neither
           contain'd
           in
           Scripture
           expresly
           ,
           nor
           drawn
           thence
           by
           any
           clear
           and
           evident
           Consequence
           ,
           but
           are
           hard
           to
           be
           understood
           ,
           especially
           by
           the
           
             common
             People
          
           ,
           having
           no
           rational
           Tendency
           to
           promote
           a
           good
           Life
           ,
           but
           directly
           to
           the
           high
           Dishonour
           of
           the
           one
           God
           ,
           the
           God
           and
           Father
           of
           our
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           ,
           and
           the
           subversion
           of
           the
           Hope
           and
           Peace
           of
           Christians
           ,
           as
           I
           have
           manifested
           in
           one
           and
           the
           chief
           of
           Mr.
           
           Edw's
           Fundamentals
           ,
           and
           of
           other
           Systemers
           :
           This
           I
           say
           has
           been
           ,
           and
           is
           one
           great
           Cause
           ,
           or
           chief
           occasion
           of
           that
           Atheism
           and
           Deism
           that
           is
           in
           the
           World.
           
        
         
           1.
           
           Mr.
           Edw.
           himself
           tells
           us
           ,
           That
           
             Undue
             Apprehensions
             of
             a
             Deity
             join'd
             with
             superstition
             ,
             are
             the
             high
             road
             to
             Atheism
             ,
             pag.
             34.
             —
             Therefore
             imposing
             of
             false
             Doctrines
             ,
             concerning
             the
             Attributes
             of
             God
             ,
             is
             very
             pernicious
             ,
             for
             they
             are
             destructive
             of
             his
             very
             Being
             and
             Nature
             .
          
           But
           I
           have
           shew'd
           that
           the
           imposing
           of
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           
             three
             Almighty
             Persons
          
           ,
           or
           personal
           Gods
           ,
           is
           a
           false
           Doctrine
           ,
           and
           destroys
           one
           of
           the
           chief
           Attributes
           
           of
           God
           ,
           therefore
           is
           (
           according
           to
           Mr.
           
             Edw.
             )
             destructive
             of
             his
             very
             Being
             and
             Nature
             ,
          
           pag.
           35.
           
           Again
           ,
           another
           of
           Mr.
           
           Edw's
           Fundamentals
           is
           ,
           
             That
             full
             Satisfaction
             is
             made
             by
             the
             Death
             of
             Christ
             to
             the
             Divine
             Justice
          
           ;
           which
           Doctrine
           does
           clearly
           destroy
           the
           Attribute
           of
           the
           
             Divine
             Mercy
          
           :
           for
           every
           one
           may
           readily
           perceive
           ,
           that
           full
           satisfaction
           to
           Justice
           by
           Punishment
           ,
           cannot
           consist
           with
           Pardoning
           Mercy
           ;
           when
           a
           Judg
           punishes
           according
           to
           full
           Justice
           ,
           he
           does
           not
           at
           all
           forgive
           or
           shew
           Mercy
           .
           But
           that
           they
           may
           not
           be
           seen
           to
           destroy
           altogether
           the
           Mercy
           of
           God
           ,
           they
           make
           him
           to
           inflict
           that
           Punishment
           upon
           himself
           in
           a
           Human
           Body
           and
           Soul.
           Will
           not
           these
           
             false
             conceptions
             of
             the
             Deity
             expunge
             at
             last
             the
             Belief
             of
             the
             true
             one
             ?
          
           Mr.
           Edw.
           says
           false
           ones
           will.
           
        
         
           
             2ly
             .
             Another
             occasion
          
           ,
           Mr.
           Edw.
           says
           ,
           
             Atheists
             take
             from
             our
             Divisions
             ,
             Broils
             and
             Animosities
             ,
             from
             the
             many
             Parties
             and
             Squadrons
             of
             Sects
             that
             are
             in
             the
             World
             ,
             to
             bid
             defiance
             to
             all
             Religion
             .
          
