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id: A39356
author: Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.
date: 1694
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title:
  A letter to the author of a book, entitled, Considerations on the explications of the doctrine of the Trinity

summary:
  We assert that The Father , T●● Son , and The Holy Ghost are not Three Objects , b● One Object of Our LOVE , or WORSHIP , T●● Worship which the Almighty , the Fountain of All Goo●ness , The ONE BEING ABSOLUTELY INFINITE , Requires of Us , is nothing else ( as to t●● Internal Act ) but Love Absolute or Vltimate , such Lo● as Excludes All other Affections , but what may be Ex●●●is'd in Subordination , and Subserviency to It : So that all ●e Loves , or other Affections in our Hearts , which are Consistent with the True Love of GOD , Proceed from 〈◊〉 , and Tend to the Continual Encrease , and Improvement of it , and are indeed Resolv'd into it , and become ●s it were a Part of it . 〈◊〉 does indeed ( not as your Friend says , In Vain , but 〈◊〉 very Good Purpose ) Perswade Men To lay aside their Philosophy , and wholly to betake themselves to a Scriptural Consideration of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , by which says your Frie●● ( with what Ingenuity let the World Judge ) I understa●● they must Take the Words of Scripture without und●●standing them , or reconciling them to other Scripture or even the current of Scripture , or common Reaso● Do they think that Scripture is to be interpreted co●●trary to it self ?


id: A31061
author: Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677.
title: A brief state of the Socinian controversy concerning a trinity in unity by Isaac Barrow ...
date: 1698
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words: 2830
sentence: 113
flesch: 60
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summary:
  That many of the Fathers do with great Wisdom dislike and dissuade the searching 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , the manner of Things being true or possible , as a suspicious Mark , or a dangerous Motive of Infidelity . 'T is not sufficient , nor was ever designed to sound such Depths ; to descry the Radical Principles of all Being ; to reach the extream Possibilities of Things .


id: A67407
author: W. J.
date: 1691
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words: 3337
sentence: 148
flesch: 70
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title:
  A second letter concerning the Holy Trinity pursuant to the former from the same hand : occasioned by a letter there inserted from one unknown / by John Wallis.

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com).


id: A67368
author: Wallis, John, 1616-1703.
date: 1696
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words: 4014
sentence: 177
flesch: 69
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title:
  An answer to Dr. Sherlock's examination of the Oxford decree in a letter from a member of that university to his friend in London.

summary:
  An answer to Dr. Sherlock's examination of the Oxford decree in a letter from a member of that university to his friend in London. An answer to Dr. Sherlock's examination of the Oxford decree in a letter from a member of that university to his friend in London. Wallis, John, 1616-1703.


id: A67385
author: Wallis, John, 1616-1703.
title: The doctrine of the blessed Trinity, briefly explained in a letter to a friend
date: 1690
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words: 4573
sentence: 158
flesch: 66
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summary:
  SIR , THE Doctrine of the Arrians , Socinians , or Anti-Trinitarians , ( call them as you please , provided you call them not Orthodox Christians ) in opposition to those who believe ( according to the Word of God ) , That the Sacred Trinity , of Father , Son , and Holy-Ghost , are so distinguished each from other , as that the Father is not the Son , or Holy-Ghost ; the Son not the Father , or Holy-Ghost ; the Holy-Ghost not the Father , or Son ; yet so United , as that they are all One God ; ( which , in the Athanasian Creed , is called Trinity in Unity , and Unity in Trinity ; or , in common speaking , Three Persons and One God ; ) is what you were lately discoursing with me , and of which I shall give you some of my present Thoughts . And we who know so little of the Essence of any thing , especially of Spiritual Beings , though finite , need not think it strange that we are not able to comprehend all the Particularities of what concerns that of God , and the Blessed Trinity .


id: A67389
author: Wallis, John, 1616-1703.
date: 1691
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mime: application/xml
words: 5834
sentence: 242
flesch: 75
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title:
  A fifth letter, concerning the sacred Trinity in answer to what is entituled, the Arians vindication of himself against Dr. Wallis's fourth letter on the Trinity / by John Wallis ...

summary:
  But three things he calls me to account for omitting ; His Reproof of my false Idea of the Personality of God , the Impossibility and Blasphemy of his Incarnation , and of the Death of God , p. 8. And thus much he had before granted , and doth now again confirm it , p. 3 , 4. 'T is true indeed ( he says ) I cannot say that there is a Contradiction in holding that there may be three Persons in God.


id: A67409
author: Wallis, John, 1616-1703.
date: 1691
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7003
sentence: 335
flesch: 77
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title:
  A sixth letter, concerning the sacred Trinity in answer to a book entituled, Observations on the four letters, &c. / by John Wallis ...

