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

And to allude to what he says of Dr. Cudworth, his displeasure will not hurt so rough an Author as Arnobius, so many Ages after he is dead, if he should happen to offend him, by having once said, Dissoluti—est pectoris in rebus serijs quaerere voluptatem—&c.

But for all of us, I hope we may say without offence to any, common humane frailty should be more considered, and that we know but in part, and in how small a part! We should, hereupon, be more equal to one another. And when it is obvious to every one, how we are straitened in this matter, and that we ought to suppose one another intently, aiming to reconcile the Scripture-discovery, with natural Sentiments, should not uncharitably censure, or labour to expose one another, that any ⟨p. 78⟩seem more satisfied with their own Method than with ours. What an odd and almost ludicrous Spectacle do we give to the blessed Angels that supervise us (if their benignity did not more prompt them to compassion) when they behold us fighting in the dark, about things we so little understand; or, when we all labour under a gradual blindness, objecting it to one another, and one accusing another that he abandons not his own too weak sight, to see only by his (perhaps) blinder Eye.

But for all of us, I hope we may say without offence to any, common humane frailty should be more considered, and that we know but in part, and in how small a part! We should, hereupon, be more equal to one another. And when it is obvious to every one, how we are straitned in this matter, and that we ought to suppose one another intently, aiming to reconcile the Scripture-discovery, with natural Sentiments, should not uncharitably censure, or labour to expose one another, that any ⟨p. 78⟩seem more satisfi'd with their own Method than with ours. What an odd and almost ludicrous Spectacle do we give to the blessed Angels that supervise us (if their benignity did not more prompt them to compassion) when they behold us fighting in the dark, about things we so little understand; or, when we all labour under a gradual blindness, objecting it to one another, and one accusing another that he abandons not his own too weak sight, to see only by his (perhaps) blinder Eye.