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The foundation of God standeth sure, or, A defence of those fundamental and so…
The foundation of God standeth sure, or, A defence of those fundamental and so generally believed doctrines of the Trinity of persons in the unity of the divine essence, of the satisfaction of Christ, the second person of the real and glorious Trinity, of the justification of the ungodly by the imputed righteousness of Christ, against the cavils of W.P.J. a Quaker in his pamphlet entitled The sandy foundation shaken &c. : wherein his and the Quakers hideous blasphemies, Socinian and damnably-heretical opinions are discovered and refuted ... / by Thomas Vincent.The foundation of God standeth sure, or, A defence of those fundamental and so generally believed doctrines of the Trinity of persons in the unity of the divine essence, of the satisfaction of Christ, the second person of the real and glorious Trinity, of the justification of the ungodly by the imputed righteousness of Christ, against the cavils of W.P.J. a Quaker in his pamphlet entituled The sandy foundation shaken &c. : wherein his and the Quakers hideous blasphemies, Socinian and damnably-heretical opinions are discovered and refuted ... / by Thomas Vincent.
London : s.n., 1668
Chapter 6: Ananswer to part of the 10, the 12, 13, 14, and 15 pages of W. P's Pamphlet, which he i…
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Next W. P. cautioneth the Reader to take heed of embracing the Determinations of prejudiced Councils, &c. and yet giveth no reason why the Reader should be prejudiced against them, except the belying of the Scripture testimony be a reason, which I suppose was the ground of their Determinations in this point; and no further are any Councils to be heeded than they do agree in their Results with the Scriptures. I hope the Reader will rather take heed of embracing such damnable Doctrine as this peremptory Dictator would impose upon the understanding of the weak; and indeed weak they must needs be, and blind too, and either renounce the Scriptures, or their own senses, that will suffer their assent to these great Scripture-truths, to be in the least enfeebled by any thing that this raw Disputer allegeth for the maintaining of this Blasphemy and Heresy, or oppugning our received, and never to be shaken Foundations.
Next W. P. cautioneth the Reader to take heed of embracing the Determinations of prejudiced Councils, &c. and yet giveth no reason why the Reader should be prejudic'd against them, except the belying of the Scripture testimony be a reason, which I suppose was the ground of their Determinations in this point; and no further are any Councils to be heeded than they do agree in their Results with the Scriptures. I hope the Reader will rather take heed of embracing such damnable Doctrine as this peremptory Dictatour would impose upon the understanding of the weak; and indeed weak they must needs be, and blinde too, and either renounce the Scriptures, or their own senses, that will suffer their assent to these great Scripture-truths, to be in the least enfeebled by any thing that this raw Disputer alledgeth for the maintaining of this Blasphemy and Heresie, or oppugning our received, and never to be shaken Foundations.
And here W. P. who had discovered before his skill in Logic, by arguing against the conclusion of my Syllogism, telling us he opposed the Minor; his skill in the Original Tongues, in noting the Holy ONE in great letters to prove Gods Unity, when the word One is not to be found in the Hebrew Text; doth make a third attempt to show something of a Scholar, but is as unhappy as before, and as grossly as in the two former attempts, doth signify to all that understand Learning, that he is a proud boaster, and pretender to that which he never attained unto. He telleth us the Doctrine of the Trinity was never believed by the Primitive