and Holy Ghost A. Gen. 48.16 The Angel which redeem'd me from all evil bless the Lads and let my name be named on them and the name of my Father Abraham and Isaac and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth That is as if he had said God grant the Angel bless the Lads c. Q. 29. But can you shew me any Text then where we are forbidden to worship either the Son or Holy Ghost if you can pray what is it A. John 16.23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing verily verily I say unto you whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he will give it you John 16.26 At that day ye shall ask in my name and I say not unto you that I will pray the Father for you Q. 30. What Scriptures have you that testifie of the Holy Ghost pray declare them A. John 14.16 17 27. But the Comforter which is the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you and I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Comforter that he may abide with you for ever even the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him but ye know him for be dwelleth in you and shall be in you Eph. 1.13 1 Cor. 12. 6.19 2 Cor. 1.22 John 15.26 But when the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father even the Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father he shall testifie of me Q. 31. But is there any Text that shews you an absolute Duality in the Father and Holy Spirit to confute the Socinians who think them one and the Trinitarians that think them at least Coequal and Essentially one A. Rom. 26 27. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit it 's self maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be utter'd and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of GOD. Eph. 2.18 For thro' him we both have an access by one Spirit unto the Father Q. 32. I perceive then by these Texts that you take the Holy Ghost as well since the Prophets as before Acts 28.25 Luke 2.25 26. to be Christ's Deputy-Angel for I see not how you can suppose Christ to send the power of the Father from the Father as the Socinians imagine pray therefore let me know if there are any other Texts which shew the Son to command the Holy Ghost as his Lord. A. John 16.7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth it is expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away the Comforter will not come unto you but if I depart I will send him unto you 13 14 15 Verses following Howbeit when he the Spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth for he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak and he will shew you things to come he shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shall shew it unto you all things that the Father hath are mine therefore said I that he shall take of mine and shew it unto you John 7.39 14. 12. 20.22 Luke 24.49 Acts 1.2 Vntil the day in which he Christ was taken up after that he thro' the Holy Ghost had given commandment to the Apostles whom he had chosen 1 Cor. 12.13 Eph. 4.11 Acts 1. 8 20 28. Acts 2.33 Therefore being by the right hand of GOD exalted and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost he hath shed forth this which we see and hear Rev. 5.6 Mat 3.11 Q. 33. But how comes it to be so peremptory then to Blaspheme the Holy Ghost according to the words of Christ Mat. 12 31. Mark 3.28 A. Acts 5.3 4. But Peter said Ananias why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost thou hast not lied unto men but unto God i. e. Thou hast studiedly affronted even God himself thro' us and the Holy Ghost for tho' Rev. 1.1 2. 11. Heb. 1.14 compar'd to Acts 2.2 3 4. and Luke 3.21 shew the Holy Ghost to be but an Angel yet as he is that Angel through whom by the Son of GOD he himself bear Record to us 1 John 5.7 So indeed in that respect he is the Representative both of Christ and God himself Q. 34. I perceive then that according to the Texts 1 John 4.6 John 14.17 15.26 which say We are of GOD he that knoweth GOD heareth us he that is not of GOD heareth not us hereby know we the Spirit of truth and the Spirit of error and Rom. 8.26 1 Thes 5.19 Mark 13.11 Luke 12.12 I say I find that you suppose with these Texts that there are two great Angels an evil one and a good one that help and tempt all Mankind severally at once but pray what Authority have you for Notioning such great Spirits from Scripture A. Rev. 12.9 10. And the great dragon was cast out the old Serpent called the Devil and Satan which deceiveth the whole world he was cast out into the earth and his Angels were cast out with him and I heard a loud voice saying now is come salvation and strength the kingdom of our GOD and the power of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast down which accused them before our GOD day and night Rev. 20.2 3. And he laid hold on the Dragon that old Serpent which is the Devil and Satan and bound him a thousand years and cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years should be fulfilled and after that he must be loosed a little season Eph. 2.2 Wherein in time past we walked according to the course of this world according to the Prince of the power of the Air the Spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience Eph. 6.12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual witkedness in high places Dan. 10.12 13. Then said he unto me fear not Daniel for from the first day thou didst set thine heart to understand and to chasten thy self before GOD thy words were heard and I am come for thy words but the Prince of the Kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days but lo Michael one of the chief Princes came to help me and I remain'd then with the Kings of Persia Verse 20 21. Then said he knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee and now will I return to fight with the Prince of Persia and when I am gone forth lo the Prince of Grecia
