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The foundation of God standeth sure, or, A defence of those fundamental and so…
The foundation of God standeth sure, or, A defence of those fundamental and so generally believed doctrines of the Trinity of persons in the unity of the divine essence, of the satisfaction of Christ, the second person of the real and glorious Trinity, of the justification of the ungodly by the imputed righteousness of Christ, against the cavils of W.P.J. a Quaker in his pamphlet entitled The sandy foundation shaken &c. : wherein his and the Quakers hideous blasphemies, Socinian and damnably-heretical opinions are discovered and refuted ... / by Thomas Vincent.The foundation of God standeth sure, or, A defence of those fundamental and so generally believed doctrines of the Trinity of persons in the unity of the divine essence, of the satisfaction of Christ, the second person of the real and glorious Trinity, of the justification of the ungodly by the imputed righteousness of Christ, against the cavils of W.P.J. a Quaker in his pamphlet entituled The sandy foundation shaken &c. : wherein his and the Quakers hideous blasphemies, Socinian and damnably-heretical opinions are discovered and refuted ... / by Thomas Vincent.
London : s.n., 1668
Chapter 6: Ananswer to part of the 10, the 12, 13, 14, and 15 pages of W. P's Pamphlet, which he i…
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W. P. Thus was it conceived in ignorance brought forth and maintained by cruelty, &c. What a strange composition is here of impudence and folly! thus boldly and blasphemously to assert this great fundamental truth to be conceived in ignorance and maintained by cruelty, and yet in the next breath he owns persecution to be as well on the Arians side, as the other, and so by his own confession the Arian Doctrine was maintained by cruelty, and with how great cruelty and bitterness, those which look into the Histories of those times may easily see. To say nothing of W. P's. so proud censuring so eminent a champion of Jesus ⟨p. 50⟩Christ as Athanasius was, when he shall produce the grounds of his suspecting the Creed, commonly called The Athanasian Creed, to be the Results of Popish School-men, it will be time enough to answer that Clause.
W. P. Thus was it conceived in ignorance brought forth and maintained by cruelty, &c. What a strange composition is here of impudence and folly! thus boldly and blasphemously to assert this great fundamental truth to be conceived in ignorance and maintained by cruelty, and yet in the next breath he owns persecution to be as well on the Arians side, as the other, and so by his own confession the Arian Doctrine was maintained by cruelty, and with how great cruelty and bitternesse, those which look into the Histories of those times may easily see. To say nothing of W. P's. so proud censuring so eminent a champion of Jesus ⟨p. 50⟩Christ as Athanasius was, when he shall produce the grounds of his suspecting the Creed, commonly called The Athanasian Creed, to be the Results of Popish School-men, it will be time enough to answer that Clause.
Next W. P. cautioneth the Reader to take heed of embracing the Determinations of prejudiced Councils, &c. and yet giveth no reason why the Reader should be prejudiced against them, except the belying of the Scripture testimony be a reason, which I suppose was the ground of their Determinations in this point; and no further are any Councils to be heeded than they do agree in their Results with the Scriptures. I hope the Reader will rather take heed of embracing such damnable Doctrine as this peremptory Dictator would impose upon the understanding of the weak; and indeed weak they must needs be, and blind too, and either renounce the Scriptures, or their own senses, that will suffer their assent to these great Scripture-truths, to be in the least enfeebled by any thing that this raw Disputer allegeth for the maintaining of this Blasphemy and Heresy, or oppugning our received, and never to be shaken Foundations.