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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 3: An Answer to the 11. page of W. P's pernicious Pamphlet, by W. M.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
[A strange way of argumentation, to beg what cannot be granted, and to take for granted what still remains a question, viz. that there are three distinct and separate persons in one essence,] What you mean by separate, I know not; if you mean so separate, as to destroy the unity and simplicity of the Divine Essence, I own no such separation; if you take it to be all one with distinct, then I say it was no begging of the question; for it had been sufficiently proved, that there are in the Divine Essence three distinct persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.—
[Let them first prove their Trinity, and then charge their Blasphemy.] It is not for want of proof, that this Doctrine is rejected and blasphemed, and still called our Trinity, in a way of reproach; assure ⟨p. 18⟩your self the day is coming, when you will wish you had made it yours also: but you have a way to scorn all that is offered in defence of it, as mens lo here Interpretations, and lo there, and to brand all the determinations of Counsels, Fathers, &c. concerning it, as the issues of Faction, Prejudice, and Cruelty; and there is little hope that any Arguments, though never so strong, will convince men of such proud & insolent humours: this Doctrine is more than hinted in the first line of the Bible, Gen. 1. 1. [Greek or Hebrew] the Verb of the singular number, signifies the Unity of the Divine Offence, and the Noun of the plural number, denotes the Trinity of persons, God that created Heaven and Earth is God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: Read also Job 35. 13. God thy Makers, Heb. Consult Mr. Caryl on the place, Eccles. 12. 1. Remember thy Creators, &c. Isa. 54. 5. My Makers is thy husband, Heb. in all which Texts the Trinity of persons is denoted by words of the plural number: See also