JUNE 2
I dare not insist on anyone’s using the word Trinity or Person. I use them myself without any scruple because I know of none better. But if any man has any scruple concerning them, who shall constrain him to use them? I cannot; much less would I burn a man alive, and that with moist green wood, for saying: “Though I believe the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God, yet I scruple using the words Trinity and Person because I do not find those terms in the Bible.” … I would insist only on the direct words unexplained, just as they lie in the text: “There are Three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these Three are One.”
The Trinity
And if you use the whole power which is then given, He will not only continue that power, but increase it day by day.
Letter, 3rd June, 1774
