THE SANDY FOUNDATION SHAKEN.* The Trinity of distinct and separate Persons in the Unity of Essence, refuted from Scripture. "AND he said, Lord God, there is no god like unto thee. To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal, saith the Holy One?+-I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God besides me. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. I will also praise thee, O my God; unto thee will I sing -O Holy One of Israel. Jehovah shall be One-and * The original title of this tract at full length is as follows; "The Sandy Foundation Shaken; or those so generally believed and applauded Doctrines,-One God subsisting in three distinct and separate Persons,―The impossibility of God's pardoning Sinners without a plenary Satisfaction,-The justification of impure Persons by an imputative Righteousness,-confuted from the Authority of Scripture Testimonies and Right Reason. By WILLIAM PENN; a Builder on that Foundation which cannot be moved." +1 Kings viii. 23; Isa. xl. 25. his name One.”* Which, with a cloud of other testimonies that might be urged, evidently demonstrate, that in the days of the first covenant and prophets, but One was the Holy God, and God but that Holy One.-Again, “And Jesus said unto him, why callest thou me good? there is none good but One, and that is God. And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee (Father) the Only true God. Seeing it is one God that shall justify. There be gods many, but unto us there is but One God, the Father, of whom are all things. One God and Father, who is above all. For there is one God. God be glory now and forever." To the Only wise I shall lay down this one assertion, that the testimonies of Scripture, both under the law, and since the gospel dispensation, declare one to be God, and God to be One, on which I shall raise this argument. If God, as the Scriptures testify, hath never been declared or believed, but as the Holy One; then will it follow, that God is not an Holy Three, nor doth subsist in Three distinct and separate Holy Ones; but the before cited Scriptures undeniably prove that One is God, and God only is that Holy One; therefore he cannot be divided into, or subsist in an Holy Three, or three distinct and separate Holy Ones. Neither can this receive the least prejudice from that frequent but * Isa. xlv. 5, 6; xlviii; Psalm lxxi. 22; Zec. xiv. 9. + Matt. xix. 17; John xvii. 3; Rom. iii. 30; 1 Cor. viii. 5, 6; Eph. iv. 6; 1 Tim. ii. 5; Jude v. 25. |