1076 THE ANSWER OF THE Earl of Nottingham ΤΟ Mr. Wbifton's Letter to Him, Eternity of the Son of God, AND Of the Holy Ghoft. Deut. XXIX. 29. The fecret Things belong unto the Lord our God, but 1 Tim. VI. v. 20, 21. Keep that which is committed to thy Trust, avoiding The FOURTH EDITION. LONDON: Printed for EDWARD VALENTINE, at the Quicen's- When I receiv'd your Letter concerning the Eternity of the Son of God, and of the Holy Spirit, dated July 10. 1719. torether with your Letter of Thanks to the Bishop of London, dated Jan. 17. 1718. annext to it: Tho' I thought I was not, at my Years, to learn my Catechism; yet my Curiofity led me to read them, knowing your Reputation for Learning: And I own my great Surprize, to find fo many Teftimonies, and fome Texts, cited by you against the Doctrine of the Trinity, by which you bad been drawn from that Opinion and Faith, which you once profefs'd; and which now, with the Boldness and Authority of an Apofile, like St. Paul himself in another Cafe) Be A 2 Letter to [] Gal. v. 2. Behold, I fay unto you, is "a fatal Miftake: the Bishop So I refolu'd to look into your Quotations, of Lon and confider your Texts; and I own alfo, don, p. 18. that I was much more furpriz'd, to find your Quotations liable to fuch Objections, as you will fee in the enfuing Letter, which I writ foon after yours came to my Hand, with an Expectation of feeing you, when you came into this Country, as you us'd to do every Tear; and to prepare my felf, as well as I zvas able, or your Affaults, and not to enter into an open Paper-War, knowing my own Ignorance and Weakness; and that I bad not fufficiently prov'd the Armour which was necessary for an Encounter with fo great a Champion, as had defy'd the Armies of the Living God. But fince you have been in Rutland, both laft Year and this, and not afforded me your Company here, as formerly you were wont; and that your Letter to me is referr'd to, in a late Tract by your felf, as a full Evidence of the Truth of your Doctrine; and that many may take your peremptory Affertions upon Truft, from fo eminent a Man as your felf; and fince I bave had Leifure to examine your Quotations, and do find that you have perverted the Scriptures, and abus'd your Authors by an untrue and unfair Reprefentation of the Paffages you cite out of them; I have now ventur'd to fend to the Prefs my Ani mad |