A Vindication of Christ's Divinity: Being a Defense of Some Queries, Relating to Dr. Clarke's Scheme of the H. Trinity, in Answer to a Clergy-Man in the Country

A Vindication Of Christ's Divinity: Being A Defense Of Some Queries, Relating To Dr. Clarke's Scheme Of The H. Trinity, In Answer To A Clergy-Man In The Country by Daniel Waterland. This volume is an early 18th?century polemical defense of the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity against Dr. Clarke's proposed scheme. In the Preface, Waterland explains how a private country clergyman prompted the Queries and argues for a method that grounds argument in Scripture, appeals to patristic authorities, and then employs clear prose. The excerpt includes the Preface, the Contents list of the Queries, and the opening Defense to Queries I–II, setting out the central question: whether Christ can be God while remaining consubstantial with the Father, or whether Clarke's scheme yields two gods or subordinate deity. Waterland mounts a rigorous, patristic-and-scriptural case for the eternal Son's consubstantial divinity, examines key texts, and frames the discussion within the early Anglican polemical milieu. The work foregrounds Scripture, ancient church judgments, and ecclesiastical practice as guides to orthodoxy.