QUERIES RELATING TO Dr. CLARKE's SCHEME of the H. TRINITY, IN ANSWER TO A CLERGY MAN in the COUNTRY. By DANIEL WATERLAND, D.D. MASTER of Magdalen-College, in CAMBRIDGE, and CHAPLAIN in Ordinary to His MAJESTY. Ἐγώ εἰμι Ἰησᾶς ὃν σὺ διώκεις· σκληρόν ότι πεις κέντρα λακτίζειν, Αct. ιχ. 5. The SECOND EDITION Corrected, CAMBRIDGE: Printed for CORN. CROWNFIELD, Printer to the Univerfity: And are to be Sold by JAMES KNAPTON, and ROBERT KNAPLOCK, Bookfellers in St. Paul's Church-Yard, LONDON. MDCCXIX. THE PREFACE T HE following Queries were drawn up, à few Years ago, at the Request of Friends; when I had not the leaft apprehenfion of their ever appearing in Print, as might be guess'd from the negligence of the Style and Compofition. The Occafion of them was this. A Clergyman in the Country, well efteem'd in the Neighbourbood where He lived, had unhappily fallen in with Dr. Clarke's Notions of the Trinity; and began to efpouse them in a more open and unguarded manner than the Doctor Himfelf had done. This gave fome uneasiness to the Clergy in thofe Parts, who could not but be deeply concern'd to find a fundamental Article of Religion called in Queftion; and that too by one of their own Order, and whom They had a true Concern and Value for. It was prefumed, that a fincere and ingenuous Man (as He appeared to be) might, upon proper Application, be inclinable to alter his Opinion: And that the most probable way to bring Him to a Sense of his mistake, was to put Him to defend it, fo long till He might A 2 perhaps |