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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44140	Impar conatui, or, Mr. J.B. the author of an answer to the animadversions on the Dean of St. Paul's vindication of the Trinity rebuk'd and prov'd to be wholly unfit for the great work he hath undertaken : with some account of the late scandalous animadversions on Mr. Hill's book intituled A vindication of the primitive fathers ... : in a letter to the Reverend Mr. R.E. / by Thomas Holdsworth.	Holdsworth, Thomas.	1695 (1695)	Wing H2407; ESTC R27413	59,646	88

the Father and that according to Mr. J. B's Sense whatever other Philosophers and Divines may hold is to deny that the Father is God Pulchrè mehercle Dictum sapientèr Teren. Eunuc Act 3. Scen. 1. Papae Jugulâras Hominem Quid illo Mutus illico What can the Animadverter say to this Nothing He must certainly be as mute as a Fish Quid ni esset It is a great Extremity indeed that a Man must be driven to to be forc'd either to say that which he hath condemn'd for absurd and illogical or to condemn the Scriptures for absurd and illogical Dunces If the Animadverter had been forc'd only to quit his Assertion or to condemn some particular Man for an absurd and illogical Dunce there might have been no great Occasion perhaps for a Figure but to be forc'd to condemn not only the Catholick Church and the Schools but the Scriptures too to condemn All These for absurd and illogical Dunces this is very hard indeed and he will want such a Figure for the Phrase as I dare say no Author can furnish him with but Mr. J. B. But I hope it may not be altogether so bad with the Animadverter as Mr. J.B. imagines If the Animadverter will not quit his Assertion which I believe upon good Terms he may and I doubt not but he will I hope there will be no Necessity of bringing any more than One under the aforesaid Condemnation I hope it may be sufficient with the Scriptures the Catholick Church and the Schools to give Glory to God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost and to own and acknowledge that each Person of the Ever-Blessed Trinity is God And if where the Predicate is a Terminus Communis as the Animadverter contends that God is there a particular Sign is to be added to the Predicate when it becomes the Subject as Peter is a Man some Man is Peter and consequently that the Animadverter must be oblig'd by the Rules of Logick in the Conversion of this Proposition The Father is God to say that some particular God is the Father as some particular Man is Peter if there be no Remedy for this then let Mr. J. B. first clear the Platonick and Nicene Hypothesis of the Trinity which as he says both agreed in this That the common Divine Essence was an Vniversal Book p. 104 105. that is let him clear his justify'd Dr. Cudworth who embrac'd he says the Platonick Hypothesis that the Divine Essence was a Genus Let him clear the Nicene Fathers who he says held the Divinity to be a Species Let him clear all the Greek Fathers who as he says from Petavius in hoc Vno Concordant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est Essentiam sive Substantiam sive Naturam quam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vocant GENERALE ESSE aliquid Commune ac Minimè DEFINITVM Book p. 105. and p. 106. that 't is Commune quiddam multis quod Vniversale vocant Let him clear his trusty admir'd Petavius who as he says like a true Jesuite endeavour'd to impose upon his Reader what he did not believe himself and in his elaborate Work of the Trinity made only a seeming Defence for the Faith of the Schools the Singularity of the common Divine Essence which upon his Principles viz. the Authority of the Fathers was impossible and therefore he shamm'd the Notion of the Numerical Vnity in the Room of it This p. 108. is his own Character of his honest dear Petavius with whom he makes such a mighty noise throughout his Book of whose Honesty and Fairness as Acute and Learned as he was in this Controversy let any Man see the Account which the Learned Dr. Bull gives in his Defens Fid. Nicaen Proaem p. 7 8. and then let any honest Man value or trust Petavius afterwards if he can Lastly let him clear his own Hypothesis which he says p. 101. was the Faith of the Nicene Fathers Let him first I say clear all these and then I 'll engage to clear the Animadverter and prove to Mr. J. B's Shame that if the Animadverter by only asserting that the Term God is a Terminus Communis but no Genus nor Species is under any Necessity by the Rules of Logick either of Denying that the Father is