The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God…

What the thoughts of other Divines are about these Socinian Doctrines I know not: for my own part I never blessed God for help in any Controversy ⟨image 10⟩as in this: for the Popish Controversy, that is, for that part which is merely Popish, wherein they stand alone by themselves, I ever thought it to be stuffed with such pitiful dunghill questions (as Doctor Whitaker called them) that they were not worthy for a rational learned man to spend his time and thoughts about them: What should allure a man to embrace that Religion I could not tell, until I did read the Mystery of Jesuitism, then I saw there was something to persuade a man given up to his lusts, to give up himself to that Religion. I know there are Questions among them which deserve the thoughts of the most able, learned Christian, but in those they do not stand alone: Others who renounce Popery in a strict sense, do yet embrace those Doctrines, and have fetched their strength from the Jesuits School. But the Socinians are as high in those points as any other. As this is not a place, so neither have I time or intention to meddle with that Controversy, only two or three things I will say concerning it, knowing how some are troubled about it.

What the thoughts of other Divines are about these Socinian Doctrines I know not: for my own part I never blessed God for help in any Controversie ⟨image 10⟩as in this: for the Popish Controversie, that is, for that part which is meerly Popish, wherein they stand alone by themselves, I ever thought it to be stuffed with such pitiful dunghill questions (as Doctor Whitaker called them) that they were not worthy for a rational learned man to spend his time and thoughts about them: What should allure a man to embrace that Religion I could not tell, until I did read the Mystery of Jesuitisme, then I saw there was something to perswade a man given up to his lusts, to give up himself to that Religion. I know there are Questions among them which deserve the thoughts of the most able, learned Christian, but in those they do not stand alone: Others who renounce Popery in a strict sense, do yet embrace those Doctrines, and have fetched their strength from the Jesuites School. But the Socinians are as high in those points as any other. As this is not a place, so neither have I time or intention to meddle with that Controversie, only two or three things I will say concerning it, knowing how some are troubled about it.