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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
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Summary Propositions, collected out of the foregoing Discourses, more briefly offering to view the substance of what is contained in them.
1. Of the Unity of the Godhead there can be no doubt, it being in reason demonstrable, and most expressly, often, asserted in Scripture.
1. Of the Unity of the Godhead there can be no doubt, it being in reason demonstrable, and most expresly, often, asserted in Scripture.
2. That there is a Trinity in the Godhead, of Father, Son, or Word, and Holy Ghost is the plain, obvious sense of so many Scriptures, that it apparently tends ⟨p. 136⟩to frustrate the design of the whole Scripture-revelation, and to make it useless, not to admit this Trinity, or otherwise to understand such Scriptures.
3. That therefore the devising any other sense of such Scriptures ought by no means to be attempted, unless this Trinity in the Godhead can be evidently demonstrated to be impossible.