This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1722 Excerpt: ...and make some Return to what is alledg'd to pnfye it inconsistent. I. H13ll.not stay to fliew you how reconcileable this Distinction yi. the Deity, is.-with, the Divrine simplicity-j-, about which some nave odd Notions: Nor fcallTtouch on fey eras orher Objections that have'been; made. I think it may here be sufficient ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1722 Excerpt: ...and make some Return to what is alledg'd to pnfye it inconsistent. I. H13ll.not stay to fliew you how reconcileable this Distinction yi. the Deity, is.-with, the Divrine simplicity-j-, about which some nave odd Notions: Nor fcallTtouch on fey eras orher Objections that have'been; made. I think it may here be sufficient to make such Remarks as these )W. " .'.-': ..; '... '" j. I T is represented as most grossly absurd aiid ridiculous to hold such a Distintti flavin the Divine Nature, while yet it is own'd to-lbe but Owe It Is said, How can one be fceand.TbreexQni?!, ' But the Question is, Whether we meet not with something like this.Jit our vBibles? And whether thole SacVed Writings for which we have Reason to have the nighest, Veneration, don't intimate to usA that tho: rhere is but. One God, . there yet are Three, to whom the Divine Nature witli all its essential Excellencies and Perfections properly belongs? If they give us this Iixfprroatjon, . then is it on them, .and their Divine Author that these Gentlemen.. pour pour Contempt, when they throw out this Serm. Reflection. But tho' it may well enough Tv grieve us., to..find them so audacious, as in Vvnj such a Manner to arraign the Most High, (for which without Repentance they will have a sad Account to give) yet can I not perceive that any such Regard is due to theni, -as that we mould own that to be inconsistent, .on which they will venture to pass a Jest, when we have it from the very belt Authority, ' that thus it is! However, 'tis, no new Thing for the Christian Scheme to be ridicul'd about its Trinity in Unity. For that prophane Wretch Lucian, who liv'd as long ago as in the Year of oijr Lord 176, who is famous for his witty Dialogues, in which he so miserably insulted the poor Christians, in his...
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