summary:
  And , of all men living , the Socinians are obliged to say , that this title the true God , or only true God , belongs to him , not as Father , but as God. p. 52. Nor is it at all strange , or uncommon , that the word Father should be sometime spoken of God personally considered , as Father of our Lord Iesus Christ , and sometime of God indefinitely ( according to his Essence ) without respect to this or that Person .


id: A44958
author: Berkeley, George Berkeley, Earl of, 1627-1698.
title: The humble address of the corporation of Trinity-House
date: 1681
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1517
sentence: 57
flesch: 58
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summary:
  Royston, bookseller to His most sacred Majesty, London : 1681. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A44958) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 30074)


id: A40072
author: Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.
date: 1694
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8379
sentence: 266
flesch: 58
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title:
  Certain propositions by which the doctrin of the H. Trinity is so explain'd, according to the ancient fathers, as to speak it not contradictory to natural reason together with a defence of them, in answer to the objections of a Socianian writer, in his newly printed Considerations on the explications of the doctrin of the Trinity : occasioned by these propositions among other discourses : in a letter to that author.

summary:
  CERTAIN Propositions , &c. 1. THE Name of God is used in more Sences than one in Holy Scripture . 2. The most Absolutely Perfect Being , is God in the Highest Sence .


id: A39364
author: Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.
date: 1696
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7979
sentence: 252
flesch: 58
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title:
  Polemica Christiana, or, An earnest contending for the faith which was once deliver'd unto the saints in I. a letter to the author of the Dialogue, &c., II. a vindication of the doctrine of Mr. Richard Hooker, against the mis-representation of an anti-trinitarion, in a pamphlet entitled, Considerations on the explications of the doctrine of the trinity, III. reflections upon some passages in a book entitled, The history of religion, IV. a vindication of Vincentius Lirinensis, from the unjust reproach cast on him, by an anonymous writer, in a book entitled, Animadversions on Mr. Hill's book / by Edmund Elys ...

summary:
  I suppose You will not Deny , but that Purity of Heart consists in the True Love of God , and our Neighbour . It seems to me , that you are Guilty of great Irreverence towards the Divine Majesty , in that You throw out such Words as these at every Turn : Good God!


id: A52605
author: Nye, Stephen, 1648?-1719.
title: An answer to Dr. Wallis's three letters concerning the Doctrine of the Trinity
date: 1691
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words: 8373
sentence: 214
flesch: 56
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summary:
  In short , the Doctor had as good have said , there must be three Personal Gods , because a Man can walk three ways , for 't is the same that he represents by his personating in his Mind , as walking in the Body , and is not this a pretty simile then , to prove that there must be three personally distinct Gods , and for the Doctor to conclude upon it as he does , ( p. 41. third Letter ) What , shall a man bear three Persons , and shall not God be able to do it ? Alas , the Doctor forgets , that the meer extent of the Power of God , is what we have no adequate Idea of , and that it is quite another thing , then for us to have an Idea of some things that may dishonour God ; I may very well say , God cannot die , tho' I know not the extent of his Power or Wisdom ; so I may well say , he is prudenter than I , tho' I never heard him speak , nor never receiv'd any Notion immediately from him ; and yet never by that , limit how far the Wisdom of his Providence may possibly extend .


id: A62587
author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
date: 1693
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words: 9787
sentence: 247
flesch: 52
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title:
  A sermon concerning the unity of the divine nature and the B. Trinity by John, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.

summary:
  And if we cannot comprehend the manner of those Operations which we plainly perceive and feel to be be in our Selves , much less can we expect to comprehend things without us ; and least of all can we pretend to comprehend the infinite Nature and Perfections of God , and every thing belonging to Him. And to Him likewise by whom we offer up our Prayers to God , and is among us Christians the only Mediator between God and Men , in virtue of that Price and Ransome which he paid for the Redemption of all Mankind : I say , for this reason it must needs be very acceptable to Him that we should pray for all men , because he dyed for all men , and now that He is in Heaven at the right hand of God intercedes with him for the Salvation of those for whom he dyed : There is One God , and one Mediator between God and Men , the Man Christ Jesus , who gave himself a Ransome for all . Which words , though they be brought in to prove more immediately that it is acceptable to God our Saviour , that we should put up Prayers to Him for all men , because he desires the Salvation of all men , and hath sent his Son to purchase the Salvation of all men , by the Sacrifice of himself ; and in virtue of that Sacrifice to be the only Mediator between God and us : I say , though this be the immediate scope and design of these words , yet they are likewise a direction to us , unto whom we ought to address our Prayers , namely , to God ; and by whose mediation and intercession we ought to put up our Prayers to God the Father , namely , by his Son Jesus Christ , who is constituted the only Mediator between God and Men.


