[259] Animadversions upon Dr. Sherlock’s Book, 69.
[260] He says that God had taken the matter into His own hands, “and made this scornful man eat his own words (the hardest diet, certainly, that a proud person can be put to), and after all the black dirt thrown by him on the Schoolmen and their terms, to lick it off again with his own tongue,” p. 381.
[261] South’s Animadversions, 240, and Considerations on the Explications of the Doctrine of the Trinity, &c., written to a Person of Quality. 1693. Another example of the same kind occurs in The Doctrine of the Trinity placed in its due Light. “We have seen two men that were made one Admiral by a joint Commission; and we see every day many men incorporate into one political body by patent, whereby they are one person in law. And in this known sense are the Godhead and manhood joined together in one Person, whereof comes one Christ, and very God, and very man.” The author was the Dr. Bury, mentioned on p. 213, who was deprived of his University preferment by the Bishop of Exeter.
[262] On the controversy, see The Distinction between Real and Nominal Trinitarians Examined, in Answer to a Socinian Pamphlet. 1696.
[263] Works, v. 111.
[264] See on this subject Roger’s Life of Howe, 419. Sherlock differed from Howe in some respects, and censured him for it. Howe defended himself in A Letter to a Friend, and A View of the late Considerations, &c. Works, v.
[265] Lords’ Journal.
[266] Ben Mordecai’s Letters, i. 70, quoted in Toulmin, 182.
[267] Tenison’s Life, 51. In this dispute, and the proceedings which it occasioned, ridicule, satire, and abuse were employed. Dignitaries of the Church were lampooned in coarse and vulgar ballads, and the most sacred doctrines of the Gospel became associated with what is ridiculous and absurd. See The Battle Royal, South’s Posthumous Works. Memoirs, 128–130.
[268] Wilkin’s Concilia, iv. 577.