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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31061	A brief state of the Socinian controversy concerning a trinity in unity by Isaac Barrow ...	Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677.	1698 (1698)	Wing B930; ESTC R10201	4,087	24

Col. ii 18. nor can comprehend those secret Things which belong to the Lord our God Deut. xxix 29. and the comprehension whereof he hath reserved unto himself These Considerations may suffice in some manner to shew that St. Chrysostom had reason to exclaim so much against the Madness as he styleth it of those who are busily Curious in Speculation about the Essence of God daring to subject Divine Mysteries to their own Ratiocinations That St. Basil's Advice was wholsom not to be meddlesom about things about which Holy Scripture is silent That another Ancient Writer did say no less prettily than truly that in these Matters curiositas reum facit non peritum we may easilier incur blame than attain Skill by nice Enquiry into them That many of the Fathers do with great Wisdom dislike and dissuade the searching 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the manner of Things being true or possible as a suspicious Mark or a dangerous Motive of Infidelity That St. Paul's Rules Rom. xii 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be wise so as withal to be sober and modest and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not to conceit any thing without warrant of Scripture 1 Cor. iv 6. are in this Case most especially to be heeded That according to St. Peter's Admonition we should as new-born Babes unprepossess'd with any Notions or Fancies of our own long for and greedily suck in the sincere milk of the Word not diluting it with baser Liquors of Humane Device That where God doth interpose his definitive Sentence our Reason hath nothing to do but to attend and submit No Right to Vote no Licence to Debate the Matter It s Duty is to listen and approve whatever God speaketh to read and subscribe to whatever he writeth At least in any case it should be mute or ready to follow Job saying Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee I will lay my hand upon my mouth Job xl 4. In fine The Testimony of God with a sufficient clearness represented to the Capacity of an Honest and Docile Mind void of all partial Respects and clear from all sorts of Prejudice loving Truth and forward to entertain it abhorring to wrest or wrack Things to use any Fraud or Violence upon any Principle or Ground of Truth the Testimony of God I say so revealed whatever Exception our shallow Reason can thrust in should absolutely convince our Judgment and constrain our Faith If the Holy Scripture teacheth us plainly and frequently doth inculcate upon us that which also the uniform Course of Nature and the peaceable Government of the World doth also speak That there is but One True God If it as manifestly doth ascribe to the Three Persons of the Blessed Trinity the same August Names the same Peculiar Characters the same Divine Attributes essential to the Deity the same Superlatively admirable Operations of Creation and Providence If it also doth prescribe to them the same Supreme Honours Services Praises and Acknowledgments to be paid unto them All this may be abundantly enough to satisfy our Minds to stop our Mouths to smother all Doubt and Dispute about this High and Holy Mystery It was exceeding Goodness in God that he would condescend so far to instruct us to disclose so Noble a Truth unto us to enrich our Minds with that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that most excellent Knowledge of himself And it would be no small Ingratitude and Unworthiness in us any wise to suspect his Word or pervert his Meaning any wise to subject his Venerable Oracles to our rude Canvasses and Cavils In fine The proper Employment of our Mind about these Mysteries is not to search and speculate about them to Discourse flippantly and boldly about them but with a pious Credulity to embrace them with all humble Respect to Adore them FINIS Books Printed for Brabazon Aylmer in Cornhil A Seasonable Vindication of the B. Trinity Being an Answer to this Question Why do you believe the Doctrin of the Trinity Collected from the Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and the Right Reverend Dr. Edward Stillingfleet now Lord Bishop of Worcester Price 12d A Method of daily Devotion A Method of Devotion for the Lord's-Day Likewise several small Books against Debauchery Profaness Blasphemy Cursing and Swearing c. Price two Pence each and something cheaper to them that give away Numbers All these by Dr. Ashton * V. Defence of the B. Trinity p. 5. P. 21. Id. on the Creed p. 337. V. Defence of the B. Trinity p. 26. P. 55. † Zeno Veronens 1 Pet. ii 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

Advertisement A Defence of the Blessed Trinity By Isaac Barrow D. D. Price twelve Pence A BRIEF STATE OF THE Socinian Controversy Concerning a TRINITY in UNITY By Isaac Barrow D. D. Late Master of Trinity-College in Cambridge LONDON Printed for Brabazon Aylmer at the Three Pigeons against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill 1698. Price two Pence A BRIEF STATE OF THE Socinian Controversy THe Sacred Trinity may be considered either as it is in it self wrapt up in unexplicable Folds of Mystery or as it hath discovered it self operating in wonderful Methods of Grace towards us As it is in it self 't is an Object too bright and dazling for our weak Eye to fasten upon an Abyss too deep for our short Reason to fathom I can only say That we are so bound to mind it as to exercise our Faith and express our Humility in willingly believing in submissively adoring those high Mysteries which are revealed in the Holy Oracles concerning it by that Spirit it self which searcheth the Depths of God and by that