But in fact this Gregory and the others were Tritheists in the mode of their conception, though they did not wish to be so, and refused even to believe themselves such.
Gregory Nyssen, Cyril of Alexandria, Maximus and Damascen were charged with "a kind of Tritheism" by Petavius and Dr.Cudworth, who, according to Sherlock, have "mistaken their meaning." See pp.

106-9, of this "Vindication." Ib.p.

117.
For I leave any man to judge, whether this [Greek: mia kinaesis Boulaematos], this one single motion of will, which is in the same instant in Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, can signify anything else but a mutual consciousness, which makes them numerically one, and as intimate to each other, as every man is to himself, as I have already explained it.
Is not God conscious to all my thoughts, though I am not conscious of God's?
Would Sherlock endure that I should infer: 'ergo', God is numerically one with me, though I am not numerically one with God?
I have never seen, but greatly wish to see, Waterland's controversial tracts against Sherlock.

Again: according to Sherlock's conception, it would seem to follow that we ought to make a triad of triads, or an ennead.
1.

Father--Son--Holy Ghost.
2.