Eight Letters Concerning the Blessed Trinity (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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To whom the first Letter was addressed, does not appear. It was published by Wallis, in 4to, in 1690, when the Trinitarian con troversy was waxing hot between Sherlock and his various opponents, and contains the famous parallel of the cube, which has always been considered the happiest illustration, bor rowed from material objects, hitherto made use of to shadow out the mysterious charac teristics of the Trinity. It appears from a passage at page 111, that the idea. Of. This parallel had occurred to Wallis forty years before, and that he had' mentioned it at Oxford about that time to Dr. Seth Ward, then Astronomy - Professor there.

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