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# Title: A Discourse In Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (shelfmarks ZEN Leibn. Marg. 40; Leibn. Marg. 40)
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TDe D R P F AC F.
Sermon about che MyCeries oF the Christi-
an l’aich, (reprinted vith the former Dis-
course) and therein Y meet oith a passace.
Wwhich hath siven occasion to this Vindicari-
On. For there are these Words, Thac I
had ueterty mistaten, in chinkine that
cher deny the Articl.soF the nem Crecd,
Or Athanasian Relision, Decause they arc
Mysteries, or because, say ther, Wve do
noc comprehend them; ve denr them,
because e do comprehend them, Wve
have a clear and distinet Perception, that
ther arenot Mrsteries, buc Contradicti-
ons, Impossibilicies and pure Nonsense.
Which vords contain in them se spitefull, so
unjust, and se unreosonable a Charce upon
the Christian Church in ceneral, and our
oon in particular that I could not but thinte
my self concerned, especially since they are
addressed to me, to de what in me lay la5
soon as my uncertain State of FLealth vould
permit) tovards the clearine the fundamen-
tal MrCtery ot the Achanalion Religion,
as ther cal it, viz The Doctrine ot the
Triniey, (Whichis chiefly struck at by them)
vithout runnine into any new Explicacions,
or layine aside any Old terms, for which L
could not see any just occasion.
For houever thoucheful Men may thinte
eo escape some particular difficulties better,