God or of declaring in a Logical Conversion of the Proposition That some particular God is the Father as some particular Man is Peter then All These who as he states their Principles not only assert the Divine Essence to be Common but to be an Universal common either as a Genus or a Species by the same Rules of Logick must be under the same if not a much greater Necessity In the mean Time since this Man is so free of his Challenges let me beg the Favour of you if you can possibly do so much for me to send him my Glove as soon as you can and to let him know that if he will stand to this That this Proposition The Father is God is capable of a simple Conversion that is which is the necessary Consequence of it that the Term Father is adequately and convertibly predicated of God And if upon this he will stand to his Arms in the next Paragraph by which he thinks he hath given the Animadverter a most Fatal and Irrecoverable Overthrow viz. That whatever is adequately and convertibly predicated of any Term may in all Propositions be put in the place of that Term if he will stand to this I Challenge him to avoid if he can by his own Rules of Logick these absurd and intolerably unchristian Consequences viz. That according to this Rule we may say that Father Son and Holy Ghost are one Father In the Beginning was the Word and the Word was the Father And which too will justifie the Patripassian Heresie without Controversy great is the Mystery of Godliness the Father was manifest in the Flesh justified in the Spirit c. I Believe in one Lord Jesus Christ Father of Father very Father of very Father And if it follows from the Expression God the Father that God is the Father then it will follow from these Expressions God the Son and God the Holy Ghost that God is the Son and God is the Holy Ghost and then too according to this Rule we may say that the Father is the Son and the Father is the Holy Ghost I should not dare Sir you may be sure to send such a bold Challenge to such a desperate Heroe who so easily routs the Animadverter baffles St. Augustin and except honest stout Petavius and the invincible Genebrard makes all the School-men and the Moderns too to shrink and fly before him in their dark and slippery way as if the Angel of the Lord drove them But never fear your Friend for this I am very sure in this I shall be too hard for him This to brave him once with his own Words Pref. p. 2. This will still stand unanswer'd and upon

Censure from both the Vniversities Shall the Books of Buchanan and Milton and Goodwin and Baxter and Hunton and Hobbes and Owen c. be justly censur'd and condemn'd to Flames for Blaspheming the King And shall such as these escape for Blaspheming the great God the most adorable Trinity and our most holy Religion Shall Men be allowed to dally and play Stolida Procacitate as Martial's Words are with the most tremendous Mysteries and incomprehensible Things of Faith Shall Men be allow'd with rude and licentious Hands to break down the sacred Inclosures of our Faith that Hedge of Thorns as I remember the Reverend Dean well calls it in his Apology and endeavour with a kind of Sacrilege to dispossess and rob the Church of those Terms and Distinctions she hath been so long in Possession of and with which she hath so long successfully defended her Faith of a Holy Trinity in Vnity and Vnity in Trinity Have these Primitive Terms and Distinctions long before ever the School-men were in Being been always sufficient to encounter with and effectually to baffle and defeat the most numerous and most subtle Hereticks or no If not then it seems that which we call the Catholick Faith in this Article hath been all along till now a baffled indefensible Faith If they have as most certainly they have why are they not as sufficient now as they have been all along What need have we of Self-Consciousness and Mutual Consciousness and Three distinct infinite Minds or Spirits In Reference to the Sacred Articles of Religion saith Mr. J. B. Book p. 65. and it is the best thing said in his whole Book in which I heartily agree with him we ought to have a double Care not only to think but speak inoffensively To take Care that our Words as well as our Opinions be Orthodox and especially ought we to be thus cautious in the mysterious Articles of the Trinity and Incarnation where a Word disorder'd I had almost said a Comma displac'd may render us in the Judgment of the warm contending Parties guilty of no less than Heresie 'T is St. Augustin 's Observation concerning the Mystery of the Trinity That nec Periculosiùs alicubi