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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52605	An answer to Dr. Wallis's three letters concerning the Doctrine of the Trinity	Nye, Stephen, 1648?-1719.; Wallis, John, 1616-1703. Doctrine of the blessed Trinity briefly explained.; Wallis, John, 1616-1703. Second letter concerning the Holy Trinity.; Wallis, John, 1616-1703. Explication and vindication of the Athanasian creed.	1691 (1691)	Wing N1504; ESTC R7845	14,909	22

plainly insinuated by the Text and the rest of the Chapter I shall trace no further into these Scripture-Proofs because I have no further occasion from the Doctor and as for any body else I dare presume to say whatever the Doctor has done in taking it for granted that the Trinity is sufficiently proved by Scripture that there are Unitarian Books even lately extant that have sufficiently evidenced the falsity of his pretences and that not by means of wresting and forcing of Scripture-words and phrases but in construing them with all the integrity and fairness imaginable And the reason I have not troubled my self to repeat those things over again is that I am asham'd to see they have so little effect upon our Adversaries for to what end is it to run out into nice Controversies when men have the face to deny the most manifest first Principles However I hope that this Reign and Tyranny of blindness will not last always I hope in time we shall meet with some men of that Courage and Sincerity as may countenance our Cause and rescue distressed Truth from her Suppressors I shall now draw towards a Conclusion and as I have hitherto taken care to avoid the Errors of my Adversary in refuting them so I now shall do him that Justice as to acknowledge he writes with a Charity like a Divine and though he is in an Error yet 't is with so much Softness Generosity and Charity that his very Enemies cannot rebuke him for want of it I cannot say whether the first Composers of the Athanasian Creed were of his mind or not and whether they intended the Damnatory Sentences with his Limitations but whether they did or no which I must confess I am very apt to question they ought to have done so and wherein they did otherwise they were to blame Indeed 't is an Enthusiastick Doctrine to damn unbaptized Infants the invincibly ignorant all before Christ Fools Madmen as our rigid Trinitarians have too often done I think Dr. Wallis has done what ought ever to be reverenced In short the Doctor in this has shewn himself so good a Man that methinks I cannot but envy his Party that he is against us But it may be questioned possibly why have I wrote against him then if I had such a Respect for him I say not in resentment to him so much for he has the Charity of an Angel but least that others relying on his strength of Reasoning should embrace his Argument without his Charity or else I could be content that the Doctor or any man should enjoy Opinions so Innocent to themselves For my part I am glad to hear such healing words as that men have abused the Damnatory Sentences as that there is no Anathema to the Greek Church or the sincere of any Perswasion let it be as he says in an extraordinary way or as he pleases in short the Principle on whatever it is grounded is Heavenly and breaths the true Method to Peace Unity and Concord whereas the contrary censures as he himself excellently observes were enough to make the Creed too formidable to be approv'd of p. 21. third Letter Therefore without examining further into this matter for I shall never discourage Charity and therefore I say let the Damnatory Sentences be annexed to the generals of the Creed or otherwise for it shall never concern me I say there is but one thing herein wherein I have reason to be concerned in at what he says and that is that he should tack his Damnatory Sentence to an explanation of the Church and not rather to the Scriptures themselves Nor do I write this that even in this case too he has not left room for the invincibly Ignorant but only that I am sorry to see him so much to countenance a meer humane Imposition in forreign and unscriptural Words as Trinity in Unity whatever they signifie plainly are And therefore hence it is that I desire to be excus'd to put a difference between he that believeth not shall be damn'd in the Scripture and he that believeth not a Trinity in Unity shall be damn'd by the Athanasian Creed for surely any Man may be justly excus'd that puts a difference between the direct Word of God and the Traditions and Interpretations of Men and if so there may be just cause to disallow the parallel and as long as we stick cordially and sincerely to the Scripture not to confine our selves to any particular Man's I may say Church's Interpretation whatever Indeed this slip or oversight in the Doctor almost makes me admire at it for when a Man has reason'd so candidly and fairly as he has done rejected the little prejudices of Quotations acknowledg'd our uncertainty in understanding the Idea's of Scripture words nay granted us that disputableness that there has been Whether the Creed itself were Athanasius ' s or not I say when a Man can be so candid generous and charitable in his Reasoning as to grant us That the word Person the hinge of the Controversie is at least to us uncertain and at best but metaphorical and that it is no guilty ignorance not to define it and that 't is the harshness of the Idea of it that confounds us p. 62. Third Letter I say when a Man has gone so much further as even to blame the Fathers for not admitting these words without adequate Idea's and defining them as he has done p. 4 First Letter I say when he has done thus methinks I wonder how he can justifie their enforcement and plead for what he himself at the same time by an oversight condemns These in short are my Sentiments of the Doctor 's Book and if the World think them fair and honest let them cherish them accordingly and in the mean time let us all be ready and willing not to let these Controversies be lost upon us but endeavour by them to recover or vindicate the Truth as she shall appear to us I must confess some Men make light and sport of this Dispute as if it were but of a Trifle or a Ceremony but when they come into another World they may know that this is a Controversie of weight that God is jealous of his Honour and that he does not love his Creatures to be set up to Rival him and tho' in his Mercy he may bear with us in such things the better to draw us if possible to him any other way yet then we shall know 't is not trifling to vilifie the God of Heaven to rob him of his Honour and to give it to his Dependants thô never so excellent The God of all Grace grant therefore that these things may so sink into Mens Minds that they may no longer persist in such Evils and that they may let us all with one accord address our selves to his Almighty Throne I say let us never cease to sollicite him with our Prayers and Tears thro' his dearest Son Christ Jesus Amen Glory be to the Father thro' the Son and by the Holy Ghost FINIS Nota These Quotations and the Texts as they relate to the Socinians I do not meddle with out leave them to his learned Adversary before the Socinian to handle them