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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.
LETTERS TO Dr. WALLIS, Sent in 1691.
LETTER I.
SIR,
I Could much please my self in revolving in my own mind the very respectful Thoughts and Veneration I have long had for you, and in Conversing with the grateful and entertaining Idea which I have not arbitrarily, but by your irresistible imposition received; and retained of you many ⟨p. 96⟩Years, on the account of your former most useful and acceptable Performances, and which is both renewed and heightened greatly by your late, clear, prudent, and piously modest Discourses (both Letters and Sermons) of that awful Mystery [the Trinity in the Godhead.] But as I can neither satisfy my self of the fitness of making an Encomium of you the matter of a Letter to your self; so nor can I hope to please you by doing a thing in it self so inept, and so insignificant to you. I shall better do both, if I shall offer any thing to you concerning this mentioned Subject, your further consideration whereof may prove a further benefit to the World.
I Could much please my self in revolving in my own mind the very respectful Thoughts and Veneration I have long had for you, and in Conversing with the grateful and entertaining Idéa which I have not abitrarily, but by your irresistible imposition received; and retained of you many