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

'Tis true while I affirm such a simplicity as excludes all composition, in the sense already given, I affirm not such as excludes all variety. Not such as excludes a Trinity, which he so plainly affirms, and with such distinction, as his affirmations concerning it imply, and make requisite.

I further judge that tho the Scriptures do not expressly ascribe simplicity to the being of God, as a natural excellency, they say that which implies it, as such, to belong to him; as when they bring him in saying of himself I am what I am. This must imply his nature to exclude every thing that is alien from it self. I take it, as it signifies (besides a moral) a mere natural excellency, to import a most perfect purity of essence. And I understand that to be purum, which is plenum sui, and quod nihil habet alieni. I ⟨p. 93⟩do therefore take the natural simplicity of the divine Being to exclude the ingrediency of any thing that can infer in it, conflict, decay, change, disturbance or infelicity in the least degree; and to include whatsoever infers the contraries of all these; serenity, tranquillity, harmony, stability, delight, and joy, in highest Perfection; as necessity of existence also doth; and that for all this, it by no means needs to exclude a Trinity, but to include it rather.

I further judge that tho the Scriptures do not expresly ascribe simplicity to the being of God, as a natural excellency, they say that which implies it, as such, to belong to him; as when they bring him in saying of himself I am what I am. This must imply his nature to exclude every thing that is alien from it self. I take it, as it signifies (besides a moral) a meer natural excellency, to import a most perfect purity of essence. And I understand that to be purum, which is plenum sui, and quod nihil habet alieni. I ⟨p. 93⟩do therefore take the natural simplicity of the divine Being to exclude the ingrediency of any thing that can infer in it, conflict, decay, change, disturbance or infelicity in the least degree; and to include whatsoever infers the contraries of all these; serenity, tranquillity, harmony, stability, delight, and joy, in highest Perfection; as necessity of existence also doth; and that for all this, it by no means needs to exclude a Trinity, but to include it rather.