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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30563	An account of the Blessed Trinity argued from the nature and perfection of the Supream Spirit, coincident with the Scripture doctrine, in all the articles of the Catholick Creeds; together with its 1 mystical 2 fœderal 3 practical uses in the Christian religion, by William Burrough rector of Chynes in Bucks.	Burrough, William, b. 1639 or 40.	1694 (1694)	Wing B6058B; ESTC R214160	72,062	76

they designed to entertain us with a sort of Traversty transprosed the Text and their sense being confronted appear to speak of things so vastly distant Ex. Gr. St. John agreeably to other Scriptures and in exact accord with the reason of the Divine Nature as before explained John 1.2 tells us In the beginning was the Word and the word was with God and the word was God All things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made The Gloss of those who pretend to the most rational interpretation of the Scripture in plain sense is to this purpose In the beginning That is as they expound Not in the beginning but in the days of Augustus Caesar Was the word That is not the word but a meer man whose name was Jesus and and not the word And the word was with God That is not in Heaven where God is but in Galilee in a retired privacy as if one should say God knows where And the wo d was God That is not God but one by false reputation so styled All things That is not all things but somethings Were made by him That is not made by him but disposed into another order by him And without him was not any thing made that was made that is every Substantial thing that was made was made without him but some respects of some things were not without him disposed otherwise than they had been before Thus they Surely this is to read us a Riddle or give us an Account of some Parabolical Projection and not to give us the exposition of a Doctrinal instruction for here every word shifts its signification to comport with a secret contrivance which the speaker had projected in his thoughts not to inform but to amuse the Hearers But after the adversaries have with such force and artifice set this Scene all the expression following for Ten or Twelve Ver●●s together lie so crosly that though they torture their wits they cannot wrest them to any tollerable compliance with their design and their Comments upon other Texts are much what of the like consistency But when the word as hath been proved does so properly signifie the Subsistence of the Deity in the Divine Conception and all the subsequent assertions about it in this Chapter are as Natural as could be chosen on a subject of so august solemnity it would tempt a friendly Monitor to ask these men what they see in such a ramble of fanciful extravagance that can please them better than the plain obvious and native sense of this portion of holy Scripture That a force is used upon the expression is as manifest as can be to every one that understands the Language but it appears not what could constrain these men to use it besides some reasonings about the thing in their own minds and then it is their own preconceived opinion and nothing else that necessitates them thus to dstort the Scriptures For I have shewed what is here said is most consonant to the Nature and reason of the thing in its self and to many express assertions in other Texts All their reasonings which have appeared against the Scripture language on this Head have no other foundation but a presumption that because they see all Created Beings must needs Subsist in one Subsistence alone therefore the Divine Nature cannot Subsist in any more Whereas it is manifest upon more wary thoughts that though all dependent Substances seeing there is but one Divine Energy Ad Extra can have but one and that a dependent Subsistence yet a Substance yielding to its self it s own Subsistence will yield it self so many distinct real Subsistences as the condition of that blessed Nature doth require and whether that be one or more cannot be concluded from the manner of the Subsistence of other things in the World without interpreting the Parable wherein the World do's present to us the Divine Nature how that is to be done I have briefly hinted above The face of the World which we behold bears in it the Prints of the makers hand by which we reasoning right from our outward and inward sensations may understand what a Being the Deity is but then we must remember in all our reckonings to allow for all Parabolical Projections in the delineation as not only we but the Antitrinitarians themselves do in all other questions of the Divine Nature but this they not allowing or not heeding in the question of the Trinity are in consequence forced to make all the Scriptures Parabolical which teach the several branches of the Doctrine of the Trinity as it is in Truth and this is the cause of their rending and tearing the words and the sense asunder The case of Christians in this point stands thus if we be not Naturalists skilful enough to resolve the Projection then however God has given us the Scripture as an intelligible declaration of what God would have us to believe concerning his own Divine Being Now nothing can be more absurd than to pretend to understand a Persons meaning by his sayings and yet at the same time to destroy the very reason of that speech making it insignificant of that which the expressions signifie to all that understand the Language But if we can interpret the Parable of Nature aright then we see the words of Truth in the Scripture interpret themselves for we see the Language of Scripture understood according to the Reason of Speech speaks the same that the Nature of the thing doth when we have made such an allowance for the different realities as Reason teaches us there is betwixt a Dependent and self Originate Substance CHAP. X. Of the Mystical Trinity 1. THings secret and abstruse which lie out of the way of common understanding are according to their subject matter usually termed Mysteries of Art or Nature of Trade or State of Iniquity or Religion These last being stiled by Christ the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 13.11 they are therefore such things as belong to the invisible State of Gods Kingdom Yet it is neither the abstruseness of the things nor their Religiousness nor yet their invisible state in the intellectual World that compleats the form of their Christian Mysteriousness For St. Paul teaching that God manifest in the Flesh is the Ground and Pillar of Truth and the confessedly great Mystery of Godliness we thereby learn that it is the relation to or dependence upon the words being made Flesh which now constitutes a Religious Mystery in the Christian State Accordingly Lactantius frequently denies that the Heathens understood the Mystery of the World though they knew the Natural Condition and Frame of the World I suppose no less than Christians I would further observe that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are mostly applied to such things as are appropriate to the use of propitiating and conciliating the favour of the Deity and so the Mysticalness of Religious things will properly