Trinitie

English

Proper noun

Trinitie

Obsolete spelling of Trinity.
- 1527, Edward Echyngham, “The Will of Sir Edward Echingham”, in The Genealogist, volume 22 (N.S.), London: George Bell & Sons, published 1906, →OCLC, page 54:
  First I bequeth to almighty god and to the blissed Trinitie, to the blissed virgyn saint Mary our lady and to all saint[s] and martirs, saint george saint Kateryn saint Antony myn advowerers and to all the blissed holy company in heven, most humbly requiryng the said Trinitie that they by the mediacion & intercession of myn advowrers that the company aforsaid will haue mercy and petie of my soule and conveye the same vnto the way of saluacion And my body to be buried before the Trinitie in Barsham chirch on the north side vnder the foundacion of the Chauncel wall.
- c. 1680, [Gilbert Clerke], To Baxter, on the Right of Antitrinitarians to be esteemed Christians; republished as “Original Letters from the Baxter Manuscripts in Dr. Williams’s Library”, in The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, volume XIX, number CCXXIV, Hackney: […] George Smallfield; […] Sherwood, Jones, and Co., […], 1824 August, pages 452–453:
  As to your letter, for w^ch I thanke you, I willingly acknowledge y^e Trinity in Unity, and X^t to be not meer man but true God, in y^e Scripture sense, therefore I am a Christian. […] For y^e present I must denie y^t major, viz. He that denieth y^t in X^t w^ch is most essential in him, denieth X^t, for admit your minor was true, yet Jesus was called X^t, in respect of his unction […] Maldonati in Evang. thinkes y^t y^e disciples did not know y^e eternal generation, till after y^e resurrection, and yet they knew y^t Jesus was y^e X^t, y^e Sonne of y^e living God, w^ch seem to be used as words of the same importance, Matth. xvi. 16, John vi. 69, and Mark and Luke say only—Thou art y^e X^t, and for this confession were declared blessed. Justin Martyr sayeth y^t many orthodox X^tians placed y^e divinity of X^t in his unction, as I noted before. […] To confesse Jesus to be y^e X^t is next to nothing since the grand apostacy, but in y^e primitive church an exalted Saviour was in better request, […] He y^t beleiveth y^t Jesus X^t was conceived by y^e Holy Spirit, […] One said to me y^e Pope is exactly orthodox in y^e Trinitie, ergo, he is not Anti-X^t. I answered, Hee is Anti-X^t, therefore search him well upon y^e hue and cry for that.
- 1876, John Davies, edited by Alexander B. Grosart, The Works in Verse and Prose (including Hitherto Unpublished MSS) of Sir John Davies, page 178:
  Now, whosoever shall come to know his owne soule, and the place thereof, meerly by the power & worke of it selfe, shall confesse himselfe to be absolutely ignorant thereof. Therefore if nature & reason, with the powers & affects of the soule & reason, commeth short to know it self ; much more must it come short, to discouer or vnderstand the incircumscriptible nature, essence and place of the Holy Trinitie.