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For my part, I will not except Justin Martyr himself, whom I the rather mention, both as he was one of the more ancient of the Fathers; and as I may also call him, the Father of the Modalists; ¹nor his Notion even about the Homoousian-Trinity, as he expressly stiles it.

For my part, I will not except Justin Martyr himself, whom I the rather mention, both as he was one of the more antient of the Fathers; and as I may also call him, the Father of the Modalists; ¹nor his Notion even about the Homoousian-Trinity, as he expresly stiles it.

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For tho it will require more time than I now intend to bestow, to give a distinct account of every Passage throughout that Discourse of his, yet his Expression of the [Greek or Hebrew] must not be so taken, as if it were to be torn away from its coherence, and from it self. When therefore he says the [Greek or Hebrew], the being unbegotten, begotten, and having proceeded, are not Names of the Essence, but ([Greek or Hebrew]) Modes of Subsistence; he must mean they are not immediately ⟨p. 20⟩Names of the Essence, but mediately they cannot but be so. For what do they modify? Not nothing. When they are said to be Modes of Subsistence, what is it that subsists? We cannot pluck away these Modes of Subsistence from that which subsists, and whereof they are the Modes. And what is that? You'll say the [Greek or Hebrew], the one Essence, which he had mentioned before; and that one Essence is, 'tis true, as perfectly one, as 'tis possible; for what is of it self, and what are from that, to be with each other, i. e. that they are congenerous, as the Sun and its Rays (according to that