The present state of the Socinian controversy, and the doctrine of the Catholick fathers concerning a trinity in unity by William Sherlock ...

Title

The present state of the Socinian controversy, and the doctrine of the Catholick fathers concerning a trinity in unity by William Sherlock ...

Author

Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.

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London :: Printed for William Rogers ...,

1698.

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Socinianism.

Trinity.

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Contents

• title page
• THE PREFACE.
• The CONTENTS.
  • CHAP. I.
  • CHAP. II. AN Examination of some Considerations concerning the Trinity.
  • CHAP. III.
  • CHAP. IV.
• ERRATA.
• THE PRESENT STATE OF THE SOCINIAN Controversy.
  • CHAP. I.
    • SECT. I. The Present State of the Socinian Controversy; the unreasonableness of it; and how to reduce the Di∣spute to the Original Question.
    • SECT. II. How to reduce this Dispute concerning the Trinity, to Scripture Terms.
    • SECT. III. That the Title of GOD, attributed in Scripture distinct∣ly to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, gives us the best Account of their Nature, and must determine the Signi∣fication of Ecclesiastical Words.
    • SECT. IV. These Names, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, prove the real Distinction of Persons in the Trinity.
    • SECT. V. These Names, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, prove the Unity, Sameness, Identity of Nature and God∣head.
    • SECT. VI. Concerning the Unity of God.
  • CHAP. II. An Examination of Some Considerations concerning the Trinity.
    • SECT. I. Concerning the Ways of managing this Controversy.
    • SECT. II. Concerning the Traditionary Faith of the Church, with respect to the Doctrine of the Trinity.
    • SECT. III. What is sufficient to be believed concerning the Trinity.
    • SECT. IV. Concerning his State of the Question, That One and the Same God is Three Different Persons.
    • SECT. V. An Examination of his Notions and Ideas of Unity, Distinction, Person, &c.
    • SECT. VI. What it is the Scripture requires us to believe concerning the Trinity.
  • CHAP. III. A Brief Account of the Sabellian Heresy, and by what Arguments the Catholick Fathers opposed it.
  • CHAP. IV. Concerning the Homoousion, or One Sub∣stance of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
    • SECT. I. The true Sense of the Homoousion, from those Mis∣representations which were made of it, and the An∣swers which were given by the Nicene Fathers to such Objections.
    • SECT. II. Some Rules for expounding the Homoousion; and in what Sense the Fathers understood it.
    • SECT. III What the Nicene Fathers meant by the Homoousion.
    • SECT. IV. A more particular Inquiry into the full Signification of the Homoousion, with respect to the Specifick Unity of the Divine Nature.
    • SECT. V. That by the Homoousion, or One Substance, the Ni∣cene Fathers did not meerly understand a Specifick, but a Natural Unity and Sameness of Substance be∣tween Father and Son.
    • SECT. VI. A more particular Inquiry what the Catholick Fathers meant by the , the Sameness and Iden∣tity of Substance in the Holy Trinity.
    • SECT. VII. Concerning the Distinction of Persons in the Unity and Identity of the Divine Essence.
    • SECT. VIII. Concerning the Divine Relations.
    • SECT. IX. A more particular Inquiry into the Difference between and , or Nature and Person, with an Account of some Catholick Forms of Speech, relating to the ever Blessed Trinity.
• The CONCLUSION. With a short Application to the Socinians.
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