Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	ghost_n	holy_a	son_n	5,168	5	5.9174	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25440	Animadversions on a postscript to the defence of Dr. Sherlock, against the calm discourse of the sober enquirer as also on the letter to a friend concerning that postscript.		1695 (1695)	Wing A3192; ESTC R7291	26,902	22

absurd for the Zeal of the Author of the Athanasian Creed so I must call it for Athan. has Sins enough of his own to account for Mr. H. is now pleas'd to mend an Argument of the Dean's and then it runs thus Though we have a natural Notion of an eternal Being we have no Notion of Three eternal Essences which necessarily co-exist in an eternal Union To this he replies Does he the Dean mean that we are to disbelieve every thing of God whereof we have not a natural Notion No no no it is enough good Mr. H. enough for him to mean that we are not requir'd by God nor ought to be by Man to believe any thing whereof we have not a natural Notion But Mr. H. pleads that his Notion is most favour'd by Divine Revelation And is that all with what Conscience then can he affirm the Article to be Fundamental and necessary to be believ'd when the most that he can say for it is That his Notion thereof is most favour'd by Divine Revelation Nay and at the same time other Expositors are as ready to pretend that the Scripture favours their Exposition more than Mr. H's Let me be allow'd one short Digression I dare venture my Life on 't that the Unitarians shall unanimously come into the Acknowledgment of the Doctrine of Three Persons in One God if but a Majority of Church-men and Dissenters shall agree upon the Signification of the Terms and publish that one Sense of the Article which they the Majority dare profess to believe but if a Majority of them are not like to come to such an Agreement and perhaps not the Tithe of them are then let them either Christianly indulge the Unitarians in their contrary Perswasion or Honestly tell the World that they hold it necessary to Salvation to believe Words the true and certain Sense of which they judg cannot certainly be determin'd But Mr. H. intimates that against his Hypothesis favour'd by Scripture there is no evident natural Notion What says the Dean to this why he argues to this purpose If there be Three Spiritual Beings of distinct Natures in the Godhead no One of them can be absolutely perfect and infinite because they are not the same and no One of them is the whole Here now is an evident natural Notion against his Hypothesis to which he replies 1st By way of Concession that it is an Argument of some Strength But 2dly it resolves it self into the Notion of Infinity about which he spake his Sense to Dr. Wallis and 't is worth the while to know what that Sense was viz. That he will not move nor meddle with any Controversy about the Infinity of the Three supposed Substances or Spirits in the Godhead i. e. he spoke his Sense of it by declaring he would say nothing about it he spoke his Sense by his Silence 3dly To the Dean he now begins to speak his Sense by saying something what that is shall be consider'd The first thing he offers is from his old Topic of entangling his Adversary with as puzzling Difficulties as himself is entangled by him he can give any Man as much Trouble about the Infinity of quantitative Extention as the Dean can give him about the Infinity of Three distinct Beings which are but one Infinite Being Well! for once suppose it but then I ask why why should any Man be requir'd to believe that which to use his Phrase gives him so much Trouble and after all his Trouble he cannot make to appear indisputably possible 2. The Infinity of quantitative Extention is an unjustifiable Phrase for as Cudworth will tell him p. 643 644. Body or Matter is indesinite you cannot conceive it so great but you may conceive it greater but 't is not positively and actually infinite as God is his Power c. is so great that it cannot be conceived greater 3. Though we have not an adequate and fully commensurate Knowledg of the Nature of Matter yet we are certain that contradictory Affirmations concerning it cannot be both true and so we are also certain that contradictory Affirmations concerning the Nature of the Godhead cannot be both true 4. Mr. H's Hypothesis does suppose contradictory Affirmations for it supposes Three perfect Beings each of which is God and that these Three perfect Beings are but One perfect Being and but One God and ' gainst this the Dean argues well The second thing he offers is that he thinks it demonstrable that One Infinite can never be from another by voluntary Production by necessary Emanation he supposes it may I note If one Infinite can be from another by what Way soever then there may be more Infinites than One and further necessary Emanation is a Theological Phrase by which nor Mr. H. nor any Trinitarian else can tell us what is to be understood I will not say that necessary Emanation is Gipsy Cant as the Dean pronounces of some Words of Doctor S th not understanding his own gross Raillery for Gipsy Cant is intelligible Stuff under uncouth Terms which is more than the Dean meant to allow to Dr. S th's words but I think I may truly call necessary Emanation perfect Banter for 't is an Amusing Phrase that will not endure to be explain'd and will only serve to satisfy an implicit Believer who can be contented that something is said for the Article without considering whether it be intelligible or only empty words Noise and no more Necessary Emanation though a Christian Theological Phrase is really very Heathenish Stuff What Emanation ordinarily signifies that we know but relating to the Godhead it seems it must signify something else so the Blood that flows from one of Homer's wounded Deities is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they eat like Mortals but their Food is not good Flesh and Fish but Ambrosia they drink too but not Burgundy but Nectar There is a Difference also 'twixt their Gate and ours for Statius tells us they fetch greater Steps than we or as Heliodorus Aethiop l. 3. they fetch no Steps at all but sweep along Aeneas knew his Mother from a common Mortal Gipsy by that Token I am willing to allow the Enquirer the Character of a Calm and Modest Man notwithstanding that he now and then lets his Adversary know he is no Stoic He appears very desirous to be thought Modest Nay even when he is desending his Hypothesis with the best Arguments his Wit can devise he has something of the Pyrrhonian Sceptic in him He will not considently determine nor positively say things are so and so as he has set them but Zeal to a Cause will one time or other show its governing Power witness p. 39. where he adventures to affirm that we are plainly told by the Divine Oracles of a Sacred Three that are each of them God Whereas the Holy Ghost is no where called God the Son but in a few places and in those few the Scope of