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Coleridge’s Literary Remains, Volume 4.

PART III
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Ed.] * * * * * NOTES ON WATERLAND'S IMPORTANCE OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE HOLY TRINITY.[1] Chap.

I.p.

18.
It is the property of the Divine Being to be unsearchable; and if he were not so, he would not be divine.

Must we therefore reject the most certain truths concerning the Deity, only because they are incomprehensible, &c.?
It is strange that so sound, so admirable a logician as Waterland, should have thought 'unsearchable' and 'incomprehensible' synonymous, or at least equivalent terms:--and this, though St.Paul hath made it the privilege of the full-grown Christian, 'to search out the deep things of God himself'.
Chap.IV.p.

111.
'The delivering over unto Satan' seems to have been a form of excommunication, declaring the person reduced to the state of a heathen; and in the Apostolical age it was accompanied with supernatural or miraculous effects upon the bodies of the persons so delivered.
Unless the passage, ('Acts' v.


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