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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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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.
4. That the impossibility of it can never be demonstrated from the mere Unity of the Godhead, which may be such, as to admit these distinctions in it, for ought we know.
4. That the impossibility of it can never be demonstrated from the meer Unity of the Godhead, which may be such, as to admit these distinctions in it, for ought we know.
5. Nothing is more appropriate to the Godhead than to be a necessarily existent, intelligent Being; since all Creatures whether intelligent, or unintelligent, are contingent, depending upon the Will of the necessary, intelligent, Being.
6. If therefore the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost do coexist in the Godhead necessarily, they cannot but be God.