Only Son of God who residing in his Father's Bosom hath thence brought them forth and Expounded them to us so far as was fit for our Capacity and use And the Lectures so read by the Eternal Wisdom of God the Propositions uttered by the Mouth of Truth it self we are obliged with a Docile Ear and a Credulous Heart to entertain That there is One Divine Nature or Essence common unto Three Persons incomprehensibly Vnited and ineffably Distinguished united in Essential Attributes distinguished by peculiar Idioms and Relations all equally Infinite in every Divine Perfection each different from other in Order and Manner of Subsistence that there is a mutual inexistence of One in All and All in One a Communication without any Deprivation or Diminution in the Communicant an Eternal Generation and an Eternal Procession without Precedence or Succession without proper Causality or Dependence A Father imparting his own and the Son receiving his Father's Life and a Spirit issuing from both without any Division or Multiplication of Essence These are Notions which may well puzzle our Reason in conceiving how they agree but should not stagger our Faith in assenting that they are true Upon which we should meditate not with hope to comprehend but with disposition to admire veiling our Faces in the Presence and prostrating our Reason at the Feet of Wisdom so far transcending us There be those who because they cannot untie dare to cut in sunder these Sacred Knots Who because they cannot fully conceive it dare flatly to deny them Who instead of confessing their own Infirmity do charge the plain Doctrines and Assertions of Holy Scripture with Impossibility Others seem to think they can demonstrate these Mysteries by Arguments grounded upon Principles of Natural Light and express it by Similitudes derived from common Experience To repress the Presumption of the former and to restrain the Curiosity of the latter the following Consideration improved by your Thoughts may perhaps somewhat conduce We may consider That our Reason is no competent or capable Iudge coneerning Propositions of this Nature 'T is not sufficient nor was ever designed to sound such Depths to descry the Radical Principles of all Being to reach the extream Possibilities of Things Such an Intellectual Capacity is vouchsafed to us as doth suit to our Degree the lowest Rank of Intelligent Creatures as becometh our Station in this inferior Part of the World as may qualify us to discharge the petty Businesses committed to our Management and the facile Duties incumbent on us But to know What God is How he subsisteth what he can what he should do by our natural Perspicacity or by any means we can use farther than he pleaseth to reveal doth not suit to the Meanness of our Condition or the Narrowness of our Capacity These really are the most elevated Sublimities and the abstrusest Subtilties that are or can be in the nature of things He that can penetrate them may erect his Tribunal any where in the World and pretend justly that nothing in Heaven or Earth is exempted from his Judgment But in truth how unfit our Reason is to exercise such Universal Jurisdiction we may discern by comparing it to our Sense It is obvious that many Beasts do by advantage of a finer Sense See Hear Smell things imperceptible to us And were it not very unreasonable to conclude that such things do not exist or are in themselves altogether insensible because they do not all appear to us Is it not evident that we ought to impute their Imperceptibility respecting us to the defect of our Sense to its Dulness and Grossness in regard to the Subtilty of those Objects Even so may Propositions in themselves and in regard to the Capacity of higher Understandings for there are gradual Differences in Understanding as well as in Sense be true and very intelligible which to our inferiour Reason seem unintelligible or repugnant to the Prenotions with which our Soul is imbued And our not discerning those Truths may argue the Blindness and Weakness of our Understanding not any Fault or Inconsistency in the Things themselves Nor should it cause us any wise to distrust them if they come recommended to our Belief by competent Authority It cannot be reasonable out of Principles drawn from ordinary Experience about these most low and imperfect Things to collect that there can be no other kind of Vnions of Distinctions of Generations of Processions than such as our own gross Sense doth represent to us Reason it self more forcibly doth oblige us to think that to sublimer Beings there do pertain Modes of Existence and Action Vnions and Distinctions Influences and Emanations of a more high and perfect Kind Such as our course Apprehension cannot adequate nor our rude Language express Which we perhaps have no Faculty subtile enough to conceive distinctly nor can attain any congruous Principles from which to Discourse solidly about them No Words perhaps which we do use to signify our Conceptions about these Material and Inferiour Things will perfectly and adequately suit to a Mystery so much remote from the common Objects of our Knowledge so far transcending our Capacity Shall we then who cannot pierce into the Nature of a Peble that cannot apprehend how a Mushroom doth grow that are baffled in our Philosophy about a Gnat or a Worm debate and decide beyond what is taught us from above concerning the precise manner of Divine Essence Subsistence or Generation I do saith St. Chrysostom eat Meats but how they are divided into Phlegm into Blood into Iuice into Choler I am ignorant These things which every day we see and taste we do not know and are we curious about the Essence of God Wherefore do we stretch our Judgment beyond its Limits unto Things so infinitely exceeding it Why do we suffer our Reason to be Pragmatical unjustly Invading the Office not belonging thereto intruding into Things which it hath not seen