Socinianism

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Order of Contents

Against the Socinian System
.       Articles  2
.       Books  10
.       Latin  5

Specific Doctrines
.       Fundamentals  2
.       Divine Justice  1
.       Eternity & Sonship of Christ  2
.       Priesthood of Christ  1
.       Satisfaction  3
.       Justification  4
.       Moral Law & Covenant Theology  1
.       General Resurrection  1
.       Ministry  1
.       Civil Toleration  1

Historical Theology  2
Bibliography  1

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Articles

1600’s

Chyenell, Francis – Truth Triumphing Over Error & Heresy, or a Relation of a Publc Disputation at Oxford…  1646, between Master Cheynell, a member of the [Westminster] Assembly & Master Erbury, the Seeker & Socinian. Wherein the Socinian Tenets Maintained by Master Erbury are Laid Down & Master Cheynell’s Clear Confutation of Them, to the Joy & Satisfaction of Many Hundreds there Present, is Declared…  (London, 1647)  7 pp.

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1700’s

De Moor, Bernard – Continuous Commentary

ch. 1

14. Universal Doubt?

17. Socinians Deny Natural Theology

20. Objections of Pelagians & Socinians

ch. 3

6. Knowledge as a Necessary Act of Religion

ch. 4

24. Against Socinian Unitarianism
24. Divine Simplicity Defended against Socinians & Vorstius
27. God’s Immensity & Omnipresence Defended against the Socinians
32. Divine Eternity without Succession (against Socinians), pt. 123
36. The Socinian Denial of God’s Knowledge of Free & Contingent Futures

Theological Disputation on Vindicatory Righteousness as Essential to God

Socinian Position
Against the Socinians, pt. 123

ch. 5

8. Proper Generation of the Son (John 5:26)
9. Eternal Generation Defended against Socinianism
18. New Testament Testimonies for the Doctrine of the Trinity, pt. 3  1 Jn. 5:7
19. Socinians among the Anti-Trinitarians
19-20. Answering the Anti-Trinitarian Objections of the Socinians, pt. 1, 2
21. Deity of Christ Demonstrated from Divine Titles, pt. 1

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Books

1600’s

Cheynell, Francis – The Rise, Growth & Danger of Socinianism…  (London, 1643)  75 pp.  ToC

Leigh, Edward – A System or Body of Divinity…  wherein the Fundamentals & Main Grounds of Religion are Opened, the Contrary Errors Refuted, most of the Controversies Between us, the Papists, Arminians & Socinians Discussed & Handled…  (London, 1654)  873 pp.  ToC

Owen, John – Vindiciae Evangelicae, or the Mystery of the Gospel Vindicated, & Socinianism Examined: in the Consideration & Confutation of a Catechism called, ‘A Scripture Catechism’, written by J. Biddle, and the catechism of Valentinus Smalcius, Commonly Called, ‘The Racovian Catechism’…  (Oxford, 1655)  790 pp.  no ToC

Lawson, George – An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, wherein the Text is Cleared, [the Book] Theopolitica [by Lawson, is] Improved, the Socinian Comment[ary] Examined  (London, 1662)  364 pp.  ToC

Edwards, John

Some Thoughts Concerning the Several Causes & Occasions of Atheism, Especially in the Present Age with some Brief Reflections on Socinianism, & on a Late Book Entitled, The Reasonableness of Christianity as Delivered in the Scriptures  (London, 1695)  126 pp.

The Socinian Creed, or, A Brief Account of the Professed Tenets & Doctrines of the Foreign & English Socinians, wherein is showed the tendency of them to irreligion & atheism, with proper antidotes against them  (London, 1697)  264 pp.  ToC

This Edwards (1637-1716) was a significant orthodox, reformed, Anglican theologian of his day.

Edwards, Jonathan – A Preservative Against Socinianism: showing the Direct & Plain Opposition Between it & the Religion Revealed by God in the Holy Scriptures  Parts 1-3 of 4  (Oxford, 1698)  no ToC  with appended: ‘Remarks upon a Book Lately Published by Dr. William Sherlock…  entitled, A Modest Examination of the Oxford Decree, etc.’ (respecting the rising Cartesian Tritheism of three consciousnesses in God) and ‘The Exposition Given by my Lord Bishop of Sarum of the Second Article of our Religion Examined: of the Word or Son of God, which was made Very Man’

This Jonathan Edwards (1629–1712) was not the New England divine, but was an Anglican academic, clergyman, theologian and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford.