id: A67386
author: Wallis, John, 1616-1703.
date: 1692
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words: 9437
sentence: 345
flesch: 67
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title:
  An eighth letter concerning the Sacred Trinity occasioned by some letters to him on that subject / by John Wallis ...

summary:
  Again ; If I should express it thus , That God considered as the Original or Fountain of Being ( who himself Is and gives Being to all things else ) may be called God the Father , ( or The God and Father of all : ) And the same God , as the Fountain of Wisdom or Knowledge ; be called God the Son , ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , the Word , Wisdom or Reason ; The true Light , that lighteth every Man that cometh into the World , ) Then , say they , God that is the great Author and Cause of all things , must be so in a more eminent and high Degree .


id: A59791
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1693
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sentence: 270
flesch: 53
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title:
  An apology for writing against Socinians, in defence of the doctrines of the Holy Trinity and incarnation in answer to a late earnest and compassionate suit for forbearance to the learned writers of some controversies at present / by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  But the whole Mystery of this Latitude and Simplicity of Faith which he pleads for , is that plausible Project ( which has been so much talked of of late : ) to confine our selves to Scripture Terms and Phrases ; to use none but Scripture Words in our Creeds and Prayers , without any Explication in what sense those words are to be understood : As he tells us , Certainly we may Worship God right well , yea , most acceptably , in words of his own Stamp and Coinage . It alters the way of our Salvation , as much as Faith in the Blood and Sacrifice of the Son of God , to expiate our Sins , differs from believing a great and excellent Prophet , and obeying his Laws .


id: A48160
author: Howe, John, 1630-1705.
date: 1694
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words: 10823
sentence: 394
flesch: 64
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title:
  A letter to a friend concerning a postscript to the Defense of Dr. Sherlock's notion of the Trinity in unity, relating to the Calm and sober enquiry upon the same subject

summary:
  If by different Natures he means ( as he seems ) of a different kind , who thought of such a difference ? But I trow , things that differ in number , do as truly differ ( however essentially cohaering ) It is notorious the Dean hath asserted , so positively , three infinite Minds or Spirits , that the benign interpretation wherewith this Defender would salve the matter , ( A new Vocabulary being to be made for him on purpose , and the Reason of things quite alter'd ) will to any man of sense seem rather ludicrous , than sufficient , without express retractation .


id: A67390
author: Wallis, John, 1616-1703.
date: 1691
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words: 11278
sentence: 427
flesch: 75
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title:
  A fourth letter concerning the sacred Trinity in reply to what is entituled An answer to Dr. Wallis's three letters / by John Wallis ...

summary:
  In the beginning was the Word ; and the Word was with God ; and the Word was God ; and the Word was made flesh , and dwelt amongst us . If by Word be meant a Person , ( pre-existent to Christs Incarnation by the Virgin Mary ; ) and , by God , be meant the True God , or God Almighty ; then this place is to our purpose ; for else ( he tells us ) St. John writes Nonsense .


id: A01747
author: Gill, Alexander, 1565-1635.
date: 1601
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words: 12212
sentence: 450
flesch: 68
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title:
  A treatise concerning the trinitie of persons in vnitie of the deitie Written to Thomas Mannering an Anabaptist, who denyed that Iesus is very God of very God: but man onely, yet endued with the infinite power of God.

summary:
  Let it not trouble you , that Iudah the sonne of Iacob was called by such a name , as had these foure letters therein , with the addition of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 d , thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iehudah : but rather wonder and learne , how by these sacramentes the children of GOD before the Incarnation , exercised their faith , saluted the promises afarre off , and saw that our Lord should enter into our earthly tabernacle , by the doore of Iudahs flesh ; for so much the letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Daleth importeth . ISV , because ( say they ) the letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 s. turned vpward 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is as much as the double he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 omitted .


id: A59831
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1696
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sentence: 286
flesch: 36
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title:
  A modest examination of the authority and reasons of the late decree of the vice-chancellor of Oxford, and some heads of colleges and halls concerning the heresy of three distinct infinite minds in the Holy and Ever-blessed Trinity / by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  And when afterwards they more nicely distinguished between 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , they still used Hypostasis in the notion of Substance , that which did actually subsist ; which is therefore often rendred by the Latins extantia . But let us suppose ( and I am sure they ought to be thankful for such a Supposition , for their Notion of a Person will not admit it , unless they understand one thing by a Person when apply'd to the Father , and another when apply'd to the Son , and Holy Spirit ; but I say , let us suppose ) that the Divine Nature is originally in the Person of the Father , or that the Father is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , the unbegotten , self originated God , as he certainly is , and therefore a Divine substantial Person , who is essentially God : Now the very Name of Father is a relative Term , and signifies that he has a Son , begotten of himself ; and let any Man consider which sounds most like Blasphemy , both against the Father and the Son , to say , that the Father begets a Son , who is his own perfect Likeness and Image , the express Character of his own Substance ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) of the same Substance with himself , but distinct in Substance , as Father and Son are , true and perfect God , as his Father is , without any other the least difference , but that one is the Father , and the other the Son ; or to say , that the Father begets no Substance at all , but only a Mode , or a Relation without a Relative , in his own Substance : That the Father begets Filiation , not a Son , but Sonship ; is not this to ridicule the Divine Generation , and to make Sport for Atheists and Hereticks :


