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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41489	The blasphemous Socinian heresie disproved and confuted wherein the doctrinal and controversial parts of those points are handled, and the adversaries scripture and school-arguments answered : with animadversions upon a late book called, Christianity not mysterious, humbly dedicated to both houses of parliament / by J. Gailhard ...	Gailhard, J. (Jean)	1697 (1697)	Wing G117; ESTC R12826	295,019	394

Honour is immediately concerned for certainly we are come to the last days and perillous times foretold by the Apostle 2 Tim. 3.1 2. when amidst other Sins Men shall be Blasphemers 2 Kings 19.3 And I think I may be allowed in King Hezekiah's Words to say this is a day of trouble and blasphemy which I hope shall by your lawful Authority be rebuked as now we do most humbly sue for and I make bold once to say what a Prophet said twice upon the account of neglecting God's House Hagg. 1.5 7. Thus saith the Lord God of Hosts consider your ways like Mary keep and ponder these things in your Hearts for what she heard and you hear relate to the same Person and are the Concerns of the Son of God Out of those Words ariseth in me the Consideration of what our Saviour saith Matt. 12.42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this nation and shall condemn it When those that want Light go farther in a good way than they that have it greater these shall meet with a harder usage Luke 12.47 for that servant which knew his lords will and prepared not himself neither did according to his will shall be beaten with many stripes 'T is very sad and afflicting to think how some Heathens who in some things minded the Glory of God may at the last day rise up in the Judgment against some Christians for too much neglecting it One I name Nebuchadnezzar Ezech. 7.24 whom God by his Prophet calls one of the worst of the heathen yet that Man having seen how God had preserved in the fiery Furnace the Three young Men who had refused to fall before and worship his golden Image how much was he wrought upon He blessed the Most High God but stop'd not there for he made use of his Authority therefore saith he I make a decree that every people nation and language which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach Meshach and Abednego shall be cut in pieces and their houses be made a dunghil because there is no other god that can deliver after this sort this after the sight of a Miracle And is not the whole Life of Christ the God of Christians a continual working of Miracles But as to Belshazzar Nebuchadnezzar's Son let me take notice of Daniel's words to him which declare the cause of his Ruin and of the Loss of his Kingdom and Life Dan. 5.23 And the God in whose hand thy life is and whose are all thy ways hast thou not glorified But I must not omit to take notice of some Canons and Ecclesiastical Constitutions agreed upon in the Convocations of both Provinces Canterbury and York in 1640. and by Charles the First for himself Heirs and lawful Successors by virtue of his Prerogative Royal and Supream Authority in Ecclesiastical Causes according to the Form of an Act of Parliament in the 25th Year of the Reign of Henry VIII straightly enjoyned and commanded by the said Authority and his Letters Patents dated at Westminster the 30th day of June in the Sixteenth Year of his Reign to be diligently observed and executed I shall mention only the Fourth Canon against Socinianism which is to my purpose to shew how at that time they took care to provide against it thus it beginneth Whereas much Mischief is already done in the Church of God by the spreading of the damnable and cursed Heresie of Socinianism as being a complication of many antient Heresies condemned by the Four first general Councils and contrary unto the Articles of Religion now established in the Church of England And whereas it is too apparent that the said wicked and blasphemous Errors are unhappily dilated by the frequent divulgation and dispersion of dangerous Books written in favour and fartherance of the same therefore to provide against this it is decreed that no Stationer Printer or Importer of the said Books or any other Person whatsoever shall print buy sell or disperse any Book broaching or maintaining of the said abominable Doctrine upon pain of Excommunication ipso facto to be thereupon incurred and that no Preacher shall presume to vent any such Doctrine in any Sermon under pain of Excommunication for the first Offence and Deprivation for the second and that no Student in either of the Universities of this Land nor any Person in Holy Orders excepting Graduates in Divinity or such as have Episcopal or Archdeaconal Jurisdiction or Doctors of Law in holy Orders that is they who are either able to refute them or at least in no great danger of being thereby seduced shall be suffered to have or read any such Socinian Book or Discourses under pain if the Offender live in the University that he shall be punished according to the strictest Statutes provided there against the publishing reading or maintaining of false Doctrine or if be live in the City or Country abroad of a Suspension for the first Offence Excommunication for the second and Deprivation for the third unless he will absolutely and in terminis abjure the same And if any Lay-man shall be seduced into this Opinion and be convicted of it he shall be excommunicated and not absolved but upon due Repentance and Abjuration and that before the Metropolitan or his own Bishop at least And we likewise enjoyn that such Books if they be found in any prohibited hand shall be immediately burned and that there be a diligent search made by the appointment of the Ordinary after all such Books in what Hands soever And that all who now have them except before excepted be strictly commanded to bring in the said Books in the Universities to the Vice-Chancellours and out of the Universities to the Bishops who shall return them and shall cause the rest to be burned And we farther enjoyn that diligent enquiry be made after all such that shall maintain and defend the aforesaid Socinianism and where any such shall be detected that they be complained of to the several Bishops respectively who are required to repress them from any such Propagation of the aforesaid wicked and detestable Opinions Here is the Judgment of the Church against Socinianism called a damnable and cursed Heresie and contrary to the Articles of Religion now established in the Church of England which hitherto hath taken care how to suppress it and 't is a Precedent for these Times to follow for our Zeal should be no less than theirs was now when the Danger is greater and the Poyson more spread thus worse should be prevented The Skill of a Physician who doth prevent an Evil and Sickness is more commendable than his who cures it when broken out however in this last Case Remedies to do 't ought to be used and never despair of a Cure as long as there is sign of Life let the Distemper be never so far gone or by unskilful Doctors be counted uncurable great Distempers are reserved to be cured by the Skill