Gailhard, Jean – The Epistle & Preface to the Book Against the Blasphemous Socinian Heresy Vindicated, & the Charge Therein Against Socinianism made Good, in Answer to Two Letters  (London, 1698)  90 pp.  ToC

Gailhard was a gentleman.

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1700’s

Buerdsell, James – Discourses & Essays on Several Subjects Relating Chiefly to the Controversies of these Times, Especially with the Socinians, Deists, Enthusiasts & Sceptics  (1700, Oxford)  223 pp.  ToC

Buerdsell’s (c.1669-1700) theological tradition is uncategorized by PRDL.

The Scottish Associate Synod (Seceders) – A Warning Against Socinianism…  in which Particular Notice is Taken of a Late Publication Entitled, A Practical Essay upon the Death of Jesus Christ, by Dr. M’Gill, one of the Ministers of Ayr…  (Falkirk: 1788)  145 pp.  no ToC

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Latin

Article

1600’s

Voet, Gisbert – 26. ‘Prescriptions & General Antidotes for Christianity Against the Socinians’  in Select Theological Disputations  (Utrecht: Waesberg, 1648), vol. 1, pp. 434-442

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Books

1600’s

Hoornbeek, Johannes – Socinianism Confuted, vol. 12  (Amsterdam, 1650/62)  ToC 1, 2

Hoornbeek goes through the whole system of Socinianism; hence this work is virtually a polemical systematic theology.

Table of Contents
vol. 1

Bk. 1

1. Whether in sacred Scripture there is truly any disagreement and contradiction  1
2. Whether the authentic text of sacred Scripture in many places has been changed and corrupted  28
3. Whether some of the sacred books of the O.T. have perished  48
4. Whether under the New Testament, the reading of the O.T. is not necessary and of great moment  56

Bk. 2

10. Whether the eternity of God has temporal parts and succession, through what is before and that which follows  262
11. Whether God, his presence, is omnipresent  285
12. Whether God has all knowledge [scientiam], even of future contingencies  319
13. Whether attributes, or properties in God are accidents or qualities really different from God and really different between themselves  367
14. Whether the three persons in God, Father, Son & Holy Spirit, are of a single essence  386
15. Whether in God are affections and various commotions of the will  454
16. Whether predestination is the eternal decree of God
by which He has willed to save men in Christ, to be believers and also in faith to be perseverers, but those in general only, not in a singular individual?…  462

Bk. 3

17. Whether the angels and the material of the world were created before the creation of this world in six days  539
18. Whether the first man was not created righteous and holy by God  539
19. Whether not all men are born with original sin  553
20. Whether death is not the penalty of sin  583
21. Whether man by nature is able to furnish any good  611

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vol. 2

Bk. 1

1. Whether Christ is true God, the eternal Son of God  1
2. Whether, had not man sinned, nevertheless Christ would have come  253
3. Whether Christ, during the time of the forty days of fasting, was caught up to heaven, so being instructed of doctrine in the same place he may show it forth to men  258

Bk. 2

4. Whether the promise of eternal life, of the remission of sins, of the Holy Spirit and of salvation in Christ was also made and offered to the fathers in the Old Testament, believed by them, and hence they were saved in the same way as we are saved  268
5. Whether Christ brought other and new precepts, or a more perfect law to live by than was the ancient moral law  373

Bk. 3

6. Whether Christ by sufferings and his death took up and sustained in our place the penalties of our sins and those of divine justice, in Himself, having wholly made satisfaction by having expiated sins, and has acquired true redemption and salvation for us  484
7. Whether God justifies men according to [their] obedience of Christ’s commandments, or rather according to the imputed righteousness of Christ Himself  671

Maresius, Samuel – The Hydra of Socinianism Expunged, vol. 1 (God & Attributes, Works of), 2 (Christian Religion, Precepts of Christ), 3 (Groningen, 1651)  vol. 3 has no ToC, though it does have indices.

This is a full reprinting of John Volkelius’s book, Of True Religion, with Maresius’s criticisms in footnotes.  The chapter titles are those of Volkelius, a Socinian.