           And
           is
           it
           not
           manifest
           that
           those
           Divisions
           ,
           &c.
           arise
           chiefly
           from
           those
           Doctrines
           that
           are
           Mr.
           
           Edw's
           Fundamentals
           ?
           I
           have
           intimated
           already
           ,
           there
           are
           many
           Divisions
           of
           Trinitarians
           ,
           and
           how
           hotly
           they
           contend
           with
           one
           another
           ,
           and
           upon
           Unitarian
           Principles
           .
           And
           whoever
           shall
           but
           peep
           into
           Ecclesiastical
           History
           ,
           may
           soon
           see
           that
           their
           Trinity
           has
           been
           such
           a
           bone
           of
           Contention
           as
           has
           exercis'd
           the
           Wits
           and
           Pens
           of
           Church-men
           these
           1400
           Years
           ;
           for
           so
           long
           it
           is
           ,
           and
           longer
           since
           Christians
           departed
           from
           the
           simplicity
           of
           the
           Faith
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           preached
           by
           our
           Lord
           Christ
           and
           his
           Apostles
           .
           And
           now
           when
           the
           Unitarians
           and
           our
           Author
           would
           bring
           Christians
           back
           to
           that
           simplicity
           ,
           in
           which
           the
           
             Gospel
             was
             preached
             to
             the
             Poor
             ,
          
           and
           they
           understood
           it
           and
           receiv'd
           it
           ;
           this
           pious
           Design
           is
           ridicul'd
           ,
           and
           the
           Salvation
           of
           the
           Bulk
           of
           Mankind
           is
           set
           at
           nought
           ;
           Mr.
           Edw.
           may
           well
           conclude
           that
           this
           conduct
           gives
           occasion
           to
           Atheistical
           Persons
           .
        
         
           3ly
           .
           He
           says
           ,
           pag.
           63.
           
           
             When
             Persons
             observe
             that
             the
             very
             Divinity
             of
             our
             Blessed
             Lord
             and
             Saviour
             is
             toss'd
             and
             torn
             by
             rude
             Pens
             —
             what
             can
             they
             think
             of
             the
             other
             great
             Verities
             of
             Christianity
             ?
          
           But
           Mr.
           Edw.
           mistakes
           ,
           it
           's
           not
           the
           opposition
           that
           is
           made
           to
           the
           supreme
           Divinity
           of
           the
           Son
           of
           God
           ,
           but
           the
           asserting
           it
           ,
           that
           inclines
           Men
           to
           disbelieve
           Christianity
           .
           Had
           many
           that
           are
           now
           Deists
           ,
           been
           sooner
           acquainted
           with
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           one
           God
           even
           the
           Father
           ,
           and
           of
           one
           Man
           the
           Mediator
           between
           God
           and
           Men
           ,
           it
           's
           very
           probable
           they
           would
           have
           continued
           Christians
           ;
           for
           there
           are
           some
           that
           of
           Deists
           have
           been
           reconcil'd
           to
           the
           Christian
           Faith
           by
           the
           Unitarian
           Books
           ,
           and
           have
           profess'd
           much
           Satisfaction
           therein
           .
           But
           I
           must
           confess
           it
           's
           a
           very
           handsome
           rebuke
           
           Mr.
           Edw.
           gives
           to
           his
           own
           Party
           ,
           when
           he
           blames
           the
           
             Antitrinitarians
             ,
             That
             they
             have
             provok'd
             some
             of
             them
             to
             an
             undecent
             sort
             of
             Language
             concerning
             these
             Holy
             Mysteries
             :
             so
             that
             some
             of
             these
             latter
             have
             hurt
             the
             Cause
             ,
             it
             may
             be
             almost
             as
             much
             by
             their
             Defending
             it
             ,
             as
             the
             others
             have
             by
             their
             Opposing
             it
             .
          
