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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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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.
9. We have among the creatures, and even in our selves, instances of very different ⟨p. 138⟩Natures, continuing distinct, but so united, as to be one thing; and it were more easily supposable of congenerous Natures.
9. We have among the creatures, and even in our selves, instances of very different ⟨p. 138⟩Natures, continuing distinct, but so united, as to be one thing; and it were more easily supposeable of congenerous Natures.
10. If such Union with distinction be impossible in the Godhead, it must not be from any repugnancy in the thing it self, since very intimate Union, with continuing distinction, is in it self no impossible thing; but from somewhat peculiar to the Divine Being.