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Hagnelion jechidatho ruahh turak Jehovah ehhad. Or, Eye-salve recommended to the world in a short essay, occasion'd by the sight of a discourse set forth since the Kings injunctions, call'd, Some considerations concerning the Trinity.
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Hagnelion Jechidatho Ruahh Turak Jehovah Ehhad OR EYE-SALVE Recommended to the World in a Short Essay Occasion'd by the sight of a Discourse set forth Since the Kings Injunctions CALL'D Some CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE TRINITY Ps 8. 2. Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings hast thou ordain'd strength because of thy Enemies that thou mayst still the Enemy and the avenger LONDON Printed in the Year 1696. The Authour TO His Book on the Holy TRINITY MY 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a most sad and lamentable Consideration it is on which I can neither think Speak or write without great Concern and Grief of Heart that the present age being fill'd with Controversie about no less a matter than the Holy Trinity it self the greatest Divines in the Church should be mistaken as they are in the most fundamentall Article of the Christian Faith the Profession and Belief of which is formally and essentially necessary to Baptisme to be Administer'd always in the Name of the Father of the Son and of the Holy Ghost by the special Command and Order of Christ himself the great Apostle of our Profession and that the Church should thereby be fill'd with Scandal as it is not only to the Confirming of Deists and Arians in their wickness and Heresy but also to the turning aside of God's People from the right way who seeing their Leaders Contesting so hotly with each other as they do about the very springs of all Divinity and Religion cannot therefore but waver and be brought to doubt of the Verity and Sacro-Sanctitie thereof Surely to be fear'd it is that Christendom is even now call'd to an Account and Recconning for this and I am tempted methinks upon it with Jesus Ananai in Josephus to fill the streets of our Citys with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for it For what can be the Consequence and Effect of such great Mistake but that our Blessed Saviour so little Faith being found in the Land should come at last in Judgment against us and that our Jerusalem should be destroy'd Is there any Remedy or Prevention for so great an Evil There is one only that the Mistake be rectify'd Wherefore I tell Thee and Tell it Thou agen to all that read thee that the wrapping up the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity which God hath reveal'd and the Church in her Holy Creeds sufficiently Explain'd in the Clowd of Misteriousness has been the cause of this Evil it being a Papistical Doctrine which serves only as it has been made use of to cover over another Error as bad or worse that of Transsubstantiation Must we look on now and suffer this let those who are so Earnest to bear up the Grandeur of the Church more then Gods Holy Truths making Religion to be a Scala ad Eminentiam instead of a Scala Coeli Consider of it I for my part for the Truth 's sake choose rather to take up the Cross of Christ as a Donative of his who took it up for me first that I might obtain Eternal Life and be Number'd amongst those blessed ones who having their Reward in Heaven shall for ever praise him Go therefore My little Book into the world dreadless fearing neither Kings nor Princes Pope nor Cardinals Arch-Bishops nor Bishops Conclave nor Sanedrim and carry thy Eye-Salve to them all telling them it 's the Counsel of him who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords to anoint their Eyes with it that they may See Go and God Bless thee with good Success So prayeth he who beleiveth a Trinity in Vnity and Vnity in Trinity but does not believe that Trinity Is Vnity or that Vnity is Trinity that is Believes three Persons to be one God so is no Tritheita that Three Persons are one Person cannot Believe so is no Sabellian S◠THESE Three are One. OR A Distinction of Persons in the Trinity yet in Vnity cleerly tho' briefly asserted HATH this Church the Church of England at this Day need of Eye-Salve it appears by the many Errors concerning the Trinity which go abroad in Print that it hath yea that it hath need of more Epistles yet from him who walks betwixt the Candle-Sticks and holds the Seven Stars in his right hand Wherefore choosing to be under Hherem rather than Suffer the Truth to fail for Sion's sake I shall not hold my Peace Once have I written and twice will I do it making only this Apology for saying so little on a Subject controverted so much that the less is said of it if it be enough it is so much the better So Aspirante Spiritu Sancto into the Deep I lanch forth craving leave in Order to what I shall say to premise this little That as I do and must grant that there is but One God which we are as sure of as that there is but one Sun to rule the Day and One Moon to give light in the Night So it be granted me likewise that there were two more before the Worlds were made what ever we may take 'em to be WITH THIS ONE GOD. This will be granted me I presume by all because he that denies it owns not Revelation and 't is Confest by the Arrian So that The Questions to be regarded by us are whether he who is said to be begotten the Other who is said to proceed in Scripture from the One God be truly and properly each of 'em Themselves God Further whither these Two are together with him who is call'd in Scripture the Father THE ONE GOD or no What to let go Socinus does the Arrian say to this He Poor Man I call him so because he 's a follower of Ebion denies it utterly yet in my Eye not without reason because of the Scandal that 's given him For he knows as well as any man that to say that Three Distinct Infinites are one Single Infinite as he is told Implies and is false that to say a Mode a property or Faculty can Constitute a Distinct Person as he 's told likewise Obtrudes on him an Impossible Notion He says therefore The Son and the Holy Ghost cannot be God which we are sure is false if the Holy Scriptures be true What next does the Authour of the Considerations mention'd in the Title-Page Say He likewise seeing the same Absurdities as the Arian doth and very well perceiving the Son and Holy Spirit 's Characters in Scripture Concludes because he dares not go against his Creeds and Litany that they are Persons but that they are not so distinct as Three Angels are c. No Saith he it 's an Impossible thing this What lastly say I now truely what he averr's I cannot possibly grant him Here my Author wants Eye-Salve Consequently in Opposition to what he Contends for so Earnestly as if 't were the Faith once deliver'd to the Saints I lay down this for Truth First that the Father Son and Holy Ghost are Persons and that as Distinct as three Angels Persons or as the Persons of Peter James
