* * It was Justin's business to shew that there was a divine
Person, one who was God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and was not the
Father; and therefore there were two divine Persons.
At all events, it was a very incautious expression on the part of
Justin, though his meaning was, doubtless, that which Waterland gives.
The same most improper, or at best, most inconvenient because equivocal
phrase, has been, as I think, interpolated into our Apostles' Creed.
Ib. p. 436.
[Greek: Taeroito d' an, hos ho emos logos, ehis men Theos, eis hen
aition kai Ghiou kai Pneumatos anapheromenon. k.t.l.]--Greg. Naz.
Orat. 29.
We may, as I conceive, preserve (the doctrine of) one God, by
referring both the Son and Holy Ghost to one cause, &c.
Another instance of the inconvenience of the Trias compared with the
Tetractys.
[Footnote 1: A Vindication of Christ's Divinity: being a defence of some
queries relating to Dr. Clarke's scheme of the Holy Trinity, &c. By
Daniel Waterland. 2nd edit. Cambridge, 1719. Ed.]
[Footnote 2:
'Y sino ahi esta el Doctor Jorge Bull Profesor de Teologia, y
Presbitero de la Iglesia Anglicana, que murio Obispo de San David el
ano de 1716, cuyas obras teologico--escolasticas, en folio, nada deben
a las mas alambicadas que se han estampado en Salamanca y en Coimbra;
y como los puntos que por la mayor parte trato en ellas son sobre los
misterios capitales de nuestra Santa Fe, conviene a saber, sobre el
misterio de la Trinidad, y sobre el de la Divinidad de Cristo, en los
cuales su Pseudaiglesia Anglicana no se desvia de la Catolica, en
verdad, que los manejo con tanto nervio y con tanta delicadeza, que
los teologos ortodojos mas escolastizados, como si dijeramos
electrizados, hacen grande estimacion de dichas obras.
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