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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 2: A brief Narrative of T. V's meeting with some Quakers in Spittle-yard, with the occasio…
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and if they spake any thing, it was not because they thought I stood in any need they should help me out, but because of G. W's confused discourse and indirect answers to my Arguments, they attempted to bring him to some order, and to have gained an answer from him, that the dispute might more intelligibly and successfully have proceeded.
When the assembly was come together I began with prayer, which was no sooner ended, but (the other ⟨p. 12⟩two Quakers who promised to meet with, us not appearing,) George Whitehead began to speak, and declared that he was there come to defend the Quakers opinions, which I had asserted were damnable; and when he would have first discoursed of the light within them; I told him and the people that I owned my charge of damnableness on the Quakers opinions, and though I did not decline to dispute about the light he spake of, and other errors of the Quakers, yet I thought it most proper to begin with the Doctrine of the Trinity, denied by the Quakers I last met with, who directly affirmed that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost were not three distinct persons, but a threefold variety or manifestation, and this I asserted to be a damnable error, and would prove it to be so, and therefore I asked him whether his opinion was the same with theirs, unto which M. Danson added, that he had asserted the Quakers to have an infallible spirit, so that what was the opinion of one, must consequently be the opinion of all, and therefore that he must either own this opinion, or disown them for Quakers. G. W. at first did neither plainly assert nor directly deny the opinion, but filled his mouth, and the people ears with a multitude of words, wherein was so much ambiguity and obscurity, that the sentiments of his mind were not easily to be perceived. But W. P. standeth up, falsely and blasphemously reflecting on the Doctrine of the Trinity, as an error sprung up three hundred years after Christ, and directly denied that there were three distinct persons in the Godhead, with three distinct incommunicable properties. Then I asked G. W. whether he owned W. P. for a Quaker, and not being disowned, I urged an argument against his assertion.