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

XXII. As to what concerns our selves, the observation is not altogether unapposit, what Cicero treating of Friendship, discourses of perpetual solitude, that the affectation of it must signify the worst of ill Humour, and the most savage Nature in the World. And supposing one of so sour and morose an Humour, as to shun and hate the Conversation of Men, he would not ⟨p. 58⟩endure it, to be without some one or other to whom he might disgorge the virulency of that his malignant Humour. Or that supposing such a thing could happen, that God should take a Man quite out of the Society of Men, and place him in absolute solitude, supplied with the abundance of whatsoever Nature could covet besides; who, saith he, is so made of Iron, as to endure that kind of Life? And he introduces Architas Tarentinus reported to speak to this purpose.

XXII. As to what concerns our selves, the observation is not altogether unapposit, what Cicero treating of Friendship, discourses of perpetual solitude, that the affectation of it must signifie the worst of ill Humour, and the most savage Nature in the World. And supposing one of so sour and morose an Humour, as to shun and hate the Conversation of Men, he would not ⟨p. 58⟩endure it, to be without some one or other to whom he might disgorge the virulency of that his malignant Humour. Or that supposing such a thing could happen, that God should take a Man quite out of the Society of Men, and place him in absolute solitude, supplyed with the abundance of whatsoever Nature could covet besides; who, saith he, is so made of Iron, as to endure that kind of Life? And he introduces Architas Tarentinus reported to speak to this purpose.

That if one could ascend into Heaven, behold the frame of the World, and the beauty of every Star, his admiration would be unpleasant to him alone, which would be most delicious, if he had some one to whom to express his sense of the whole.