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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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And here it is very remarkable how W. P. doth discover weakness and want of learning in the proof of the unity of the Godhead by Scripture, for however he doth attempt to show something of a Scholar in quoting one Hebrew text in the margin, as if he were well acquainted with the original Hebrew tongue, so as to be able to read and understand it without punets, yet most ignorantly and ridiculously he cites three texts, namely, Isa. 40. 25. chap. 48. 17. Psal. 71. 22. to ⟨p. 40⟩prove Gods unity, in all which the Hebrew maketh no mention of it; the translation indeed is Holy one, and Holy one of Israel, and he very sillily writes ONE in great letters as if one did bear the emphasis of the place, when there is no such word as [Greek or Hebrew] one, in the Hebrew, only [Greek or Hebrew] Holy, and [Greek or Hebrew] thou Holy of Israel: in the new Testament he allegeth some Scriptures which the Socinians do make use of to prove that Christ is not God, one is Math. 19. 17. Jesus said unto him why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is God. Whence no Socinian can rationally infer that Christ is not God, any more than that he is not good; for his question doth not infer a denial of his Divinity or goodness, but is propounded according to the young man's apprehension of him, and by way of probation. For in other places (as hath been shown) Christ's Divinity is clearly enough declared. Another Text is Joh. 17. 3. This is life eternal that they might know thee (Father) the only true God. In this place Christ excludeth not himself from being God, but, only, excludeth all false Gods; and if you mark it, the word only, as also the word one, doth belong to the predicate God, and not to the subject Father, it being not only thee to be the true God, but thee to be the only true God, and so it may be applied to the Son, and Jesus Christ whom thou bast sent to be the only true God, which is signified in that place and expressed 1 Job. 5. 10. we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ, this is the true God and eternal life.