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

And one would think our being required to be Baptized in the distinct Names of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost should signify some greater distinction.

And one would think our being required to be Baptized in the distinct Names of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost should signifie some greater distinction.

As also that three are said to bear witness in Heaven. I doubt that in a Cause wherein our Law requires two or more Witnesses, the same Man that should be a Father, a Brother, and a Son, would scarce thereupon be admitted for three Witnesses.

And how the Incarnation of the Son can be understood according to your Notion of Person, without the Fathers and Holy Ghosts Incarnation also, I confess I cannot apprehend. Your Notion of a Person contradistinct to the Scholastic ⟨p. 105⟩Notion, as was said before, seems to leave the Godhead to be but one hypostasis, or Person in the latter sense. How then are we to conceive of the hypostatical union? The assumed Nature will be as much hypostatically united with the Father, or the Spirit, as with the Son.

And how the Incarnation of the Son can be understood according to your Notion of Person, without the Fathers and Holy Ghosts Incarnation also, I confess I cannot apprehend. Your Notion of a Person contradistinct to the Scholastick ⟨p. 105⟩Notion, as was said before, seems to leave the Godhead to be but one hypostasis, or Person in the latter sense. How then are we to conceive of the hypostatical union? The assumed Nature will be as much hypostatically united with the Father, or the Spirit, as with the Son.