Observations, censures, and confutations of notorious errours in Mr. Hobbes his Leviathan and other his bookes to which are annexed occasionall anim-adversions on some writings of the Socinians and such hæreticks of the same opinion with him / by William Lucy ...

CHAP. XXXV.

• I. Carthagena's little lesse then then blasphemous limiting God's power of enlarging the capacity of his Creature. 392
• II. What of God to be proved by reason, and by whom to be at∣tempted. 393
• III. Aquinas's first Argument against the possibility to attain by naturall reason any knowledge of the Trinity. 394
  • The Bishop's Answer grounded upon Lully's demonstration by aequiparance, ibid.
• IV. Aquinas's second Argument. 395
  • The Bishop's first Answer concerning the invisible objects of Faith. ibid.
  • The Bishop's second Answer concerning the after-sight of Rea∣son. ibid.
  • His third Argument from scorn and scandal. 396
  • Answered by the adherence to infallibility of Scripture. ibid.
• V. Trigosius and Carthagena passed by. ibid.
  • Truth not oppos'd to Truth. ibid.
  • The Bishop closeth with Raymund Lully, whom he vindicateth against Vasques. 397
  • And Aymericus, who make's him an heretick. ibid.
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  • His advice to the Pope and Cardinal about converting the Sa∣racens. 398
  • His devout enterprize according to it, with successe. ibid.
  • His like adventure among the Moores. ibid.
  • Their cruel sentence and execution frustrated by his strange deliverance. 399
  • The notable effect of his sufferings. ibid.
• VI. Lully's undertaking, according to Vasques; ibid.
  • Whose Arguments he recite's and forme's. 400
  • The first prove's a personal plurality by concord; ibid.
  • Another, from equality, distinction. ibid.
  • Vasques's first Answer, excepting against the supposition of a reall effective act in God. ibid.
  • The Bishop's reply, that Lully not only suppos'd, but prov'd i••; ibid.
  • His Lordship's explanation of Lully's sense by the necessity of God's acting somewhat from all eternity, or being idle, which could not be. 401
• VII. Vasques chargeth Lully with a mistake of a formal cause for an efficient; who is mistaken by him. 402
  • And the cause proved no less efficient then formal. 403
  • The discourse drawn into a perfect syllogisme, proving the eter∣nal plurality of persons by production. 404
  • The Objection, urging that Angels cannot produce the like ef∣fect, answer'd. 405
• VIII. Vasques's satisfactory answer to Lully's arguments for his second Conclusion. 406
  • The Bishop proceed's upon other grounds of his to prove the Tri∣nity. ibid.
  • God's infinite Simplicity and Unity. ibid.
  • His spiritual faculties, Understanding and Will. ibid.
  • Himself the infinite object of his Understanding, 407
  • Which is eternally productive of his internal word; ibid.
  • And that word substantial, the same with Himself. ibid.
  • The Bishop guided to this discovery by Scripture, as the Wise∣men by a Star. 408
• IX. God's will as fruitful by love, as his Understanding by

• ... knowledge; ibid.
  • And so productive of a third Person, which is likewise God. 409
• X. Misprinted, XI. ibid.
• XI. These divine productions not to be multiplyed, because infi∣nite, by which an objection's answer'd. 410
• XII. The objection made by the Assertours of the Greek Church answered, according to the sense of the Catholick, touching the procession of the holy Ghost; 411
  • Illustrated by a similitude, to facilitate in part our apprehensi∣on of it. ibid.
• XIII. How the three Divine Persons must necessarily be Father, Son, and holy Spirit. 412
• XIV. Why they are called three persons, being no Scripture-lan∣guage, and how, long ago, debated by St. Augustine. 414
  • The extent or limits of this personal distinction the Bishop re∣verently forbeare's to determine; 415
  • And dislike's the rash curiosity of the Schoolmen. 416
• XV. His Lordship's apology for undertaking to handle the que∣stion by reason, ibid.
  • And seldom quoting the Fathers. 417
  • A digression to the Reader. ibid.