MDDM Ch. 5: "an act of Him"

[Michel Ryckx]

jbor's explanation makes sense; but, though a bit late to stumble in on this
one: may there not be an other explanation?

The Roman catholics have a Father, a Son and a Holy Ghost.  I do not know how
the Church of England thinks about that; and what do the Quakers say about that
topic?  If the Anglicans hold the same view on the Trinity, then "which one tha'
mean" on 43.5 would be: which of the three, father, son of holy ghost.  It would
be logical given the " . . . a common belief among your people? at 42.7

Michel
(I'll start MDMD(5) tonight --Greenwich Time here--, if there are no
objections.)

jbor wrote:

> My reading of the opening misunderstanding (42) between M & D in the chapter
> is that it is not over the word "Him", but the word "act". Mason says that
> it was "an act of Him so strange, His purposes unknown", meaning of course
> an act of "God", to which Dixon replies "I'm not sure which one tha mean",
> meaning he isn't sure which "act" Dixon is referring to (i.e. the order to
> sail, the attack, the retreat etc). If Dixon were referring to the "Him"
> then he wouldn't have used the pronoun "one" in his reply, surely? And, it
> fits in much better with Mason's wry rejoinder to Dixon's observation at
> chapter's close about lightning not striking twice.

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