A letter to a friend concerning a postscript to the Defence of Dr. Sherlock's…A letter to a friend concerning a postscript to the Defense of Dr. Sherlock's…

1. For the former, the Defender, p. 103. mentions the Dean's Notion of three Infinite Minds or Spirits: And makes the Enquirer to have been proving three Spirits, three distinct Essences, three individual Natures, in the Godhead; and then adds — for my part, I cannot take where the difference is, unless it be in the term Infinite. 'Tis indeed strange the Enquirer should have said more than the Dean, ⟨p. 5⟩if there were no difference, unless in the term Infinite, wherein he must have said Infinitely less.

1. For the former, the Defender, p. 103. mentions the Dean's Notion of three Infinite Minds or Spirits: And makes the Enquirer to have been proving three Spirits, three distinct Essences, three individual Natures, in the Godhead; and then adds — for my part, I cannot take where the difference is, unless it be in the term Infinite. 'Tis indeed strange the Enquirer shou'd have said more than the Dean, ⟨p. 5⟩if there were no difference, unless in the term Infinite, wherein he must have said Infinitely less.

But he at length, apprehends another difference, tho' he after labours to make it none, viz. that the Enquirer disputes, but asserts nothing, and he fancies he doth so to shelter himself from the Animadverter, of whom he says he seems to be terribly afraid — Here he puts the Dean into a fit of kindness and good Nature, allowing the Enquirer to partake with him in his fears, tho' not in his Notions, as more sacred. But he herein understands not the Enquirer, who if he had been so terribly afraid, could very easily have said nothing: And who was really afraid of a greater Animadverter, thinking it too great boldness, under his Eye, to speak confidently of his own peculiarities, and that lie folded up in so venerable darkness. He thought it enough, in opposition to the daring Person (whosoever he was) with whom he was ⟨p. 6⟩