A calm and sober enquiry concerning the possibility of a Trinity in the Godhead…

I reckoned the Dr. (as I still do, notwithstanding the Contempt this Author hath of him) a Person of a very clear, unmuddied Understanding. I found him, by what he expressed in his first Letter of the Trinity, not apt to be awed by the Authority of the Schools, nor any Bigot to them, as having declined their Notion of a Person, and fixing upon another, (less answering, as I apprehended, the Scheme and Design of Christianity) I thought it easy, and reputable enough to him to add, what might be requisite in this matter, without contradicting (directly, or discernibly) any thing he had said. I gave him the opportunity of doing it, as from himself, without seeming to have the least thing to that purpose suggested to him by any other. I had my self, I think, seen and considered the main strength of the School-mens reasonings concerning that simplicity, which they will have to be divine; and, for ought I do yet know, have competently occurred ⟨p. 87⟩to it in this foregoing Letter, and partly in what you will now find I wrote to him. But what there is of real infirmity, or impertinency to this case (as it is, and ought to be represented) in their arguings, I reckoned he would both see and evince more clearly than I.

I reckon'd the Dr. (as I still do, notwithstanding the Contempt this Author hath of him) a Person of a very clear, unmuddied Understanding. I found him, by what he express'd in his first Letter of the Trinity, not apt to be awed by the Authority of the Schools, nor any Bigot to them, as having declined their Notion of a Person, and fixing upon another, (less answering, as I apprehended, the Scheme and Design of Christianity) I thought it easie, and reputable enough to him to add, what might be requisite in this matter, without contradicting (directly, or discernibly) any thing he had said. I gave him the opportunity of doing it, as from himself, without seeming to have the least thing to that purpose suggested to him by any other. I had my self, I think, seen and considered the main strength of the School-mens reasonings concerning that simplicity, which they will have to be divine; and, for ought I do yet know, have competently occurr'd ⟨p. 87⟩to it in this foregoing Letter, and partly in what you will now find I wrote to him. But what there is of real infirmity, or impertinencie to this case (as it is, and ought to be represented) in their arguings, I reckon'd he would both see and evince more clearly than I.