nature and if as Christ tells us he that breaks one Commandment is guilty of the whole Law what must our wilful Trinitarians expect Nay and if not surely 't were better for them to be Adulterers than Idolaters if Christ knew which Commandment was greatest Forsooth the Trinitarians have been apt to accuse us Unitarians of Heresie and Blasphemy in denying the Divinity of the Son and Holy Ghost Bless me that Men can so grosly oversee their own Guilt on the other hand so as to make nothing of Idolatrously equalling and worshipping them with the Father In plain terms men that can cherish this Errour knowingly and as I fear too many do make Interest and Reputation only their God and the Almighty God their Laughing-stock And what could Christ say of the Pharisees of old That Whoremongers and Adulterers entred the Kingdom of God before them And can such our modern Idolaters expect a better Sentence No certainly if there be any such a thing as Sin or Guilt in nature they as much exceed our common Villains and Criminals in it as a Bankrupt a generous Robber or a Popish Adulterer that vows Chastity a common Fornicator To be short well might Christ say when the Son of Man comes shall he find Faith upon Earth For were that time now where should he look for it What among the Heathen If not what can a Trinitarian pretend to it that dares not even to value Idolatry and the first Commandment We are reformed with Luther you say Ay just as men that love to follow a new Song we admire him but I fear God will shew us one day that our Hearts are still as Popish as ever XIII Nay I may say the Guilt and Horror of this Idolatry has been so gross in the all-seeing Prophecy of God that he has marked it all along as the great Characteristick of Antichrist And thus Jurieu and who I think also best interpreâ—s the Prophecies places the rise of Antichrist just about the time of the settlement of this Mystery But not to rest on fickle Interpretations of that nature only pray but mind how the Holy Ghost even engraves this Doctrine on the Forehead of Antichrist Says he Rev. 17.5 And upon her forehead was a name written Mystery Babylon the great the Mother of Harlots and the Abominations of the Earth And unto what I pray in Popery can that word Mystery there so properly relate as the Trinity Nor is this all the Holy Ghost is yet more express says he 2 Thes 2.11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie that they all might be damned who believe not the truth c. And now I pray what Lie in Faith has Antichrist but the Trinity And what then Can we we see this Nay can we see Antichrist at every foot branded for an Idolater and no doubt for nothing more than this For to alledge that the Papists worship their Saints or Images as Gods is as impertinent as false I say can we but see this and not be fired with a just Zeal to rescue the Honour of God Nay for my part I declare I should think my self mad to scruple at or make bones of the rest of Popery if I could but once be perswaded to down with this Mystery But good God! in the mean while where is our Conscience gone In plain terms we had as good burn our Bibles and fire our Temples as thus fling away a 7th of our time in Hypocrisie and Idolatry before God What for shame can we think we serve him when we thus spit in his Face XIV Nay and methinks he has winked at our Ignorance long enough in it And surely were we not quite sear'd 't were enough to make us tremble to think how sacrilegiously we have withdrawn his Honour from him Strange the Jews of old would rather perish than suffer the Roman Ensigns to be put up for fear of Idolatry But good God! what is become of such our holy Jealousies who care not how we treat our God But what then If some men blaspheme God and his Holy Revelation with a Faith fitter for Madmen than Christians and wilfully persist to do so shall not others dare vindicate his Holy Name in publickly professing his Truth Christ came to preach to us to a fine purpose and we are baptized as hopefully to fight under his Banner if we are excus'd for dangers sake only of entertaining and professing his Truths too where they are offer'd Yes truly and the Church it self too that Christ has prophesied should endure so long would quickly be in a hopeful condition should every little or great Revolution of Persecution silence us from our acknowledging our God and his Worship to the World if some had not hazarded more for the Glory of God than so before us one might easily guess what fine Christians we should have been by this time To be short the Israelites in setting up a Calf for their God that brought them out of Egypt were not more guilty