Table of Contents
vol. 1

Bk. 1, on God & his Attributes

1. An Addition to the Tract on God  1
2. God is Demonstrated to be out of the Universal Nature of Things  3
3. God is Demonstrated to be out of the Working of this World  8
4. That God is, is understood, being continued to be demonstrated by the working of this world  21
5. That God is, is displayed from things proper to man  49
6. That God is, is displayed from things which are, or are worked, before nature [i.e. metaphysics]  59
7. Names of God  73
8. Name ‘El’  75
9. Name ‘Eloah’  77
10. Name ‘Adon’ or ‘Adonai’  84
11. Tetragrammaton, vulgarly Jehovah; something even on the name ‘Jah’  89
12. Name ‘Shaddai’  113
13. Name ‘Theos’  115
14. Name ‘Kurios’ & ‘Despot’  140
15. Some Description is given of God  147
16. The Distinction of the Divine Attributes  152
17. Unity of God  154
18. Eternity of God  171
19. Life of God  195
20. Intellect of God  201
21. Will of God  223
22. Potential of God  230
23. Power of God  242
24. Wisdom of God  320
25. Holiness of God  393
26. Blessedness of God  473
27. Magnitude, Immensity & Omnipresence of God  477
28. Kindness & Clemency of God, & the Opposite of This, of Severity  500
29. Those things which are like Affections in God  533
30. Love, Grace & Compassion of God, & of their Contraries, Hate & Wrath  545
31. Desire, Hope & Joy, & of their Contraries, Attributed to God in the Sacred Scriptures  578
32. Decrees of God  604

Bk. 2, of the Works of God

1. Creation  689
2. Creation of Angels  690
3. State of Angels  696
4. Inferior Creatures, and first of the matter of the world  699
5. Mode of Creation  707
6. Creation of Man  708
7. Providence of God  712
8. Governing of Man, and first of the religion of the first world  713
9. The Religion given to Abraham  725
10. Mosaic Religion  729
11. Ceremonial Law, and first of the choosing of priests  731
12. Rite of Sacrifices  735
13. Peace-making sacrifice  746
14. Rule of Priests’ Lives  747
15. Common rites  748
16. The Judiciary Law, and first of the judicials  753
17. Office of Judges  755
18. The judicial laws themselves  756
19. Promises of the Mosaic Religion  759
20. Confirmation of the Mosaic Promises  761
21. Difficulty of the Law  763

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vol. 2

Bk. 3

1. Author of the Christian Religion, and first of his nature  1
2. Office of Christ, even a general description  18
3. Prophetic office of Christ, and first the begining of the same  20
4. John the Baptist and his office  27
5. John’s testimony that he gave to Christ  30
6. End of the Testimony of John  44
7. Baptism of John  47
8. As to how the office of John viewed the nation  52
9. Duration of the office of John  60
10. Christ’s prophetic office itself  70
11. Promise of eternal life  74
12. In which varied descriptions of eternal life are considered  141
13. Present promises of life, and first of the Holy Spirit  164
14. Spirit of making-known  170
15. Those promises of Christ which pertain to the body  179
16. Confirmation of the promises of Christ, and first of sanctity itself  183
17. Miracles of Christ  187
18. Death of Christ  197
19. That confirmation of the promises of Christ, how God Himself effects it, and first of the resuscitation of Christ  231
20. Ascent of Christ into Heaven  244
21. Christ’s kingly office itself  252
22. Those things which pertain to the Kingdom, and first of places  to which his dominion extends  259
23. Scope of the reign of Christ  261
24. Power of Christ to dispense the Holy Spirit to men  263
25. Government of Christ in angels  266
26. Government of Christ in demons  275
27. Power of Christ in the earth  279
28. Mode by which Christ reigns  283
29. Abrogation of certain laws  286
30. Way in which Christ administers his laws  302
31. Government of Christ under the earth  304
32. Time of the reign of Christ  307
33. Eternal punishment of the ungodly  311
34. Powers being subjected to Christ  318
35. Way in which Christ will give eternal life to the obedient themselves  323
36. Why Christ, having subject all to Himself, will hand over this Kingdom to his Father  356
37. Priesthood of Christ  361
38. Entering of Christ into the tabernacle [Heaven]  374
39. Departure of Christ from the tabernacle [at the 2nd Coming]  408
40. Time of the advent of Christ  411

