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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38042	Socinianism unmask'd a discourse shewing the unreasonableness of a late writer's opinion concerning the necessity of only one article of Christian faith, and of his other assertions in his late book, entituled, The reasonableness of Christianity as deliver'd in the Scriptures, and in his vindication of it : with a brief reply to another (professed) Socinian writer / by John Edwards ...	Edwards, John, 1637-1716.	1696 (1696)	Wing E214; ESTC R3296	60,720	171

be in the Infallible Writings viz. God as well as Man The Word was God John 1. 1. The Word was made Flesh v. 14. And this Word is the Only begotten of the Father in the same Verse God was manifest in the Flesh 1. Tim. 3. 16. He is called not only God in these places and in several others but he is stil'd the True God 1 John 5. 20. and the Great God Tit. 2. 13. The Lord of all Acts 10. 36. God blessed for ever Rom. 9. 5. Hence we must conclude that there is a necessity of believing the Messias to be the very God of the same Essence with the Father and the Holy Ghost for these are the two other Persons included in the Deity So that hence it will follow that it is requisite to believe the Holy Trinity i. e. that there are in the Godhead Three Persons Father Son and Holy Ghost which is the Doctrin that our Saviour himself taught and he taught it that it might be believed Mat. 28. 19. where the Celebration of Baptism which is a solemn part of Divine Worship is commanded to be in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost who are One God 1 John 5. 7. These Three are One one Essence or Being as the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 imports Those words of the Apostle are observable 1 Cor. 1. 13. Were ye baptised in the name of Paul As much as to say Baptism is in the name of God and not of a Man Therefore when it is said Go and Baptize in the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost it is included that these Three are God i. e. Three Persons of one and the same Deity Thus it is manifest that the believing of Iesus's being the Messias or Anointed is not sufficient to make a Man a Christian Believer but he must further believe these Propositions or Articles viz. that the Son of God was made flesh i. e. assumed our Human Nature that Christ is True God that He with the Father and the Spirit are One God for these are not only expressed in the Gospels and Epistles out of both which we are to gather the Fundamental Articles of Faith and consequently are to be assented to by all Christians but the very Nature of the thing it self dictates that we ought to have a firm belief of these Truths for otherwise when a Man professes his belief in the Messias he is yet ignorant of the Person he pretends to believe in He doth not know whether he believes in a God or in a Man or to which of these he is beholding for the Good he looks for by the Messias's coming Now Sir you with your Reasonableness of Christianity what do you think of this Is it not reasonable that a Christian should as the Apostle speaks of himself know whom he hath believed 2 Tim. 1. 12. Nay is it not indispensably necessary that he should know whether it be a Divine or Human or Angelical Power that he is obliged to that so he may accordingly proportion his Affections and Service for what ever the late Set of Socinians hold there must be a difference made between the Homage which is paid to a Creature such as they declare Christ to be and that which is due only to the Creator I will refer the Reader to the Incomparable Bishop Pearson on the Second Article of the Creed where he shews the Necessity of our believing Christ to be the Eternal Son of God and God himself 1. For the directing and confirming of our Faith concerning the Redemption of Mankind 2. For the right informing of us about that Worship and Honour which are due to him 3. For giving us a right apprehension and consequently a due value of the Infinite Love of God the Father in sending his Only-begotten Son into the World to die for us Thus this Judicious Writer But our Nameless Author would persuade us that there is no necessity of believing any such thing Then in the next place we are to have a right conception concerning our Recovery and Restauration by this Messias who is God-Man And here those several Scriptures will furnish us with Articles As by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation even so by the righteonsness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous Rom. 5. 18 19. He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself Heb. 9. 26. Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many Heb. 9. 28. Christ hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust 1 Pet. 3. 18. He gave himself a Ransom for all men 1 Tim. 2. 6. Ye are redeemed with the precious blood of Christ 1 Pet. 1. 18 19. And to it is prefix'd ye know to let us understand that this Article is to be known and assented to We are bought with a price 1 Cor. 6. 20. and 7. 23. We are reconciled unto God by the death of his Son Rom. 5. 10. By him now we have received the Atonement v. 11. By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified Heb. 10. 14. It behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day Luk. 24. 46. Christ must needs have suffered and risen again from the dead Acts 17. 3. He was taken up into heaven and sat on the right hand of God Mark 16. 19. These and the like places afford us such Fundamental and Necessary Doctrins as these are that by and for the Meritorious Righteousness and Obedience of Christ the Second Adam we are accounted Righteous and Obedient in the sight of God That Christ was a Sacrifice for us and suffered in our stead That he satisfied Divine Justice by paying an Infinite Price for us That by vertue of that Payment all the Debts i. e. all the Sins of Believers are perfectly absolved That hereby the anger of the Incensed Deity is pacified and that we are entirely Reconciled to him That we have an assurance of all this by Christ's rising from the dead and ascending triumphantly into Heaven These are Principles of the Oracles of God Heb. 5. 12. These are part of the Form of sound words 2 Tim. 1. 13. which are indispensable Ingredients in the Christian Faith which you may know by this that if a man be obliged to the belief of the Messias's Coming it is undeniably requisite that he should know what the Messias came to do for him and that he should firmly yield assent to it This I think no Man of Reason will deny and then it will follow that these Articles which I have last mentioned are the Necessary and Unexceptionable object or matter of the Faith of a Christian Man And here likewise it were easie to shew that Adoption Iustification Pardon of Sins c. which are Privileges and Benefits bestowed