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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.
If what is here said shall occasion to you any new thoughts that you shall judge may be of common use, I conceive there will be no need of Publishing my Letter, but only that you be pleased to communicate your own Sentiments, as from your self, which will have so much the more of Authority and Usefulness with them. The most considerable thing that I have hinted, is the necessary Promanation of the Son, and Holy Ghost, that must distinguish them from contingent Beings, and so from Creatures; which if you think improvable to any good purpose, as it hath been with me a Thought many years old, so I suppose it not new to you, and being now resumed by you, upon this occasion, you will easily cultivate it to better advantage than any words of mine can give it.
If what is here said shall occasion to you any new thoughts that you shall judge may be of common use, I conceive there will be no need of Publishing my Letter, but only that you be pleased to comunicate your own Sentiments, as from your self, which will have so much the more of Authority and Usefulness with them. The most considerable thing that I have hinted, is the necessary Promanation of the Son, and Holy Ghost, that must distinguish them from contingent Beings, and so from Creatures; which if you think improveable to any good purpose, as it hath been with me a Thought many years old, so I suppose it not new to you, and being now resumed by you, upon this occasion, you will easily cultivate it to better advantage than any words of mine can give it.
But if you think it advisable that any ⟨p. 128⟩part of my Letter be Published, if you please to signify your mind to that purpose in one Line to marked——it will come Sealed to my view, and will give Opportunity of offering my Thoughts to you, what parts I would have supperest, which will be such only, as shall leave the rest the fuller Testimony of my being,
But if you think it adviseable that any ⟨p. 128⟩