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A calm and sober enquiry concerning the possibility of a Trinity in the Godhead…
A calm and sober enquiry concerning the possibility of a Trinity in the Godhead in a letter to a person of worth : occasioned by the lately published considerations on the explications of the doctrine of the Trinity by Dr. Wallis, Dr. Sherlock, Dr. S--th, Dr. Cudworth, &c. ...
London: printed by J. Astwood for Tho. Parkhurst, 1694
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
'Tis much at this rate with our Minds in beholding the spiritual Sphere of Beings, most of all the uncreated, which is remotest, and furthest above, out of our sight.
'Tis much at this rate with our Minds in beholding the spiritual Sphaere of Beings, most of all the uncreated, which is remotest, and furthest above, out of our sight.
We behold Simplicity! and what do we make of that? vast undistinguished Vacuity! sad, immense Solitude! only this at first view. If we draw nearer, and fix our Eye, we think we apprehend somewhat, but dubiously hallucinate, as the half-cured Blind man did, when he thought he saw Men like Trees.
We behold Simplicity! and what do we make of that? vast undistinguisht Vacuity! sad, immense Solitude! only this at first view. If we draw nearer, and fix our Eye, we think we apprehend somewhat, but dubiously hallucinate, as the half-cur'd Blind man did, when he thought he saw Men like Trees.
But if a voice which we acknowledge Divine speak to us out of the profound abyss, and tell us of grateful varieties and distinctions in it; Good God! shall we not believe it? Or shall we say we clearly see that is not, which only we do not see? This seems like somewhat worse than blindness!
But if a voice which we acknowledge Divine speak to us out of the profound abyss, and tell us of gratefull varieties and distinctions in it; Good God! shall we not believe it? Or shall we say we clearly see that is not, which only we do not see? This seems like somewhat worse than blindness!