           I
           must
           lay
           up
           this
           for
           a
           curious
           Figure
           in
           Rhetorick
           :
           He
           cuts
           some
           dignified
           Persons
           through
           the
           Unitarians
           sides
           ;
           and
           so
           whoever
           is
           in
           Fault
           ,
           they
           must
           bear
           the
           Blame
           .
           But
           if
           the
           Unitarians
           have
           Truth
           ,
           and
           
             necessary
             Truth
          
           on
           their
           side
           ,
           then
           they
           are
           not
           faulty
           ,
           even
           as
           Christ
           and
           the
           Apostles
           were
           not
           faulty
           ,
           though
           they
           preach'd
           the
           Gospel
           which
           set
           
             the
             Son
             against
             the
             Father
          
           ,
           &c.
           and
           produc'd
           not
           
             Peace
             but
             a
             Sword
          
           :
           And
           the
           Reformers
           were
           not
           faulty
           in
           vigorously
           opposing
           the
           Popish
           Faith
           ,
           even
           unto
           Blood.
           But
           whoever
           will
           attentively
           consider
           it
           ,
           may
           see
           it
           's
           the
           Nature
           of
           the
           Trinitarian
           Doctrine
           ,
           that
           it
           cannot
           be
           defended
           without
           being
           exposed
           ,
           so
           that
           when
           the
           most
           Learned
           of
           the
           Party
           labour
           to
           defend
           it
           ,
           they
           necessarily
           run
           into
           one
           Absurdity
           or
           other
           ;
           which
           being
           perceived
           by
           the
           next
           Learned
           Man
           ,
           he
           exposes
           him
           :
           and
           a
           Third
           sees
           the
           weakness
           of
           each
           of
           them
           :
           and
           a
           Fourth
           Man
           spies
           Flaws
           in
           every
           of
           them
           .
           This
           produces
           various
           Hypotheses
           ,
           and
           makes
           them
           a
           Scorn
           to
           Atheists
           ,
           and
           enclines
           others
           to
           Deism
           .
           For
           the
           obscuring
           of
           a
           Contradiction
           will
           not
           take
           it
           away
           .
           Contradictions
           are
           stubborn
           Things
           ,
           and
           will
           never
           yield
           to
           any
           Reconciliation
           whatsoever
           .
           God
           will
           never
           be
           more
           than
           One
           real
           Person
           ,
           and
           One
           Person
           will
           never
           be
           Three
           real
           Persons
           .
           And
           if
           Trinitarians
           will
           (
           as
           they
           do
           )
           make
           that
           a
           Fundamental
           of
           Religion
           ,
           which
           contradicts
           the
           best
           Reasonings
           of
           Mankind
           ,
           whereby
           they
           prove
           the
           Existence
           of
           God
           and
           his
           Unity
           ,
           
             viz.
             That
             he
             is
             that
             Being
             which
             IS
             necessarily
             and
             by
             himself
             ,
             and
             so
             consider'd
             not
             in
             Kind
             ,
             but
             in
             Act
             ;
             wherefore
             if
             you
             suppose
             more
             Gods
             ,
             then
             you
             will
             necessarily
             find
             nothing
             in
             each
             of
             them
             why
             any
             of
             them
             should
             be
             .
          
           Grotius
           de
           verit
           .
           Chr.
           Relig.
           in
           initio
           .
           And
           if
           the
           Trinitarians
           cannot
           explain
           their
           Doctrine
           to
           one
           another
           ,
           so
           as
           to
           clear
           it
           from
           introducing
           more
           Gods
           than
           one
           ,
           no
           marvel
           then
           that
           loose
           Men
           (
           who
           yet
           reason
           as
           the
           incomparable
           Grotius
           ,
           and
           other
           Learned
           Men
           do
           )
           do
           thence
           deny
           there
           is
           
             any
             God
             at
             all
          
           .
           The
           Learned
           allow
           there
           is
           not
           necessarily
           any
           God
           ,
           if
           you
           suppose
           more
           than
           one
           :
           The
           Trinitarians
           say
           he
           is
           more
           than
           one
           ;
           Men
           who
           think
           it
           their
           Interest
           there
           should
           be
           no
           God
           ,
           conclude
           thence
           ,
           it
           's
           equal
           in
           reason
           to
           believe
           there
           is
           no
           God
           as
           three
           .
           And
           Mr.
           Norris
           joins
           them
           with
           his
           Suffrage
           in
           the
           Point
           ;
           
             I
             think
             it
          
           (
           saith
           he
           )
           
             a
             greater
             Absurdity
             ,
             that
             there
             should
             be
             more
             
             Gods
             than
             one
             ,
             than
             that
             there
             should
             be
             none
             at
             all
             .
             Reason
             and
             Relig.
          
           p.
           59.
           
