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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

pass by this Affront and Imputation which no Clergy-man ought to bear nay he even fawns upon the Oxford Doctor in his late Answer to the Stander by But a very surprizing thing hath happened Dr. Wallis writes in Defence of the Trinity and the Athanasian Creed his Explications are allowed by the University of Oxford and even applauded by great numbers of Learned Men who profess to be Trinitarians and yet after all the Socinians in their Observations on the Letters of Dr. Wallis profess that they are of his Mind they even say that in Honour of him they are content to be called Wallisians This is very odd for it follows that either the Socinians are the true Orthodox and their Opposers Tritheists or else that this good Doctor is a Socinian and knows it not Those that say without doubt the Socinians understand their own Doctrine are very picquant upon Dr. Wallis they pretend themselves very desirous to be informed what might be in the Doctor 's Mind to apologize for the Athanasian Creed and the Trinity and yet to asperse at the same time his own Patriarch Socinus and his dear and close Friends and Brethren the Unitarians especially in such an hainous manner as we see in his third and fourth Letters They say either the Man is Wood or he has written after that fashion only to give occasion to the Socinians as in effect it also happened to appear more bright by a thorow and unanswerable Vindication of themselves for so it is that wronged Innocence and Vertue are rendred more conspicuous and lovely when injurious Calumnies are wiped off They say farther that 't is not to be much regarded that so many have complemented Dr. Wallis for his Letters for what Assurance have we that the Writers of them are not secret Socinians and that they only banter the good Doctor As for the University of Oxford to whom these Sabellian and Unitarian Sermons were preached 't is very usual for the old Men that preside in that University to sleep at Sermons especially at dull ones But you are not to think say they that these Sermons or Letters were ever licensed to the Press by the University or that the Doctors there understand so little as to mistake a disguised Sabellianism or Socinianism for the Trinity of the Catholick Church The three Persons says Dr. Wallis are but three Relations Capacities or Respects of God to his Creatures he is their Creator Redeemer and Sanctifier and in this Sense of the word Person God is three Persons But then because God hath also the Capacity or Relation of a Judg and of an Oeconomus or Provider and many more we must not say that God is only three Persons he is five at the least besides I know not how many more Furthermore this new-fangled Socinian or Sabellian has introduced a Trinity of Divine Persons that were but of yesterday The Churches Trinity are all of them from all Eternity Co-eternal saith the Athanasian Creed before all Worlds saith the Nicene Creed but Dr. Wallis his three Divine Persons the first of them begins with the Creation and the second is no older than the Crucifixion of our Saviour for God was not a Creator before he created any thing nor a Redeemer till those words were spoken by our Saviour on the Cross It is finished i. e. The great Work of Redemption is accomplished The three Divine Persons believed by the Church begat one another after a wonderful manner Will Dr. Wallis being the oldest Divine of England instruct Novices that are desirous to learn how his Persons begat one another How did Creation beget Redemption and from all Eternity that is before either of them were for Creation it self is but Coeval with the World and how was Sanctification we must not say begotten for that 's Heresy when you speak of a third Person but how did it proceed from Creation and from Redemption Dr. Wallis say they will find it as hard to account for these Difficulties as to double the Cube or even to square the Circle which the most learned Mathematicians think to be impossible He is not say they to think that he is Orthodox because he hath escaped the heavy cudgelling that hath all fallen on Dr. Sherlock 't is not because his Doctrine but because his Luck hath been better than that Doctor 's In a word whereas the Church believes three real subsisting Persons Dr. Wallis hath taught a Trinity of External Denominations or Accidental Predications only Creation Redemption and Sanctification are Acts of God's free and soveraign Will he was under no necessity to create to redeem or to sanctify they are all Effects of his most voluntary and every way free Love if therefore the Mystery of the Trinity so much hitherto contested be nothing else but Almighty God considered as the Maker Redeemer and Sanctifier of his Creatures 't is a Trinity only of three Denominations or Names and of Predications purely Accidental and besides that 't is no manner of Mystery but the most intelligible and obvious thing in the Word nor was it ever denied either by Sabellians or Socinians Thus it is Sir that divers learned Persons speak concerning the Trinity maintained by Dr. Wallis I for my part will add nothing to the Observations I have formerly made on Dr. Wallis his Letters only I pray take notice here with me how well the Cadmean Brethren agree among themselves Three Divine Persons saith Dr. Wallis are the three Relations of God to his Creatures he made he redeemed he sanctifies them this is the Holy Trinity Out upon it saith Dr. Sherlock 't is Nonsense and Heresy both for the Divine Persons are three Beings three Minds three Spirits all of them living subsisting and conscious to one another No no that 's as much too much saith Dr. S th 't is neither so nor so but as I have explained it in my eighth Chapter of Animadversions on Dr. Sherlock The Explication of the Trinity by Dr. Sherlock saith Dr. S th is a treacherous and a false Defence of that Mystery he hath advanced a Notion that immediately and unavoidably infers three Gods and if he had lived in the times of the sixth General Council he would have incurred the Penalty of Deprivation Pref. p. 2 7 8. Well I hope Dr. S th hath at length told us the very true Doctrine about the Trinity Yes he hath without question laid down the very Explication of the Schools the Doctrine or Explication generally received in Universities I doubt not it would be approved by most of the Chairs of our European Universities or Schools of Learning he hath verily acquitted himself like a Man of Learning and Wit For all that Dr. Cudworth in his Intellectual System hath largely and clearly proved these two things 1. That this Trinity of the Schools is quite different from the Trinity held by the Fathers and that by them it would have been reckoned no other than Sabellianism 2. That as