of Idolatry call it in a mistake Mis-speculation or how you will than our present Trinitarians And what then is it not enough for every little Luke-warm Heart to hear Christ's Sentence That whoever confesses not him nor his truths before man neither will Christ acknowledge him before his Father and the Angels to the deterring of him from smothering thus as well the Fountains of Truth as Christianity Besides that we have in Example the manifest approbation of God of Phineas and several of the Kings of Israel for their attempting the Reformation of the Church tho' to their hazard to encourage us to do the like after them Nay and what tho' with Socrates and others in such case a man hazards Death for his Reproof what mayn't a man be a Soldier and venture as wisely and as freely for his God as many others do for their Prince I know the World 's too cowardly and irreligious generally their Love to God proves too cold and their hazard too certain and that 't is makes 'em turn their backs in this matter if not quarrel with them that put them on it But surely if Martyrdom it self been't Folly this course especially for this Truth is blameless XV. But good God! then does it not deserve our pity to see how on the other side some men rather shipwrack Conscience than not write any thing to varnish over an old rotten Error for Preferment and that right Mountebank-like so that they can but be confident and bold enough to gull the People nor care what they say nor what they tumble down but per fas nefas either by Sophistry or Butchery endeavour to make all good Catholicks Bless me Are not these Men far enough from hazarding all for the Truth So some also as they know that commonly the best Sophister passes for the best Christian and a bold and wicked uncharitableness for the best Argument What do they not deal with
Body at 20 we see manifestly is not the same as it is at 30 and yet we say that 't is properly enough the same to most purposes And why then also might not the whole Doctrine be true by the same reason according to John the 6th c But what Is there any such Apology as this in nature for the Contradictions of the Trinity But good God then that in the mean while we should thus embrace even the worst of Popish Errours and out-do even the Deliriums of the Heathens But what while we do thus can we think that God will either prosper us or our Popish Reformation What Can we be so presumptuous as to continue in the very sink of Errours and that to the highest Dishonour of God and yet expect his Favour and Protection VI. Nor is this Doctrine one jot less absurd when examined more particularly than when thus in the gross And thus First with relation to the Son Bless me What a number of Absurdities quite drown his absolute and coequal Divinity with the Father What God himself must die to satisfie his own Justice to himself and that only because we have offended him Bless me What a notion we have of God's Justice and so that the Infinite and Immortal God could become incarnate grow in Wisdom and suffer nay and cry out unto himself upon the Cross My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Yes yes Infinity could become a Babe Wisdom it Child and God impotent Nay surely Elijah was a vile and wretched Blasphemer to mock the Baalites as he did when he said their God was either walking talking or gone a Journey What Can we suppose that that great Prophet who was afterwards translated did not know that God himself was afterwards to become incarnate But what Did only the Man die Was only the Man tempted Christ then was but inhabited by the Godhead and when the Man was in his Streights God left him to comfort himself but where is the room for the Merits and Sufferings of the Godhead then So you say Christ liv'd and suffer'd as our Example Alas What Affinity for God to be a Pattern for Man What Is there any Parity in their Natures But no 't was not the Godhead that was tempted or suffered some say But why then is the Merits of it charged unjustly upon the Godhead when it belongs to the Man only So also sometimes by a kind of Ventriloquy they make Christ as God to be able to tell us all things but by and by again as as Man they attribute Ignorance to him So sometimes again they make him omnipotent and yet by and by again Hocus Focus we must have an Angel to comfort him against his Sufferings Good God! shall we never be delivered from these Labyrinths So also they tell us that Christ for his Sufferings is made our Mediator But what Is that an Honour for a coequal God 1 Cor. 15.28 And so that all Power in Heaven and Earth was given him on his Death But what Could he then be a coequal God before Or what Was such Power given to his Manhood only Nay and do not the Scriptures also assure us that the Son as God yet even as such has the Father as his God Heb. 1. and that even the Revelations he gave St. John he had from the Father Rev. 11. But alas our Trinitarians forsooth will not own that we honour Christ at all unless we hairbrainly equal him with them to the Father VII But now as for the pretended Deity of the Holy Ghost there there can be no such Shuffle and Apology as the Incarnation occasions for the Son and yet think you that our Trinitarians for all that cannot wire-draw the manifest Inferiority of that Holy Being also quite up to a Coequality with the Father Thus he that is not once called God in Scripture nor once order'd to be worship'd is it likely that he should be our one and only adorable Supream God And is not this true of the Holy Ghost And yet for all this do they not equal him to the Father So also he that has an Understanding distinct from God can he be God himself 1 Cor. 2.10 Or a Will distinct can he be God Rom. 8.26 27. And what then Would not these Reasonings make a man protest with the Holy Ghost that surely these men have Eyes and see not and Ears and hear not But to proceed the Holy Ghost prays to another how can he then be God Rev. 22.17 Matth. 