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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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Ibe DR F F AC F.
By foine out of the common Roads; jet
ther may meet with orhers; Which they did
not foresee. Which may make them as vell as
others judse it, at last. a wiser and safer
course to keep in the same vay, which the
Christian Cburch hath used, ever since it
hath aereed to express her Sense in such
Terms, Which vere thoucht most proper for
that purpose. For in such cases, the Ori-
rinal and Critical Signification of vords is
not so much to be attended, as the use tber
are applied to, and since no other can be
found more sienisicant or proper for that end:
it loots like vielding 100 great advantare to
our Adversaries, tosive up the Boundaries
ef our Faith. For althouch there be a dif-
ference betveen the necessary Article of
Faith it self, and the manner of expressine
it, so that those may truely believe the
Substance of it, who differ in the Rxplica.
tion; vet since the Sense of the Article hath
been generally received under those terms,
there seems to be no sufficient reason to sub
stitute neu ones instead of the old. Wvhich
con hardly be done, without reftectine on
the Fionour of the Christian Church, anc
sivine occasion for very unreasonable FLeat5
and Disputes, amone those, who, if ve
may believe their oun vords, aeree in the
same fundamental Doctrine; Vi2. a Triniey