        
         
           And
           if
           some
           Men
           take
           occasion
           from
           such
           reasonings
           as
           these
           to
           turn
           Atheists
           it
           may
           easily
           be
           conceiv'd
           ,
           that
           Men
           that
           are
           more
           Sober
           ,
           and
           find
           strong
           and
           irresistible
           Reasons
           for
           the
           Existence
           and
           Unity
           of
           God
           ,
           but
           see
           clearly
           that
           Christians
           worship
           Three
           ,
           and
           besides
           that
           ,
           hold
           divers
           other
           absurd
           Doctrines
           for
           Fundamentals
           ;
           such
           Men
           (
           I
           say
           )
           must
           of
           necessity
           forsake
           Christianity
           ;
           and
           turn
           Deists
           .
           Thus
           it
           's
           most
           manifest
           ,
           that
           the
           Unitarians
           take
           the
           direct
           Course
           to
           prevent
           Atheism
           and
           Deism
           ,
           by
           letting
           the
           World
           see
           ,
           that
           those
           Fundamentals
           are
           no
           Doctrines
           of
           Christ
           ;
           but
           that
           the
           necessary
           Faith
           of
           Christ
           is
           a
           plain
           and
           short
           Doctrine
           ,
           easy
           to
           be
           understood
           by
           the
           Poor
           ,
           and
           clearly
           exprest
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           most
           reasonable
           in
           it self
           ,
           and
           most
           agreeable
           to
           the
           Unity
           and
           Goodness
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           other
           the
           Divine
           Attributes
           .
        
         
           I
           shall
           now
           in
           the
           4th
           Place
           shew
           how
           the
           Obscurity
           ,
           Numerousness
           ,
           and
           Difficulty
           of
           understanding
           Systematical
           Fundamentals
           promotes
           Deism
           ,
           and
           subverts
           the
           Christian
           Faith
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           a
           notorious
           Instance
           .
           It
           's
           matter
           of
           Fact
           ,
           and
           evident
           to
           the
           whole
           World
           ,
           that
           the
           Quakers
           are
           a
           very
           numerous
           People
           ,
           and
           form'd
           into
           a
           compact
           Body
           ,
           in
           which
           they
           exercise
           strict
           Discipline
           ,
           as
           to
           what
           concerns
           their
           Party
           .
           They
           will
           not
           own
           any
           other
           Denomination
           of
           Christians
           or
           others
           for
           
             the
             People
             of
             God
          
           ,
           but
           themselves
           only
           ;
           all
           others
           are
           of
           the
           World.
           They
           utterly
           disown
           the
           Scriptures
           as
           the
           Rule
           of
           Faith
           ;
           they
           decry
           it
           as
           
             Letter
             ,
             Carnal
             ,
             Dust
          
           ,
           &c.
           
           Their
           Principle
           is
           ,
           that
           their
           Religion
           is
           taught
           them
           by
           Inspiration
           or
           Revelation
           of
           a
           Light
           within
           ,
           whereof
           every
           Man
           has
           a
           Measure
           ,
           but
           they
           only
           hearken
           to
           it
           ,
           and
           obey
           it
           ;
           They
           give
           the
           Scripture
           the
           place
           of
           bearing
           witness
           to
           their
           inward
           Light
           ,
           as
           the
           Woman
           of
           Samaria
           to
           Christ
           .
           They
           turn
           the
           Gospel
           into
           an
           Allegory
           ,
           and
           consequently
           make
           use
           of
           the
           Words
           and
           Phrases
           of
           the
           Scripture
           ;
           as
           that
           
