The Protestants Plea for a Socinian: Justifying His Doctrine from Being Opposite to Scripture or Church Authority; and Him from Being Guilty of Heresie, or Schism — John Shaqi
The Protestants Plea for a Socinian: Justifying His Doctrine from Being Opposite to Scripture or Church Authority; and Him from Being Guilty of Heresie, or SchismR. H.
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The Protestants Plea for a Socinian: Justifying His Doctrine from Being Opposite to Scripture or Church Authority; and Him from Being Guilty of Heresie, or Schism
R. H.
Socinianism -- Early works to 1800
1. _That the Socinian Churches have not forsaken the whole Church
Catholick, or the external Communion of it: but only left one part
of it that was corrupted; and reformed another part,_ (i.e.)
_themselves. Or, that he, and the Socinian Churches, being a part
of the Catholick, they have not separated from the whole, because
not from themselves._ §. 28.
2. _That their separation being for an error unjustly imposed upon
them as a condition of Communion, the Schism is not theirs, who
made the separation; but theirs who caused it._ §. 29.
_Besides that, whatever the truth of things be; yet so long as they
are required by any Church to profess they believe, what they do
not, their separation cannot be said causless, and so Schism._
§. 32.
3. _That though he and his party had forsaken the external Communion
of all other Churches, yet not the internal; in which they remain
still united to them: both in that internal Communion of_ Charity,
_in not condemning all other Churches as non-Catholick; and in that
of_ Faith, _in all Essentials and Fundamentals, and in all such
points, wherein the Unity of the Church Catholick consists._ §. 30.
4. _That the doctrin of_ Consubstantiality _for which they departed,
is denyed by them to be any Fundamental; nor can the Churches, from
which they depart for it, be a competent Judge against them, that
it is so._ §. 34.
5. _That, though they are separaters from the Roman, yet not from the
Reformed Churches, which Churches leave men to the liberty of their
own judgment; nor require any internal assent to their doctrins (in
which thing these blame the tyranny of the Roman_ Church) _save
only conditional, if any be convinced of the truth thereof; or, not
convinced of the contrary._ §. 35.
6. _In fine, that for enjoying and continuing in the Protestant_
Communion _he maketh as full a profession of conformity to her
Doctrins as_ Mr. Chillingworth _hath done in several places of his
book, which yet was accepted as sufficient._ §. 41.
§. 28.
5. _Prot._ I have yet one thing more, about which to question you. If
you will not acknowledge your opinion _Heresie_ in opposing the
publick judgment, and definition of the Catholick Church in that most
reverend Council of _Nice_, upon pretence that you have not had a
convincing Proposal, that this Definition was therein made according
to _God's Word_, or the _Scriptures_; yet, how will you clear your
self, or your Socinian Congregations of _Schism_? avoidable upon no
plea of adherence to Scripture, if it shall appear, that you have for
this opinion deserted the Communion of the _Catholick Church_; out of
which Church is no Salvation.
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