10.20 Rom. 8.15.26 So he that men have not known much less believed and yet have been Disciples can he be God And are we not told this of the Holy Ghost in the Acts of the Apostles So also he that is sent by God and is his Gift John 16.7 Acts 12.17 1 Pet. 1.12 can he be that God giving and sending also Surely I may say that these bundles of Incongruities have so quite confounded our Trinitarians that they know not how to reason at all in the matter or their Enemy has a most peculiar Charm over them to with hold them from Truth against all the powers of Reasoning So he that receives from another or changes place cannot be God And does not this appear of the Holy Ghost by John 16 14 And his descending on Christ like a Dove and so also he that speaks not of himself can he be God And does not the Holy Ghost appear to receive what he shall speak by the whole course of Scriptures John 16.13 But good God then that Men can seign such Epicles in Theology on any pretence as that the all-wise and immutable God should be taught and truckle thus VIII Nor are these few only a small number of Consequences drawn from Reasoning Alas this Doctrine is as unscriptural as absurd The expressest Text of the Father is the first Commandment of the Son Heb. cap. 1. and of the Holy Ghost John 16.12 c. But surely those are all as contrary and remote from a coequal and independent Trinity in Unity as Light from Darkness Or if Men were otherwise minded to controvert this Doctrine by the whole Scriptures I say let them but do it fairly and have at them By wresting little single Scraps indeed the Trinitarians seem as if they had something to plead for themselves but when I have gather'd but all the Texts of a Subject together methinks nothing possibly can look more unscriptural Nay and 't is pleasant to observe how the Trinitarians even confound one another about this matter Forsooth for all this Creed is such an infallible Thunderer yet Dr. W. dares be so bold as to clip the Wings of its Damnatory Sentences and Dr. S. with the Greek Church to deny the Filioque I thought that this rare Contexture was all of a piece But I find for their turns even our very Adversaries can shew I am mistaken To be short the three grand Foundations of this Doctrine are the Eternal Generation the Procession
shall come but I will shew thee that which is noted in the Scripture of truth and there is none that holdeth with me in these things but Michael your Prince Dan. 12.1 And at that time shall Michael stand up the great Prince which standeth for the children of thy people and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a Nation even to that same time and at that time thy people shall be deliver'd every one that shall be found written in the book Q. 35. I shall trouble you but with two or three Questions more pray acquaint me whether Christ died for a Universal Redemption or not That is did he die to Reconcile us all to GOD And was his Death for others as well as Christians A. 1 John 2.1 2. My little Children these things write I unto you that ye sin not and if any man sin we have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous and he is the Propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world Heb. 9.12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood he enter'd in once into the holy place having obtain'd eternal Redemption for us 25 26 Verses nor yet that he should offer himself often as the high-priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world but now once in the end of the world hath he appear'd to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself Q. 36. Pray then acquaint me also whether the Scripture assures us of any safety in natural Religion where a Man has never been able to come to hear of Christ A. John 9.41 Jesus saith unto them if ye were blind ye would have no sin but now ye say we see therefore your sin remaineth James 4.17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good and doth it not to him it is sin Rom. 2.14 15. For when the Gentiles which have not the law do by nature the things contained in the law these having not the law are a law in themselves which shew the work of the law written in their hearts their conscience also bearing witness and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another c. Q. 37. But do not the Scriptures threaten the wilfully ignorant A. Hos 4.6 My people are destroy'd for lack of knowledge because thou hast rejected knowledge I will also reject thee that thou shalt be no Priest to me seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy GOD I