id: A67408
author: Wallis, John, 1616-1703.
date: 1691
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mime: application/xml
words: 7287
sentence: 288
flesch: 66
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title:
  A seventh letter, concerning the sacred Trinity occasioned by a second letter from W.J. / by John Wallis ...

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. As God is Conscious of all our Thoughts , good or bad ; and of all the Devils thoughts ; without Vnion , as without Consent .


id: A60952
author: South, Robert, 1634-1716.
date: 1693
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5425
sentence: 190
flesch: 68
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title:
  A table of the additions and alterations made in the second edition of the Animadversions upon Dr. Sherlock's book of the Trinity

summary:
  And I refer him to all the Greek Lexicographers ( not one of them excepted ) whether they do not render 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by in Tartarum detrudo , dejicio , or praecipito ; and if so , how can 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 possibly here agree with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; for if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be the Term ad quem of the Act , how can 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be so too ; since one single Act can have but one Ultimate Term ad quem ? And even this Man himself does not allow 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be one and the same thing . And besides this , I must tell him further , That if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 imported the Term , Thing , or Place , into which God cast down the Apostate Angels , it ought not to have been 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , forasmuch as the motion of casting down , importing a Local descent to something , the Dative Case cannot in true Grammar answer it .


id: A67388
author: Wallis, John, 1616-1703.
date: 1691
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 15976
sentence: 575
flesch: 70
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title:
  An explication and vindication of the Athanasian Creed in a third letter, pursuant of two former, concerning the Sacred Trinity : together with a postscript, in answer to another letter / by John Wallis ...

summary:
  That Clause of descending into Hell , or Hades , ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , ) which we meet with here , and in the Apostles Creed , as it is now read , is not in the Nicene Creed ; nor was it anciently ( as learned Men seem to be agreed ) in what we call the Apostles Creed . So likewise the Father is Lord , ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , the word by which the Greeks do express the Hebrew Name Iehovah , the proper incommunicable Name of God , ) the Son Lord , and the Holy Ghost Lord ; and yet not Three Lords , but One Lord.


id: A59787
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1687
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6702
sentence: 246
flesch: 65
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title:
  An answer to a late Dialogue between a new Catholick convert and a Protestant to prove the mystery of the Trinity to be as absurd a doctrine as transubstantiation : by way of short notes on the said dialogue.

summary:
  On the other side , Transubstantiation lay unquestion'd and quiet a long time ; and when it came to debate , there was no such opposition as that of Arius , to call in question the Authority of its Tradition ; the Church receiv'd it unanimously , and in that sense continu'd , till rash Reason attempted to fathom the unlimited Miracles and Mysteries of God. But , Sir , to be short , What relation has this to the present Parallel of the Trinity and Transubstantiation ?


id: A42447
author: Gastrell, Francis, 1662-1725.
title: Some considerations concerning the Trinity and the ways of managing that controversie
date: 1696
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17745
sentence: 407
flesch: 46
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summary:
  Whether my Idea's are agreeable to the real Natures of Things , or those original Fatterns in the Mind of God , I cannot certainly know ; but when they are the same , and when they differ from one another , I plainly perceive , tho May it please God to make these Endeavours of the Author successful to Satisfie and Unite the Minds of Men in their Belief of the Doctrine of the Trinity ; or may He direct some abler Persons to find out more Effectual Methods of Establishing the Primitive Faith , and settling the Present Peace of the Church .


id: A44701
author: Howe, John, 1630-1705.
date: 1695
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17229
sentence: 687
flesch: 68
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title:
  A view of that part of the late considerations addrest to H.H. about the Trinity which concerns the sober enquiry, on that subject : in a letter to the former friend.

summary:
  For tho it will require more time than I now intend to bestow , to give a distinct account of every Passage throughout that Discourse of his , yet his Expression of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 must not be so taken , as if it were to be torn away from its coherence , and from it self . When therefore he says the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , the being unbegotten , begotten , and having proceeded , are not Names of the Essence , but ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) Modes of Subsistence ; he must mean they are not immediately Names of the Essence , but mediately they cannot but be so .


id: A62586
author: Assheton, William, 1641-1711.
date: 1697
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11620
sentence: 583
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A62586.xml
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title:
  A seasonable vindication of the B. Trinity being an answer to this question, why do you believe the doctrine of the Trinity? : collected from the works of the most Reverend, Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and the right Reverend Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, now Lord Bishop of Worcester.

