An account of Mr. Lock's religion, out of his own writings, and in his own words together with some observations upon it, and a twofold appendix : I. a specimen of Mr. Lock's way of answering authors ..., II. a brief enquiry whether Socinianism be justly charged upon Mr. Lock.

OBSERVATIONS.

It had been taken notice of, that Mr. Lock men∣tioning the Advantages of Christ's coming into the World, hath not one Syllable of his Satisfying for us. Mr. Lock, in Vindication of himself, among other things says, that Satisfaction may be plainly collected out of his Reasonableness of Christianity, where he alledges some Passages out of the Gospels, and some out of the Epistles; and he adds, that those in the Epistles are taken to imply Satisfaction. He doth not say that he himself takes the Words in the Epistles to imply Satisfaction, but only They are

taken to imply it; and those that do so take them to imply it, may collect Satisfaction from them: But Mr. Lock doth not declare plainly that the Words do imply Satisfaction, or that Satisfaction may be right∣ly and firmly concluded from them. In Defence of himself he saith farther, that none can blame his Pru∣dence, if he mention'd only those Advantages which all Christians are agreed in. The Reason then of his not mentioning Satisfaction, is, because all Christi∣ans are not agreed as to it. But, 1. Are all that call themselves Christians, agreed as to all the other Ad∣vantages which he mentions? 2. If this was the true Reason, Why did it not restrain him from men∣tioning other things wherein he, and some that are called Christians, do not agree? Mr. Lock will not deny that more Points than one are mention'd in his Reasonableness of Christianity, in which the ordinary Systems and he disagree: And I hope he will allow the Authors of those Systems the Name of Chri∣stians.