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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.
[But I must not forget this persons self-confutation, who to be plainer called them three He's. But what self-confutation it is to call three persons three He's, you neither do, nor can tell; that each of them is frequently spoken of in the Scripture as a distinct he, is so plain, you cannot deny it, and expressed by the Pronouns [Greek or Hebrew]. Joh. 1. 2, 3. and chap. 16. ver. 8. 13, 14. 27. and I called them three He's, to try if you would own the Deity of Christ and the Holy Ghost under any Title, and you by refusing to call them three Divine He's, have made it manifest that your Quarrel is not with the word Person (as some then apprehended) but with the Doctrine or Fundamental Truth expressed by the three persons, viz. the modal distinction and essential union or one-ness of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, which is no less ⟨p. 19⟩than to deny and reject God; for though you pretend to own God the Father, yet in rejecting the Son, you reject the Father; for saith Christ, he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me, Luke 10. 16 and the beloved Disciple telleth us, that whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father, 1 Joh. 2. 23.
[But I must not forget this persons self-confutation, who to be plainer called them three Hee's. But what self-confutation it is to call three persons three Hee's, you neither do, nor can tell; that each of them is frequently spoken of in the Scripture as a distinct he, is so plain, you cannot deny it, and expressed by the Pronouns 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Ioh. 1. 2, 3. and chap. 16. ver. 8. 13, 14. 27. and I called them three Hee's, to try if you would own the Deity of Christ and the Holy Ghost under any Title, and you by refusing to call them three Divine Hee's, have made it manifest that your Quarrel is not with the word Person (as some then apprehended) but with the Doctrine or Fundamental Truth expressed by the three persons, viz. the modal distinction and essential union or one-ness of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, which is no less