summary:
  Though neither the word Trinity , nor perhaps Person , in the Sense in which it is used by Divines when they treat of this Mystery , be any where to be met with in Scripture ; yet it cannot be denied but that Three are there spoken of by the Names of Father , Son , and Holy Ghost , in whose Name every Christian is Baptized , and to each of whom the highest Titles and Properties of God are in Scripture attributed . 5 Why we believe the Doctrine of the Trinity ? 10 How it can be proved that God hath Revealed it ? 12 Object .


id: A40444
author: Freke, William, 1662-1744.
title: A vindication of the Unitarians, against a late reverend author on the Trinity
date: 1687
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 18581
sentence: 737
flesch: 74
cache: cache/A40444.xml
txt: txt/A40444.txt
summary:
  Sir , Give me leave to tell you , your Church and Self have by Time and Industry , given your selves such Methods to blind your selves , like the ancient Astronomers , with so many Epicicles , and blind and precarious Principles , in leading your interpreting Scriptures , that without singular Courage and Integrity lead you , I may say , the peculiar Grace of God do it , indeed 't is almost impossible to shew you Truth , you are so clouded and maz'd from it , by your own corrupt Subtleties in defending Error . This , Sir , I conceive , is the great Mystery of the Incarnation ; and this , methinks , carries some semblance of Rationality ; for if we from little Semens , may hereafter grow to the most considerable degrees of Glory , as the Scriptures assures us , surely there can be no impossibility , nor difficulty , that God should be able to reduce the most glorious of his Beings back again , and make them , as from the first Seed of a Soul , arrive to their Ancient Glory .


id: A38076
author: Edwards, Jonathan, 1629-1712.
date: 1695
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 14946
sentence: 483
flesch: 60
cache: cache/A38076.xml
txt: txt/A38076.txt
title:
  Remarks upon a book lately published by Dr. Will. Sherlock ... entituled, A modest examination of the Oxford decree, &c.

summary:
  Thus in the Fathers , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , are promiscuously used to denote the divine nature , or Godhead . And to bring up the rear , we find the Dean in his vindication , declaring his displeasure against them in the like expressions , p. 138. where he tells us , that that which hath confounded this mystery , hath bin the vain endeavor of reducing it to terms of art , such as Nature , Essence , Substance , Existence , Hypostasis , Person and the like .


id: A62676
author: Tindal, Matthew, 1653?-1733.
date: 1694
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 23854
sentence: 605
flesch: 54
cache: cache/A62676.xml
txt: txt/A62676.txt
title:
  A letter to the reverend the clergy of both universities, concerning the Trinity and the Athanasian creed with reflections on all the late hypotheses, particularly Dr. W's, Dr. S--th's, the Trinity placed in its due light, The 28 propositions, The calm discourse of a Trinity in the Godhead, and the defence of Dr. Sherlock's notions : with a short discourse concerning mysteries.

summary:
  But when they speak of these , then they are real Trinitarians ; so a●e they when they endeavour to prove the Spirit and Logos to be Persons ; then they take Person in the same sense as the real Trinitarians do , and say they are not the Power and Wisdom of God , because the Scripture relates such Actions of them as can belong to none but substantial Beings , or which is all one , to Beings that subsist by themselves , and in whom all the Divine Attributes do subsist . 48. But it is quite otherwise when we cannot apprehend the things themselves , there is then an absolute Impossibility of believing them ; none can believe that God is three Persons , and yet one Person is God , the very same God that is three Persons ; so none can believe that the Idea of God is contained in the Idea of Person , and yet there are not as many Gods as Persons : Nor can we believe that God is three ways the same God.


id: A44670
author: Howe, John, 1630-1705.
date: 1694
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24433
sentence: 704
flesch: 56
cache: cache/A44670.xml
txt: txt/A44670.txt
title:
  A calm and sober enquiry concerning the possibility of a Trinity in the Godhead in a letter to a person of worth : occasioned by the lately published considerations on the explications of the doctrine of the Trinity by Dr. Wallis, Dr. Sherlock, Dr. S--th, Dr. Cudworth, &c. ...

summary:
  It would be an over-officious and too meanly servile Religiousness to be aw'd by the Sophistry of presumptuous Scholastick Wits , into a Subscription to their confident determinations concerning the Being of God , that such and such things are necessary or impossible thereto , beyond what the plain undisguised reason of things , or his own express Word do evince . But our difficulty is greater to conceive what is commonly taught , that these , without real distinction , or with formal only ( as contradistinguished to the difference of thing from thing ) are in the abstract affirmable of God , that he is Power , Wisdom , Goodness .


