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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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And on the other hand, whatsoever being is contingent, i. e. such as that it depended on a mere intervening act of will, (viz. even the sovereign and supreme will) whether it should be or not be, is created, or is creature.
And on the other hand, whatsoever being is contingent, i. e. such as that it depended on a meer intervening act of will, (viz. even the sovereign and supream will) whether it should be or not be, is created, or is creature.
II. Whatsoever simplicity the ever blessed God hath by any express Revelation claimed to himself, or can by evident and irrefragable Reason be demonstrated to belong to him, as a Perfection, we ought humbly and with all possible reverence and adoration, to ascribe to him. But such simplicity as he hath not claimed, as is arbitrarily ascribed to him by over-bold, and adventurous Intruders into the deep and most profound arcana ⟨p. 11⟩of the divine Nature, such as can never be proved to belong to him, or to be any real Perfection, such as would prove an imperfection, and a blemish, would render the divine Nature less intelligible, more impossible to be so far conceived as is requisite, as would discompose and disturb our Minds, confound our Conceptions, make our apprehension of his other known Perfections less distinct or inconsistent, render him less adorable, or less an Object of Religion, or such as is manifestly unreconcilable with his plain affirmations concerning himself, we ought not to impose it upon our selves, or be so far imposed upon, as to ascribe to him such simplicity.
II. Whatsoever simplicity the ever blessed God hath by any express Revelation claimed to himself, or can by evident and irrefragable Reason be demonstrated to belong to him, as a Perfection, we ought humbly and with all possible reverence and adoration, to ascribe to him. But such simplicity as he hath not claimed, as is arbitrarily ascribed to him by over-bold, and adventurous Intruders into the deep and most profound arcana ⟨p. 11⟩