I HAVE a long time Deſir'd to have ſome Conference with You, or any other of the Writing Diſputants of your Perſwaſion, but I could never yet obtain that Satisfaction. I ſhall here Reflect upon Two Paſſages in the Letter Annext to your Con •• rations, &c. The Author of The Snare Broken (which Publiſht) is a Perſon, who for his Learning, and Virtue ſerves the high Eſteem, and Love of All Men. That •• preſſion of His, which your Friend has thought fit to •… lect, as that which deſerves his Publick Reprehenſion, •• th clearly repreſent the deep Judgement, together • ith the Chriſtian Candor, and Modeſty of the Author. 〈◊〉 does indeed (not as your Friend ſays, In Vain, but 〈◊〉 very Good Purpoſe) Perſwade Men To lay aſide their Philoſophy, and wholly to betake themſelves to a Scriptural Conſideration of the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 , by which ſays your Frie •• (with what Ingenuity let the World Judge) I underſta •• they muſt Take the Words of Scripture without und •• ſtanding them, or reconciling them to other Scripture or even the current of Scripture, or common Reaſo • Do they think that Scripture is to be interpreted co •• trary to it ſelf? Or that Divine Wiſdom has made 〈◊〉 Belief of Contradictions neceſſary to Salvation. Anſ •• 'Tis manifeſt that by Philoſophy my Friend underſtand an Artificial Way of Thinking, and Diſcourſing, that h •• no Dependence upon the Holy Scriptures. But I ſha •• take the Boldneſs to ſay that few, or none in this Ag • who undertake to Interpret the Scriptures, Argue mo •• Rationally about the Senſe of them than he does. I Cha • lenge You to ſhew wherein He has Interpreted Scriptur • contrary to it ſelf; or given any Man cauſe to queſtio • whether He think that Divine Wiſdom has made th • Belief of Contradictions neceſſary to Salvation. 〈◊〉 the ſame Letter are theſe very Scoptical words, The • can love the Father with all their Hearts, and Strengths and Two Perſons diſtinct from Him with the ſame All they can give all to one, and all to another, and all to third, and never queſtion the Poſſibility of it: as 〈◊〉 there were a Trinity in Unity in every Man, that 〈◊〉 own Heart were Three Hearts to be beſtowed all, a • entirely upon each of Three Objects, and yet be but o • Heart ſtill. Anſw. We aſſert that The Father, T •• Son, and The Holy Ghoſt are not Three Objects, b • One Object of Our LOVE, or WORSHIP, T •• Worſhip which the Almighty, the Fountain of All Goo • neſs, The ONE BEING ABSOLUTELY INFINITE, Requires of Us, is nothing elſe (as to t •• Internal Act) but Love Abſolute or Vltimate, ſuch Lo • as Excludes All other Affections, but what may be Ex •• • is'd in Subordination, and Subſerviency to It: So that all • e Loves, or other Affections in our Hearts, which are Conſiſtent with the True Love of GOD, Proceed from 〈◊〉 , and Tend to the Continual Encreaſe, and Improvement of it, and are indeed Reſolv'd into it, and become • s it were a Part of it. For this is the Love of God that we • eep his Commandments, 1 Joh. 5. 3. To Love our Neigh • our according to the Will of GOD, is indeed to Love GOD. I Beſeech Our Almighty and Moſt Merciful FATHER in the Name of the Bleſſed JESVS to ſhed abroad His Love in your Heart by the HOLY GHOST, and ſhall ever remain