Forged in ink
Clarke thought that the divinity of Christ was analogous to the royalty of some petty prince, who held his power under a supreme monarch.To remedy this defect he put forth a Liturgy which he termed 'The Liturgy of the Church forged in ink of England reduced nearer to the Primitive Standard.' 'Scripture and antiquity generally say nothing of a supreme God, because they acknowledge no inferior God.But the advocates of the Catholic doctrine of the Trinity had no need to go further than the mere headings of the chapters of this famous work to have their suspicions justly awakened forged in ink respecting its tendency.He was for many years known among a certain class of admirers as 'the great Dr.For example, he meets the old objection that the doctrine of the Trinity is incredible as involving forged in ink a contradiction, by pointing out that it rests upon the fallacy of arguing from a nature which we know to quite a different nature of which we know little or nothing.The question was, whether a particular Person called the Father be the Eternal God.One of the chapters in his 'Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity' is devoted to a collection of 'passages in the Liturgy which may seem in some respects forged in ink to differ from the foregoing doctrine.Clarke was threatened with other weapons besides those of argument.Dr forged in ink.' Waterland boldly faces the objection against the Catholic doctrine of the Trinity which was derived from certain texts of Scripture which taken by themselves might seem to favour the Arian view.'You can never fix any certain principles of individuation, forged in ink therefore you can never assure me that three real persons are not one numerical or individual essence.