id: A59822
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1696
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 29217
sentence: 584
flesch: 39
cache: cache/A59822.xml
txt: txt/A59822.txt
title:
  The distinction between real and nominal trinitarians examined and the doctrine of a real Trinity vindicated from the charge of Tritheism : in answer to a late Socinian pamphlet, entituled, The judgment of a disinterested person, concerning the controversie about the Blessed Trinity, depending between Dr. S--th, and Dr. Sherlock.

summary:
  for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 49. l. 6. 52 What the Fathers meant by that Argument for the Eternity of the Son , that God was never 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , without his Word , p. 53 The Judgment of Cabassutius about this Argument , p. 54 Concerning Emanatory Causes and Effects , p. 56 SECT .


id: A67417
author: Wallis, John, 1616-1703.
title: Three sermons concerning the sacred Trinity by John Wallis.
date: 1691
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 28930
sentence: 1384
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A67417.xml
txt: txt/A67417.txt
summary:
  And as God by parcels ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) at sundry times , and in divers manners , declared more of it to Abraham , to David , and the Prophets , so were they obliged to know and believe more of it : and when in the last days he had declared the whole of it by his Son ; Heb. 1.1 , 2. it is now necessary for us to believe much more ; of which they might be safely ignorant . For if Christ be onely a Titular God , or a Creature-God , ( as they would have it , ) there was a time , or moment , when he was not , ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , ) and therefore , when God was not his Father .


id: A40088
author: Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.
date: 1695
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24856
sentence: 872
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A40088.xml
txt: txt/A40088.txt
title:
  A second defence of the propositions by which the doctrine of the Holy Trinity is so explained according to the ancient fathers, as to speak it not contradictory to natural reason : in answer to a Socinian manuscript, in a letter to a friend : together, with a third defence of those propositions, in answer to the newly published reflexions, contained in a pamphlet, entituled, A letter to the reverend clergy of both universities / both by the author of those propositions.

summary:
  If I cared to talk things which I understand nothing of , I could talk too of Infinity ; and say , that there are several sorts of Infinity : That there is Infinity of Substance : And Infinity of Quantity : And Infinity of Duration : And Infinity of Space ; and God knows how many more Infinities : And could shew that there is no Absurdity in saying , that all these Infinities do not necessarily belong to every one of these , and I should get great Reputation among Wise men for my pains , should they Catch me thus Employing my Tongue or Pen. — That at the Name of Jesus , every knee should bow , of things in Heaven , and things on Earth , and things under the Earth : And that Every Tongue should confess , that Jesus Christ is Lord , to the Glory of God the Father .


id: A61522
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1697
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 33204
sentence: 1272
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A61522.xml
txt: txt/A61522.txt
title:
  The Bishop of Worcester's answer to Mr. Locke's letter, concerning some passages relating to his Essay of humane understanding, mention'd in the late Discourse in vindication of the Trinity with a postscript in answer to some reflections made on that treatise in a late Socinian pamphlet.

summary:
  It is certain , that what God created is no meer Name or Idea : It is certain , that God created not only Individuals but the several Kinds , with the Differences , which they have from each other ; it is certain , that these Differences do not lie in meer Names or Ideas : How comes it then not to be certain that there is a Real Common Essence or Nature in the Individuals of the same kind ? That your Notions about Ideas have no Connexion with any Objections that are made by others against the Doctrine of the Trinity , or against Mysteries .


id: A61550
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1688
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 30938
sentence: 1756
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A61550.xml
txt: txt/A61550.txt
title:
  The doctrine of the Trinity and transubstantiation compared as to Scripture, reason, and tradition. The first part in a new dialogue between a Protestant and a papist : wherein an answer is given to the late proofs of the antiquity of transubstantiation in the books called Consensus veterum and Nubes testium, &c.

summary:
  And it is the less wonder it is so in the Incarnation , wherein an Union is implied between an Infinite and Finite Nature ; when the Union of the Soul and Body , though both Finite , is above our Comprehension , though we our selves consist of Souls and Bodies so united ? For he did not think Hypostatical Union necessary , to make the Elements become the Body of Christ , but a Divine Energy was sufficient , as the Bodies assumed by Angels are their Bodies , tho there be no such vital Union , as there is between the Soul and Body of a Man.


id: A25775
author: Aretius, Benedictus, d. 1574.
date: 1696
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 30251
sentence: 1161
flesch: 67
cache: cache/A25775.xml
txt: txt/A25775.txt
title:
  A short history of Valentinus Gentilis, the tritheist tryed, condemned, and put to death by the Protestant reformed city and church of Bern in Switzerland, for asserting the three divine persons of the Trinity, to be [three distinct, eternal spirits, &c.] / wrote in Latin, by Benedictus Aretius, a divine of that church, and now translated into English for the use of Dr. Sherlock ...