Bk. 4

1. Probity and improbity  429
2. Knowledge of God and Christ  441
3. Commands of Christ, and first of faith, and by the occasion, on Justification  449
4. Repentance  479
5. Special explication of the precepts of Christ, and first even of love to God and neighbor  489
6. Scandal  497
7. The highest perfection of charity to neighbor  500
8. Decalogue and even of the First Command  506
9. Prayers  512
10. In what way God is to be worshipped in Christ, and first of the worship of Christ  533
11. Invocation of Christ  537
12. 2nd Command  565
13. 3rd Command  579
14. 4th Command  589
15. 5th Command  592
16. 6th Command  596
17. 7th Command  608
18. 8th Command  637
19. 9th Command  653
20. 10th Command  656
21. Precepts of Christ given severally  606
22. Ceremonial precepts of Christ, and even of his sacred Supper  674
23. Sin in the Christian religion  746

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vol. 3

Dedicatory Preface
To the Reader
Epigrams

Bk. 5

1. Of necessary helps to perseverance in faith and piety  1
2. Of the flesh, the first enemy of the Christian man  4
3. Of the world, another enemy of Christians  6
4. Of our third enemy, the Devil  8
5. Of the authority of sacred literature  12
6. Of the perspicuity of sacred literature  33
7. Of the perfection of sacred literature  39
8. Of traditions  47
9. Of the Trinity  53
10. Of the coessentiality of the Son of God with the Father  131
11. Of the two natures in Christ  289
12. Of the eternal generation of the Son of God  347
13. Of the existence of Christ from eternity  399
14. Of the Holy Spirit  428
15. Of Auricular confession  448
16. Of Purgatory  453
17. Of some dogmas, and first of predestination  480
18. Of the free-choice of man  538
19. Whether regenerate men may sin out of habit  584
20. Of the merit of Christ  594
21. Of the imputation of the righteousness of Christ  599
22. Of the satisfaction of Christ  616
23. Of the corruption of some of the precepts of Christ  651
24. Of idolatry  662
25. Of the invocation of saints  665
26. Jesus is the Christ, or the Messiah  678
27. In which is taught that Christ now reigns  688
28. Of the millenary reign of Christ  697
29. Of worshipping Christ  704
30. Of invoking Christ  709
31. Of the strategems of the Devil, by which he attacks our soul  720

Bk. 6

1. Of the Church of Christ  729
2. Of the excellence of the Church, and first of it, that it is called the house of God  731
3. Of the head of the Church  743
4. Of the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven given to Peter  748
5. In what way the Church is the body of Christ  751
6. By which covenant the Church is called the sheepfold of Christ  757
7. Of the pastor of the Church  758
8. On what ground the Church is called the pillar and foundation of the truth  761
9. Of the power of the Church  766
10. Of ecclesiastical rites  770
11. Of the power of the Church in persons  778
12. Of the mission of the doctors of the Church  781
13. Of the succession of pastors  783
14. Of the baptism of water usurped from the apostles  784
15. Of Church discipline  838
16. On the adjunct controversies of the Church  850
17. On the notes of the Church  856
18. Whether the Church is able to fall off  867
19. In what way the Church, if it ceases, is able to be established [again]  370

Maccovius, Johannes

‘The False Principles of the Socinians…’, pp. 549-576  in The False First-Principles of the Papists, Socinians, Lutherans, Arminians, Anabaptists…  in Johannes Maccovius Revived, or Manuscripts of his…  ed. Nicolaas Arnoldi  (Amsterdam, 1659)

Maccovius (1588-1644).  The brief topical chapters are laid out in systematic order.

Table of Contents

1. Sacred Scripture  549
2. God  551

Socinian: “The term ‘God’, on the account of God, is common, not truly proper.”

S: “‘Jehova’ is not the proper name of God.”  552

S: “The divine nature is not known.”

S: “The attributes of God really differ from God.”

S: “The true God is not one.”

S: “Only God is called true, not because others are not true, but because He is most excellently true; so only God is called true, only wise, good, etc.”

S: “Christ from the Mediatorial power is adored with religious worship.”  553

“This is our judment: that the Mediatorial office is the impulsive cause, not truly the formal cause of the worship of Him, as they reckon it.”

S: “God alone is not eternal.”

S: “God is not inifnite in essence.”

S: “God does not know future contingencies.”

S: “God knows things because they are; yet not that they are because He knows and decrees [them].”

S: “God knows solely by act; He does not know all.”

“False Principle: Because He learns some things daily which before He had not known; these sorts of things are contingencies.”