will also forget thy children FINIS A Brief but Clear CONFUTATION of the Doctrine of the TRINITY I. SUrely if God gave Man his Reason to serve him or if a Religious Enquiry be any end of our Being this Controversie deserves the greatest of our Care and the strictest Scrutiny For what shall we slightly transfer the Honour of God to his Creatures and think to go unpunished Shall we thwart the very design of our Creation and yet after all not imagine that 't is a Controversie worth examining Nay or if we believe but our own Scriptures can we slightly entertain a breach of the first and greatest Commandment as Christ calls it and be guiltless Shall God himself tell us in Jealousie That none other shall be worshipped but himself Nay shall God destroy whole Nations for Idolatry and the Holy Ghost reckon Idolatry with Whoredom and Sorcery Rev. 21.8 and yet we not tremble at the very Thoughts of such an high Treason against the Infinite Majesty of God But forsooth we must not name the word Idolat y 't is not grateful nor genteel you say in Controversie And what must I not rub my Friends Nose in a Sound or Lethargy because 't is an Affront when he is well Nay and may I not follow the Holy Ghost in this case who has commanded our denouncing Idolatry against Antichrist as a Sin that not only offends God but has corrupted our Christian as well as the Heathen Morals And what are we not all on Fire in our Zeal then on the least Apprehension of such a Guilt Or what can we bear such a Charge as this with any thing like Moderation In plain terms either Christ and the Holy Ghost are Creatures or the real supream God If Creatures 't is plain 't is as much Idolatry to worship an Angel as a Worm and how glorious soever God has made them we are mad-men to think he has set them up in rivalry with himself when he has absolutely declared that he will not impart with his Glory to another And these things therefore duly considered methinks I have little reason to trouble my self further to shew that the Design of this Paper is considerable and that 〈…〉 every Man's Duty impartially to con 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christ says that he that is not for us is against us and if he judges right the Luke-warm's as bad as the Reprobate and he that buries his Talents as bad as he that abuses them II. But good God! what do I propose I endeavour to shew that the Divinity attributed to the Son and Holy Ghost is both unscriptural and Idolatrous and an Injustice to the Father But I forget that I write to Men that dare not even by Principle regard me I 'le maintain to scruple Purgatory and Transubstantiation of old was never more dreadful to the blind Papists than but to think of this Mystery is to our present Protestants Strange Infatuation that Priests should as it were thus eternize their Tyranny over us and we should never dare to look out of it Christ purposely as it were condemns him that had one Talent for burying it to shew us that not the least Abilities ought to rest idle on others And we Protestants by our very Name profess our selves such as will not hearken to a confident corrupt Church and now what at last must we degenerate and apostatize from our Profession Nay the Apostles call'd even the Bereans Noble for not taking things in trust from themselves and a Prophet of old was torn in pieces by a Lyon for hearkning to another Prophet because it was wilfully to his deceit but with us alas it begins to be a Merit again to believe as the Church believes Forsooth these things are too high for me says one Says another I 'll follow Dr. such an one he is a learned Man And what was it not said of Christ of old Have any of the Scribes and Pharisees believed on him In plain terms he that will rely on Learned Men and on prospect of Arguments not in his present reach or capacity to search or enquire has fortify'd himself against all the Powers of Truth or Conviction Nay and what says the Apostle in this case Does he not tell us That not many wise not many learned c. are accepted 1 Cor. 1.20 to shew us plainly that 't is neither the Great nor
us accordingly And thus if at any time they argue with us is it not rather to wrangle and banter than seek for Truth Yes surely and O! if they can but fall on the Authors Person or some trifling Faults in his Writings matters possibly as Foreign from the thing in hand as Light from Darkness yet streight what a Victory you hear of So also if they can but persecute a Man to recant a little Good God! how they boast of their Cause upon it But bless me that the World should have so little Sincerity in it Heu terras Astraea reliquit But why do I wonder when some men are even sear'd against Truth and Conviction and dare dispute even Demonstrations Nay some as if Truth were impertinent and Sincerity ridiculous with them even baffle them in their strong Holds yet their Hydra-headed Arguments will rather multiply upon it than die tho never so absurd In plain terms it seems as a Witchcraft and Possession upon them and as if incurable but by the immediate Power of God himself And what are not these lamentable sights to behold then And yet after all to shew you that they are not so unsensible neither as they would seem 't is only when that they are attacked by some home