Dialogue, you might have Satisfy'd your felf. For there I give one General Answer to thofe Texts which speak of the Human Infirmities of Chrift, as His being Paffible, Improvable, Rewardable, &c. Whereby Improveable I meant the Text you Mention, and that when He fpake those words that Day might not have been Reveal'd to Him. For He knew not all things at once. It is faid Luk. 2. 52. Jefus encreased in Wisdom and Stature, &c. All which fhew His State as Man, but have no Relation to His Divine Nature, which Communicated to His Human as He thought fit. me. (30.) You Conclude thus to "I affure you I am acted "herein by no Paffion, except "it be a Paffionate Defire of "feeing our H. Chriftian Re¿ ligion refcu'd from the Bur "den of Contradictions. Sir, if you think the Socinians Concern'd in Christianity, or Chriftianity with them; And have fo Paffionate a Defire to fee it Refcu'd from the Burden of Contradictions, you wou'd do well to Confider Sect. 11. of my Preface to thefe Dialogues, for there you will find more Flagrant and Irreconciable Contradictions among the Socini ans and among the Unitarians too, than any they Charge upon our Doctrin. And then Chufe which you think most Free from Contradictions. (31) But I have one word more. If you were Acted herein by no Paffion or Prejudice, what needed that fly Infinuation you give, p. 4. of my being Author of that Book call'd the Regale, and coming in with that Mobb-Objection of Endeavouring to Reconcile the Gallican and English Churches? I wish I cou'd Reconcile all the Churches in the World. But this was going out of your way to Reach a Blow at me. This had no Relation to the Difpute in which you and I were Engag'd. It was Hall'd in perfectly by Head and Shoulders. But you have told me I muft not lay it upon Paffion or Prejudice. And fo I forgive you. (32.) And now, Sir, I have, gone over your whole Vindication. I think I have left Nothing in it which I have not Anfwer'd. Because you Complain'd I had not Anfwer'd your Remarks fully enough. I have Us'd many more Words than I thought Neceflary to Intelligent Readers. But I was Refoly'd to make things Plain, that that you wight not Miftake my Meaning (if Poffible) another time. And I fhall be very willing to to hear from you again, how this Pleafes you. I have Divided Mine into Sections, that I might not Ramble, but keep Clofe to one thing at once. If you did the like, it wou'd fave you many Repetitions. THE THE CONTENTS I. HIS Biddle. Complements. 3. He mistakes me Quite through., 4. He makes me fuftify Contra- 5. A Blind-Marr do's not think Sight 7. The Blind Man who thought Sight 8. This apply'd to the word Perfons 9. Why we ufe that Word, and the 10. He Mis-States the Queftion. 11. Sight cannot be Explain'd to a Man Born Blind. Yet he Believes what he do's not Understand Ap- ply'd to the Doctrin of the Holy 12. He Charges upon me what I ne 13. The Hereticks the Caufe of add- IS. Things are otherwife Prefent to 16. We may Discover Contradictions Measuring His Nature with Ours. Which the Vindicator Grants, Yet Infers Contradictions no other way. knowing the Nature of things Turn'd 19. Why the Socinians owning the Texts which peak of the H. Trini. This Exemplify'd in the Quakers. 20. His Argument from the Pagans makes against him. And the Soci- nians fhew'd to be Worse Idolaters than the Pagans. And guilty of 21. His pretty Philofophy in making the Understanding and the Memo- It will come up to my Argument if it be but Thought ther are three As likewife, That the Soul is All in What is a Contradiction to Soul is 22 He falfly Charges the Chriftian- Scheme with holding three Perfons 23. He fuppofes the Perfons of God to be Like the Perfons of Men in a Proper Senfe, with all their Va-- 24. The Texts which Reveal the H. Trinity are not Figurative, yet not to be taken in a Strict and Proper The Vindicator gives Sufpicion of his 25. The Socinians deny the Unitarians to be Chriftians. And the Uni- tarians think the Socinians to be Grofs Idolaters. Yet the Vindi- cator makes Both to be the fame. 26. Some Sport with him about his making the Light to be a Part of the Sun. It won'd have Exhausted This he was Forc'd to, to Avoid the 27. His Single Inftance of Elohim being taken in the Singular. His Simile of Princes taking the Plural 28. The Vindicator Impofes New. Quarrels with the Church for it. 29. Answer as to that Text, of that 30. The Socinians more Guilty of Contradictions. tham the Ortho- 31. The Vindicator fays he is not Acted by Paffion. Yet he went out of his Way to do me a Prejudice. 32. I have Answer'd more Fully than was Needful, except to the Vindi- cator, to make things Plain to him. Who may let me here from him a- FINIS. |