             Christ
             is
             the
             Word
             ,
             the
             Light
             ,
             the
             Teacher
             ,
             the
             Word
             in
             the
             Mouth
             and
             Heart
             ;
             that
             Christ
             died
             ,
             and
             rose
             ,
             and
             ascended
             ,
             and
             is
             in
             Heaven
             ,
          
           and
           the
           like
           ;
           but
           all
           in
           a
           mystical
           or
           spiritual
           Sense
           ,
           as
           they
           call
           it
           .
           By
           all
           which
           things
           ,
           and
           indeed
           by
           the
           whole
           Tenour
           of
           their
           Books
           ,
           Preachings
           and
           Professions
           ,
           they
           appear
           to
           be
           Deists
           and
           not
           Christians
           .
           
             George
             Fox's
          
           Book
           ;
           titled
           ,
           
             The
             great
             Mystery
          
           ,
           will
           give
           full
           satisfaction
           in
           this
           Point
           .
           And
           they
           have
           all
           along
           been
           charg'd
           by
           other
           Denominations
           to
           be
           
             no
             Christians
          
           ,
           and
           that
           
             Quakerism
             is
             no
             Christianity
          
           .
           However
           retaining
           still
           the
           Words
           wherein
           the
           Christian
           Faith
           is
           exprest
           ,
           though
           in
           an
           equivocal
           Sense
           ;
           and
           having
           some
           among
           them
           (
           as
           
           
             George
             Keith
          
           and
           others
           )
           who
           still
           believ'd
           the
           Gospel
           in
           the
           proper
           Sense
           ,
           they
           made
           a
           shift
           to
           be
           reputed
           generally
           Christians
           .
           And
           indeed
           this
           Conduct
           of
           theirs
           deceived
           even
           many
           of
           their
           own
           Party
           ,
           which
           is
           manifest
           in
           
             William
             Rogers
          
           of
           
             Bristol
             ,
             Francis
             Bugg
             ,
             Thomas
             Crispe
             ,
             John
             Pennyman
             ,
          
           and
           especially
           in
           
             George
             Keith
          
           ;
           who
           having
           been
           a
           Quaker
           about
           30
           Years
           ,
           yet
           did
           not
           till
           within
           these
           three
           or
           four
           Years
           discover
           the
           Infidelity
           of
           the
           Primitive
           and
           true
           Quakers
           ,
           who
           are
           deservedly
           call'd
           Foxonians
           ,
           because
           holding
           the
           Principles
           of
           
             George
             Fox
          
           their
           Author
           .
           But
           
             G.
             Keith
          
           living
           in
           Pensylvania
           ,
           (
           where
           the
           Quakers
           were
           Governours
           ,
           and
           might
           be
           free
           to
           open
           their
           Minds
           plainly
           )
           did
           then
           perceive
           they
           did
           not
           believe
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           
             the
             Apostles
             Creed
          
           ,
           the
           summary
           of
           Christian
           Faith
           ,
           which
           made
           him
           preach
           it
           and
           contend
           for
           it
           more
           earnestly
           .
           This
           provok'd
           the
           Foxonians
           so
           far
           ,
           that
           it
           came
           to
           a
           Breach
           and
           Separation
           ,
           and
           at
           length
           to
           Impeachment
           ,
           Fines
           and
           Imprisonment
           .
           Then
           
             G.
             Keich
          
           returns
           to
           London
           ,
           where
           the
           matters
           in
           Contest
           between
           him
           and
           the
           Foxonians
           of
           Pensylvania
           ,
           was
           taken
           into
           Consideration
           ,
           and
           had
           divers
           Hearings
           by
           the
           general
           Annual
           Meeting
           of
           Quakers
           ,
           1694
           ,
           who
           gave
           a
           kind
           of
           a
           Judgment
           in
           the
           Case
           ,
           but
           no
           clearer
           Determination
           of
           the
           principal
           Matter
           concerning
           
