A calm and sober enquiry concerning the possibility of a Trinity in the Godhead…

12. Such simplicity as shall exclude that distinction, which shall appear necessary in the present case, is not by express Scripture any where ascribed to God; and therefore must be rationally demonstrated ⟨p. 139⟩of him, if it shall be judged to belong at all to him.

12. Such simplicity as shall exclude that distinction, which shall appear necessary in the present case, is not by express Scripture any where ascribed to God; and therefore must be rationally demonstrated ⟨p. 139⟩of him, if it shall be judg'd to belong at all to him.

13. Absolute Simplicity is not a Perfection, nor is by any ascribed to God. Not by the Socinians themselves, who ascribe to him the several intellectual and moral excellencies, that are attributed to him in the Scriptures, of which they give very different definitions, as may be seen in their own Volkelius at large, which should signify them not to be counted, in all respects, the same thing.

13. Absolute Simplicity is not a Perfection, nor is by any ascribed to God. Not by the Socinians themselves, who ascribe to him the several intellectual and moral excellencies, that are attributed to him in the Scriptures, of which they give very different definitions, as may be seen in their own Volkelius at large, which should signifie them not to be counted, in all respects, the same thing.

14. That is not a just consequence, which is the most plausible one that seems capable of being alleged for such absolute simplicity, that otherwise there would be a composition admitted in the Divine Nature, which would import an imperfection inconsistent with Deity. For the several excellencies that concur in it, howsoever distinguished, being never put together, nor having ever existed apart, but in eternal, necessary union, tho' they may make some sort of variety, import