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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52608	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.	Nye, Stephen, 1648?-1719.; Wallis, John, 1616-1703.; Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1693 (1693)	Wing N1505B; ESTC R32239	45,913	35

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 Printed in the Year MDCXCIII CONSIDERATIONS on the Explication of the Doctrine of the Trinity c. SIR 't is the principal Design of both Testaments by Confession of all Parties to estabish the Worship and Belief of one only God 't was for this that all the Books of the Old Testament were written and delivered to the Jews and for this the New was bestowed on the Gentiles Of Jews and Gentiles as the Apostle observes There were none that understood none that sought after the true God They were all gone out of the way they became vain in their Imaginations and their foolish Heart was darkened Professing to be wise they became Fools and changed the Truth of God into a Lie by worshipping the Creature and doing Service to them who were not by Nature Gods This was the Condition of both Jews and Gentiles when first the Law and then the Light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God shone out upon them In the Law the Jews were charged Ye shall have no other Gods but ME and again Thou shalt know no other God but ME. In the Gospel the Gentiles are taught There is one God and there is none other but He There is no other God but one God is one Exod. 20. 3. Hosea 13. 4. Mark 12. 32. 1 Cor. 8. 5. Gal. 3. 20. These and an hundred more such like clear and express Declarations of holy Scripture have been the occasion that the Unity of God or that there is but one God is the first Article of Faith both with Jews and true Christians From the Christians and Jews it hath been learned and embraced by all the Mahometans and is now the general Belief even of the Pagan and Idolatrous Nations for tho these last own and worship many Gods yet they commonly own but one who is Supream Infinite Almighty and Pre-eternal they make the other Deities to be but the Ministers of his Providence and Will and their Mediators with Him But that there is an Almighty and All-wise Mind the Maker of Heaven and Earth and of all the Creatures and Kinds in them we discern plainly by the Order Beauty and Stability of Things and more especially by the admirable Designs in the Whole and in all the Parts of the Creation But as this Divine Beauty and Order and those numberless and most useful Designs Aims and Ends seen in the Creation do evince that there is a Thinking Designing and All-powerful Mind whom we call GOD so they no way intimate to us that there is more than one Creating and Governing Mind or GOD. They demonstrate to us beyond exception that one such Mind there is but not that there is more than one therefore we may say that we can own and worship but one such Mind or but one God because we know of no more Of one we are certain by the Order and Design of the Parts in the World of more than one we have no manner of Proof therefore we cannot own or worship or but talk or even think of more But the Revelation made to us in holy Scripture is Categorical Apodictical Express and Direct there we are told plainly and in terms There is no other God but one there is one God and there is none other but He the Lord thy God the Lord is one God is one As this Doctrine is so clearly delivered in Scripture so good Christians have been always very jealous that neither directly nor indirectly neither in express Words nor in Consequence any thing should be said or held contrary thereto They have considered that Polytheism and Atheism are much the same thing as 't is much one to acknowledg and contend for more Kings of England others besides King William and to renounce or deny him to be King of England Both the Covenants the Old as well as the New are between Us on the one part and the one true God on the other part he covenants to be our God and our exceeding great Reward we covenant to be his People and his only this Covenant is manifestly dissolved and the Premium or Promise of Eternal Life annexed to our Faithfulness to this Covenant is utterly forfeited if we take to our selves any other besides Him with whom we are in covenant and who alone is true God The Guilt of Polytheism or of affirming more than one God being so very great and the Forfeiture thereby made so unspeakable and the Unity of God being so often and so expresly delivered in holy Scripture 't is an amazing Circumstance that Polytheism is not only found among Christians but is also the more general and prevailing Belief of Christian States and Kingdoms It is true we all agree in the words There is one God and there is none other but He but when we come to explain our selves on these words the incomparable Majority of Modern Christians are found to affirm three Gods and not one only One would have thought that these words Thou shalt have no other Gods but ME the Lord thy God is one Lord thou shalt know no other God but ME there is none other God but one God is one I say one would have thought these Declarations to be so plain and so uncontestable that a Question could never have arose concerning their meaning But so it is that there are a great many Senses given of these Words which Senses are contrary to and destructive of one another The Doctrine of the Unitarians concerning God THe first of these Senses is the Unitarian For the Unitarians say there is none other God but one God is one the plain obvious and indubitable meaning of these words is this there is but One who is God or a God One God say they is to be understood in the same natural sincere and unsophisticated Sense as when we say one Sun one Earth one World When the Scriptures say they speak to us of so high an Object as God when they tell us there is one God and there is none other but He when they declare this Faith to be the very first of all God's Charges or Commandments to Men without doubt they speak without Artifice or Querk they have no double or deceitful meaning they don't lay Snares for us by intending such a meaning as is contrary to the usual the grammatical and proper Sense of the Words There is but one God say the Holy Scriptures where can be the Ambiguity of such usual and plain Words the meaning of the Terms One and God is perfectly known to all Men Why do we study Subtilties and Finenesses with which to deceive our selves into Polytheism and to destroy the Simplicity of the Faith When God says in the