             Christ
             within
          
           ,
           and
           
             Christ
             without
          
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           Articles
           of
           Christian
           Faith
           ,
           than
           their
           former
           equivocal
           Expressions
           .
           The
           next
           Year
           1695
           ,
           at
           the
           like
           General
           Meeting
           ,
           they
           absolutely
           excommunicate
           
             G.
             Keith
          
           ,
           and
           make
           this
           the
           Ground
           of
           it
           ,
           viz.
           that
           he
           had
           not
           given
           due
           observance
           to
           their
           former
           Order
           ,
           and
           was
           troublesome
           to
           them
           in
           his
           Declarations
           ,
           &c.
           
           For
           he
           had
           still
           continued
           to
           preach
           frequently
           Christianity
           as
           before
           .
           See
           a
           late
           Book
           ,
           titled
           ,
           
             Gross
             Error
             and
             Hypocrisy
             detected
          
           ,
           &c.
           
           The
           Reader
           I
           hope
           will
           excuse
           it
           ,
           that
           I
           have
           detain'd
           him
           in
           this
           long
           Story
           ,
           because
           it
           was
           necessary
           for
           me
           first
           ,
           to
           prove
           the
           Quakers
           are
           Deists
           ,
           and
           then
           to
           proceed
           and
           shew
           ,
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           That
           the
           Obscurity
           ,
           Ambiguity
           ,
           and
           Numerousness
           of
           Systematical
           Fundamentals
           ,
           is
           that
           which
           is
           the
           chief
           Cause
           of
           their
           being
           so
           :
           For
           not
           being
           able
           to
           satisfy
           themselves
           in
           understanding
           and
           determining
           the
           Truth
           and
           Certainty
           of
           those
           Fundamentals
           ,
           for
           the
           proof
           of
           which
           Scriptures
           were
           alledg'd
           ;
           but
           those
           of
           so
           doubtful
           a
           sense
           ,
           and
           variously
           interpreted
           by
           opposite
           Parties
           ,
           that
           they
           readily
           embrac'd
           George
           Fox's
           only
           Fundamental
           of
           
             the
             Light
             in
             every
             Man
          
           ;
           that
           is
           in
           reality
           the
           
             natural
             Light
          
           ,
           whereby
           we
           distinguish
           between
           Good
           and
           Evil
           in
           ordinary
           ;
           whence
           it
           is
           that
           (
           as
           saith
           the
           Apostle
           
             Paul
             )
             We
          
           (
           as
           
             the
             Gentiles
             )
             are
             a
             Law
             to
             our selves
             ,
             and
             our
             Thoughts
             accuse
             
             or
             excuse
             ,
          
           Rom.
           2.
           14
           ,
           15.
           
           Which
           is
           in
           Truth
           an
           excellent
           Doctrine
           ,
           and
           has
           great
           certainty
           and
           clearness
           in
           it
           .
           But
           
             G.
             Fox
          
           preaches
           this
           ,
           not
           as
           a
           natural
           Principle
           ,
           but
           1.
           
           As
           a
           supernatural
           Revelation
           :
           And
           2.
           
           Christ
           being
           call'd
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           
             the
             Light
             that
             lighteth
             every
             Man
             ,
          
           and
           the
           
             Light
             of
             the
             World
          
           ,
           because
           be
           brought
           the
           Light
           of
           the
           Gospel
           into
           the
           World
           ;
           
             George
             Fox
          
           applies
           these
           Terms
           and
           Phrases
           ,
           and
           almost
           every
           thing
           that
           is
           spoken
           of
           Christ
           ,
           to
           
             the
             Light
             in
             every
             Man
          
           ,
           and
           so
           turns
           the
           plain
           sense
           of
           the
           Gospel
           into
           a
           Parabolical
           or
           Mystical
           Sense
           ,
           and
           makes
           the
           Christian
           Scripture
           to
           speak
           nothing
           but
           Deism
           .
           3.
           
