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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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6. If therefore the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost do coexist in the Godhead necessarily, they cannot but be God.
7. And if the first be conceived as the Fountain, the second as by natural necessary (not voluntary) promanation from the first, the third by natural, necessary (not voluntary) spiration, so as that neither of these latter, could have been otherwise; This aptly agrees with the Notions of Father, Son, and Spirit distinctly put upon them, and infinitely distinguishes the two latter from all Creatures that depend upon will and pleasure.
8. Whatever distinction there be of these three among themselves, yet the first being the Original, the second being by that promanation necessarily and eternally united with the first, the third by such spiration united necessarily and eternally with both the other, inasmuch as eternity, and necessity of existence admit no change, this union must be inviolable, and everlasting, and thereupon the Godhead which they constitute, can be but One.