Illustrious Prototype of Heavenly Wights or Angels Is it ask'd why I answer because as the Son is call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Only-begotten one to distinguish him from men who are created Sons so is the Holy Ghost call'd with three dictinctive Articles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Spirit The Holy of The God to distinguish him as it seems to me from Created Angels who are call'd by St. Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 only and in their nature are such If so it be not why are they call'd Ruchoth i. e. Spirits as the Holy Ghost is call'd a Spirit Why are they said to be Gibbore coaâ—h great in Power and Strength as He the power of the Highest And why Elohym mighty Powers for so are they call'd too and by this Stratagem I conceive Sc fallacia aequivocationis did Satan deceive Eve telling her that She should be like Elohijm meaning by 't like himself and his forlorn Partners the fall'n Elohijm whereas she thought of none else but Jehovah Elohijm counting that she should be more like her God than she was before so by that means was deceived In short Whatsoever sort or kind of Persons the Son and the Holy Ghost may be thought to be they are God for being in Unity with the Divine Substance by which they have all the Noble and Supereminent Attributes of the Father over and above the Communicable ones which meer men and Angels have and these being as the Taches of the Curtains of the Tabernacle of the most High they are One most High God together with the Father And here now I freely profess that if the Papists could argue for their Hypothesis of Transubstantiation so rationally as I have done for this Mystery of Mysterys I would not seperate for that at least from their Communion But tho' I can easily conceive that the Body of Christ can be present to Beleivers in the Sacrament Mediante Spiritu Sancto that is to say Spiritually just as he is present as Head to his Mistical Body the Church the Holy Ghost dwelling in him and the Members thereof for which I except not so much against the Lutherans who say indeed that the Body is Vbiquitary but say withall 't is Supernaturally or illocally as the Holy Ghost makes it be yet since I cannot conceive how Christ's natural Body should be every where or in all parts and places of the Church and be whole and intire in all such parts and places they of the Roman perswasion must pardon me if I except against Them notwithstanding the pretence of Tradition so much urg'd for it and I cannot sufficiently admire at Mounsier Malebranch for that having laid down his Excellent Rule not to grant a full Assent to any thing whilst Reason Checks yet himself reluctante ratione gives Assent to the Doctrine of Transubstantiation upon such Tradition as is not Ancient much less Apostolical Is he a Protestant in this point if not it must be Interest or Fear that sways him That Christ's Body is present in the Sacrament I sincerely beleive 't is what the Martyrs of our Church before they suffer'd acknowledged freely in their Disputes with Cox Oglethorp c. yea they said Ipsissimum corpus Christi est in Sacrimento Eucharistiae as appears in Dr. Willet's Century's but then they added still that the Modus is Spiritualis and is it not true this it is and we must take heed of saying otherwise tho' the Definitions of the Counsil of Trent for the Capernaitical way are in nowise to be allow'd For if the Church be the Body of Christ because the Holy Ghost is with it and in it why should not the bread together with the wine as the New-Testament Shechinah be the Body One the other the Blood of Christ for the Holy Ghosts being with Him and with the Signs and Symbols at once is the Church the Mystical Living Body of Christ for such reason as Consisting of living Wights living Members why then should not the Sacrament after the like manner be the Mystical Dead Body of Christ as by liveless Elements represented such an Vbiquity of Christ's Body if the Lutherans are for such change of the Elements if the Papist will agree to I am heartily with Them and as the Jews call'd the Paschal Lamb the Body so will I call the bread I eat at the Sacrament the Body too even of Christ for Mystically or Spiritually it is so and without making every 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Father 's a Dogma as they of Rome do we may do it well and truly enough And Here I shut up hoping that this Eye-Salve of mine which for truths sake and with perfect Charity I have presum'd to offer to the world will be accepted by it because 't is wholely Compounded of Scripture and Ancient Records going no further then Revelation lead's within which Bounds I 've taken care to keep as my Duty is For secret things belong to the Lord but things Reveal'd only to us and our Children and I humbly acknowledge Let Arians flout at the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as they please that the manner of the Son's Generation and of the Holy Ghost's proceeding a Patre Filioque as not reveal'd are above mine and as I beleive all others Comprehension It is as Usual as 't is pious to Conclude Discourses of this kind with Prayer Therefore with hearty good wishes to all whose hands this little somewhat shall fall into I shall do the like adding this short Prayer following and Recommending it to the Devotion of such as are disposed to use it O Almighty God and most merciful Father in Jesus Christ most humbly I beseech thee for thy Mercys sake and for that great lover of Souls sake thy Only Begotten Son in whom thou art well pleased to open the Eyes of all those among us who have imbib'd false Notions of thy most Holy Faith that all Scandals being removed and cast out of the Church and perfect Charity planted in it Heresy and Schism may be put an end to amidst thy People and also that Millions of Thousands according to the Blessing on Rebecca of Jews Turks Heathens Infidels may come into thy Holy Church and being made One Flock together with us Under the One great Shephard of the Sheep may obtain the End of the Hope of all the Faithful even the Salvation of their Souls and at the last Day rise out of the dust to Sing with Angels and Saints everlasting Halleluijahs to Thee O Holy Father with thy Son and the Holy Ghost One God blessed for evermore Amen These Three are One. Father Jehovah Son Jehovah H. Ghost Jehovah Je is the sign of a Proper Name Proper Names are of Persons Hovah is that Necessary Being which is the Father 's Originally the Son and Holy Ghost are God for being Consubstantial or in Unity with the Substance of the Father which substance being but one they are all Three One God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