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Coleridge’s Literary Remains, Volume 4.

PART III
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Might not a Papist plead equally in support of the Creed of Pope Pius: "The new articles are deduced from Scripture; that is, in our opinion, and that most expressly in our Lord's several and solemn addresses to St.Peter." So again Sherlock's answer to this paragraph from the Notes is evasive,--for it is very possible, nay, it is, and has been the case, that a man may believe in the facts and doctrines contained in the New Testament, and yet not believe the Holy Scripture to be either divine, infallible, or complete.
Sect.IV.p.

50.
We know not what the substance of an infinite mind is, nor how such substances as have no parts or extension can touch each other, or be thus externally united; but we know the unity of a mind or spirit reaches as far as its self-consciousness does, for that is one spirit, which knows and feels itself, and its own thoughts and motions, and if we mean this by 'circum-incession', three persons thus intimate to each other are numerically one.
The question still returns; have these three infinite minds, at once self-conscious and conscious of each other's consciousness, always the very same thoughts?
If so, this mutual consciousness is unmeaning, or derivative; and the three do not cease to be three because they are three sames.

If not, then there is Tritheism evidently.
Ib.p.

64.
St.Paul tells us, 1 Cor.ii.10.

'That the Spirit searcheth all things, yea the deep things of God'.


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