ΥΣΤΕΡΑΙ ΦΡΟΝΤΙΔΕΣ. OR, THE Laft THOUGHTS OF Dr. W HITBY. CONTAINING HIS Correction of feveral Passages To which are added, Five DISCOURSES. Published by his express ORDER. LONDON: Printed for JAMES and JOHN KNAPTON, at D FH THE PREFACE. I T is rightly and truly observed by Justin Martyr (a) in the Beginning of his Exhortation to the Greeks; • That an exact Scrutiny into things ' doth often produce Conviction; ' that those things which we once * judged to be right, are, after a more diligent Enquiry into Truth, ' found to be far otherwise. And truly I am not ashamed to say, This is my very Cafe. For when I wrote my Commentaries on the New Testament, I went on (too bastily I own) in the common beaten Road of other reputed Orthodox Divines: Conceiving, first, that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, in one complex Notion, were one and the same God, by Virtue of the same individual Effence communicated from the Father. This confused Notion I am now fully convinced by the Aguments I have offered bere, and in the second Part of my Reply to Dr. Waterland, to be a thing impossible, (a) Orat. Cohort. ad Gracos. p. 1. Az and |