           
             G.
             Fox
          
           adds
           certain
           Observances
           of
           giving
           no
           respect
           in
           Word
           or
           Gesture
           ,
           or
           Title
           ,
           nor
           speaking
           as
           others
           speak
           ,
           nor
           saluting
           as
           others
           salute
           ,
           nor
           paying
           Tithes
           ,
           nor
           using
           the
           Sword
           ,
           nor
           swearing
           in
           common
           Form
           ,
           &c.
           and
           all
           as
           inspired
           Dictates
           ,
           that
           so
           the
           
             only
             People
             of
             God
          
           might
           be
           separated
           from
           all
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           they
           serve
           admirably
           for
           that
           purpose
           .
           Now
           if
           you
           consider
           the
           experimented
           certainty
           of
           their
           Principle
           ,
           
             the
             Light
             within
          
           ,
           that
           accuses
           and
           excuses
           ,
           and
           their
           Perswasion
           that
           it
           was
           
             a
             Divine
             Inspiration
          
           ,
           which
           also
           was
           confirm'd
           to
           them
           by
           their
           giving
           obedience
           to
           those
           Ceremonies
           which
           were
           so
           contrary
           and
           offensive
           to
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           expos'd
           them
           to
           much
           Suffering
           ;
           [
           All
           suffering
           for
           Religion
           ,
           especially
           for
           a
           clear
           Revelation
           from
           God
           ,
           confirming
           the
           Sufferers
           in
           their
           Perswasion
           :
           ]
           You
           may
           clearly
           perceive
           it
           was
           the
           Uncertainty
           ,
           Obscurity
           ,
           and
           Intricacy
           of
           their
           former
           Principles
           ,
           which
           induced
           them
           to
           embrace
           G.
           Fox's
           Religion
           ,
           which
           is
           all
           dictated
           by
           the
           Spirit
           of
           God
           in
           every
           Man.
           Whence
           it
           is
           ,
           they
           upbraid
           other
           Professors
           with
           Doubtfulness
           and
           Fallibility
           ;
           and
           every
           one
           of
           them
           counts
           himself
           
             as
             infallible
          
           as
           the
           Papists
           do
           the
           
             Pope
             .
             How
             can
             ye
             but
             delude
             People
          
           (
           says
           
             G.
             Fox
          
           )
           that
           
             are
             not
             infallible
          
           ?
           Myst
           .
           p.
           33.
           
        
         
           Lastly
           ,
           The
           Obscurity
           ,
           Uncertainty
           ,
           and
           Multiplicity
           of
           Fundamentals
           ,
           is
           that
           which
           has
           given
           an
           Argument
           to
           Popish
           Priests
           and
           Jesuits
           ,
           wherewith
           to
           seduce
           Protestants
           to
           Popery
           .
           For
           evidence
           of
           this
           ,
           I
           shall
           mind
           you
           of
           a
           Paper
           written
           by
           a
           Jesuit
           ,
           in
           the
           late
           King
           
           James's
           time
           ,
           titled
           ,
           
             An
             Address
             presented
             to
             the
             Reverend
             and
             Learned
             Ministers
             of
             the
             Church
             of
          
           England
           ,
           &c.
           
           The
           purport
           of
           which
           is
           ,
           
             That
             all
             things
             necessary
             to
             Salvation
             are
             not
             clearly
             contained
             in
             Scripture
             ,
          
           as
           Protestants
           hold
           ;
           because
           the
           
             Belief
             of
             a
             Trinity
             ,
             one
             God
             and
             three
             Persons
             ,
             is
             necessary
             to
             Salvation
             ,
             but
             not
             clearly
             contain'd
             in
             Scripture
             .
          
