The text is divided into 5 "Conferences" and 41 sections.
Marginal notes indicating the start of individual sections have beenconverted into section headings. Other notes have been numbered andmoved to the end of each Conference. They often refer to the following(rather than preceding) passage, and if so are positioned accordingly.The locations of the marker for Note 13, and of the start of Section8, are unclear: they have been inserted in accordance with the senseof the text.
Other markers that do not correspond to marginal notes have beenremoved. The "*" that are retained in sections 11, 13 and 18 do notindicate marginal notes, but instead function as bullet points.
Variations in spelling have been retained with the exception of thefollowing:
Conference 1 Summary: "byass'd" changed to "bypass'd".
Conference 2 Section 17: "be-belief" changed to "belief" and"absolure" to "absolute".
Conference 5 Section 36 "enent" changed to "tenent"; Section 37"Athenasian" changed to "Athanasian".
Obscured text has been transcribed as follows:
Conference 1 Section 8: "?her" transcribed as "Luther".
Conference 3 Section 18: the sentence beginning "But if it besaid" has been reconstructed from the work cited.
Conference 5 Section 30: the phrases "not-conforming to" and "Asto Charity" have been reconstructed.
At the beginning of Conference 1 a brace, extending over severallines, has been replaced by a column of individual braces.
For technical reasons drop capitals have been removed fromConference summaries; and numbering removed, before drop capitals, atthe start of each Conference text.
When a word in italics is followed by "'s" the latter may or maynot be italicised. This inconsistency has been retained. Inconsistenthyphenation has also been retained.
The Text has been corrected in accordance with the Errata section.Mismatched brackets and parentheses have been removed and apparentpunctuation errors corrected.
THE Protestants Plea FOR A SOCINIAN:
Justifying His Doctrine from being opposite to
SCRIPTURE OR CHURCH-AUTHORITY;
And Him from being Guilty of
HERESIE, or SCHISM.
In Five Conferences.
Publish'd with Allowance. LONDON,
Printed by Henry Hills, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty for His Houshold and Chappel. 1686.
THE First Conference.
The Socinian's Protestant-Plea for his notholding any thing contrary to the Holy Scriptures.
That he believes all contained in the Scriptures to be God's Word; and therefore implicitly believes those truths, against which he errs. §. 2.
That also he useth his best endeavor to find the true sense of Scriptures: and, that more is not required of him from God for his Faith or Salvation, than doing his best endeavour for attaining it. §. 3.
That, as for an explicite Faith required of some points necessary, he is sufficiently assured, that this point concerning the Son's Consubstantiality with the Father, as to the affirmative, is not so from the Protestant's affirming all necessaries to be clear in Scripture, even to the unlearned; which this, in the affirmative, is not to him. §. 4.