summary:
  But to come to the business : The Word Trinity in this Question does not signifie an Abstracted Number , as when we say in Latin ternio , quaternio , [ in English three or four Units ] but it denotes an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , something really existing ; thence it is that the Trinity was call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . At last they did upon very good grounds limit the signification of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Person only , and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 became equivalent terms , as in Latin persona & subsistentia ; so that a Substance with [ personal ] Properties was call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 .


id: A59810
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1694
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 34566
sentence: 684
flesch: 40
cache: cache/A59810.xml
txt: txt/A59810.txt
title:
  A defence of Dr. Sherlock's notion of a Trinity in unity in answer to the animadversions upon his vindication of the doctrine of the holy and ever Blessed Trinity : with a post-script relating to the calm discourse of a Trinity in the Godhead : in a letter to a friend.

summary:
  It is amazing to think what strange Conceits this Man must have of a Trinity of Persons , and Unity of Essence or Substance : For I am sure no Man has any Idea of an intelligent Nature and Essence distinguished from a Person , or of Persons distinguished from a rational Nature ; of a Divine Essence and Substance , which is no Person ; and of Divine Persons , which are no Substances , as it seems , they cannot be in the Animadverter's way , unless he also will compound every Person of Two Substances . The Animadverter objects against the Dean , That a Mind or Spirit is an absolute Being , Nature , or Substance ; and I grant it is so in the common use of the Word , as apapplied to created Minds and Spirits ; but so is Person also , as much as Mind ; and if we allow of a Theological use of the Word Person , why not of Mind too ? to signifie an intelligent Subsistence , which is a Mind too , but not a separate Mind , and therefore not such an absolute Being , Nature , and Substance , as a created Mind is .


id: A52608
author: Nye, Stephen, 1648?-1719.
date: 1693
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24108
sentence: 607
flesch: 51
cache: cache/A52608.xml
txt: txt/A52608.txt
title:
  Considerations on the explications of the doctrine of the Trinity by Dr. Wallis, Dr. Sherlock, Dr. S-th, Dr. Cudworth, and Mr. Hooker as also on the account given by those that say the Trinity is an unconceivable and inexplicable mystery / written to a person of quality.

summary:
  Considerations on the explications of the doctrine of the Trinity by Dr. Wallis, Dr. Sherlock, Dr. S-th, Dr. Cudworth, and Mr. Hooker as also on the account given by those that say the Trinity is an unconceivable and inexplicable mystery / written to a person of quality. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1022:7) Considerations on the explications of the doctrine of the Trinity by Dr. Wallis, Dr. Sherlock, Dr. S-th, Dr. Cudworth, and Mr. Hooker as also on the account given by those that say the Trinity is an unconceivable and inexplicable mystery / written to a person of quality.


id: A71108
author: Tindal, Matthew, 1653?-1733.
date: 1695
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 29521
sentence: 782
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A71108.xml
txt: txt/A71108.txt
title:
  The reflections on the XXVIII propositions touching the doctrine of the Trinity, in a letter to the clergy, &c. maintain'd, against the Third defence of the said propositions by the same hand.

summary:
  1 Tim. 2. 5. For there is one God , and one Mediator between God and Men , the Man Christ Jesus . 1. He says , that the Name of God is used in more senses than one in Scripture .


id: A86947
author: Hyde, Edward, 1607-1659.
date: 1651
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 41557
sentence: 1926
flesch: 84
cache: cache/A86947.xml
txt: txt/A86947.txt
title:
  The mystery of Christ in us, with the mystery of the Father, Word, and holy Ghost or Spirit, opened also, the parable of the rich man's flocks and herds, and the poor man's ewe-lamb, explicated. Likewise, the way that Christ takes to undo a man, and take away his life. Together with a discovery of the neerness of Christs coming, and of those glorious things which are to be fulfilled in these later days. Set forth and published by Ed. Hide jun.

summary:
  His righteousness consisteth in this , in that he can remit sin , and yet be faithful ; in that he can justifie the ungodly , and yet be just : or the righteousness of Faith is the righteousness of Christ ; for Faith is called Christ , as I said before ; He is made of God unto us , Wisdom , Sanctification , Justification , Redemption , Righteousness , and the like . But why is Christ called the Word of God in Scripture ? Because , as the word of a man is that whereby a man expresseth himself , his minde :


id: A53669
author: Owen, John, 1616-1683.
date: 1669
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 44222
sentence: 1672
flesch: 68
cache: cache/A53669.xml
txt: txt/A53669.txt
title:
  A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of the person and satisfaction of Christ / accommodated to the capacity and use of such as may be in danger to be seduced, and the establishment of the truth by J. Owen.

