The answer to this must commence by a denial of the premisses
in toto
: and this both Bull and Waterland have done most successfully. But I very much doubt, whether Sherlock on his principles could have evaded the Unitarian logic. In fact it is scarcely possible to acquit him altogether of a
quasi-Tritheism
.
Sect. II. p. 13.
For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by himself to be God and Lord;—
(That is, by especial revelation.)
So are we forbidden by the Catholic religion to say, There are three Gods, or three Lords.