Ib. p. 432.

  [Greek:  Ouch ho poiaetaes ton holon estai Theos ho to Mosei eipon
  auton einai Theon Abraam, kai Theon Isaak, kai Theon Iakob].—­Justin
  Mart.  Dial. p. 180.

The meaning is, that that divine Person, who called himself God, and was God, was not the Person of the Father, whose ordinary character is that of maker of all things, but another divine Person, namely, God the Son. * * 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.  Y aun en los dos Tratados que escribio acerca de la Justification, que es punto mas resvaladizo, en los principios que abrazo, no se separo de los teologos Catolicos; pero en algunas consecuencias que infirio, ya dio bastantemente a entender la mala leche que habia mamado.’

Fray.  Gerundio. ii. 7.  Ed.]

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NOTES ON WATERLAND’S IMPORTANCE OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE HOLY TRINITY.[1]

Chap.  I. p. 18.