Hammond, 'hath of late, among many, fallen
under a very unhappy fate, being most unjustly calumniated,
sometimes as a SOCINIAN, sometimes as a PAPIST, and, as if he had
learnt to reconcile contradictions, sometimes _as both of them
together._'
"One cause of the Charge of SOCINIANISM being preferred against him,
has been already mentioned, (p. xxxiii.) and it is more fully
explained in pages 637, 642. The reader will not require many
additional reasons to convince him of the untenable ground for such
an accusation, when he is told that VOETIUS, one of the most
violent of his enemies, laid down this grand axiom--'To place the
principal part of religion in an _observance of Christ's commands
is_ RANK SOCIANISM!' To such a _practical observance of the_
requisitions of the Gospel, by what name soever it might be
stigmatized, Grotius pleaded guilty. He says (p. 637) 'I perceive
this was accounted the principal part of religion by the Christians
of the primitive ages; and their various assemblies, divines, and
martyrs taught, 'that the doctrines _necessary to be known_ are
exceedingly few, but that God forms his estimate of us from the
purpose and intention of an obedient spirit.
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