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

I answer; nothing I have said or supposed implies any such thing; or that the Notion of God imports any thing more of real being, than is contained in Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, taken together, and most intimately, naturally, and vitally, by eternal necessity, united with one another. As in a created being, consisting of more things than one taken together and united; a Man for instance, there is nothing more of ⟨p. 53⟩real entity, besides what is contained in his Body and his Soul united and taken together. 'Tis true that this term, a Man, speaks somewhat very divers from an humane body taken alone, or an humane soul taken alone, or from both, separately taken; but nothing divers from both united, and taken together.

And for what this may be unjustly collected to imply of composition, repugnant to Divine Perfection, it is before obviated. Sect. 13.

If therefore it be asked, What do we conceive under the Notion of God, but a necessary, spiritual Being? I answer that this is a true Notion of God, and may be passable enough, among Pagans, for a full one. But we Christians are taught to conceive under the Notion of God, a necessary spiritual Being, in which Father, Son, and Spirit, do so necessarily coexist, as to constitute that Being; and that when we conceive any one of them to be God, that is but an inadequate, not an entire and full conception of the Godhead.

If therefore it be askt, What do we conceive under the Notion of God, but a necessary, spiritual Being? I answer that this is a true Notion of God, and may be passable enough, among Pagans, for a full one. But we Christians are taught to conceive under the Notion of God, a necessary spiritual Being, in which Father, Son, and Spirit, do so necessarily coexist, as to constitute that Being; and that when we conceive any one of them to be God, that is but an inadequate, not an entire and full conception of the Godhead.