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did not , & having in a little writing which I call Final is Concordiet , so explained the ends of Christ's death , & amongst others as an expiatorie
sacrifice of suffering obedience , yt I beleive your selfe would hardly mislike it . And pray , sir , if Dr . Still ; y * . selfe and others may mend your opinion , why may not Socinians inend their ' s ? For . indeed . 1 will not denie
but that although y Socinians doe acknowledge . y death of X * as the slaying of the sacrifice to be offered in heaven , and the desert of sinne from thence to he gathered , yet that they doe speake too lankly & jejunely as to the immediate ends of X * 8
diemg : but they say not so much amisse as they who have ( indeed , heretofore more than now ) been always harpeing upon a rigorous legal satisfaction to vindicative justice to y utmost farthing , & some said in Hell itselfe ; insomuch as many of their hearers , of themselves have tooke it for a gravelling question , how that doctrine could
consist with God ' s free grace , or y necessity of man ' s Holynesse ; & some have justified Socinus his chardge , runneing into downeright antinomianisme and libertinism ^ .
One word or two more I must crave . I a £ p sorry to reade what you write so triply of y ignorance of y people , & take special ! notice of those passages in y Apol . p . 23 & 54 . But for ray part I could never hope , to see things goe very vv ^ ll with y ipeanuer sort of y ° people , who cannot spare much time , whilest their teachers
stumble at y threshold & stifle their Catechumens at y beginning with odde and contradictory notions about y tiinitie , instead of teacbeing y one God y , Ffather , one Lord Jesus Xfc & t > oe Holy Spirit . They are talkeingof essence , persons , eonsubstantial , relative properties , communication of idioms , w is a figure or 6 th trope in rhetorique y l destroys all y « figures in
logJSlWj NV are quirkes not so fitt xbr ^ parish churches as young sophisters , whom yet at another time their til tours will teach y disparates cannot be predicated one of another \ , as to ^ ay- ' fi man is an Angell , or an eagle is a Hoti , and can flie as an eagle but not as a Lion .
Thus they cjui teach their people ( as I have 6 ft heard y " , ) how y * infinite God W 11 * spanncs y heavejW , \ im $
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once himselfe but a spcpjne loin ? , ho + y God may be finite aftd inortall . & man may be infinite & immortal : but what absurdities will not downe with men when they have been brought up in false ptulos pphie , as a trade upon w when they have spent their
moneys ; they must goe oa & subscribe to all & every t ; hing , pr live in poverty & cfegrace , , \ v * b few can endure . It were well if ministers would keepe themselves in chatechizeing y people to scriptuFe expressions , upon w 9 account I must needs commend D .
Worthington ' s . Catechi&me . This I have found by experience _ yfc people doe rather out of good manners , & by a kind of implicit fayth , say as their teachers and other Divines say , than understand what they say , . & are confus'd in their , notions & obstructed in their procresse .
How can they teach y people tritheisme in more proper words than many divines doe , who , not contented with scripture-doxologies , say , Now to God y Ffather , God y Sonne 8 f God y Holy Ghost , &c . 1 heard one minister , who in catechizeing said , y Ffather was Qody y Smne was
God ( a god , he might have . said *) and y Holy Ghost was God ,, and then askd a in aid in church , how mqny Gods there were F & she said three * And ^ truly , what are three Divine persons so collaterally mentioned but three
Gods in other words of the same signification ? I have a booke of Zancby ' s ( whona yet JEpiacopius quotes , w Basil , as not wel approving y collateralitie ) de tribus Eh kirn : what ^ s that *
in English but of y ^ three Gods ? Much aU < yu ^; y same time , y e minis * ter himselfe made an unhappy slip , viz . to whom with thee fy Gody Holy Ghost , three Gods and one person , Spc . Much about ye matter , for jio doubt .
* A . god he might have said , speaking of y Sonne ; so appellatively , a » Joh , i . 1 , & apart , as a person of em \ neut honour aud power , next unto God ye Ffather : see TertuJl . ad versus Praxean
c . 1 . 3 , Si panter uommandi fijerint Pater et filius , Deum patrem appeljem et Jesum Christum Dominun * nomipem : soluni au « tern Christum potero Deum dicere , sicut ifieni A post olus , ex qu ^ bus Xtue , qui est ( inqi ^ it ) Deu § super . pwni ^ b ^ nediptus in aevum opane . t J 5 & JTertiiJ ^ # 9919 thialw better , sufjcr tnwpes : jsee QixH . in \ oc . t
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20 An Original Letter , of Remonstrance to Richard Bam $ e $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1823, page 70, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1781/page/6/
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