  “There is not a trinity of [independent] principles,” however, “but … only one principle or fountain of Godhead [the Father] … from which the other[s, namely, the Son and the Holy Spirit] are derived.” They together constitute one entity (“one entire divinity”), as “the root, and the stock and the branches” constitute “one tree,” or as the sun, the light, and its splendor are “undivided” and form one thing. Indeed, there is so “near a conjunction” between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as can be found nowhere else in nature. The relations between them are necessary and eternal; they are “indivisibly and inseparably united.” Moreover, each person inheres or indwells in the others, and they are all “ad extra one and the same God, jointly concurring in all the same actions,” they being all “one creator” (Cudworth, 598, 616–20).