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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
Postscript › LETTERS TO Dr. WALLIS, Sent in 1691. › Letter 1: LETTER I.
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.
IId Enquiry: Whether some further distinction may not be admitted as possible?
The only thing that straitens us here, is the most unquestionable unity or unicity (as we may call it) of the Godhead. Which, if it cannot be otherwise defended, I must yet for my part, notwithstanding these hardships (and I know no man with whom I could do it with more inclination) fall in with you. But I must crave it of you so far to fall in with you know not ⟨p. 108⟩who, as to apply your clearer mind, as, I do my more cloudy one, to consider whether it can or no?
You will here say further than what? and what would I have further?
To the former of these, I only say, further than the asserting, in very deed, but one Hypostasis in the Godhead, distinguished no otherwise into three, than by certain relative capacities, like those which may among men be sustained by one and the same man; and which distinction, as you after add, is analogous to what, in created beings, is called distinctio modalis.