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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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When I had propounded my argument, W. P. shrunk, saying he did not come thither to dispute, but left it to G. W. who neither would repeat my Syllogism, nor give any direct answer, either to the Major or Minor; I could have multiplied words as G. W. did, and applied my self to the people, instead of speaking to the purpose, but this I forbore propounding my argument Syllogistically, and the distinction of three persons being denied, though no direct answer given to the argument urged to prove it; I added another argument from 1 Job. 5. 7. There are three that bare record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. The Father, Word, and Holy Ghost are either three substances, or three manifestations, or three operations, or three persons, or something else. But they are not three substances, nor three manifestations, nor three operations, nor any thing else. Therefore they are three persons.
When I had propounded my argument, W. P. shrunk, saying he did not come thither to dispute, but left it to G. W. who neither would repeat my Sylogism, nor give any direct answer, either to the Major or Minor; I could have multiplyed words as G. W. did, and applyed my self to the people, instead of speaking to the purpose, but this I forbore propounding my argument Sylogistically, and the distinction of three persons being denied, though no direct answer given to the argument urged to prove it; I added another argument from 1 Iob. 5. 7. There are three that bare record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. The Father, Word, and Holy Ghost are either three substances, or three manifestations, or three operations, or three persons, or something else. But they are not three substances, nor three manifestations, nor three operations, nor any thing else. Therefore they are three persons.
G. W. maketh no direct reply to this Syllogism, but findeth fault with the terms, and W. P. telleth us that God did not use to wrap his Truths in Heathenish Metaphysics, but in plain language; but let the Reader judge whether there be the heathenish Metaphysics he speaketh of in this Syllogism, wherein there is not a word but what is to be found in the Scripture;