erratur nec laboriosiùs aliquid quaeritur It is no where more dangerous to err nor more difficult to apprehend than in this mysterious Subject A wise Person will have a great Care to keep the beaten Path to speak in the receiv'd Language of the Church The Learned Calvin gives us his own Experience Expertus pridem sum quidem saepiùs quicunque de verbis pertinaciùs litigant fovere occultum virus That they who obstinately quarrel against the Phrases of the Church are Hereticks in their Hearts I have no hard Thoughts of the Reverend Dean God knows my Heart No Man hath a truer Honour and Veneration for him than my self I only wish he had taken this double Care not only to think but to speak inoffensively I wish he had taken a greater Care to keep the beaten Path to speak in the receiv'd Language of the Church and then who can doubt but that he who hath so admirably well acquitted himself against our Popish Adversaries who hath so baffl'd and triumph'd over our dissenting Adversaries and who hath been such a severe and just Scourge to Protestant Reconcilers Trimmers and Comprehension-Men who can doubt but that he would have had the same Glory and Success against our Socinian Adversaries But to undertake a Defence of the Catholick Faith of a Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity by Self-Consciousness and Mutual Consciousness however ingenious it may be however defensible it may be is going a new and unusual Way to work or at least with new and unusual Terms contrary to a common and good Rule in Divinity Novae Insolitae Locutiones in Mysteriis Fidei non sunt usurpandae But to assert Three distinct infinite Minds or Spirits whatever Genebrard One School-man may say as Learned and a more Orthodox Man than he pronounces Certè Perniciosum Dogma est Tres constituere Spiritus aeternos distinctos Nam Januam aperit non solum ad Arianismum sed Palam Gentilismum sapit Benedict Aretius Loc. Theolog. Loc. 1. p. 4. It is certainly says he a Pernicious Doctrine to constitute Three eternal distinct Spirits For it not only opens a Door to Arianism Vitandi sunt omnes modi loquendi qui Haereticis vel in Speciem favere videntur Qui igitur de Tribus Personis adorandae Trinitatis loquuntur ii uti non debent supradicto loquendi modo dicentes eas esse Tres Substantias ne favere videantur Arianis Macedonianis Valentino Gentili ejus Sectatoribus Rob. Baronii Philof Theol. Ancillans Exercitat 1. Artic. 9. p. 41. but it plainly relishes of Heathenism The Reverend Dean himself as well as Mr. J. B. notwithstanding what his Genebrard says allows it to be new and unusual and therefore be sure to assert it and insist upon it is not as Mr. J. B. gravely advises it is not to have a great Care to keep the beaten Path to speak in the receiv'd Language of the Church which he says a wise Person will do If the Reverend Dean means no more by Three distinct infinite Minds or Spirits than Three distinct infinite Persons why should he alter the constant universal Language of the Church Why should he not be satisfied with asserting a Trinity only of Three Divine Persons which in an ineffable incomprehensible Manner are One infinite Spirit or God Why should Occasion be given to the Enemies of the Tri-Une God and our most Holy Religion to blaspheme Cannot a Trinity of Divine Persons in One infinite undivided Essence be defended unless we assert Three distinct infinite Minds or Spirits How hath it been defended all along hitherto But this is not the worst of it That which I chiefly mean that which calls loudest for a Decretum Oxoniense for a Theological Censure from both the Universities is the foul pernicious Spirit of Latitudinarianism which being transform'd by an infernal Artifice appears much abroad like an Angel of Light like the only Complaisant Sober Moderate Peaceable Healing Angel But Sheep's Clothing is such a common Disguise and worn so very thin that we can easily look through it and see the ravening Wolf under If the false Prophets will be playing their juggling Tricks we need not be deceiv'd by them unless we will our selves Our Blessed Saviour who would have us enter in at the strait Gate Matt. 7.13 15 16. and to go the narrow Way which leadeth unto Life and to avoid as we would Death the wide Gate and the Latitudinarian Way which he saith leadeth to Destruction hath commanded us to beware of false Prophets and that we may know them he hath given us a certain infallible Direction by their Fruits that is as the Word Fruits is certainly here to be understood by their Designs and Doctrine Behold then the working of