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

In what you have already said concerning it, you have used that great Caution, and so well guarded your self, as not so far as I can apprehend, to give an adversary in this single point, the least advantage. That which I would in the general, humbly offer, is, whether ⟨p. 97⟩you have said so much as with safety might be said, and as the Case may require, for the gaining of a just advantage to the common Christian Cause.

We design, in fight, not only to keep our selves safe, but to overcome, and not in praelio only, but in bello. In Wars, indeed of this sort, both our own safety and victory, are less to be valued than truth. Which, being of a piece, can be injured in no part, without some damage to the whole frame of congenerous Truth. And as it is very possible, while an Enemy is withstood attacking some one Fort, a greater loss may not be provided against elsewhere; it may so fall out in Affairs of this kind too, that the Care of defending some one Truth may be accompanied with a present not attending to the jeopardy of divers others.

We design, in fight, not only to keep our selves safe, but to overcome, and not in praelio only, but in bello. In Wars, indeed of this sort, both our own safety and victory, are less to be valued than truth. Which, being of a piece, can be injured in no part, without some dammage to the whole frame of congenerous Truth. And as it is very possible, while an Enemy is withstood attacking some one Fort, a greater loss may not be provided against elsewhere; it may so fall out in Affairs of this kind too, that the Care of defending some one Truth may be accompany'd with a present not attending to the jeopardy of divers others.

The nearer we approach an Adversary (within just limits) in these rational decertations, the less he can have to say against us. But being well resolved