           Then
           he
           goes
           about
           to
           shew
           ,
           that
           the
           Scriptures
           commonly
           alledged
           for
           the
           Trinity
           ,
           admit
           of
           another
           sense
           .
           He
           goes
           the
           same
           way
           in
           
           the
           Article
           of
           the
           Incarnation
           .
           Thus
           supposing
           these
           Articles
           to
           be
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           (
           as
           Protestants
           hold
           )
           and
           not
           clearly
           contain'd
           in
           Scripture
           ;
           it
           follows
           that
           the
           undoubted
           Certainty
           of
           them
           must
           be
           found
           in
           the
           Determinations
           of
           the
           Church
           ;
           and
           then
           that
           Church
           which
           professes
           Infallibility
           is
           the
           only
           Refuge
           ;
           and
           
             I
             believe
             as
             the
             Church
             believes
             ,
          
           supplies
           all
           other
           Articles
           .
           No
           Certainty
           any
           where
           else
           ;
           but
           Certainty
           must
           be
           had
           in
           these
           Points
           .
           Here
           the
           making
           of
           those
           Articles
           Fundamental
           ,
           which
           cannot
           be
           clearly
           prov'd
           from
           Scripture
           ,
           subverts
           the
           Sufficiency
           and
           Clearness
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           sends
           poor
           Protestants
           to
           Rome
           ,
           for
           the
           Certainty
           and
           Infallibility
           of
           the
           Christian
           Faith.
           
        
         
           They
           did
           so
           glory
           in
           the
           strength
           of
           this
           Argument
           ,
           that
           the
           Jesuit-Preacher
           in
           Limestreet
           ,
           read
           their
           Paper
           ,
           and
           made
           the
           same
           Challenge
           in
           his
           Pulpit
           ,
           where
           he
           had
           a
           great
           number
           of
           Protestants
           that
           went
           out
           of
           Curiosity
           to
           hear
           him
           .
        
         
           Having
           thus
           (
           as
           I
           presume
           )
           vindicated
           our
           Author
           ,
           and
           shewn
           the
           Mischiefs
           of
           Mr.
           
           Edw's
           Fundamentals
           ,
           I
           may
           now
           take
           my
           leave
           of
           my
           Reader
           .
           Only
           I
           am
           first
           willing
           to
           let
           Mr.
           Edw.
           know
           ,
           that
           I
           have
           not
           undertaken
           this
           Defence
           out
           of
           any
           ambitious
           Humour
           of
           contending
           with
           so
           Learned
           a
           Man
           as
           he
           is
           ;
           nor
           would
           I
           have
           made
           opposition
           to
           him
           in
           any
           other
           Point
           of
           Learning
           or
           Divinity
           :
           but
           Fundamentals
           every
           Man
           is
           concern'd
           in
           ,
           and
           ought
           to
           know
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           assured
           that
           he
           holds
           them
           all
           .
           
             Eternal
             Salvation
          
           is
           a
           greater
           thing
           by
           far
           than
           any
           Empire
           ,
           and
           will
           therefore
           justify
           and
           exact
           our
           utmost
           Care
           and
           Endeavour
           for
           the
           obtaining
           it
           .
           So
           that
           in
           these
           Considerations
           of
           Mr.
           
           Edw's
           Exceptions
           —
           I
           have
           done
           my
           Duty
           to
           my self
           ;
           and
           that
           I
           have
           publish'd
           them
           ,
           I
           am
           perswaded
           I
           have
           therein
           done
           a
           great
           Charity
           to
           my
           Neighbours
           ,
           
             the
             Poor
             and
             Bulk
             of
             Mankind
             ,
          
           for
           whose
           Salvation
           (
           I
           hope
           )
           I
           should
           not
           think
           it
           too
           much
           to
           lay
           down
           my
           Life
           ,
           however
           Mr.
           Edw.
           speaks
           so
           scoffingly
           of
           them
           ,
           even
           where
           their
           eternal
           Happiness
           or
           Misery
           is
           deeply
           concern'd
           .
        
         
           THE
           END
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
           ERRATA
           .
        
         
           Pag.
           9.
           
           Col.
           2
           l.
           0.
           for
           a
           read
           or
           .
           P.
           11.
           col
           .
           2.
           l.
           14.
           r.
           
             perfect
             Man.
          
           P.
           14.
           col
           .
           2.
           l.
           8.
           f.
           mine
           r.
           nine
           ;
           l.
           14.
           r.
           
             palliate
             the.