Truths that they rave and shufflle and cut thus Forsooth if some trifling Sect only scratch them with their Pens as devoid of danger they can bear it with a tolerable Patience but as if stung by a Tarantula to the immortal Honour of the Reformation a poor Woman must be their last Sacrifice to Heresie since she proved to be so notorious a Creature as an Unitarian Arrian Nay and I 'll maintain that by these Arts and a little other holy Juggle our Priests have made the very Name much more the Argument of Unitarianism more odions to their Followers than ever Hobgoblins were to Children The Papists paint Devils on the backs of the Heretick Protestants they burn to perswade their Followers what 's within by what 's without And our modern Papists are little better at heart for by their consents and if they could they would damn all that talk ay or but think of Unitarianism XVI And yet they 're not without their Subtilties neither for for fear some bolder Spirits should scorn such their childish Bugbears streight their silly Whimsies are styled Mysteries But good God! that Men can be so blind as to be gull'd so God has revealed a Mystery to us that is something unintelligible Bless me what a Revelation we have got But forsooth we have learnt upon occasion with the Church of Rome therefore wisely also to couple a little Persecution with our Mysteries Alas the Holy Ghost has marked the Antichristian Church by way of caution with Mystery in her Forehead and Men are grown too sensible by long experience that such Trash will ne're go down unless driven by a little honest Compulsion But bless me that men shou'd thus still continue to be cheated by the old Gull of Mystery that constant Trick of Priests in all Ages that clouds all Truths and stops all free reasoning that has supported all the Absurdities of Idolatry and that by leading men into a bruitish blindness has become every way rather serviceable to the Devil than God ☞ You say you entertain the Sum of your Religion in Mysteries and why not this Liberty to be allow'd in Heathenism as well as Christianity or in Popery as well as Protestancy blind Trust is the same whether in Truth or Error Or if not whâ— then in God's Name ought not every Cause to have a fair hearing alike But no sâ—â—eâ—ght here steps up some other Trinitarian Shuffle and I 'll maintain for Interest or Prejudice they shall wrangle out the Truth tho' never so clear And what is not this our Trinitarians case who almost all rather perversly and presumptiously cavil on for their Cause than think of embracing or entertaining Truth if found or offer'd against them They may think too that this is Calumny and when any two of them either explain or understand this infallible and damning Doctrine alike I 'll grant it but when only Interest makes them hang as in a string by a set form of Words and their new Variances and Heresies among one another would be endless had not they us their common Enemy to vent them upon What can move one to spare such a ridiculous damning Infallibility Thus one shall tell you that the Creed it self is not Athanasius's but forged some years since A 2d renounces the Damnatory Sentences as if hethought that there the Creed had overshot its self A 3d acknowledges the Filioque to be an unreasonable Imposition and a 4th destroys the whole purport of the Creed and by a wily Construction defends it just as an Unitarian would but that the Gentleman seems a little too serious to burlesque it Thus Dr. W's 3 Persons are 3 somewhats in God only and not 3 adequate self-conscious Persons and what is not the Socinian Holy Ghost or the Inspiration of God such a somewhat And was not the assistance of God to the Son incarnate such a somewhat And pray then is not Dr. W. a Socinian in Masquerade Well but what cannot Dr. W. succeed Surely then L. M. shall I am sure whoever is he is no pert smatterer in the Controversie for if others have the faculty of writing short I know nothing that he has done but strove to puzzle the Cause by tediousness and make men sick on 't but no we have been threatned a long time by a whole Cabal of London Divines and they 'll assuredly do the business Alas I am afraid they are many of them sick on 't and fear 't will rise in their Stomachs if they attempt it In plain terms I declare 't is really to be wondred at to see how such a Doctrine as this has been able to pa s muster through so many Centuries especially among Protestants and in such a searching Age as this pretends to be we may boast our selves if we will but for my part I think if this be a spice of our Wisdom after Ages won't want to wonder to see what blind and conceited Dotards we were To shut up all our Protestant Churches are massacred are plaâ—ned with Wars persecuted overcome and â—â—â—fled and well they may when thus even yet embodied in Antichrist What Can we expect either Peace God's Protection or Blessing as the Israelites of old and yet not think to live accordingly and be equally jealous of his Honour The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord. Psalm 50.16 17. But unto the wicked God saith What hast thou to do to declare my Statutes or that thou shouldst take my Covenant in thy mouth seeing thou hatest instructions and casteth my words behind thee c. FINIS