S: “God wills things because of the good; they are not good because He wills them.”  554

“False Principle: Because God depends on external objects.”

S: “The will of God is mutable.”

S: “God does not by one volition will all things.”

S: “Immensity is not suitable to God.”

S: “God is able to forgive sins without accepting a satisfaction on account of his decree and nature, lest because no [satisfaction] has been provided, so He may not be forgiving.”

“Our theologians do not come together on this: some say that He is able by nature, but on account of a decree He is not able, because no pact absolves the guitly, says the Scripture.  However others determine that not only on the account of the decree, but also by reason of nature He is not able not to hate sin.

False Principle: Anyone is able to forgive his neighbor without accepting a satisfaction; and if this is allowable for men, much more it is for God.”

S: “God is in anything; the whole [of Him] is not; otherwise if the whole may be in one thing, in another thing it is not.”  555

S: “Mercy is not essential to God.”

3. The Most Holy Trinity  555

Socinian: “The Trinity is not to be believed.”  555

S: “There are not three persons in the divine essence.”

S: “The divine essence, because it is singular and indivisible, is incommunicable.”  556

S: “Whatever is not in the divine essence, is the person.”

S: “Christ being begotten is not from the Father from eternity.”

S: “What has been begotten, has begun.”  556

4. The Internal Actions of God  558

Socinian: “The internal actions of God are different from God Himself.”

S: “The divine intellect and will differ from Himself, as a part of Him from Himself.”

S: “The decree of God is not God.”

S: “There is no definitite election.”

S: “It is in the power of man that he is chosen or not chosen.”

5. The Actions of God ad extra  560

S: “The impulsive and meritorious cause of the external actions of God is given over [to men].”  560

S: “God did not create time.”

S: “God did not make the place which He is in.”

S: “God did not make Prime Matter.”

S: “God did not make anything from nothing.”  560

6. Providence of God  560
7. Death & Satisfaction of Christ  563

S: “Christ did not satisfy for our sins.”  563

S: “The satisfaction of Christ was not necessary.”  563

S: “The sacraments are not types of Christ beyond the anniversary-sacrifice.”

S: “Sacraments are not effectual for sinning men.”

S: “Sacrifices were not divinely instituted from the beginning of the world.”  564

S: “An expiation of sins in the earth has not been accomplished.”

S: “A satisfaction and remission of sins are contraries.”

S: “The doctrine of the satisfaction of Christ detracts from the divine power or kindness.”

S: By the doctrine of the satisfaction of Christ God the Father, indeed, is attributed a greater justice than Christ: yet Christ greater mercy than the Father.”  564

S: “The blood of Jesus Christ expiates our sins by confirming the promises of God.”  565

S: “The article of the satisfaction of Christ elevates the study of piety.”  565

8. Faith  565
9. Repentance  567
10. Church  567
11. Sacraments  568
12. Lord’s Supper  571
13. Justification, Righteousness & Good Works  573
14. Magistracy  575
15. Eternal Death  576

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Johannes Maccovius Revived, or Manuscripts of his…  ed. Nicolaas Arnoldi  (Amsterdam, 1659)

Anti-Socinus

Table of Contents

Bk. 1

1. On the way of disputing with adversaries in general  697
2. On the duty of opposing and responing, even both at the same time, in general  698
3. Of the duty of opposing in specific  700
4. Of the duty of responding in specific  702
5. Of what kind is the nature of Socinians in disputation  703
6. What way ought customarily to be observed  707
7. Of the errors of Socinians in general  715
8. On Scripture relating to a regenerate man and an unregenerate man  720
9. Of the object of theology  721
10. Of the persons of the most holy Trinity  729

Bk. 2

1. Of God the Creator  749
2. Of the creation of man, and in specific of man absolutely considered  753
3. Of man considered in the state of integrity, as to principles  754
4. Of accidents, and also of the image of God in man  757
5. Of the adjuncts of man in the state of integrity considered  761
6. Of original sin  762
7. On actual sin  772
8. On the punishment of sin  775

Bk. 3

1. On God the Redeemer  777
2. On the Person of the Redeemer, or Mediator  779
3. Of the threefold office of the Mediator, and also of the prophetic in specific  780
4. Of the priestly office  787
5. Of sacrifice  792
6. Of the fulfillment of the Law for us  794
7. Of the satisfaction of Christ for us  795
8. Whether Christ sustained eternal and temporal death in our place and for our good  800
9. Of the genuine causes why Christ is called Savior  803
10. Of the kingly office of Christ  807
11. Of justification  810

