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

But you will say, suppose it be possible, to what purpose is all this? How remote is it from the supposed Trinity in the Godhead? You will see to what purpose it is by and by. I therefore add,

But you will say, suppose it be possible, to what purpose is all this? How remote is it from the supposed Trinity in the Godhead? You will see to what purpose it is by and by. I therefore adde,

VII. That if such an Union of three things (whether of like, or of different Natures) so as that they shall be truly one thing, and yet remain distinct, tho united, can be effected, (as one may with certainty pronounce, there is nothing more impossible, or unconceivable in it, than we find is actually done) then it is not intrinsically impossible, or objectively; it is not impossible in it self. No power can effect what is simply, and in it self impossible. There is therefore ⟨p. 23⟩no contradiction, no repugnancy, or inconsistency, as to the thing, nor consequently any shadow of absurdity in the conception hereof. Whereupon,

VII. That if such an Union of three things (whether of like, or of different Natures) so as that they shall be truly one thing, and yet remain distinct, tho united, can be effected, (as one may with certainty pronounce, there is nothing more impossible, or unconceivable in it, than we find is actually done) then it is not intrinsecally impossible, or objectively; it is not impossible in it self. No power can effect what is simply, and in it self impossible. There is therefore ⟨p. 23⟩no contradiction, no repugnancie, or inconsistencie, as to the thing, nor consequently any shadow of absurdity in the conception hereof. Whereupon,