summary:
  〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 denotes an act of God , if the words be spoken with reference in the first place to any acting of his towards Cain , Certainly these tremendous Mysteries , are not by us willingly to be exposed , or prostituted to the Cavils of every perverse querist , and disputer ; those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; whose pretended Wisdom , indeed ignorance , darkness and folly , God hath designed to confound and destroy in them and by them .


id: A66436
author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
date: 1695
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 47458
sentence: 1541
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A66436.xml
txt: txt/A66436.txt
title:
  A vindication of the sermons of His Grace John Archbishop of Canterbury concerning the divinity and incarnation of our B. Saviour : and of the Lord Bishop of Worcester's sermon on the mysteries of the Christian faith, from the exceptions of a late book, entituled, Considerations on the explications of the doctrine of the Trinity : to which is annexed, a letter from the Lord Bishop of Sarum to the author of the said vindication, on the same subject.

summary:
  But here our Author interposes , and because he confesses he has met with these two names in the Church History ; and when he did , to be sure finds no passable Character of them ; therefore he will not have Ebion a Person , nor Cerinthus a Unitarian ; and for the proof of the latter , offers no Testimony ( the way for proving matter of Fact ) but an Argument of his own ; For , saith he , if Cerinthus held the Unity of God , and denied the Divinity and Pre-existence of our Saviour ( as his Grace and the Moderns suppose ) neither it should seem , would the Unitarians have reckoned him a Heretick , nor have rejected the Books which they supposed to be his ; namely , the Gospel , Epistles , and Revelation , now attributed to St. John. Was there never a time when the Church of God professed the same Tenets which our Church defends , without any of those great Rewards to bribe them ; and when on all sides they were beset with the Aws and Fears of a Furious and Embitter'd Adversary ?


id: A41434
author: Goodman, Godfrey, 1583-1656.
date: 1653
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 59582
sentence: 1098
flesch: 38
cache: cache/A41434.xml
txt: txt/A41434.txt
title:
  The two great mysteries of Christian religion the ineffable Trinity, [the] vvonderful incarnation, explicated to the satisfaction of mans own naturall reason, and according to the grounds of philosophy / by G. G. G.

summary:
  Man as he totally proceeds from God , so is he totally directed to God , but before such time as the word was made flesh , it should seem only the better part of man , the soul and the understanding , were capable of Gods word ; Alas what becomes of the sensible part ? shall the body and the flesh be excluded ? if it lookes for a portion in glory , needs it must have some earnest in grace ; body and soul ▪ they are both creatures alike , they are both parts of man alike . Do we not here see how all the three Persons did concur as in one nature , so in the same outward act of Creation ? From the creation of the World , where it is said ▪ Dii creavit , let us come to the creation of Man , for whom the world was created : and therefore being a work of so great moment , God seems to deliberate , and to enter into consultation : Certainly when we enter into counsel , it argues a diversity of persons , or at least it must imply a greater caution , that neither in words or acts there might be any mistake ; the rather , because it is the first time that ever God spake of himself , wherein frail man is usually more cautionate and wary then in any other discourse : and therefore this may much more be supposed in the most wise God ; let us then hear God with the greatest reverence , Faciamus hominem ad imaginem nostram , Let us make man according to our own image , the plural number , which argues Persons , is here twice implied , both in the act faciamus , let us make , and in the type or sampler , ad imaginem nostram , according to our own image .


id: A61548
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1697
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 80615
sentence: 3456
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A61548.xml
txt: txt/A61548.txt
title:
  A discourse in vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity with an answer to the late Socinian objections against it from Scripture, antiquity and reason, and a preface concerning the different explications of the Trinity, and the tendency of the present Socinian controversie / by the Right Reverend Father in God Edward, Lord Bishop of Worcester.

summary:
  God , saith he , is the Father of his Son 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , without any Division of the Substance . His great Argument is from the use of the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which may extend to Individuals of the same kind .


id: A59905
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1691
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 86146
sentence: 1739
flesch: 45
cache: cache/A59905.xml
txt: txt/A59905.txt
title:
  A vindication of the doctrine of the holy and ever blessed Trinity and the Incarnation of the Son of God occasioned by the Brief notes on the Creed of St. Athanasius and the Brief history of the Unitarians or Socinians and containing an answer to both / by William Sherlock.

summary:
  Thus the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Love , which inspires us with the love of God , and gives us the reciprocal Testimonies of God's love to us : For the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost , which is given unto us , 5 Rom. 5. And as some of the Ancients represent it , he is that love , wherewith the Father and the Son love each other ; and therefore there is no question , but that he who unites Father and Son , and unites God to us , and us to God , by love , is united to Father and Son by love himself . He is that Holy Spirit , who renews and sanctifies us , and subdues our wills into a conformity and subjection to the will of God ; and therefore no doubt , but he has the same will with Father and Son.