Bk. 4

1. Of God the Sanctifier and Regenerator, in general  813
2. Of regeneration in specific, as to faith  822
3. Of active and passive justification  826
4. Of the Church  827
5. Of the ministers of the Church, and of their calling  833

Bk. 5

1. Of God the glorifier  836
2. Of that which precedes our resurrection  837
3. Of the Resurrection itself  839
4. Of those things connected to the Resurrection, and even first, of the change of them in a moment which are found living at the Day of the Lord  841
5. Of the other thing connected to the Resurrection, namely the Last Judgment  841
6. Of glorification  842
7. Of damnation  843

Anti-Goslawski, or Goslawski Enervated, this coming before the publishing of Contra Keckerman

Goslawski was a Socinian.  Keckerman was reformed.  Keckerman is argued against at the end of pt. 1, but especially in parts 2-3.  The chapters and parts do not have titles.

Cases of Conscience Compiled, to the Norm of the Doctrine of Socinianism, by the Mode of a Dialogue  Two chapters without titles.

Theological Lectures which Some Things are Refuted out of the Catechism of Socinus  No subdivisions other than various theological questions being answered.

Spanheim, Jr., Frederic – A Collection of Anti-Socinianism, or a Chain of Controversies Agitated with Today’s Socinians, Distributed in School [Collegiales] Disputations  (Heidelberg, 1661)  40 pp.  There is no table of contents

Spanheim, Jr. (1632-1701) was a German reformed professor of theology at Heidelberg and Leiden, and son of Frederic Spanheim, Sr. (d. 1649).

Table of Contents

Preface  3
On the Principle of Faith  4
On Religion, & its Heads, in General  6
On the Knowledge, Definition, Names & Attributes of God  7
On the Sacred Trinity & Divine Persons  10
On the Immanent & Transient Actions of God  13
On the Instituted State of the First Man  15
On the Forsaken [Destituto] State of Man  16
On the Restored State of Man, & First, the Covenant of Grace  19
On the Person & Office of Christ the Mediator  24
On the Christian Church  29
On Efficacious Calling & Faith  30
On the Justification of a Human Sinner  32
On Sanctification  34
On Perseverance  35
On the Christian Magistrate & Sacred Ministry  36
On the Sacraments in General & Specific  37
On the Last State of Man  39

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On the Fundamentals

Book

1600’s

Edwards, John – Socinianism Unmasked, a Discourse Showing the Unreasonableness of a Late Writer’s Opinion Concerning the Necessity of Only One Article of Christian Faith, & of his Other Assertions in his Late Book Entituled, The Reasonableness of Christianity as Delivered in the Scriptures, & in his Vindication of it…  (London, 1696)

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Latin Article

1600’s

Voet, Gisbert – 56. ‘Of Uncertain Faith, Conscience & Theology’  in Select Theological Disputations  (Utrecht: Waesberg, 1655), vol. 3, pp. 825-34


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On Divine Justice

Book

1600’s

Owen, John – A Dissertation on Divine Justice, or the Claims of Vindicatory Justice Asserted: in this Work that Essential Property of the Divine Nature is Demonstrated from the Sacred Writings & Clearly Defended against Socinus & his followers…  (London, [n.d.])  also in vol. 10 of his Works.


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On the Eternity & Sonship of Christ

Books

1600’s

Manton, Thomas – Christ’s Eternal Existence, & the Dignity of his Person Asserted & Proved in Opposition to the Doctrine of the Socinians, in [8] Several Sermons on Col. 1:17-21  (London, 1685)

Jacomb, Thomas – The One-Proper Sonship of the Lord Jesus Christ, Illustrated & Established from the Holy Scriptures in Opposition Unto the Doctrine of Arians & Socinians: in a Discourse from Rom. 8:3  (d. 1687; Hugh Mitchell, 1791)


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On the Priesthood of Christ

Book

1600’s

Owen, John – A Continuation of the Exposition of…  Hebrews, viz, on the Sixth, Seventh, Eight, Ninth & Tenth Chapters: wherein together with the Explication of the Text & Context, the Priesthood of Christ…  are Declared, Explained & Confirmed: as also…  the Doctrine of the Principal Writers of the Socinians about these things, are Examined & Disproved  (London, 1680)


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On the Satisfaction

Books

1600’s

Ferguson, Robert – Justification Only upon a Satisfaction, or the Necessity & Verity of the Satisfaction of Christ as the Alone Ground of Remission of Sin: Asserted & Opened Against the Socinians: together with an Appendix in Vindication of a Sermon Preached on Heb. 2:10, from the Exceptions of H. W. in a Pamphlet Called, ‘The Freeness of God’s Grace in the Forgiveness of Sins by Jesus Christ’  (London, 1668)  320 pp.

