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A view of that part of the late considerations adderest to H.H. about the…A view of that part of the late considerations addrest to H.H. about the…
A view of that part of the late considerations adderest to H.H. about the Trinity which concerns the sober enquiry, on that subject : in a letter to the former friend.A view of that part of the late considerations addrest to H.H. about the Trinity which concerns the sober enquiry, on that subject : in a letter to the former friend.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1695
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I like not that Phrase the worse for the Author's sake, of whom it seems borrowed, whose Memory greater things will make live, when we are forgot.
But let him proceed—The Butt-end of this Hypothesis is the true strength of it. But that true strength he hath either had the hap not to observe, or taken the care not to represent, i. e. from what is so often inculcated in that Discourse, the necessary existence of two Hypostases of and in the first, and of an omnimodous simplicity groundlessly supposed in the Divine Being, he ⟨p. 15⟩hath kept himself at a wary cautious distance, when he might apprehend there was its strength. Therefore I cannot also but observe, that as he hath marked this Hypothesis, with (most undue) ill Characters; so he hath maimed it too, of what was most considerable belonging to it, that he might expose it by the former means, so as to make it need much defence; and that by the latter, it might seem quite destitute of any defence at all.
But let him proceed—The Butt-end of this Hypothesis is the true strength of it. But that true strength he hath either had the hap not to observe, or taken the care not to represent, i. e. from what is so often inculcated in that Discourse, the necessary existence of two Hypostases of and in the first, and of an omnimodous simplicity groundlesly supposed in the Divine Being, he ⟨p. 15⟩hath kept himself at a wary cautious distance, when he might apprehend there was its strength. Therefore I cannot also but observe, that as he hath mark'd this Hypothesis, with (most undue) ill Characters; so he hath maimed it too, of what was most considerable belonging to it, that he might expose it by the former means, so as to make it need much defence; and that by the latter, it might seem quite destitute of any defence at all.