Allinga, Petrus – The Satisfaction of Christ, Stated & Defended, Against the Socinians: in Two Parts  tr. Thomas Bell  (d. 1692; Glasgow, 1790)  ToC

Williams, Daniel – An End to Discord, wherein is Demonstrated that No Doctrinal Controversy Remains Between the Presbyterian & Congregational Ministers Fit to Justify Longer Divisions: with a True Account of Socinianism as to the Satisfaction of Christ  (London, 1699)

Williams (c. 1643–1716) was a British benefactor and dissenting, presbyterian minister and theologian in England.  He is known largely for the legacy he left which led to the creation of Dr Williams’s Library, a center for research on English Dissenters.


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On Justification

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1600’s

Williams, Daniel – ch. 5, ‘Socinian Notions of Justification’  in An End to Discord…  (London, 1699), pp. 48-54

Williams (c. 1643–1716) was a British benefactor and dissenting, presbyterian minister and theologian in England.  He is known largely for the legacy he left which led to the creation of Dr Williams’s Library, a center for research on English Dissenters.

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Books

1600’s

Walker, George – Socinianism in the Fundamental Point of Justification Discovered & Confuted, or, An Answer to a Written Pamphlet Maintaining that Faith is in a Proper Sense without a Trope Imputed to Believers in Justification, wherein the Socinian Fallacies are Discovered & Confuted, & the True Christian Doctrine Maintained…  (London, 1641)

Burgess, Anthony – The True Doctrine of Justification Asserted & Vindicated, from the Errors of Papists, Arminians, Socinians & More Especially Antinomians in 30 Lectures Preached…  (London, 1651)

Lathom, Paul – Christ Crucified, or the Doctrine of the Gospel Asserted Against Pelagian & Socinian Errors Revived under the Notion of New Lights: wherein also the original, occasion & progress of errors are set down…  (London, 1666)


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On the Moral Law & Covenant Theology

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1600’s

Burgess, Anthony – Vindiciae Legis, or, A Vindication of the Moral Law & the Covenants, from the Errors of Papists, Arminians, Socinians & more Especially, Antinomians in 30 Lectures Preached…  (London, 1647)


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On the General Resurrection

Article

1600’s

Becconsall, Thomas – The Doctrine of a General Resurrection, wherein the Identity of the Rising Body is Asserted Against the Socinians & Sceptics: in a Sermon Preached before the University at St. Mary’s in Oxford…  (Oxford, 1697)


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On the Ministry

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1600’s

Hall, Thomas – An Apology for the Ministry & its Maintenance, wherein is Set Forth the Necessity, Dignity & Efficacy of a Gospel-Ministry Against the Socinians, Swenckfieldians, Weigelians, Anabaptists, Enthusiasts, Familists, Seekers, Quakers, Levellers, Libertines & the Rest of that Rout…  (London, 1660)


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On Civil Toleration

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1600’s

Rutherford, Samuel – A Free Disputation Against Pretended Liberty of Conscience: Tending to Resolve Doubts moved by Mr. John Goodwin, John Baptist, Dr. Jeremy Taylor, the Belgic Arminians, Socinians & other Authors contending for Lawless Liberty, or Licentious Toleration of Sects & Heresies  (London, 1649)

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Historical Theology

Articles

1800’s

Cunningham, William – ‘The Socinian Controversy’  (1863)  80 pp.  from his Historical Theology, vol. 2, p. 155 ff.

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2000’s

ed. Muller, Richard et al. – in Oxford Handbook on Early Modern Theology

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Bibliography

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Knijff & Visser – Bibliographia Sociniana. A Bibliographical Reference Tool for the Study of Dutch Socinianism & Antitrinitarianism  ed. Piet Visser  Pre  (Hilversum: Verloren, 2004)  308 pp.  ToC

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